Well, that assumes that web developers are bright enough to target the backend instead of the name of the browser. I see a lot of 'please use firefox' messages while using Iceweasel.

Implying that was not my intention, the legal status part is a totally separate statement about a different possible motive for pirates to use the service.

There's no reason for the artists to get paid for this, its not meant to be a service to provide new music, its a data availability service for music you already own. The money Apple is paying the record labels is basically extortion money.

That's true for paying the people who provide the iCloud service in this case (and if you want iCloud that's great). But this isn't a purchase service at all, you don't get music you don't already have out of it. So it might be de jure legit to pirate music then get it from iCloud*, but it's still de facto piracy, and has the same moral issues as going to pirate bay in the first place.

*If there was ever an argument that our IP laws need to be burned, pissed on, and rewritten from scratch that even the content providers would listen too this has to be it.

0$ of which goes to the artists.

I don't see how doing this would relieve the guilt in the first place. You still haven't payed for the music. And people who pirate don't fear lawsuits.

In this case, is there a difference? In fact, I've never heard of an Anon related arrest that *wasn't* targeting dissidents.

Now, their methods aren't exactly legal, but its worth pointing out that governments are doing jack shit to help regular people who are targeted by Anon. It's only the dissidents that they go after.

Its a way to buy or sell very large chunks of bitcoins without the transaction showing up on the ticker. (I fI understand it right, you can only buy or sell other black pool offers, and normal offers that are actually larger than your black pool offer, but its possible to do both black pool and normal offers at the same time).

For bonus hilarity: The price went from 11$ to 18$ at 3am on a Sunday. This has to be the last currency in the world a professional investor should touch, though the new generation of meth addled bitcoin traders who are desperately trying to find the non existent Silk Road to get a fix will be hilarious to watch).

Except of course paypal's fees are higher than credit card fees.

At the end of the day, its the same service Paypal offers. Just without the central control.

While I do think pump and dump was the source of the high prices, the pumpers weren't the dumpers in this case. The trigger was a miner who got a huge chunk of coins from early mining.

He forgot to use the black pools to prevent his large transaction from futzing up the market (or more likely, had no idea what a black pool is), and the pump and dumpers got screwed just as hard as everybody else (who was paying attention Friday, those who tried to sell today got totally boned courtesy of the market being open but the banks being closed aggravating the crash (its possible to sell but until Monday you can't buy in volume unless you already had money in mtgox, so there are sellers galore but the buyers have to wait, and some people with money in their mtgox accounts are expecting the low point in the market to be Sunday, which drags the buying power out more)).

Actually, the stuff they do to make games addictive make the game less fun, at least according to player surveys most thing players wish would change about the MMOs they play are the things that game companies do to make the games addictive.

So yeah, they make the game into shit by trying to keep people playing. Humans being as fucked up as we are, this actually turns out to be good business strategy.

There are no tectonic plates, there are insane tectonic forces, including over a hundred volcanoes that make yellowstone look tiny in comparison.

I'd put it more down to what you know at test time doesn't translate to what you know a month later. I've had a conversation with someone from old classes where they couldn't remember a goddamned thing about the subject from a class we'd had together the previous semester. I studied with him, he knew the subject matter plenty at the time.

Admittedly, the class wasn't in either of our majors, but it still seemed strange as hell to me (my recall may not be perfect, but I know some things as a result of every class I took).

As for the piss poor grading techniques, essays have to be an even bigger offender. A lot of classes I took your grade was about 95% how good you were at writing.

I'd suggest common lisp instead of scheme if you're going to take what people like using into consideration. All the lisp programmers I know hate the scheme version.