An 8-bit operating system for a 2-bit country?

In Korea, only old people use Windows. Then they get arrested for promoting capitalism.

Have you already ruled out blu-ray? 25GB per disc, make two copies per customer. Much cheaper than RAID5.

Maybe my argument would make more sense if I said it thus:

In one case, something of value was taken from my wallet. In the other case, value itself was lost by the things inside my wallet. This, however, is not “theft”... exactly the same outcome could be produced by simple inflation and that wouldn’t be theft either.

Do you have a problem with reading comprehension?

It is plain from the policy that he should not have disclosed the passwords, despite your claims.

You seem to be very invested in his "guilt" in this matter for some reason I wonder why?

As an admin myself, reading the policies I would have done exactly the same things.

I am not fan of copyright and not a fan of free market, but in this particular case, I think the market will deal with it. If anyone can run the AI to produce e.g. music equivalent to Mozart or any dead author, then the price of such music decreases to the point where this is basically irrelevant. Even if such a corporation retain copyrights to that music, they couldn't sell it for more than market price. It's no longer a monopoly, because this music is substitutable very well by another AI music.

It's worth noting that virtually nothing in the Top 40 employs a grand piano, and Rachmaninoff has never charted. And that, ultimately, is all the music industry cares about. If it gets played on the radio and sells CDs or downloads, that's all that matters. And it's not like there aren't plenty of real human artists with marginal skills and little talent making plenty of money for the music industry, so it's rather questionable whether the bulk of music consumers would care (or even be able to tell) if an entirely synthetic "performer" didn't achieve virtuoso-level performance.

So while I think your objections are, at present, quite valid -- though I am skeptical that there is anything humans will be able to do better than machines in the long run -- they're also quite irrelevant as far as popular music goes. Conversely, even a superhuman electronic musician is unlikely to affect the fine art end of the spectrum because the customers there go to live performances to hear real humans or buy recordings of them by preference.

The more interesting use case is probably to be found when you combine the existence of this project with the existence of Eucalyptus which somebody mentioned above. The fact that it works with EC2 is interesting; but paying Amazon is likely not cost effective(since demand for desktop seats tends not to fluctuate nearly as fast as some server loads do and is, in any case, constrained by the number of NX capable thin clients available) a service where you pay extra for the elasticity isn't obviously sensible.

WIth Eucalyptus, though, you can fairly easily run your own setup, keeping the bandwidth in house and thus cheap and abundant, easily spawning a desktop instance that is available to a given user across multiple machines, thin or fat, in your organization. Because of Linux's unixy legacy, which tends to make multi-user systems a good bit easier and more natural, this isn't as compelling as it is with Windows setups; but there are still purposes for which it could be nice.

It would likely fall unmaintained.

As for companies: Google's biggest competitor is Bing (and Yahoo! which uses Bing results). Bing's parent company, Microsoft, wouldn't want to promote Chrome Frame because its existing browser (IE 8) competes with Chrome.

As for individuals: IE silently fails to run ActiveX controls that lack an Authenticode signature chain verifiable to a certificate authority on Microsoft's root certificate list. That's $200 per year to the CA and more money to the state because Authenticode certificates must be issued to a corporation or LLC, not to an individual. Stop paying the CA, and you can't update your browser control, not even to fix security holes.

Definitely not. There were several years of gap between the end of Mozilla Frame and the start of Chrome Frame.

Maybe that's a hint that we should re-think this whole house-of-cards/smoke-and-mirrors economy we have going?

Which is kind of the point of a do while, to force it to run at least once. You use a while if you want it completely conditional, Do While if you want it to run at least once and then check the condition.

It is the listeners' responsibility to filter out the chaff. Not the speakers'. Filtering what another can hear or see is a big no-no. Slander/libel are too nebulous to be codified by the person who happens to be in change at that moment.

just WHY are they retaining this information in the first place?

IMO, a tool must do whatever I want it to do.

The Internet should transfer data whatever data I want, when I want, between endpoint A and endpoint B. If governments and companies start getting in the way of that it stops being a good tool.

In the case of the USPTO, it seems to be mostly laziness, under-qualified examiners, and lack of common sense. Of course, a sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice (with apologies to Clarke).