Read a lot of Fark, do we?

People can manage turn signals where you live?

This is a terrible rationalization. America kills tens of thousands of innocents, so Sweden should sleep comfortably knowing they've only knowingly killed a few hundred?

That blood aside, you don't seriously think the loss of informants will cause the U.S. to step down its attacks, merely because we have less reliable information? I mean, I like Obama, as politicians go, but I don't trust him. When it's been expedient for him to follow the Bush policies, he's done so.

Not removing critical names from documents is criminally irresponsible. The informants knew they were putting themselves in danger by helping the U.S., I don't think they expected their names to be posted on the web.

I don't think it's about selling more albums at all. It doesn't really matter whether they do.

The issue is that if they have a bad quarter (or worse, a series of bad quarters), they need to justify it to shareholders. Illegal downloading is a good scapegoat (and, for all I know, that's what's causing lost sales under their current business model), but in order for that excuse to work they have to launch a campaign against illegal downloaders. It's all about the perception the shareholders have of the executives.

By this reasoning, almost any amount of money they spend prosecuting illegal downloaders is justified because it's fighting a war against piracy. This is doubly effective if they have a successful quarter in which they sell more albums because it ostensibly means that their campaign is working. And now shareholders are convinced that these executives are the right people for the job.

Simply create a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track his IP address.

I'm taking bets on how long it takes NASA to discover blue aliens on Mars.

When I die, I have a feeling my corpse will be mailed to somebody my dog doesn't like.

Intel (and other manufacturers) caters to whatever market segment their customers want. /. has a disproportionate number of people who buy shrink wrapped CPUs, but that's a piddly market. Chip manufacturers sell to computer makers like Dell, H.P., and Apple. If these companies want gaming CPUs, Intel and AMD will sell them gaming CPUs.

All that said, I'm not clear on why you're complaining. Are modern chips not fast enough for you?

Stallman? Is that you? I thought you lived in your office at MIT, not in your parents' basement.