Yup we didn't need print magazines in the 80's. Because downloading images at 2400 baud and displaying them on your 8 color computer was vastly superior to full color printing and inexpensive monthly delivery.

I used to print out source to do code reviews, because I was too impatient to wait for VGA projectors to be invented.

I like it when my brakes stop me before I slide into something.
(I ride a motorcycle, I find riding in the rain to be unpleasant for a variety of reasons)

I'm accepting gov seized coins at 50% value.
If someone wants to accept at a higher percentage, then I guess the free market will decide how much they are worth.

it uses it therefor it traps. but I assume you meant the word "use" in some other way...

we are pulling hydrocarbons from deep underground and if we continue to either burn it or allow it to decompose, it will become CO2 and contribute to the greenhouse effect. Anything that could sequester carbon long term is better than the nothing we are doing today.

the eventual goal would be to stop pulling material out of the ground, and reverse the trend and put carbon back faster than we take it out. We're so far away from doing that that I don't believe there are any viable plans written up to accomplish it.

So instead of releasing the carbon into the atmosphere we're pissed off because now we have ugly rocks that are made of trapped carbon?

If this plastiglomerate can remain in the environment for eons, then I'm thinking we should make more of it, a lot more of it.

"It was released on June 8, 2007 at speeds of 3.5, 4.2 and 4.7 GHz" -- POWER6

Sorry if I ruined your joke. But most Americans know they live in North America. Just like folks who live in West Virgina know they aren't in Virgina.

I agree 100% with what you said.

But nobody is distributing in this case. Which is pretty key when dealing with copyright (literally the right to copy).

are you suggesting that cheating on starcraft is a form of wire fraud? interesting.
there is no legal foundation for such a claim, but it's an interesting idea.

A patch is not a derivative work. it does not include the complete work, or even a portion large enough to make fair use controversial.

a patch is a mechanism by which you can modify a single copy. not a tool to distribute modified copies.

do we ban highlighter markers because they create a derivative work, even though the markers themselves do not contain any original work?

Due process is for wimps. Even the left praises the Magnitsky Act as a way to go after those who violate human rights. But the irony to me is that the law itself is an abuse of rights, such as the right to a fair trial. The act was passed for all the right reasons, but it is as evil as any of the other blunders we have made in the US.

You don't have the right to modify software? I thought copyright only covered making copies, at least initially?

A tool that uses a small bit under fair use to match binary offsets or checksums should not be copyright infringement. I'm pretty afraid that some well meaning judge that wishes to protect players would establish some bad precedence here.

Last I checked, sports bribery was outside the jurisdiction of copyright law.

Does the ends justify the means?

Programmers should sift through an old bug database.

I'm waiting for there to be a law against counteracting unlawful snooping.