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"Another example, which Windows is starting to emulate now, is that normally on Linux nothing is allowed to come in from the network except what you specifically allow" - by raymorris (2726007) on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @02:53PM (#47370929)

Whitelisting on Windows7's doable & for a LONG time now http://lifehacker.com/5442636/... not "just starting to be emulated" like you said - it's been doable since Windows7's inception (over 5++ yrs. now).

APK

P.S.=> Also, get a set of BALLS for once instead of being an evasive coward (downmodding my posts confronting you like you did in 2013, yes, on hosts files efficacy) & disprove my points on hosts validly, here -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...

OR,

Do I have to post the literally DOZEN times you evaded it & downmodded it as well?

(Also - please: DO NOT EVEN *TRY* TO FEED ME A LINE THAT "I can't downmod a post I posted in already", or I will shoot you down on THAT also with EXACTLY how it's done here with sockpuppets, or downmod/logout, & state cookie manipulations here too)... apk

Homeland Security will jump on this as the perfect opportunity to build a prison large enough to hold us.

Already been done, at least in the movies.

Escape from L.A.
Escape from New York

That, of course, pubs all of the criminals behind walls, leaving the innocent people outside. And now a slight change of topic: did you know there are so many laws that everyone is guilty of something.

...what an interesting coincidence.

And tightening down the straps on my way too-thin tinfoil cap here, having a humongously-long wall would be handy to use as a backstop for all of the bullets Homeland Security has purchased. The question is: who are they going to put with their back to it?

Or do they really expect Titans to break through?

... How the Power of Diversity Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies" http://www.amazon.com/Differen...
"In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity--not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities.
    The Difference reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality. Page shows how groups that display a range of perspectives outperform groups of like-minded experts. Diversity yields superior outcomes, and Page proves it using his own cutting-edge research. Moving beyond the politics that cloud standard debates about diversity, he explains why difference beats out homogeneity, whether you're talking about citizens in a democracy or scientists in the laboratory. He examines practical ways to apply diversity's logic to a host of problems, and along the way offers fascinating and surprising examples, from the redesign of the Chicago "El" to the truth about where we store our ketchup.
    Page changes the way we understand diversity--how to harness its untapped potential, how to understand and avoid its traps, and how we can leverage our differences for the benefit of all."

An aspect of that is also that humans are adapted to argue together in small groups and find creative solutions together:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes....
http://lifehacker.com/can-rati...

Of course, then to keep a group of such people motivated, they need autonomy, challenge/mastery, and purpose, like Dan Pink outlines here:
"RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

And until we get a basic income for all, at least enough money to live a decent life in our society so money is essentially off the table as it has reached the point of diminishing returns for people who like their work:
http://science.slashdot.org/st...

This may help you get those VLW movies a bit faster.

which is $24,000 according to some blog postings with no supporting links. I couldn't find any better number with Google.

I bet the average new car price includes some $100,000+ outliers, so it's hoisted significantly above what the middle-class car buyer pays.

If a farm uses harmful pesticides, it should not be called organic.

The meaning of the term organic is tightly defined and is a matter of public record. What you believe it should mean is, for better or worse, irrelevant.

If calling it that is legal in the US, then the word has become meaningless.

Quite the opposite. It means VERY specific things and those specific things have nothing to do with ill-defined notions of healthiness. If you cannot be bothered to find out that there is a lot of greenwashing going on then that is on you. There are way too many people arguing that organic = great and GM food = evil without using any actual facts in the discussion. In principle organic foods may carry certain advantages and there is some evidence to support that but the key word there is some. Just because something say's "organic" or "natural" or "healthy" on the label doesn't mean a damn thing by itself. The issues at hand just aren't that simple.

You can create a recovery disk with a USB. Just go into Control Panel and click on Recovery.

You can also make an installation USB.

They have been doing it for years: http://lifehacker.com/5849589/...

Reading for speed compromises comprehension.

Actually I'm not sure why that, like so many other things, could not improve considerably with practice. I know I read a lot faster now than back when I had just learned how to.

Yes, obviously. Everyone becomes a faster reader with practice, but multiple studies have shown that most people "max out" at about the same rate (usually somewhere around 300 words/minute) by the time they graduate college or so.

