Comment Tax evasion (Score 1) 501
If you suspend yourself for more than six months a year in, lets say, isle of man, would you be able to evade tax?
Huge profits to be made!
Huge profits to be made!
Comment Re:Wouldn't it be nice (Score 1) 223
if the people writing exploits for these security holes wrote a worm that once it had got onto a computer patched the exploit and then detached? You could call it Good Samaritan Computing or something
;)
It is still an intrusion in legal sense. Whoever wrote such a worm would face charges if caught.
Comment PHLEGM already taken... (Score 2, Informative) 83
The name of the system sure sounds as from a dilbert strip: "Problem Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action (PRACA)"
Comment Why not go after weapons manufacturer? (Score 1) 326
So why aren't they suing weapons manufacturer making handguns or assault rifles. Their products have a sole purpose - killing people...
Oh, i forgot. Downloading is EXACTLY as killing people - according to RIAA anyways..
Oh, i forgot. Downloading is EXACTLY as killing people - according to RIAA anyways..
Comment Re:It's not over yet (Score 1) 3709
In soviet russia october surprise republic! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_revolution
Putin takes Medvedev to a restaurant and orders a steak. "What about the vegetable?" the waiter asks. Putin looks at Medvedev and says, "The vegetable will have steak, too.
Putin takes Medvedev to a restaurant and orders a steak. "What about the vegetable?" the waiter asks. Putin looks at Medvedev and says, "The vegetable will have steak, too.
Smash Bros. Delayed Until March 9th 91
After several delays already, Next Generation is reporting that the much-anticipated Wii title Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been pushed back yet again to early March. "The launch date for Super Smash Bros. Brawl has shifted a few weeks to March 9. The development is taking slightly longer than expected. As we're sure you have seen the game contains an unprecedented number of characters, options and experiences. Be sure to keep an eye on the Dojo site for the latest information."
Feed Techdirt: Swedish Politicians Who Actually Understand The Issues Surrounding File Sharing (techdirt.com)
It's pretty common for polticians to have an extremely superficial understanding of the real issues involved with copyright these days. For that reason, many are susceptible to the entertainment industry's misleading and inaccurate talking points about how it's about "theft" rather than obsolete business models and artificial scarcity vs. infinite goods. In the few cases where we see politicians getting beyond that, it's usually still not about recognizing the business model issue, but continuing the myth that this is about finding a "balance" between consumers and content creators. However, for what may be the first time, it appears some politicians in Sweden really do seem to understand the issues. In response to an effort to implement more stringent copyright laws, some Swedish politicians are coming out against the proposal, while noting that it really is a business model issue. Karl Sigfrid, a Swedish MP, notes:
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"The cause for file sharing is basically that it's possible. People have always done it to the extent that they've been able to. With cassette tapes 20 years ago and electronically today. Copyright laws preventing individuals from sharing information have never been legitimate in the eyes of most people.... The change needed might be so radical that it's no longer about selling copies of immaterial products at all."A politician understanding the deeper issues and talking sense? Didn't see that coming.
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Submission + - KDE 4.0.0 is out! (kde.org)
Rudd-O writes: "After many years with the previous generation of KDE technologies, KDE 4 is finally out! Check the official release announcement if you want to learn what's new in KDE 4. Hint: it's definitely a long list."
Submission + - First simulated image of a wormhole (arxivblog.com)
KentuckyFC writes: "A Russian astrophysicist has calculated that a wormhole should look entirely different to a black hole and says that the next generation of supersensitive radio telescope interferometers should be able to spot them (abstract on the physics arxiv). The key difference is that light entering one end of a wormhole comes out at the other but in a highly characteristic way that gives the wormhole the appearance of a semitransparent hollow sphere."
