No. When I buy something on my Kindle, I am buying a "non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times". That is what they gave me. The device is my property, and while the copy does not belong to me under certain definitions of ownership, I have a licence to use it in perpetuity. As far as I can tell from a cursory glance, what they did here is not permitted by their own licence.

The article doesn't mention this either.

In order for an episode of The Simpsons to be worth more in advertising per viewer on Hulu than on regular television, prices for the same spot would need to be between $300 to $600.

Apparently the advertisers haven't heard about window managers and multitasking operating systems... especially since Hulu goes so far as to tell the viewer how long the commercial will be.

Then again, since Hulu commercial breaks are so short compared to those on television, there is far less of an incentive to do something else.

I'm reasonably certain this isn't the case: I've seen the behaviour through several connections, and most of those connections are not the sort that would have transparent proxies.

It isn't, but vimperator does seem to be unique in having full keyboard-only navigation that is actually efficient and usable, and that can actually be faster than using a mouse. Most "full keyboard-only navigation" designs seem to be very poorly thought out, and meant for people who *can't* use the mouse, rather than people who want something faster.

Strunk and White is the apocryphal text of degenerate grammatical crackpots, unable to truly understand the divine beauty of the English language!

I can only assume that you are but a casual follower of this particular heretical sect, as your commentary on verbosity, while quite correct in truth, is not typical of a Strunk and White believer. Also, you make use of adjectives, those glorious things that are so unjustly denounced as vices by the false prophets while they yet use them. Thus, I must implore you to reject their insidious words before you are utterly brainwashed into following them and endangering your immortal soul!

I have to respond to this, because while you make some valid points, you're also misrepresenting a number of things.

The censorship on Wikipedia of sites like WR surrounds Wikipedia's consideration for its users' privacy. Sites like WR frequently have users who will delve into the personal lives of editors they happen to dislike, and try to publish as much information as possible, in ways verging on harassment. In addition, having their identities revealed can cause a number of problems for the editors: I know Wikipedia editors who keep science articles free of crackpot theories, and they tend to keep their true identities hidden because otherwise crackpots would go after them with frivolous lawsuits and real world harassment of employers and family. The censorship is based around this, not around what people happen to dislike.

Also, while many threads on WR are useful, many others are not, having been created mainly by people who dislike Wikipedia for not pandering to their particular viewpoints, and thus go about trying to claim that everything about Wikipedia is bad. And while there are occasionally problems with RFCs, RfArb, ANI, RfD, and so on, I've generally found that, unless one is searching for problems, things typically work well. Reading only Wikipedia Review is like reading only news about criminals: it can easily give a very distorted view of reality.

... did you read the main argument of that post? It doesn't sound like your normal PC has been turned off for six years if it's been running CoD4 matches...

While I can't reveal my sources, I do have on very good authority that the "expected lifetimes" given for Spirit and Opportunity were arbitrary, and most people involved knew that they were quite able to last for far longer. Those sorts of numbers are given to keep missions from seeming like failures.

52 kWh in 5 minutes is 624 kW, and in 3 minutes is around 1 MW. This is completely beyond the capacity of any household that I've ever seen; even most major power plants would only have the capacity to charge a few thousand of these simultaneously.