If it did, patent trolling wouldn't be a problem.

URLs in tweets are automatically converted to bit.ly URLs if they over a certain amount of characters.

And that concludes this showing of Slashdot's bash.org theater.

As Henry Ford said, "If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."

Or is it that non-commercial violations of copyrights aren't that upsetting, but commercial violations are?

I don't remember a great many people rushing to the defense of the guy trying to sell Beatle's music by violating copyrights, even though he was going against a big label.

More accurately:

Car analogy.
You go to the gas station. You go inside and pay for $20 in gas. You go back to the pump, and modify it to give you $40 in gas instead.

Utility analogy.
The water company installs a meter at your house, to keep track of the water you use and charge you for it. You modify the meter to only report half of what you use.

Really, if you're going to use bad analogies, at least try to make them remotely accurate.

Bullshit. If five-star restaurants are so good, why are people eating at McDonalds 10x as much?

Bullshit. If Mac OSX is so good, why are people buying 10x as many Windows PCs?

Ad infinitum.

Google Wave is actually all three of those forms. I've had instant-messenger style chats on Wave between me and my boss. We've started using it to replace email in some situations (something that will open up once there are other Wave clients.) And, of course, you can broadcast the communication out to anyone in Wave, and even outside of it with certain robots.

I think you're confusing Comcast with a reasonable company. Increasing bandwidth caps would be a reasonable response to your scenario. With Comcast, it's more likely that they'll just burn down his house.

XP didn't exactly push me to Linux--I just tried Linux on a lark, and found it so much better than XP I switched over fully. I went without Windows at all for about three years.

Then, about a year ago, I bought a new laptop that came with Vista. My plan was just to install Linux over it, but the more I used Vista the more I came to appreciate that Microsoft had finally made decent operating system (I didn't use Vista back when it had a lot of trouble, pre-Service Pack 1, so I don't have the negative experiences a lot of people have.)

Vista didn't exactly make me switch back (I still run Linux on everything, but I use Vista quite a bit on my laptop), but I'd take it over any other version of Windows out there.

Somehow, I get the feeling you don't understand economies of scale.

You're right. Anything that criticizes Microsoft is always a Linux shill piece... Microsoft never does anything wrong.*

*Not saying Microsoft did anything wrong in this case.

The "Informative" moderation on this should itself be modded +5 Funny

While that's true (other than the fact you're equating copyright infringement and stealing...), that's not what the poster was saying at all: what he said was, even if a lot of people stop buying games, regardless of the level or actual piracy or losses due to piracy, companies will still point to the pirates as the reason for their loss, not the fact they're over-charging for their product.

So what you're saying is that it's exactly like the rest of the game industry?