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So my ISP can now sell my browsing history – what can I do?

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The article includes one of the interviewees being skeptical that various ISP will be safe from this sort of overreach (specifically, Sonic), as he says they are all in a "race to the bottom".

Thankfully, Sonic is privately-held, so the spectre of shareholders demanding violating their customers' privacy is not a concern.

Full disclosure: I'm one of the owners, and we have always taken the privacy of our customers very seriously. We've used the analogy of the phone company listening in on phone calls for marketing purposes -- that would be very creepy, and so is this bill from Congress.

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Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer

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Re: Impressive...

Did it play well with cygwin?

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Re: seems a bit arse about face to me

Don, Don, Don -- he was being sarcastic. Look at the title.

And I don't know who your example site is, but it really sounds like a lot of FUD. It sounds like you're talking about the Linux of 10-20 years ago -- nonsense about a lack of stability? Puh-lease.

We've had a solid experience with Linux, which runs on almost all of our 362 servers (and growing). Those are mostly physical servers -- not virts.

And when Win7 came along, I started playing with it on my Fedora desktop in kvm virts, using virt-manager. I've seen Win8, and I'm installing Win8S in another virt, just to see how "open" it really is. I've had my hopes dashed by MS before, so I'm not getting my hopes up -- but I'll give it a fair look.

Heck, I've even run Win7 on my bare hardware, just to run Duke Nukem 4-Ever. The gentleman is right: the IT world _is_ upside-down in some ways -- because if they can finally release DN4E, maybe MS will stop playing games and get it right this time.

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