What's the difference between cloud storage + computing and "web hosting"? AWS just provides the platform.

Yes, it would have. The restored version would be assigned a new copyright under most circumstances.

The problem is that they know all their own libraries still make them money. People are still making from the White Album.

As that anchor is dragged forward, those artists and albums at the back stop making money for them. And then they realise that as that anchor is inexorably drawn forward from that point on, they lose more money every year because it's likely the new artists aren't making as much as the old back catalogues (maybe individual examples, but not overall).

And then they realise that, in 50 years time, when all they have to monetise is the junk that they've been churning out recently, they are dead in the water and the industry will struggle to sustain itself. They're not saving themselves for today, but for their retirement, when they're basing their business on people buying Britney Spears' back catalogue etc.

That said, any law that has to be revised the number of times that the copyright ones have should really be scrapped or made indefinite. If NOBODY in a certain industry (music industry, Disney, etc.) has ever seen their copyright expire, how on earth can we say that we need to legislate to extend that protection continually - and multiple times - without making the case that it should be indefinite or not?

I'm not saying that's a GOOD solution, but someone needs to review the time and money spent messing about extending laws to cover timeframes - including overruling laws retroactively - and either fix a date in stone or make it indefinite. Pretending that it will eventually end up in the public domain while that never being legally possible is just outright scumbaggery.

If they really wanted to line their pockets, they'd sell them to the black hats.

Blindly disclosing the security holes to the internet at large makes the internet less safe in the short term since the bad guys can exploit the vulnerabilities before the good guys can fix them.

Groupon could hire people themselves to find the vulnerabilities, but they chose not to, instead they offer a bounty for security bugs, which apparently is very cost effective when they don't pay up, so it's a double win - no need to pay money to hire security experts when a community of bug hunters will do the work for a token bounty, and no reason to actually pay the bounty when you can find a technicality (if one out of 30 bugs were released in violation of their guidelines, why aren't they paying their promised bounty for the others?)

The sales figures I saw for 2014 showed less than 15% of sales were actual truck-based (that is, body-on-frame) SUVs. The Ford F-150 is still the best selling vehicle-- a pickup, not an SUV. Misleading vividness-- when a Prius driver can't see around a Tahoe, that's all they bitch about. They'll quickly forget the guy in a Focus who cut him off.

Yeah, but it still has no wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

I'd be curious to know how many in favor of mandatory vaccinations are pro-life... and the converse. Apparently, whatever happens to my baby is up to me.. until it's born. Then, the government takes over.

Well, I'm against both conscription and mandatory vaccinations, and for the same reason.

They are already smart enough to use shell corporations to do the drilling -- by the time water contamination or triggered earthquakes are discovered, the shell company is long done and a new one has taken its place.

It's no different than creating a humongous unreasonable fire hazard in your backyard

No, that would be like me getting my hands on a sample of a pathogen and purposely releasing it in my neighborhood. Not being vaccinated is more like not digging a fire break around my house.

Since you appear to love straw men and slippery slopes, I'll point out that if the government can force you to vaccinate your children due to potential future harm to others, then they can order you to do just about anything in regards to raising them:

- What hobbies they have
- What toys they play with
- Who they associate with
- What clothes they wear
- What food they eat

So, basically, what anyone who has an open case with their state's child/family services department goes through right now. Except EVERY FAMILY will be under close scrutiny. Not just gun-lovin', Bible-bangin' nut cases like you detest. And since the state has royal immunity, I guess when stuff like this happens we can all just suck it up and deal.

THAT is why I oppose the authoritarian state.

If it was a non-government corporation, would you be more concerned? And it is a corporation, just one owned by the federal government.

Can we stop using the unscientific term "lost gospels"? Not only are many of these writings simply letters, and not accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus, they were never widely accepted and rarely cited by early Christian writers. They're apocrypha.

We engineered the wolf ego away with selective breeding.

RTFA: