The sites only block Tor exit nodes. Unless the botnets are turning these computers into exit nodes, they won't be blocked.

Does Minecraft work with Icedtea? From what I've seen Icedtea works fine with hard floats, it's just the Oracle Java that doesn't support it yet.

Ron Paul tried that very technique, but he got stonewalled by the party establishment and had the rules changed at the last minute to exclude him. People are beginning to realize that changing the parties from the inside out doesn't work as long as there are power hungry people controlling the rules and making decisions for the party.

But this only works if you try and work within the party. Once Tea Party Republicans realize that they can't beat the powerful and corrupt using their rules, than we'll see a mass exodus followed by a party collapse rivaling the Whig party.

Yes, not because you know he hasn't done anything illegal, but because the probability that he's wrongly killed someone is extremely low. On the other hand, an armed governmental stranger (especially a cop) is much more likely to have wrongly killed someone. It probably wasn't illegal (since the government makes the laws in the first place) or if it was it was ignored, but they have a much higher tendency to wrongfully kill someone because they have done it before and gotten away with it or they know they can.

If you'll read TFA, they're doing it so that jQuery will be much faster and more modular. If you just use 1.9, you're punishing everyone who has a sane browser. Their code will run slower so that it won't break for the drones using ancient versions of IE. By offering both and choosing server side, you have the speed and support of the new versions and still support grandpa's Windows XP computer. Eventually Windows XP will die a long deserved death and version 1.9 can go with it.

That will only last for a little while. I'm sure Anonymous would be interested in making it public knowledge.

It all depends on how they got their money and power. If they got it by producing the best things that people want, then it's not good for them. But if they got their money by regulating away their competitors, enriching themselves through subsidies, or empowering themselves through controlled media then it's in their best interests to restrict freedom. Allowing Internet freedom could threaten their guaranteed profits (by circumventing restrictive copyrights and patents) or threaten their power to influence people (by allowing the free flow of information). That's why they keep trying to pass these bills. Instead of trying to innovate their way to more profits, they turn to forcing people either directly or indirectly to give them more profits through government action.

This is actually the best solution. The "browser pluggable module" makes this system not much better than Flash or Silverlight. It's not architecture independent, and not secure. If the plugin is automatically downloaded, than it'll have to be very heavily sandboxed to keep a malicious website from sending malware instead. If the plugin has to be installed manually, it's not any different from Flash except that you have to install multiple ones for different sites's DRM schemes.

Javascript is the best solution for making it work across multiple browsers. It's already standardized and implemented, and it's architecture and platform independent. Hulu and Netflix can't send it plain, since Hollywood would complain, but a JS solution would be secure enough. Java and .NET are fairly easily decompilable, but you still see Hulu and Netflix making Android and Windows Phone apps.

The main issues would be speed and API difficulties. To support this, it would be best for browsers to implement:

• A standardized Javascript crypto library implementing common, patent-free algorithms like AES, RSA, and DSA. This would make implementing the DRM scheme easier, keep the decryption fast, and could take advantage of hardware optimizations (AES-NI).
• Hooks for decrypting video content. Let the browser play the video, but have it invoke a JS event that could decrypt the content before it is played.
• Optional: A "secure memory" object for storing the keys. This might provide Hollywood with enough security that they'd let something like this fly.