Sharing parental leave is a massive step forward on so many levels.

It would stop employers discriminating against women of childbearing age, because the risk would then apply equally to men. Such discrimination might be illegal now, but it won't actually stop until the economic incentive is removed.

If men are paid more (due to historical sexism or whatever) they are actually likely to take a GREATER share of paid parental leave so that their partner can be the one to take an unpaid career break when the leave runs out. So it will have the effect of reducing any existing pay gap between the sexes.

It also sends a clear message that men are - or can be - equal partners in raising children. How to trade career vs childcare (and which partner does it) is a decision for couples, not the state. Some men might want to scurry back to work after two weeks - and that's fine - but it should be a decision rather than a social norm.

Simplifies everything for gay couples too. There's really nothing not to like. Thank you Sweden for taking a risk and showing us how it can be done, you've earned the right to be smug on this one :-)

What could possibly go wrong?

Aw crap. I just wrote exactly these 4 points in reply to the GP & then saw your answer before submitting.

I would just add: I consider it to be the 'silver lining' of getting type 1 (aged 35) that I think a bit more about what I eat and whether I need to eat it. My diet was already quite good, but it's improved since.

RIANZ will be weighing $250,000 against the deterrent effect this will have on filesharers. NOT the return they get in fines.

Perhaps that's money well spent from their point of view. It doesn't seem like it, but I'm in no position to judge.

Yes. Fast forward far enough and we're either extinct or running off renewables. Non-renewables are temporary, pretty much by definition. Stupid question.

Maybe, but that's a problem I'm happy to have.

Then keep your eye on Bug #1055766

I suspect that he's making retrospective excuses for poor design; I doubt it's as intentional as he claims. A GPL'd shared library would give the idealogical results he appears to want. (Which I support, incidentally)

... like Microsoft have been, for example. Open Street Map contributors have been given permission to trace features from Bing's areal photographs since 2010. No such goodwill from Google.

So without saying that android phones are more or less reliable in general, what they are really saying is:

Android phones less prone to software problems.

Probably not now, but if you upload those files (to which you are still not entitled) to a cloud service, then you have just committed a brand new civil offence.

Just because you can't be prosecuted, it doesn't mean you now have a license to redistribute that music.

There have been promises of decent ATI drivers "just around the corner" for many, many years now.

ATI's new documentation effort is fantastic and my last-but-one card was a 4780 based on a desire to reward OSS-friendliness and the promise of decent drivers. I struggled with driver hell for 2 years, unable to do decent compositing, watch tear-free video or even play UT2004 (yes a 7-year-old game) at a smooth frame rate. It was a truly shoddy experience and I understand that the ATI Linux drivers had improved massively to even get to that point.

At that time I think nVidia were having some 2D performance issues of their own but I'm not aware of ANY point in time where their drivers have been less than 'excellent' in comparison to the ATI ones.

So if I learned anything from that experience, it was to make your purchasing decisions based on NOW, not on "pretty soon" or "maybe". I gave that ATI card to a Windows-using friend and will continue with nVidia until they either get bought out by Microsoft or finally get some competition on Linux. It'd be great but I'm not holding my breath.

SSDs (such as the one in this study) are quite capable of examining the filesystem stored on the drive, independently, and the concept of 'dutifully' and ignorantly maintaining deleted data goes out of the window as a result.

Is there a list of SSDs that do this? I want to be sure I never accidentally buy one, or even get misled by marketing material based on such a terrifying 'optimisation'.

I already got burned with a Corsair Flash Voyager USB stick whose controller would slow down to the point of timing out out if you modified the pre-formatted partition table (this bug). Annoying, but at least it's not trashing parts of the disk because it thinks it's seen an NTFS partition.

How is this different from running any kind of decentralised P2P software?
Have you ever been "helpfully upgraded" by your ISP for using BitTorrent?
I doubt it.