Last year's Sunday night NFL preseason game drew 8 million viewers and a 2.1 rating, about half of what the Emmys usually get. But the bigger aspect is that they probably don't expect the ratings for Monday to be much worse than Sunday since moving the ceremony from September to August (which they did in 2006 and…

The PSN outage actually helped me out in one big way. It let me get a full refund on my MLB.tv subscription after it became clear that the Twins were going to suck that year and that I didn't want to pay $120 to watch 150 games of said suckitude. So, thanks, Sony, kind of.

I think the more apt analogy is that a road near your house is under construction, with traffic backed up a mile in either direction. What's happening now is that Netflix keeps sending its trucks down that backed-up road and they're constantly getting stuck.. When you use a VPN, you're basically telling Netflix to…

Kris is right. The reason a VPN works is because you're changing the route the traffic goes down. Right now there is a bottleneck between Netflix's CDN (Level 3) and Comcast and Verizon, so traffic is going from Netflix to Level 3 to Comcast/Verizon to You and it's getting stuck between Level 3 and Comcast/Verizon.

I'm a little surprised to find no mention of Congress in this piece, since corporate personhood is enshrined in US law. The first US law, actually.

Kluwe (to my knowledge) isn't gay, so he can't be making a hostile work environment claim based on sexual orientation (you typically need to be part of the protected class).

The kid hits the BACKside of the mound on his throw. It's total luck that he makes it into the garbage can. My entire adolescence has been destroyed.

Oh, I have no doubt that the practicality of shooting television versus a film plays a big role in this. And for television, it looks just fine. I'm just saying that when I think about Twelve Monkeys, the biggest thing that stands out (to me) is not the plot or the characters, it's the visual style. And the show…

But why does it seem so... off?

Using those metrics, I think calling MLS a 5th tier league is about right.

From 800 MB to 25 MB without loosing details.

I didn't get the sense that society was on the brink of collapse because of the infrastructure issues. As you say, that stuff would all be taken care of relatively quickly. What's causing problems is that they simply don't know WHY this happened. If it was a disease or a war, people would move on. I mean, just in…

They did two things with this pilot that I really liked. First, 2% seems like the perfect number of people. In the aggregate, that's almost 150,000,000 people, an extraordinary number. But think of the 50 people closest to you in your life and imagine losing one of them. Is it that big of a deal? Sure, if it's a…

We don't have a religious culture that says you can take your stuff with you when you're gone, nor do we have a religious culture that believes our ancestors can have a direct impact on our daily lives. If we did there would probably be more of this.

The multiple antennas thing was always a distinction without a difference. The difference with other systems like Slingbox is that they're always a one-to-one transmission.

Actually, the DVR part wasn't argued before the Supreme Court, only the "live" viewing was. (Technically it's not live, but it's close enough). It's not illegal to sell antennas to people, it's illegal to own an antenna (or antenna array) and then to transmit that signal to many people over the internet.

It all comes down to the definition of the word "performance." Under the terms of the Copyright Act of 1976, that word is defined very broadly. Technically, when you turn on your television to display a program, you are "performing" a work, hence the ban on Super Bowl viewing parties and the like.

That wasn't a Supreme Court case, though. It was a circuit court case that was denied cert. Depending on where the Fox lawsuit is taking place, Cablevision might not even apply, though it could obviously be used against them.

If you're trying to get out-of-market networks, a Slingbox is by far your best choice. In fact, it's pretty regularly used by west coast television critics to watch shows live on the east coast.

Actually, probably not. The Supreme Court case was decided solely based on their live-watching features, not on the recording aspect.