The issue is that there are probably physical processing constraints on how our visual apparatus works (how our retinas focus, how fast our visual cortex can recognize things, how our eye movement works), as well as a maximum load for our "working memory." Sure, you can "read" faster, as in make your eyes skip (i.e., "skim") over the page, but you're not actually taking in more information.

By the time even trained speed readers reach 500-600 words/minute, their reading comprehension falls to below 75%, and at 1000 words/minute, it's much less than 50%. Basically the maximum speed is probably about 400 words/minute (or less) for most people: anyone claiming a higher speed is just skimming. For a summary of a lot of the issues involved and some further research, see here, and for more sources, see my other post below.

I'm fully capable of reading at 1000+ words / minute and remembering the information, so next time you want to claim it can't be done, make sure you're not talking to someone who can.

If you're really a person who can do this, PLEASE volunteer for one of these studies, so we actually have some reliable evidence. Because basically every previous study on this stuff says comprehension goes significantly down as reading speed goes up.

Quite a few studies have shown this (some articles summarizing findings here, here, here, here), and the only ones that seem to ever disagree are those designed by the speed-reading course or software people. Even for professional high-volume readers and people who performed well in generic speed-reading tests showed a maximum of about 75% comprehension at 600 words/minute.

And there are loads of cognitive science studies that demonstrate why this must be so. Lots of research on eye movements during reading and the maximum possible speed they can take things in, the way our retinas work and focus, cognitive constraints on the extent and speed of our "working memory," etc.

By the time you get to your claimed speed of 1000 words/minute, I sincerely doubt you're getting anywhere close to 50% comprehension. Therefore, what you're doing is skimming, not reading.

There's nothing wrong with skimming. it's an incredibly useful skill which I really picked up in graduate school. I have used it all the time when teaching and (when preparing for class) needing to re-read an article I haven't looked at in a long time (and don't really remember) or a new article dealing with a subject I'm already familiar with. I can certainly skim at 1000 words/minute and be prepared to discuss a lot of important points of an article, but if a student queries me on something very specific, I guarantee that we'll have to slow down, I'll go back, and take a look at that specific passage. When you're already fairly familiar with the field or kind of material, you can often zoom on essential elements fairly quickly, and your comprehension rate gets higher -- but you're still not reading. And if you were reading something outside of your discipline, the comprehension would go WAY down at such speeds.

So -- sorry, but your claims to read at that speed and retain information have been debunked by many studies along with many other supporting cognitive science studies that basically show why it can't work.

If indeed you are some person with a freakish skill that you can demonstrate under controlled conditions, please volunteer for a study. Otherwise, I (and any other reasonable person here) should assume that what you're actually doing at 1000 words/minute is skimming, and you're probably only getting a small fraction of the total information.

With some (all?) Chromebooks -- and I would expect a Chromebox to be the same -- you can just enable "developer mode" and chroot. See this article for more details.

How Can I Hide the Start Button in Windows 8.1?

Not even sure it would help not knowing how this exploit works, but I've tended to disable all plugins from running on page load, rather on demand when I click. Similar to NoScript/FlashBlock addons. You can then whitelist the sites that you want to allow have flash on load. http://lifehacker.com/5685352/... Wonder what percentage of exploits center around Flash / Acrobat. Thanks Adobe! If your not tricking me into installing unwanted toolbars your exposing my computer to malicious twats.

This is probably true, but I don't think most people have realised this. ... It either doesn't occur them that a reinstall of Windows can fix the problem or they don't have the skills/confidence/motivation to perform the operation.

To say nothing about changes in perception about what a fast computer is. As the MHz/GHz wars were waging on, there was a perceived difference in the responsiveness of the computer, to say nothing about the registry cruft that you're talking about. When someone gets over to their gamer friends house with the latest i7-supershiny 5000+ Turbo under the hood and they see a boot time or application load time that feels faster, they're likely to start looking at their own computer as a slug. Yes, there are differences in OS boot times too, but with the push to more and more cores instead of "faster electrons", the actual numbers I'd wager are getting to be less and less significant. A human being wouldn't be able to tell +/- 1 or 2 seconds of boot time between machines unless they were side-by-side and powered at the same time. The grass is not always greener on the other side.

