But how many allow you to view/control the display?
So? In the other 8 months it'll still be useful. Or split the difference and point them southwest.
Or continue trying to find ways in which you're a special little snowflake, and trying to make it so that anything that doesn't make something 100% useful for you personal makes the entire thing pointless.
No, the point is there are millions of people that live where I do. Many millions more also live at similar longitude or on the eastern side of their timezone. I'm not a "special snowflake".
At 5PM the sun is down where I live, 4 months out of the year. No, I didn't RTFA, so I assume he has a good rationale for not taking into account seasonal changes.
So is the DRM broken yet?
No? I'll check back in 10 minutes...
Headline: Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously"
Article: "My biggest regret is I didn't take the threat of the copyright law and the MPAA seriously enough," Dotcom said
Big difference between taking the law seriously and taking the threat of the law seriously. The headline implies that there's some sort of actual legitimacy to the law and that he's almost apologetic for doing something "wrong." The actual quote however is just a recognition that the government thugs are the thugs they are and the threat they represent is real.
[T]here was no reason for such firms to be willing to cooperate with state agencies over child abuse
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That sentence ought to end right there.
1.6M? The U.S. prison population is 2,266,800 according to Wikipedia. It's been over 2M for years, and was 2,418,352 in 2008.
Your describing trade secrets. IP covers patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. Trade secrets are usually covered by private contact and do not have the same protections in law as provided for patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
And they exist on search engines like The Pirate Bay, with thousands of people seeding the actual torrents. So yeah, I'm sure this lawsuit will be effective in taking down all those photos.
I have NoScript enabled on Slashdot, too. Only way this site is remotely usable, just like Google nowadays.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
