They are taking a calculated risk knowing that very few GPL lawsuits actually went to court. They know it takes money to fight a legal battle and hope the opposing side doesn't have it, or will run out of it before reaching a final verdict. And finally, from the fact that they've been at this since 2012 - they probably think that it's a fairly cost-efficient way to buy more time and make business.

I'm pretty sure that the next time I fly across int'l borders, if I even bring any electronic devices with me (I'll probably mail them, in fact) - the ones I would bring would be dummy devices. ones I could afford to lose and ones with 'happy happy, joy joy' bullshit on it.

you want to see my login? ok. here you go. that's A login. and as far as you know, its 'my' login. can I go now? thanks. have a nice day. ossifer.

(sheesh. freedom to travel securely with your private papers is a long-gone idea. thank god we can still encrypt our devices and mail them physically or just transfer files around online).

I see lots of business travelers taking their laptops with them on flights. does no one seem to be annoyed that you are put into a tough situation if you have corporate info on there, your login is NOT supposed to EVER be given out to anyone and yet the country you are entrying is forcing you to compromise your company's security. I wonder if you worked for a big enough company, if they would go to bat for you, if you got stuck at a border and refused to let them break into your corp laptop?

Newegg absolutely does take BTC directly from a customer's point of view. Name three investors? The Winklevoss twins and the owner of BIT. Oh and that doesn't make bitcoins money? I made a lot of money on them. Does that make them money? Everyone who knows what they're talking about will tell you BTC will never, ever collapse. That gives is inherent value. It is superior to most other currencies in a majority of ways.

I knew someone would play the what about drizzt card.

My company has a really successful policy to avoid these types of problems. Don't work with foreign companies. Don't sell to them. Don't talk to them. Don't visit them. Don't take visitors from foreign countries. Don't use foreign suppliers to buy anything. Don't use foreign financial companies. It cut out foreign fraud numbers down to zero, which has been a big help since back to back 3 Germans in a row tried to rip us off (and 1 Alegerian and 1 Israeli and 2 British customers).

I was going to say people aren't that stupid.

But then I remembered that old episode of The Wire where they stick a kid's hand on a copier machine, ask him questions like it's a lie detector, and after he answers, a detective presses the copy button and "LIE" on a piece of paper comes out. The kid actually fell for it when the detectives structured the questions to show he was lying and he broke down and revealed the truth of the incident and gave them their lead.

Found it, apparently based on real life Baltimore PD interrogation techniques:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So I guess they could make this new CSI Cyber even 10x more stupid, and a few months later you'd probably start hearing from people something like...

the NSA can use coffee cups to playback conversations from half an hour ago because of reverberating echoes still trapped inside the cup.

(I just made that up, CSI writing team: give me attribution please.)

Naturally occurring uranium? Is it really dangerous? Maybe you should check out the enrichment process. How many tons of uranium ore does it take to make one hot reactor core? One more time - I lived on a freaking coal vein. We grew vegetables on top of it. The horses seemed to like it - the colts especially would take a lick of it now and then. Coal. As natural as granite. Uranium? Find me a vein of U238 that can be shoveled directly into a furnace/reactor.

"Uh... for someone quoting wikipedia, you need to actually read it. The "hundreds" you refer to is actually 60."

Sixty people didn't contain that disaster. A hell of a lot more than sixty people answered the call - some few were recognized. These sixty mentioned on Wikipedia's page are the "official" group of people who sacrificed themselves. The rest are to be swept under the rug, without so much as an honorable mention. Maybe their widows and children got a modest little pension as a "thank you".

Just not her boss, the guy who promised the "most transparent administration in history?" He's what ... just too obtuse? Or perhaps just too disingenuous? No doubt a lot of people DID infer that her obvious motive for running her shadow State Department comms system was her interest in doing things like peddling her influence in exchange for huge donations to her family business from foreign governments, and were quite pleased to have those sorts of interactions off the record.

But that doesn't mean that her routine back and forth with other US government email correspondents was making those other people think she was deliberately avoiding passing copies along to the State systems as the 2009 regulation required. I suppose people who know her personally know how evasive and dishonest she can be, and they just saw Hillary being Hillary, but with the blessings of Obama.

Uh-huh. Not one child has become sick due to elevated levels of poisons associated with a nuclear generator? Right - I'm believing that. Try this article: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/op...

Now, I'm not one to attribute every "stress-related illness" to the nuclear plant, but I'm also aware that elevated levels of radiation and contaminants are probably killing people who may or may not have been the healthiest members of society to start with.

Centralia is a fire. Like any other fire, when the fire is extinguished, the land will be habitable again. You're not making any points here at all. Every year, we have fires that involve national park lands. Would you suggest that national parks are dangerous, and should be outlawed?

"Fun fact: not only is nuclear best in terms of death per kWh, it also renders the least land unusable per kWh generated. And yes that includes all the nuclear accidents."

Does that also count all the land from which the fissionables were mined? Several people here are pointing to coal mines, but they make no mention of mining operations that support the nuclear industries.

You claim that Chernobyl is "managed"? In the weeks after the accident, all the management that was possible was performed. Hundreds of workers sacrificed themselves to dump the concrete on top of the site. Wikipedia isn't the go-to place for information, but you've already used it. Wikipedia will suffice to make my own point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

Today, the only "management" being done, is to man the gates that block access to the exclusion zone.

About sixty dead, huh? I don't accept that, any more than I accept the inflated figures of a million dead. A lot of people whose deaths might be attributed to the accident are simply not mentioned. For instance, scroll down to this guy's mention: Ignatenko, Vasyli Ivanovych - note his unborn baby's fate.

Alarmists, on the one hand, want to attribute every unfortunate death in the region to the accident. People who might lose money, status, or political capital are going to down play the numbers. I suspect that the real numbers are probably in the thousands, making both the high and low estimates ludicrous.

Uhhhh, setting the coal on fire doesn't exactly render the region uninhabitable for generations to come. When the fire goes out, it's habitable again. Just like any forest fire, or grass fire, or house fire.

1-5% you say? So in my graduating class, there were 33 kids with a lazy eye? Actually there were zero.

Which regions in the US have been rendered uninhabitable? Sounds to me like you've had to much Kool-Aid. I mentioned in an earlier post that I grew up in coal-cracker country. I am unaware of ANY regions in the US where man cannot live today because of coal contamination. I grew up drinking water from a well drilled into coal and limestone. I don't glow in the dark or anything. Come on, man, stop making things up. Coal is a naturally occurring compound, found all over the world. It's not THAT dangerous, unless you throw yourself into a furnace after the coal has been lit.