Actually it does. http://lifehacker.com/netflixb...

I seem to remember ~5 years ago seeing a program that could turn your run-of-the-mill webcam into a 3D scanner. It was even open source too! Don't know if this this was it...

1) Back in the day when it was universities-only, "what happened on Facebook, stayed on Facebook". So students were candid on Facebook, making it useful to analyze their personalities.

2) Then Facebook opened up to the public, and (potential) employers could view (potential) employees' posts durung their university days. So many students used their privacy settings to hide the bad stuff, and were able to remain candid on Facebook.

3) Then (potential) employers started demanding Facebook passwords. People started sanitizing their Facebook pages, either manually, or with apps like Facewash http://lifehacker.com/5978872/facewash-makes-sure-your-facebook-profile-is-clean-and-interview+ready ( now renamed http://www.simplewa.sh/ )

A lot of Facebook pages are now glorified Linked-In clones sanitized for employer viewing, because people are scared of being fire/rejected-for-employment.

Before I give my list, everybody should watch Thug Notes.
Its like spark's note's summary and analysis, but gangster.
The summary is hilarious and the analysis is SPOT ON,
actually quite brilliant. He's got quite a great list reads so far:

Thug Notes

As for my list:
Breakfast of Champions
Lolita
Catch-22
Sirens of Titan
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
Slaughterhouse 5
Crime and Punishment
Notes from Underground
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Princess Bride
1984
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Candide
Don Quixote
I could go on player

And BTW, reading literary fiction (not bullshit fiction or nonfiction) has been shown to help your brain and empathetic abilities:
For Better Social Skills, Read a Little Chekhov

and storytelling is one of the most effective forms of communication:
The Neurocience of Storytelling

There are scripts to help a person with "keeping up".

http://lifehacker.com/5060053/set-up-universal-ad-blocking-through-your-router

That certainly isn't the end-all be-all, but it does remove a lot of work. Opt outs help. Adblock Plus and other browser scripts help, Ghostery among them. But, you are right, in that you have to take personal responsibility for your own security. Security is a process, not a product.

Does anyone know about what apps come with Cyanogenmod (my google fu is lacking. Mostly it talks about getting the google apps).

So, forgive my ignorance, but does CM provide an array of quality OSS apps for actually running the phone in addition to the base windowing system and kernel?

Looking for a place to post my, ... well this:

I've used their mods for almost two years on my tablet. It was upgraded by to 4.12, CyanogenMod has taken it to 4.2.
The tweaks they provide are better than Google/Motorola supplies. I can play with the Dual CPUs if I wanted to
but happy to leave those alone, graphics, just a lot they've opened up to customization.

Also the goodies they include are great, I'd of never known about them if not for CyanogenMod
Apollo music player
http://lifehacker.com/5962086/apollo-brings-cyanogenmods-official-music-player-to-all-android-devices

DSPManger equalizer, inadvertently to control my speaker docking station
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=795233

and MX Player, a very configurable, play any movie player, it's what I use instead of a TV in the bedroom

All the above have a non pay version or free for use.

Though another mod I found Hacker Keyboard, very nice, a full keyboard and the keys where you expect them
(If the program your using accepts them)
http://lifehacker.com/5804952/the-hackers-keyboard-gives-android-devices-real-keyboard-functionality

Not sure how they work on a phone, but a tablet they work very well.

Does anyone know about what apps come with Cyanogenmod (my google fu is lacking. Mostly it talks about getting the google apps).

So, forgive my ignorance, but does CM provide an array of quality OSS apps for actually running the phone in addition to the base windowing system and kernel?

Looking for a place to post my, ... well this:

I've used their mods for almost two years on my tablet. It was upgraded by to 4.12, CyanogenMod has taken it to 4.2.
The tweaks they provide are better than Google/Motorola supplies. I can play with the Dual CPUs if I wanted to
but happy to leave those alone, graphics, just a lot they've opened up to customization.

