How are the laws unjust? The piracy is still happening, the fact that the pirates also buy stuff shouldn't be a mitigating factor.

When the laws are intended to stop a disadvantage that isn't happening in the first place, they are unjust. The fact that pirates also buy stuff doesn't mitigate the losses and the economic damage cause by the losses because the fact that pirates buy stuff means that there is no loss.

To wash down the shit sandwich the James Webb people have just had to eat.

It'd be great to be able to drag officers from DBCDE, OPTUS and Telstra through an inquiry and make them all prove that there was no financial inducement to implement this filter.

Interesting to see that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Liberals don't know how to create a Slashdot account. If you're claiming that a fibre cable won't support 100Mb/s data rates, you must think we're a bunch of drongoes. If NBNCo is going to do any filtering, then you'd have a legitimate gripe with it. But that's not the story here. The story is that Telstra and OPTUS have agreed to implement Conroy's intergoogle filter without his having to have a law passed. If NBNCo did it, we'd be fucked. As it is now, we can just use a different ISP.

The rate at which they can pop up versus the rate at which you can knock them off... not a good strategy. You guys turned that prick into a celebrity. You'll turn the next one into a celebrity. But you need to neutralise him a metric buttload more quickly than you did this clown.

"Hairy Hardon".

[8. vgerunits] Voyager2 says, OMFGLAG

I hope they use t3h Monsta Kab3l.

The problem is that detection of this particle is very costly, involving a particle accelerator the length of nearly 35 football fields and a matching scale beneath it.

Are those imperial football fields or metric football fields? It's hard to convert to Libraries of Congress without knowing.

I don't know why this particular event is getting so much attention.

Well, it is the "god particle", you know. Once it is discovered -- I guess "revealed" is a better word for this one -- once it is revealed, it will be the trumpet call of the Lord or some such bullshit.

Seriously, Leon Lederman made a big mistake with that book title. (No, I don't like "champagne bottle boson", either, and I'm surprised that the French haven't sued someone over it anyway.)

What about: 4. The right to keep and bear arms for the maintenance of a well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state.

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=HB2454

Perhaps guilt-ridden cheering, but cheering nonetheless.

IOW, we're all vindictive bastards, and we all know it, and none of us particularly care.

Clearly, he didn't care then, and I really don't see how four years in prison would make him care now.

That's as may be, but it illustrates a problem with incarceration-as-rehabilitation. It's supposed to be rehabilitative, but it usually isn't. What's readily apparent from the commentary here and in other threads of commentary like this is that it's meant to be nothing more than a punitive measure and as a rule we like it that way. We want to punish the guy? Fine. But make it purposeful, otherwise it's just a bloodsport. The fact that there's no actual blood just lets us be sententious about it. Poor form, humanity.

I sure hope any potential employers google "Robert Soloway" and find "Spam king" high on the results list.

I sure hope that he has reformed. That's the point of penal servitude, isn't it? Otherwise, why bother with it? I mean, why not just execute him if doing his time isn't good enough for you?

I don't think anyone's saying that life arose on a comet or asteroid, only that the ingredients were deposited here by such. And I don't think anyone's saying that it didn't happen anywhere else. Indeed, rather that passing the buck, positing an extra-terrestrial origin for the required ingredients might suggest that it would be more likely (or at least possible) for the same sort of thing to happen elsewhere.