*another* nail? Just how big *is* this coffin?

Yes and no - you're right that people are crappy enough at 2D driving without having to worry about Z; but there's a lot of work going into automatic cars - some brands already have almost fully automatic prototypes - and the expansion of that into 3D will nicely circumvent that problem.

> You should never wonder who sees what's there

No, you shouldn't, especially not who sees it because we sold it to them. Go and play some more farmville, like a good little product.

The main thing that the iPad is tempting me with, is the games. The portable internet and stuff is a nice bonus, but it's it's use as a portable games platform that appeals to me. The reason I haven't bought one, is that it's simply too expensive for a games platform.

That's what it wants you to think.

> What the heck software is HP shipping that hasn't to do with their own hardware?

Servicedesk, to name but one.

Shrooms would be the logical next step, although the scientists might have found them slightly before this, methinks :-)

That's a typical sue-sick view.

He's not saying "I can't win", he's saying "I'm not interested in a real fight". Subtle, but very very different.

Heeh, did that actually happen?

On the current topic, however; look at it from the other side. If Mojang created 'Scrolls' a few years back, and then Bethesda published 'The Elder Scrolls', what would happen? From that angle, it would look a damn lot like a sequel, wouldn't it?

It's not particularly nice of Bethesda, but I do see their point.

Well, if you're resigned to not make money off it anyways, why not attempt to write it up in a different form and publish it under the GPL or a similarly sticky open license; or publish under the creative commons?

You'll still not make money off it, but it'll be wide open in the public domain, available for everyone to pick up and improve the world with it, and unable to be locked in a corporate vault.

If there is such a thing as non-runaway government, I am not aware of the country they govern.

> while *nowhere* is Korea in [in] terms of Internet access

One would expect Korea to be Korea, I'd say.

An ISP contract cannot make you legally liable to other people's actions that have nothing to do with the ISP themselves. You can't ask for more volume based off "other people used it, not me"; but they can't say "if you don't secure your wireless you are legally responsible for BP's oil spills".

As an ISP is nothing but a carrier (this is why net neutrality is important), they cannot make you responsible for copyright infringements other people commit on your open network.

*if* the ISP is not liable for those copyright infringements otherwise; and *if* the law doesn't make you liable already.

Then again, IANAL; there may be backdoors that prevent common sense from being useful. Come to think of it, there probably are.

"as they're being shown"

So does the license cover watching programmes you've recorded, at times they're no longer being shown on TV? And if so, does it matter wether you've actually recorded it yourself or wether you've simply downloaded the recording?

If you are simply entitled to watch everything that is being shown on TV, that could (and maybe should) be construed as a license to download everything that has already been shown - but not before ti's been shown.

Wouldn't that be an upload?