Also the goodies they include are great, I'd of never known about them if not for CyanogenMod
Apollo music player
http://lifehacker.com/5962086/apollo-brings-cyanogenmods-official-music-player-to-all-android-devices

DSPManger equalizer, inadvertently to control my speaker docking station
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=795233

and MX Player, a very configurable, play any movie player, it's what I use instead of a TV in the bedroom

All the above have a non pay version or free for use.

Though another mod I found Hacker Keyboard, very nice, a full keyboard and the keys where you expect them
(If the program your using accepts them)
http://lifehacker.com/5804952/the-hackers-keyboard-gives-android-devices-real-keyboard-functionality

Not sure how they work on a phone, but a tablet they work very well.

Will it have the Play store and all the Google Apps?

I am guessing no because Google once send a C&D to Cyanogen Mod.

http://lifehacker.com/5367693/google-sends-cease-and-desist-to-cyanogenmod-android-hacker

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/

Have a look at changing Dash settings
http://lifehacker.com/preload-entire-youtube-videos-by-disabling-dash-playbac-1186454034

I tried android for a couple of weeks to see what I was missing. I asked all my android owning friends "OK, what should I check out that I can not do on my iPhone". About the only useful response I got was wifi scanning tools. That was it. Which i don't use my phone for anyway.

Then your friends either aren't very smart, or are simply happy with their stock Android and have never wanted to change it.

Homescreen widgets, a decently-sized screen, NFC file sharing, third party keyboards (or a physical one if you prefer), custom launchers, completely customizable app icon placement (including whitespace where you want whitespace), ability to add a huge micro sd card to double your storage size (or swap it if you're bored with the media on this card and want something different for a road trip), ability to add and remove arbitrary files directly to/from the phone over cable without having to use iTunez spyware to do so, ability to go to pretty much any store and pick up a replacement charger/data cable for $5, support for a pointy stylus (on some models) instead of trying to use a marshmallow-on-the-end-of-a-stick capacitive stylus, etc., etc., etc.

Not to mention being able to take a video in any orientation and have it display correctly (i.e., not rotated 90 degrees) on any system...but from your comments, I'm guessing you partake of the entire apple pie, so you may not have seen this particular defect before if you only view your vids in your phone or on your Mac or via your Apple TV box. Oh, I didn't even know this one: apparently you can't email anything but a photo or video using the stock iPhone email app...huh. Guess you'll have to use the GMail account for business stuff, then...other Android advantages such as haptic feedback are pretty 'meh' for me, as I just turn them off anyway.

Looks like Apple is finally allowing homescreen widgets (?er, maybe? looks like you still need to buy an app?), so that's *one* thing off the list...once developers catch up and start providing more widget types, that is.

All that without having to root or 'jailbreak' the phone. If you root it, sky's the limit. True, most of the things you can do if you root the phone are things that your average Joe won't care much about (custom ROM's, complete bit-wise phone backups, ability to software-switch more system settings, ability to remove the stock apps instead of just disabling them, etc.), but to the tinkerer, they are delightful :)

How EOM makes your life more efficient

Yes: http://lifehacker.com/5918457/hdmi-over-ethernet-adapter-extends-hdmi-connections-up-to-98-feet-saves-money/.
Please note, this cable goes from my entertainment center to your bedroom, so it's going to be a little awkward.

Yeah just apps for domain. I believe they shut down the free version, but I've heard you can still get access by signing up for Google App Engine.

How about "All browsers have had keyboard shortcuts since the days of Mosaic"

That you can restore closed tabs in Firefox is news from 2006: http://lifehacker.com/210111/firefox-2-tip-undo-closed-tab-keyboard-shortcut

you shouldn't be torrenting with a power hungry desktop or laptop when a small linux run downloading box. there are many was to do this from a pi with NAS or other kit computers using slow chips, that sip power and are not huge hacking targets. http://lifehacker.com/274177/build-a-bittorrent-box
they reccomend 'old' box but there has been much progress in low power chips these days, and with bittorent network speed is part of the problem, unless you have fiber to the door then it's number of seeds.

and have fun while protecting yourself from evil bites: http://www.amazon.com/Executioner-Swat-Mosquito-Swatter-Zapper/dp/B000MU2MJA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373990707&sr=8-1&keywords=zap+racket If you do get bitten, try the hot spoon technique for getting rid of the itch. http://lifehacker.com/use-a-hot-spoon-to-instantly-relieve-itchy-bug-bites-615912899

For recovery how does Knoppix compare with these:
http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/
http://lifehacker.com/5984707/five-best-system-rescue-discs
Yes knoppix is one of the options listed in the latter article but there's no comparison or review really being made.

