Well I would imagine PPUK has a LLC or non-profit company as their organization. It seems that the MAFIAA wants to pierce the corporate veil and expose those in charge of teh company and their personal assets to attack.

Personally I think if that is the case then the MAFIAA companies heads should have their own personal assets viable for a counter attack.

Yeah threatening legal action is also called blackmail in some circles too... I guess it just depends on how much money you have whether it's 'legal action' or 'blackmail'.

Well IT is fairly easy when everything is working.

However, when shit hits the fan the skillsets that an IT professional have plus the penchant that most IT Pros have regarding troubleshooting and diagnosis is invaluable. If your website is dead in the water you're not making any money. If your network is breached you arent making money, you may be losing valuable company secrets to your compeditors.

What is probably on the decline or 'flat' is the guy who takes your computer, wipes the spyware and viruses off it and gives it back to you. People with real IT skillsets are only going to go up.

Sorry but if I'm paying for an app I'm not doing it to be forcefed Ads. If I wanted that I'd pick up the newspaper.

Caveat: The only ads that should be in a digital one would be the classifieds.

Like any legal matter... it only matters how much money you have to defend against a claim.

So basically if you use something that's been orphaned apparently and is owned by a big company you're screwed... but if they find something of yours that has been orphaned they can strike it rich.

And we all seen how well it stops people from rooting or jailbreaning iOS devices because an Apple product has never been rooted or jailbroken before.

Birthday Paradox relies on the same thing...

You're comparing YOUR birthday to the birthday of a number of other individuals. Thus the one sample (DNA on/in victim's body to a large number of potential samples.

That said it may be a lower chance so a larger number is more likely to result in a collission but still the possibility exists. DNA really is only reliable when you're working with one suspect and everythign else lines up.

Token Black. Nuff said.

You know what charging people without an agreement on both sides is called... FRAUD.

Personally if some collection agency started phoning me about a debt related to adblocking I'd tell them to take me to court. I'm sure any judge would laugh them out of court.

Problem with that is...

If some third party were inserting commercials into DVDs and people were using libdvdcss to skip them it'd probably be legit. The thing is the ad's come from a third party which is not a party to the primary transaction (you and the content provider). The content provider cant legally require you to waste your resources (bandwidth/transfer capacity) on loading their ads. This is especially true on mobile devices where going over your data plan can lead to charges of like $0.10/mb in some cases.

If bandwidth was unlimited by the ISPs then perhaps there would be an excuse for ads... Until then Adblock plus will keep my online experience ad-free with the exception of a very few sites like Slashdot.

By firing them off at extinction level event asteroids where they do jack squat.

You know if Hamas was smart they'd just fire rockets with basically no payload and have Isreal waste $100,000 per $10-100 rocket that basically does nothing.

That said I figure it would err on the side of caution and shoot rockets down first and ask questions later if it came to a missile spam of like 100+ rockets being shot at the same time.

Well you have to remember birthday paradox...

In a room of about 20 people you have a 50/50 chance of having the same birthday as someone else in the room. What they're doing here is taking one sample and comparing it to hundreds or thousands of men.

I've been lead to believe that birthday paradox also applies to DNA too... So if you take a sample size of thousands or so presumably unrelated people you might find people who match in such a way that it would be acceptable evidence in a court of law.

Someone smarter than me can do the math but 1:1,000,000 chance vs 3,000 Samples ... How many are likely to come up close enough to prosecute?

Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength...

Just take everything a bill is named for and reverse it and you get it's true goals.

SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) wouldnt have stopped Piracy but proliferated it.

Any time a a politician brings a think of the children arguement what they really are thinking about it corporate interests, etc...

No congresscritters know exactly what they're doing. They're part of the people getting rich on big business whether it's democrat or republican.