Hasn't it occurred to anyone that the The Foreign VPS Incentive Act will cause domestic VPS vendors to lose business?

Outside of the /. crowd

Sometimes I wonder why this particular website bothers to cover issues related to that particular crowd. They're such an insignificant minority!

Yup I have basically the same settings as you and my OS and Firefox are up to date. I have to check all my addons to see which one causes trouble... Waste of time.

I use Firefox on Linux with various ad and javascript blockers. Any site that uses cloudflare lets me load only ONE page before blocking me. I need to change my user agent to anything else to load ONE more page. And repeat. It's fucking annoying. The message is always the same:
"Your browser is out of date!
Update your browser to view this website correctly. More Information.
Ray ID: 875d19feac104dc4
Performance & security by Cloudflare"

No 3rd either, so the king can even do that in time of peace!

One, microbes adapted to Mars would stand zero chance against the very many adapted to Earth and constantly fighting against each others.
Two, there are rocks small and large falling constantly from the sky, with remnants from comets with organic materials (not AFAWK microbes) on them, and no they don't all fry in the atmosphere on the way down, and no, they don't cause any contamination on Earth. Something from Mars wouldn't be much different; don't watch too much bad sci-fi.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... My question for those is "will you still be listening to it one year from now? 20 years from now?". I'm sure I'll still be listening to Ministry or In Flames 20 years from now. But that cuss-word filled rap with no music, no rhythm, no voice, no talent and nothing else... I'm sure you won't.

Currently reading Classical Antiquity Heavy Metal Music, and that's a heavy read.

If you are an extrovert and interacting with people is painful... maybe you should take a good look in a mirror... ?

It's really an acquired taste. Or something you put on when you want to annoy a metalhead with something less TURN IT THE FUCK OFF than rap...

Even stranger is learning english, when suddenly you understand lyrics of songs you've heard since you were a kid...

There are plenty of missing niches for EVs. For instance our 2 cars are dying and I'm thinking about EV. BUT we are on a co-property with a small common parking lot (7 cars max). It would seem obvious to put a charging station there, and yet there's no technical solution available. Either we ask one of the commercial charging stations to build one there, but then they'll charge us through the nose each time we use it. Or one of us builds a private connector. But there's not (that I know) a simple solution with a switch to select which person pays, with the electricity coming from the co-property. Or let me know if I'm wrong.

They talk about Anime, but there are other solutions too: foreign movies. The US has always been *very* closed off to foreign productions. When there's a big success overseas, they usually do a shitty remake instead of showing the better original. There are plenty of good movies with the usual culprits like France or Italy (Rapito, C'è ancora domani...), and Bollywood may be an acquired taste but you can't deny its success. And lately I've been watching more movies from Germany or Scandinavia (anything from Fatih Akin, Don't Look away, Blood & Gold, Sisu...)

If Cox is liable for user's copyright infringement then Tesla is liable for drivers speeding.

Not if there's a federal law that explicitly declares that middlemen are liable if they don't comply with the DMCA process, while there isn't a federal law saying car manufacturers are liable for speeding.

You might be looking at the underlying principles and making common sense value judgements, instead of reading what the law says.

This is ultimately why politics exists: to influence what the law is, in an attempt to make it more like your common sense value judgements. And it's really hard because these are issues that your congressional candidates probably aren't talking about at all, because they're talking about someone else's "important" [eyeroll] issues instead. We needed to stop DMCA in 1997/1998 and we failed.

The jury seemed to decide that accusations qualify as infringement

However regrettable, it's easy to understand how that can happen.

The jury could have just been told testimony that "we saw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx was seeding our movie" (with screenshots of MPAA's torrent client showing a seeder at that address and the packets they got from that address correctly matching the torrent's checksum). Meanwhile, Cox wouldn't have any evidence refuting it (even though the assertion isn't proven; the "screenshots" could have been made in GIMP for all we know). And then the jury might have ruled based on "preponderance" of evidence.

Kind of like 3 cops saying "the perp resisted arrest" and the perp saying "no I didn't" and a criminal jury (where the bar is much higher) still deciding that the perp resisted arrest. Sigh. You know that happens.

Had Cox ratted their customer out (or gotten a DMCA counternotice from them), then the customer could have been sued instead, and raised doubts by saying "I have an open wifi" or something like that. But Cox didn't, and they certainly aren't going to say "we have an open wifi" since they're in the network business so of course they don't offer free networking to strangers. It sounds like a difficult situation for Cox.