Would Disney pay for the rights to Starwars if they could just wait it out and take it for free?

Trademarks and copyright are two different things. But I like the idea of after a short period of time, say half a dozen years, there's a small fee for renewing a copyright, with that fee rising year after year. That way the large majority falls into the public domain and remains useful to society, while the monetarily valuable ones can remain protected for as long as they're worth the escalating fee.

Thank you, nuckfuts.

Now there's something you don't read every day.

Ah yes, one bad patch and we should all NEVER PATCH AGAIN BECAUSE THE SKY IS FALLING!

How is it that you interpret disabling auto-update as meaning "NEVER PATCH AGAIN"? I took it to mean don't patch until you're confident it's safe to do so. Don't you think that's a more reasonable view?

These are all physically incompatible. But an MP3 file is an MP3 file.

Not in this case. The files in question contained Real's DRM. That's why they had to backdoor them. If they were actually standard MP3 files they would have worked without issue, and would still be working today.

Apple only prevented people from loading third party music on the device they sold, not on everyone's.

Only third party music laced with DRM. Normal mp3 files from any source have always worked seamlessly.

I'd say that if you are a sysadmin who somehow doesn't allow iPhones on any networks under your control, then within a week you will either have your mind changed or let go.

I just checked. His parents said he could stay.

I'm incredibly lousy at making unsubstantiated assertions! Never made one, never will!

I see what you did there.

I use comment sense

If there's one thing Slashdot could use more of, it's comment sense.

You will note that it is extremely common for English speakers to use a word whilst meaning at best the exact opposite

True, but just don't ever say "I could care less" or you'll have fifty people "correcting" you, no matter how sarcastic you meant it to be.

Once a planet, always a planet

Modulo Alderaan, of course.