Someone only needs to write a drm plugin for linux, which could quite easily be reused by different streaming partners. Currently they'd be writing an entire video player for each platform, or writing one player that works on a whole different VM on each platform (thus requiring porting the whole vm, not just the decryption bit). The goal would be to have a common drm plugin between apps (but distinct for each OS) and a common video player.

1984 had nothing to do with the problems of selling peoples information to companies.

He's replying to the accusation that it's a slashvertisement, and the implication that it's a bad thing.

And given the ease of paying on steam, as well as the low cost, you don't need to have much of a barrier for it to be effective.

The US has a higher per capita cost than any other country in the world, is that because you have the best healthcare in the world?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
And finally, you can get private healthcare in the UK too.

Yep, which is why the US has such a low per capita cost for healthcare and the UK has such a high per capita cost.

It can kill all of *us* though. I don't see it as OK if we all die but some bacteria survive.

Or even, you know, *lots of people*. The Earth has been incredibly inhospitable for long periods of time

Awesome, so the plan is to wait until lots of people are dying and everythings pretty fucked up, *then* start solving the problems. Sounds perfect, can't see a flaw there.

git clone --depth 1

To add to this, last time I used SVN, it seemed to transfer each file individually which was really slow. Git compresses the files and then transfers everything

While a little more work than with svn, you can checkout just part of a repository: http://jasonkarns.com/blog/subdirectory-checkouts-with-git-sparse-checkout/

Although I'd argue that if this is a common problem then you probably have several sub-projects.

Slightly tongue in cheek but a good statistic is that toddlers (3mo - 6y) killed more Americans than terrorists did in the last year. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/toddlers-killed-more-americans-terrorists-did-year

How about predicting disease transmission from twitter?

I didn't say it'd scramble the fighter jets, but if someone enters a "I"M BEING COERCED INTO VOTING FOR SOMEONE" signal, that's pretty serious. If I entered it, I'd expect someone to follow up on it (not send around a S.W.A.T team, but have someone follow up over the next week).

This is a side issue though, as there's already the problem of how someone actually enters this duress signal. How is this done without anyone but the person entering it knowing it's the duress signal?

I'm describing just one problem in a theoretically perfectly secure online voting system. In fact, the problem with the duress signal is the delivery of it to a person without anyone else knowing. I was describing a problem even if *that* system was also perfect. Overall, I don't see the point in online voting. Going to a nearby school/church/town hall and ticking a box on a bit of paper behind a curtain is simple, cheap and pretty hard to fuck up. It solves many of the problems with coercion (the wonderful technology of an opaque curtain), fraud is harder because there are physical items to fake/destroy with people around.

Scale. Voting by mail is done in fairly small numbers and importantly is not the standard. You have to go through extra hoops to do it. As it's implemented, it certainly has the problems of coercion, but is probably better than stopping those people voting at all.

Internet voting, however, would be something I'd see as standard. Not a special case for those who can't make it to the polls, but for everyone. And that's where it starts to worry me.

Sounds quite complicated.
It'd need to be unique to each person, and have been delivered to them without anyone else seeing (you don't want the person you're afraid of knowing you're signalling duress). Then, given that someone is likely to turn up at the house (voter fraud is very serious, I'd expect the police to be involved) you could be found out.
If it's a workplace thing, do you want to risk getting fired?
The problem is you need to this to be indistinguishable from a normal vote to any observer, and however you do this cannot be intercepted or detected.

It isn't possible, because you can no longer have any reasonable guarantee that there was no coercion. You need to control the location the vote is cast.