You could replace "vinyl" with "CD" in that post and it would still be true today.

The movie explained that away by making it a supermassive black hole, where tidal forces are (supposedly!) much less.

Well, yes. Do you think your company could survive if offered a contract orders of magnitude larger than you'd ever seen, re-tooled to accommodate that one massive order, and then not getting paid for it?

Slight over-simplification, yes, but fairly representative of what actually happened.

I would find that very cumbersome, as I use keyword search all the time for a number of websites.

g widget
w petersen graph
m interstellar
y star wars fake trailer
bz invalid vlan with no nics

I wouldn't tolerate having to wade through the front pages of Google, Wikipedia, imdb, YouTube, bugzilla and all the rest every time I wanted to look up something.

That has to be the silliest statement I have read today.

And I spent much of this morning reading YouTube comments.

I thought that too, until I watched a couple of episodes of Jeopardy and realized it's just a regular question/answer game show with "[what|who] is" tossed in front of each answer.

300+ posts here and no one has yet mentioned that Thunderbird has been using Microsoft(R) Bing(R) as its default search engine for some time now.

False.

Well, 50% false.

It depends on which addon class you're talking about. Extensions are as you say interpreted JavaScript. Plug-ins, however, are compiled code and absolutely do not work the same under Linux as Windows.

Both of those fit under the umbrella term addons.

Ever had a library fine?
Ever had a court summons or bailiff come to sieze your property because of that fine? I doubt it.
But:
Ever tried to borrow a book with an outstanding fine?

Now do you see my point?

I meant the case of using University bandwidth to download content for personal use, that could trigger a fine depending on the University's Internet use policies. The licence of the content in that case is irrelevant.

Mis-use of University resources is defined by the University, and it can quite easily include clauses regarding unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material, etc.
I do agree with you there, and in that case the licence would be relevant.

Are these fines actually for copyright infringement, or for mis-use of University resources? This is an important distinction.

I doubt the University could legally collect on the former, unless they also happen to be the copyright holder of the obtained content.

If the latter, then students downloading free content (eg material covered by a Creative Commons licence) for personal use should also be liable.

Oh, also Russ Allbery from the technical committee on 16 November.

In less than two weeks we have had three significant resignations:

8 Nov, Joey Hess, from Debian entirely
17 Nov, Tollef Fog Heen, from the systemd team
Today, Ian Jackson, from the technical committee

Openness is not bad.
Microsoft's track record is bad.

Having source code for more and more products is not bad.
Microsoft's track record is bad.

Embrace is good.
Microsoft's track record is bad.

Someone who questions Microsoft's motives is not an idiot.
Microsoft's track record is bad.

I think you might mean NT there...