The automation makes it somewhat dubious. There are technical systems where not saying something at the protocol level means saying something at the human level. I find it hard to come up with examples, but in certain reliable multicast-oriented protocols such as PGM, a NAK is sent for a missing packet, so when a NAK is not sent, the client is saying that all packets were received. (Not quite at the "user" level, but I'm sure there are better examples)

I use the Shelve firefox plugin to save every single website I visit on the desktop. up to 65 GB (deduplicated) now. A distributed system like this makes sense, but i think we should also expect the people publishing information to keep their own copies (wouldn't solve the issue in TFA of course).

Sure, but the basic premise is .... still flawed. *But* if it was a "copyright" curriculum and not an "anti-piracy" curriculum, it could actually be strangely appropriate. Copyright has become quite important in the digital world, and most people are both creators and consumers, and should know their rights. I'd rather the schools used their time on more basic stuff, but it wouldn't be horrible.

Just because a policy has negative effects doesn't mean it's not a net positive.

Anyway, fear is part of human nature. Groups like governments or nations seem to exhibit the same good and bad personality traits as individuals do

Great that there's competition. I'm sure this blows the AMD ones away in Linux, but do they still have the tearing problems for video? Video has looked like crap on both my recent nVidia cards because it's splitting in the middle, though only when using two monitors. The exception is a few video players that use vdpau, but I can't expect all my videos to be playable on those. While I've preferred AMD before, I'm trying to not care about the brand as long as they don't do something hostile to users (Sony), so I'd love to get an nVidia if they got their non-accelerated video playback stuff together.

I have a single screen at 2560x1440 and I can almost play Dota 2 (not a demanding game) at full settings with a HD6770. I get about 35 fps, but horrible jerking / stuttering. There is a large difference in how good I can play with better fps, but I also get less headache. Turning down the settings is a solution, but it makes it slightly more difficult to keep up, and I need all the help I can get. I want to play on linux only, but on Linux I get ~13 fps with the same card. So I need a card that's 4 times as fast as the HD6770, and these new ones seem like they would do it. Currently selling my old computer parts to save up for one of these

The researchers probably broke a law about generating child porn. At least in Australia it's illegal to make cartoon child porn. That just shows how screwed up the laws are though, and I hope they don't get caught. The research is interesting, but only as a preliminary study. If they wanted to gauge the size of the global online pedo population, they would have to make some kind of estimate about what fraction of that population contacted their bot. Now we have a lower limit, but it's only 0.001 % of the world internet users. Also, it's no a huge problem: their bot logged onto chat rooms and got requests. For a real 10 year old in the Philipines, how about ignoring them. It's a spam problem. If local crooks round up 10 year olds and force them to chat, we have a problem, but to crack down on those it seems like one should be posing as a pedo and not as a 10 year old.

Not a good word I agree. Unfortunately it's frequently used in this context. It has a neutral ethical connotation, after all predators only hunt for food (and cats for their own amusement). This pedo thing seems to be quite big, so there should be a better word for it.

Not in the news, too imprecise and too emotional. It would be like the papers referring to accused murderers as fucking assholes or accused scammers as lying scumbags

Sorry to reply to mysefl, but..

Additionally, the analogy doesn't add anything. We all know how a password works and what happens if you don't have it. All we get from comparing it to a physical key is a legal inaccuracy

Stop it , PLEASE! This is the "copyright infringement is not stealing" debate over again, except slashdot is on the other side now for some reason. Taking a key to some equipment is theft, taking a password is not, even though the consequences are the same. It's not the same thing legally, and we're talking about a matter of law, not about what happens to the company.

What he did when he reconfigured the systems to only accept his password may have been sabotage or vandalism, but please don't call it theft. The analogy *does* break down. For example, the police can search your house and person and confirm that you don't have the key; they can't search your brain.

(I had even moderated, and undoing it now, just couldn't stand all the theft analogies)

When I'm tired and can't get anything done I sometimes put on the "Tidy Boys" tracks and crank up the volume to 50 % (which is LOUD). Don't know what the genre is, but it's "Hard" something. It's amazing how I can get another hour or two of good quality work, just by listening to some music. (When I'm not tired I just listen to the radio or pop or what ever -- good to have some mindless music when my mind is otherwise occupied) And of course, I need the headphones for meetings as well

It's almost impossible to find any >1080p monitors with better than 60 Hz. Some overclockable Korean monitors have it, but it's arguable whether the panel can keep up. Many gamers forego higher resolution in order to get higher refresh rates.

This guy may actually have a point (haven't RTFA). If a graphics card can display consistent 60 fps on 2560x1600 or 144 fps on 1920x1080, then there's nothing better to do (pending 4K, which will be reasonably priced soon enough)

WTF, *this* is what the flag in the corner is nagging me about? "Turn on SmartScreen (Important)" yeah wouldn't you love that M$

Many of these "forks" may do nothing wrong legally (some may infringe trademarks). I wonder what criteria Google will use for blocking potentially legal apps