Wrong about this topic too.
Man you just can't catch a break.

Few or no "regular" mass market car needs more than regular gas.
Some luxury or performance cars, with a high performance engine with high compression ratios, will run more efficiently with it, but even then its not required because of the anti-knock sensors that are standard and have been for a while now. you lose a little performance, but they adjust the timing.

Read the manual.
If it says the words "premium required" then fine, you might actually need it.
If says "recommended" or nothing at all, and this is the overwhelming majority of vehicles, then premium is a waste of $$.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/premium-gas-luxury-vehicles.htm
http://lifehacker.com/5846880/should-i-use-premium-gas-in-my-car

...unless you're one of the people relying on a piece of software that only runs on OS X, i.e. the main target demographic for this machine, in which case a PC isn't a valid substitute at any price.

If only there was a site dedicated to showing you how to run OSX on wintel hardware: http://www.hackintosh.com/
Or maybe well known websites that had an up-to-date guide: http://lifehacker.com/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-building-a-hackintosh-o-5841604

Did you really not know?

Hmmm... What do you suppose someone thinks of a "lifehacker", someone who visits and applies the advice given at the immensely popular website http://www.lifehacker.com?

I think the word "hacker" means different things in different contexts, and just because one definition is used less doesn't mean it no longer exists, or that it holds up progress.

I don't know where you are shopping but every grocery store I shop at displays unit pricing, eliminating this issue.

diatomaceous earth will kill any crawling insect and it's so safe you can eat handfuls of it and buckets of the stuff are only about $25, it's used to filter swimming pool water
http://lifehacker.com/5835163/kill-bugs-with-diatomaceous-earth

You are welcome Texas

Had a link in my post, must have formatted it wrong:

Removing DRM from an iTunes file.

Even worse, look at the editor bitching about Netflix not working on Linux when it's a solved problem.

Going for F/OSS would be more.. mind-expanding to the students, I'll admit, but I'd worry that being unfamiliar with Windows would hurt their chances of being employed. Lifehacker has an interesting pro-Linux article that I agree with, but I feel those skills, despite providing them a much greater understanding of computers in general, would be overwhelming to many and impractical down the road unless they specifically wish to go in to computer sciences. Familiarity with Linux and F/OSS is absolutely a bonus in today's world and should still be encouraged, but I don't think it should come at the expense of Windows/Office if that's what the job market is looking for. In the case of the Lifehacker article, that man's kids (emphasis on "man") will grow up to be badass and I have nothing but respect (and slight jealousy) for his two sons. I doubt they will ever need to worry about familiarity with Windows since they'll most likely know a Linux way around everything (if not always be in a position to dictate which software to use).

Before my karma falls in to oblivion for suggesting Microsoft, yes, you absolutely should teach the students about the open source community and how/why it works and encourage them to be familiar with the open source universe, but try to remember that this isn't about good and evil, this is about preparing the for a world that generally expects Windows.

I have never understood why people think Finder is awful. It provides all the features you get in Windows..

Like viewing the actual filesystem hierarchy as a tree of folders? Like being able to orient yourself quickly and easily within said hierarchy when an Open... dialog plops you into some seemingly arbitrary location that is not the last place you were at when opening or saving files?

I mean, there is something that kinda does that which is not a well publicized feature that is disabled by default. And even still, it doesn't show a proper tree or make jumping around the tree easy.

Why the hell ELSE would you post a question on slashdot?

I think the point of the parent is that the question has this nice, fuzzy "I didn't do my research, please do it for me." feel, which will get you into trouble on any serious forum. One can even see it in the question. It asks: "Any fun, off-beat party apps this middle-aged suburban dad hasn't heard of?" But never lists which apps he has heard of.

The OP also asks for a ROM but never tells us the modell of tablet (except that it is 7'' and from MID, hope they have only one of those). Basically it asks at least two questions where IMHO the only answer a self-respecting nerd seeing the lack of research can give is LMGTFY:

1. What custom ROMs are there for my device - Google leads in its first entry to xda-developers the ROM source.
2. What MP3 player apps are there - (ignoring the play store) Google finds quite some

Mentioning Gentoo in a negative conotation doesn't help either (and no I am not using any beta ROMs either but neither do I compare them to Gentoo).

> Slashdot, Google and the whole rest of the internet is much more annoying, since to disable ads you have to download AdBlock.

Eh? Try blocking at the hostname-ip-lookup level.
i.e.
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

Why aren't you blocking ads at the router level?
e.g.
http://lifehacker.com/5060053/set-up-universal-ad-blocking-through-your-router

You can send text messages to e-mail addresses and vice-versa (see here ), then get a cheap phone from Tracfone or something for voice service if she is able to use a phone for talking. I have my wife set up with a phone that gets triple minutes on the family value plan for $10 . She gets 150 minutes, which roll over from month-to-month. She almost never uses all of them, so this works out quite well for us.

r.e. original author: ok writing, though content / concepts seem like it would a better fit for the lifehacker.com crowd. Maybe take the constructive criticism from here, like the "portable charger" idea below, revise accordingly and see if lifehacker will publish it.

You might want to also include a section on using coupons from the Sunday circular to save money.

And how about one of cruising dumpsters for quality used furniture?

I think we just went from "news for nerds" to "news for morons who couldn't find their ass if it wasn't attached" in one post.

Having a gun, any gun, even a starter pistol, subjects your luggage to tighter security. For instance, when I checked a rifle for a hunting trip, the TSA walked me back to a room, made sure the rifle was unloaded and watched me lock the case. Then they handed me a receipt. They pay extra attention to that piece of luggage. When my plane landed, someone escorted my locked case out to me, matched the tag on the on the case with my receipt, checked my ID and gave me my case. There is no way they would have lost that piece of luggage. I bet if my case had been lost or stolen, there would have been a lockdown and search. Lifehacker detailed that same thing, I guess professional photographers pick up a $20 starter pistol just for this purpose. http://lifehacker.com/5448014/pack-a-gun-to-protect-valuables-from-airline-theft-or-loss

I use both and there are instructions here including a script where you run l.bat to set it up and sync.

However, it seems your use case is a little different than a personal backup.

http://lifehacker.com/5974087/i-raised-my-kids-on-the-command-lineand-they-love-it explains how to teach your kids about computers - no point-n-click. Take them through computer history by starting with DOS 3.x or Linux CLI.

Complex interfaces are overwhelming when we are learning.

Us "old guys" rememeber how great it was to learn the complexities of larger, more capable interfaces. We didn't get introduced them them on day 1. We started with a simple:

A:\

and we had to learn DIR, CD, B:. This happened slowly, over time.
I remember getting a mouse! What a cool thing. It had 2 buttons and was over $100! It came with a TSR program that provided a menu ... of sorts. The menu would call existing DOS programs. Of course, I had to learn to make the text file that the menu read to determine which programs to list. It was bonehead simple, but it taught me something. Basically, that was the XML file of the day.

Showing someone completely new to computers an XML file would probably scare them. Start small and build knowledge over time. Isn't that how learning happens?

Some more:

http://nostarch.com/
http://pragprog.com/
https://www.baenebooks.com/t-drm.aspx
http://www.dragonmount.com/index.php/News/book-news/new-drm-free-ebook-store-r401
http://lifehacker.com/5946956/grab-a-bundle-of-drm+free-ebooks-on-the-cheap

I'm not a lawyer, blah, blah. However, last I checked, they can't sue you for downloading, only uploading (by default, most BitTorrent clients are going to upload).

Even if they could go after you for downloading, there are plenty of Binary USENET providers that offer bundled VPN service.

Plenty of DVR solutions have been out for years which will automate downloading of all your favorite shows via USENET services. Game over for the media companies a long time ago for anyone with a technical clue.

Now that Comcast removed the download caps again, it's very viable.

The only holdover most guys have are sports, and old people want live news.