He didn't friend her.

She /cracked his password/, and posted /as him/.

Read the damn article, or you come out looking like an idiot.

> This is the true spirit of our times. Any publicity is good publicity.

People falsely accused of pedophilia would beg to differ.

"Now Apple wants to enter a field in which they not only have no experience, but also lack experience "

Like, say, when they launched the first iPod and iTunes and all that, the way they hand no experience in the field of music?

Yeah, I'd say they have a good shot at this then.

Interesting. Can this initiative stand against ACTA?

I hope to god that it can, but I suspect that ACTA will, if not defeat this initiative entirely, at the very least gut it to uselessness.

'Online Privacy! As long as you register your name, age, social security and credit card numbers with the RIAA, MPAA, IPAA and all other major media conglomerates and corporate entities' /Then/ you can have your meaningless privacy.

Nice argument! Unfortunately, it fails because an unpaid internship isn't a job.

Unpaid internships are, in a sense, anti-job creation. Nothing liberal about that - nothing hysterical like 'government goons' about that, either.

You want a healthy economy, you need jobs. Unpaid internships punish job creation. Why would company 'a' hire a person, give them a wage, when company 'b' can get a person to do the same work, for free?

Worse, you can compare. Maybe in the future, instead of downloading a game, you will only download the image, and send you keystrokes to a server. I'm sure I saw this idea somewhere. It means you will be able to play better games on worse computer, true, but I'd rather play on my computer with no need for net.

You fail at reading comprehension. That was his whole point.

What is troubling for me to understand is why was their DNA already in the police's database? Have they committed other crimes? Or is the answer as simple as "This took place in the UK"? I don't know about you, but I would be rather pissed if I'm on some database for no reason...

I've heard this claim about dynamic typing before, but never with any evidence. Can you offer any? And why would functional programming be bad for maintainability?

Did I say I wanted those features added to Java? I was simply expressing what I don't like about the language. Java can stay exactly as it is until the end of time, for all I care.

You know you can have both static and dynamic typing in the same language, right? See Objective-C, for example.

So you think all dynamic languages are "scripting languages"? Enjoy being left behind over the next few years.

"Don't buy and don't download cracked games. Maybe then all these idiot companies will get the message."

I'm afraid your wrong.

They will simply decide that your lack of a purchase is proof of your piracy.

People aren't buying their games? It must be piracy!

No. Pirating the game will just tell Ubisoft that you like their game but they need to make their DRM stronger so they get you to buy a game you like. At the same time you're also getting your gaming fix from the game you pirated and won't be alternatively buying games from developers and publishers that dont include such DRM. Not only are you showing to the bad companies that they need to strenghter their DRM, you're advancing their business by them keeping you from spending money on their competitors.

The only good answer is not to buy and not pirate it altogether, but ignore the whole game.

True, it is 100% nonsense. No need to rate this guy a troll.

So a company can pay someone to do something suitably illegal at a competitor and get the patents invalidated?

You're making a huge assumption that a song is WORTH more than 99 cents and a book is worth more than 9.99. If people valued them as higher there wouldn't be a drop off in sales. Regardless of the psychology, a market sets prices all by itself (assuming consumers are "rational" and the government stays out of the market). I can tell you a #2 pencil is $9.99 all day but you're not going to pay it. Why?

Hmm? And what crimes has Apple been convicted of? What SCO equivalent has Apple created to try to destroy Linux? I could go on; I suspect you're astroturfing. I hope it's not successful - there are valid complaints about Apple, but you haven't brought any of them up, merely flamed the fans of paranoia with hyperbole.