Or there's the English expression:

A bird in a taxi's worth two on a bus.

Yet, when the MPAA/RIAA come to the door, they figure out a whole scheme that goes beyond the DCMA to block, or put ads on, material that their secret algorithm finds to be infringing on copyright.

So, they've already demonstrated that they CAN filter content. I see lots of repercussions to this ruling, but I'm not at all sympathetic to Google's plight - they already demonstrated that they have the technology and have used it for evil purposes.

You have to be kidding. Are you seriously suggesting that Internet usage in Europe is significantly different from patterns in the US? Just becuase the US services are missing doesn't mean less streaming. One obvious one is the BBC in the UK, I'm sure most other language groups have similar.

I think that the difference is that, just like the US, they dumped money into expanding broadband, but, unlike the US, they got value from it instead of companies like Verizon saying "thanks for the cash, BTW how about if we just provide wireless, and then only if people pay and we'll just pocket the money instead of doing what we said we'd do".

The only problem with that theory is that most Europeans have faster, uncapped service at a lower price.

That just means that you never used PC Write. No one went back to WordStar after using PC Write. No one. There was even a way to get it to pause (now I've long forgotten how) so you could change the daisy wheel to get symbols.

IIRC the story is that Bob Wallace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wallace) would always carry the one-and-only source code floppy with him at all times. He kept it on the passenger seat when driving. Supposedly at some point the floppy failed and he wrote the code to read/write raw floppy disk sectors to recover the source code. That feature was subsequently a part of PC Write.

You've got to be kidding me, WordStar. PC Write (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write) is MUCH better even if you don't ever want to edit disk sectors directly.

From 1999? Is this a new low in late new on /.? If there's reason to believe that there's an advance that makes it relevant in 2014 it's not obvious from the summary. May I'll wait another 15 years and then read the article.

Maybe, but most of the applications, as many others have pointed out in this thread, are of the "take this data from the database and show it on a web page". Just because specialized applications do exist doesn't mean that there isn't value in a pool of people who can create the simple, repetitive and more common applications - especailly applications that have been spec'd and architected by others.

I think that comes under the category of "requirements capture". Unless you're an expert in every possible field, the person who generated the data will need significant input into how that data is displayed.

What? No. The front-end displays the calculations that the back-end has calculated. Presumably the back-end is engineered by engineers, mathematicians or statistician, not web-designers. You don't need to understand the significance of the data to plot it on a chart with the right axes names. While a grounding in math, statistics, etc. etc. is not wasted, experts in these fields would not be my first choice of UI designers.

How much better would it be if people could get as energized by something that really matters as they do sports? (Or, indeed, as energized as they do over the sucky beta).

We're going to keep introducing this legislation until people stop watching and we can pass it (see also SOPA).

The Jade Rabbit is an awesome piece of scientific equipment, and it's on the moon. Let's hope if makes it through the night and continues to send data that will benefit all of humanity.

They don't really need the footage. Everyone is guilty of something. Selective procecution is the name of the game:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

I was thinking this one: http://xkcd.com/463/