You sort of proved the GP's point. Only if you choose to use written offer must the offer be good for any third party. If, instead, one distributes binaries with source, there is no obligation to third parties as they should have received source from their distributor.

All they have to do is set up an SMS service to get out of iMessage. "Text STOP to XXXXXX and Apple will remove the sending number from any iMessage accounts". It is a really god damn easy solution.

Forgot to mention, sort the comments to show Oldest posts first, those are the best.

It does lead to hilarious results sometimes. I recall a ReadWriteWeb article that BREIFLY became the top search result for "facebook login" on google. The chaos was amazing.

http://readwrite.com/2010/02/10/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login

The comment section is riddled with people asking how to get to facebook, or why did facebook change their login, asking help with logging in on this "new" login page. It was epic. The comments are still up if you want to read them

They had to put a notice near the top of the article explaining that it was not a facebook page. Eventually google fixed it. I guess the point is, that yes these people need to be considered when designing UIs.

Just because it has always been done that way, doesn't mean it still works in the current industry environment. Netflix only sends data to a host that requests it. if netflix is sending your network data it is because someone paying to use your network has asked them to that bandwidth is paid for already. I guess netflix could code the client to send back equal amounts of data as a workaround, then it would be even.

I can't comment on the reactivate every boot, OEM's do strange things with preinstall images so I guess it is possible. Personally, I'd just reinstall Windows in a VM, it be easier than trying to put an existing install in a VM. Install .iso's are not difficult to come by and MD5/SHA1 can be verified against TechNet's published values.

Agree with everything you said. My first encounter with screen I first installed Linux to run a headless Counter-Strike server. It is a great solution to being able to ssh in to a box, start the server and log off. It also allowed other admins to log in and assume the screen if they needed to.

Microsoft, however, is subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Court system, and when a Magistrate Judge orders them to produce something, they are compelled to produce it. It doesn't really matter where the something is. Basically the court is saying the search warrant can be executed like a subpoena.

From the linked article:
A search warrant for email information, he said, is a "hybrid" order: obtained like a search warrant but executed like a subpoena for documents. Longstanding U.S. law holds that the recipient of a subpoena must provide the information sought, no matter where it is held, he said.

Indeed. Diablo 2 had locked chests. My bad!

Original Diablo circa 1996: I can vanquish the Lord of Terror, but I am defeated by a locked chest. Damnit!

This all depends on how much society wants to pay for software, and whether or not you think a programmers guild is a good thing advancement of the profession (ala AMA or Bar association) as that would soon follow. Also not all mistakes are created equal, mistakes result in everything from "Oops!" to criminal proceedings, I believe is what you meant to say. Unless you were trying to imply that all mistakes result in a minimum of someone losing their job.

List of NIST time servers here: http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/serv... If you want to be a good NTP citizen you probably shouldn't use these servers directly though, unless your running a very large network and syncing your own ntp servers. Some ISPs run time servers on their gateways or DNS servers, it is a decent way to get an NTP sync that is "network close" to you.

The article indicates that the plaintiffs are card issuing banks, which probably have no direct agreements with Target at all, thus no opportunity to cover ass with a binding arbitration clause.

You also have to have possession of the wrapped key to unwrap it as well. Having the passphrase without the key does not do you any good. Furthermore, if one stores the private key on a smart-card means that the key is now effectively a physical thing that must be stolen. So it really isn't "just another password".

Exactly. He build his brand off being famous for being a Physics undergrad at a small state school in south east Virginia. Yeah, a regular Paris Hilton he is. It is easy to be successful when you have that kind of background. /s