The Slashdot groupthink is opposed to over-the-top copyright law and secretly-drafted legislation, not against reasonable (read: 14 years) copyright terms.

For someone with such a low UID you should know this.

Then you'd better wait for technical specs, not a press release. Press releases are just advertisements, nothing more.

Chop off an arm, or a leg. Death by exsanguination. :)

Saying "$FOO should be a capital offense" should be a capital offense. Now, where's my axe?

So that's what severance pay packages are! Paying negative-productivity execs to quit!

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/ Pretty insightful read.

Or palming to furries.

What you propose would confuse a Scandinavian. Quoting [1]:

        The numeral 0 -- Some writers put a diagonal slash through the
        numeral 0 (zero), a practice that may have originated with early,
        low-resolution computer terminals which displayed a slashed "zero"
        glyph to distinguish it from the capital letter O. This practice is
        confusing to speakers of Danish and Norwegian languages containing
        the letter "Ø", and they prefer to place a dot in the center of zero
        for this purpose.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_handwriting_variation

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A beowulf cluster of exercise bikes you say? I've got one thing to say to that:

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Exactly. I've actually talked in-depth to one of those "condom = abortion" types, and have come to a realization about them: To them, any sex which doesn't result in a child is abortion.

Looking more on the cynical side, I can see their point of view: they need more money trees to grow.

There are people in this area (Cape Giradeau, MO) that consider even the use of a condom to be abortion.

I think you're thinking of CDDB, which is why FreeDB was spun off.

Send Tyler after those RIAA goons. Give him a bit more meat on his bones though.

And it would stop a lot of legitimate persons from selling their copper too.