Adrian Lamo spoke at a HOPE conference Informants Panel some years ago about this very subject... ugh anyway
1. he's a rat, snitch whatever and he did because it doesn't take a genius to realize that if someone tells you they just stole a truck load of top secret diplomat cables and is going to release them, the government is going to send people to jail and you have to make a decision if you want to be one of those people.
2. all the flimsy excuses he's given so far sound to me like something a FBI would have to said to him to make him feel better about ratting Manley out, whereas Lamo would have looked less like a creep if he just admitted to ratting Manley out because he didn't want to go to jail.

this just in slashdot readers disciplined for believing obvious advertising for actual news story
it's right up there with china banning the ps3 for being a super computer and other advertisements
either the people approving these stories are gullible or getting paid by the companies

Yes a geometric shape made to look like it's sinking no one has ever thought *cough* boxee box *cough*

extensive privacy invasion? where did I state that?
just take down content being shared that people don't have the right to share, it's not that hard and doesn't require silly SOPA bills

And how exactly do artists receive this monthly wage and who pays it? The government? the corporate world?
Here's the thing, an artist be it visual or musical is generally considered to be the same as a small business
you know someone working for themselves... but it in your stalinist world they'd all be working for the central bureaucracy producing art
to glorify the regime.

Oh yes I know I took you waaay out of context there, but then again so did you

In my perfect world
1. copyright would exist for the artists life plus 10 years.
2. allow for cover version royalties
3. prohibit across the board bootlegging (yeah that would include p2p sharers of copyrighted materials, yeah it's not piracy, it's bootlegging!)
alot of fair use for people who sample others peoples work, especially when there's not a profit made
I got alot of the ideas from the 'sonic outlaws' documentary, especially the negativland v u2 case.

Remember pauline hanson?
Yeah he's not that bad really, just a massive ego like most hackers. Compare to others running in politics
  he's not that bad, look at bob katter and his wing nut party. Remember Sir Jo from QLD back in the day? I do
and so does julian. Remember the publicity stunt of Peter Garret joining the labor party, where is he now?
More power to him, I'd certainly vote for him

I love the fact slashdot has a related story link about how AptiQuant browser/IQ study was likely a hoax.

Also I want to submit my own dubious logic story:
I use Firefox and I don't have cancer, therefore Firefox cures cancer!

You waited too long intel, sitting on the sidelines. You probably even thought that this tablet thing was all just a craze and would fade away as quickly as it had come (but call it a wait and see approach just incase you were wrong). But now ARM is the big boy in the tablet (and mobile phone) field. Just like microsoft had a wait and see attitude with mobile phone OS then iOS and Android swept the market and then they released windows mobile 7 to a world that didn't care. So you'll release your tablets with ICS and windows8. Everyone will root their windows8 device to install ICS anyway because Win8 is terrible and people will figure it out quick. Any tablet device slapped with an 'Intel Inside' sticker will most likely flounder as everyone buys iPads and samsung galaxy tablets. In short Intel stick to desktops and laptops also get nvidia to produce a video card driver that doesn't crash every 5 minutes thank you gtx560.

GoDaddy would have to cease to exist for me to believe the free market works, don't get me work I believe that free markets are a good thing but they need some amount of government regulation to balance out greedy dishonest a-holes.

A lot of people say if we had a "true" free market with out any goverment regulations or interference it would all work out in the end. Much like communists will tell you that most communist states failed because they weren't "true" communism. It's all the speak of a true believer.

Free Market Capitalism and Communism are really get theories but turn to crap when you add people to the equation, just like a computer program will work 100% perfectly until someone uses it then it'll just crash.

Hopefully there will be a boycott and more boycotts if it fails to get the message across. Not something that should be given up on because it becomes all to hard and doesn't work the first time, after all how much do you value your freedom? Hell work to vote out every idiot that voted for it. Capitalism is supposed to be democratic, they tell you if people don't buy a product a company should understand that there's a problem with their product and rectify the problem or risk going out of business. Boycotts get that message across, worked well for south africa,

I swear schools should teach kids how to organise boycotts right along side the importance of voting. Generations of kids coming up willing to drop massive boycotts on companies for even looking like doing something evil. When someone says that the market will work it out naturally they mean it'll correct itself eventually and I'll a load of cash in the meantime... oh I'm slightly off topic now.

I agree with you, as a fellow boxee box owner it does require some love. Don't get me wrong I do love my boxee box I looked at all the other so called media streamers out there and by far boxee box is the best codec wise with full HD support and .mkv support plus web browser and apps it was worth the price tag. Having said that, yeah updates were a pain I had one or two updates early on that required factory resets because for some reason they absolutely hated the network and refused to see any shared drives (although I haven't had that problem with subsequent updates) the remote works well so long as you never have to use the cursor but you can get an app through itunes and andriod app market to use your phone as a remote control (although I haven't used it so I don't know how well that works over the default remote). For me the 'friends' option that allows you to watch videos your friends post on social networking sites no longer updates people still post videos to me but they never show up on boxee. The one thing that really annoys me beyond anything which is beyond boxee's control is content restriction rules, not being able to access certain content because of geographical location (australia) meaning half the apps are crippled or unusable. A problem that goes beyond just boxee itself but strong selling points of boxee are made useless beyond the american market. In short love boxee but needs more work

was a joke

So I heard today the swiss government ruled gnu gpl invalid, they said it was ok because you've probably got money coming in from somewhere so you wouldn't mind if someone else made some money off it too. Why are you applauding some dumb thinking it's just as dumb as MIAA and RIAA