I didn't realise that was possible! Thanks for a great tip! In putty you can enable it in Connection->SSH - I do a lot of work over modems, so this is very useful...

I like the idea, but guess it would slightly miss the point - although you would be adding a new set of niche users, you would be charging more for a feature that most of us would not use...

Maybe they could completely miss the point, and add power over ethernet!

Well the top link from google that includes a torrent has adverts on it - so I would say that the pirates are making money from it...

As a fan of the Bohemian Rhapsody song, Newton Faulkner did a fantastic version of this, which is also quite an accomplishment since I think queen user about 200 tracks or even more for the vocals :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_k8_HSA1-o

That isn't ascii art - it is a figlet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIGlet), which I would guess is much easier even than the image based word captchas

Well isn't that what spotify and napster do - albeit with DRM?

I don't know why I was modded insightful? What I meant was that the story I posted was fake - not the story above.

It should, if anything, have got a funny mod for the author of the story!

Absolutely...

I remember my French teacher at school had a band, which covered Beatles songs in French, and he was talking about receiving a PRS cheque as they had been played on French radio. I think it was a nice surprise for him, and not his original intention.

I heard that Jarvis Cocker banned radio stations from playing "Disco 2000" just before the millennium - so I suppose that he had some clout in terms of what he could do with his song...

Is it because it would be an administrative nightmare for the PRS to have different requirements for each song? Could you not just donate the money to charity, for example? Or would you like your songs to be free as an incentive to the radio station to play them?

This story is clearly fake, but very well written:

http://www.b3ta.com/questions/darwin/post368239

...possible NSFW content...

I actually believe that people should have a right to make money from their work - even if this is often not the majority view on slashdot.

(For example, the copyright laws being extended to cover the duration of a musicians lifetime has been discussed here before and seems to be unpopular)

However - I can't understand this:
If I want to use a radio at my place of work - the PRS demand that my workplace pays a license because there is more than one person listening to it - but the radio station has already paid for playing the song...

To me - it is fair enough to pay once - but to pay twice is greedy, ridiculous and unfair...

But isn't that more to do with Virtualization? Where you have a large local server and terminal workstations?

Yes - that is what I originally thought. But Mozilla would rather be prepared for the situation happening rather than it taking them by surprise!

Very nice - but doesn't work for scroll lock, for example - you need to have ctrl+alt+scroll lock...

The method described above is as if you have a programmable keyboard...

I think you're generally right, but it is not good publicity to have a petition like this - even if you are not doing anything wrong in the first place...

I would consider other ways of making money - e.g. merchandise and obviously advertising. Also - you could try something like slashdot's subscriber service where you get to use the new features first, but eventually they're free - like the beta but in reverse!

I guess it could help to even further shrink the size of electronic components - but I would be impressed to see them fit more into my mobile phone which is tiny!