I've been trying my best to ignore that particular definition of "indie". It's difficult, so instead I use the word "independent" whenever possible.

I think you are implying that "indie" is a permanent status, that good production makes musicianship better and that talent is always popularised.

I honestly don't understand how a disability should entitle you to free media.

When there's some kind of internet-based back end to your app (be that for high scores or whatever), then pirated copies are a loss. Hell, I've heard of not reading TFA, but not even reading the summary? Jesus.

My site has a little skin selection list in the top corner that makes a cookie containing a single word (the name of the user's chosen skin). It is, however, not made clear that a cookie will be written so there is no implied consent. The cookie is processed entirely in javascript, though, and is never sent back to the server. Clearly, it's not a tracking cookie but it is certainly important to the user experience - without it, whenever the user changes page or refreshes the skin will revert to the default.
Would a little "(writes cookie)" next to the list be good enough?
I dunno, this is super vague, although as TFA points out, it is only a guideline, not yet a law. We shall see how this pans out.

Actually, I'd be more tempted to correct that as "It's the only reason MP3 compression is possible", not least because both of your statements imply (with varying degrees of subtlety) doing something to the MP3 rather than the source that became the MP3.

Ringtones are not public performances. Here, have an article from an obviously biased but generally honest source: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/court-rules-phones-ringing-public-dont-infringe-co

Why didn't you just use MacPorts? It'd get all the deps for you.

The problem is that most US shows get shit, samey or self-parodying after a couple of seasons. Short runtimes lead to this not happening. What happens instead is teams generally stay together and make something new.

I watched Reservoir Dogs when I was 11. Does that count?

Dunno, but pretty sure jumping sharks is usually done with waterskis rather than planes.

Wait hang on. ISPs are demolishing houses to lay down cables now?

I would concur with that from most Windows user's point of view, but it doesn't always hold.

I have had enough successes upgrading Debian based servers from woody to sarge to etch to lenny to consider it a fairly safe operation (by "fairly safe" I mean I'm happy to do it remotely, but only on machines that are not currently doing anything important - live services are moved elsewhere for a while until the new environment is considered ready and stable). I've only done a desktop upgrade twice, and while both occasions went well that is not many data points so I can't call it statistically relevant.

BUT, in every case the vast majority of the software on those machines came from the official repositories, with only a few odds and ends coming from the semi-official "backports" repos and a sprinkling of small things hand compile into /usr/whatever (or just living in /home/*). You average Windows home machine is in a state that is *nothing* like this because MS do not maintain the repo for all that software the users have installed, so you can't simply expect it all to go smoothly.

Having said all that, I still generally recommend an OS reinstall for a major upgrade even for home systems (for server use the new install option is a no-brainer anyway, as you will be wanting the new environment fully built and tested alongside the old one before migrating over) running Debian. If all your irreplaceable data is away from the system drives/partitions and properly backed up and you have all your install sets and product keys to hand you are not going to lose anything except a little time, and you get a much cleaner system (less all the collected cruft you forgot was even there on the old setup) out of it.

libavcodec currently has decoders for 242 audio and video codecs, encoders for 100, demuxers for 129 container formats and muxers for 89.
The resulting DLL is about 7 MB.

If their goal is outright legalization, then their stated goal should also be outright legalization.

Suggesting that pot should be something that you get from a pharmacy and with a prescription when, in reality, you believe that you should be able to grow and use it yourself is disingenuous and counterproductive.