Comment Re:Free speech is for useful speech. (Score 5, Insightful) 534
The point of free speech to protect unpopular speech.
Comment I think this is a good time to post... (Score 5, Interesting) 498
this TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
I think it's time to start calling technology utilitarian and start removing protections before this sector crashes...
Comment Re:Public option (Score 5, Informative) 2416
It took a lot of political capital to even get this passed. The public option was removed to make it passable.
Comment Re:OK, so you're both full of it (Score 2) 160
Considering WordPress.com alone has over 800 million views a week, stats available here. You've got a serious sampling problem. Your website is a niche which skews toward IE use.
Submission + - Space Quest creators reunite for a new game after a 20 year hiatus (kickstarter.com) 1
flyingmonkfish writes: "Remember the old-school Sierra On-Line Space Questseries? Yes, back in the day before live Internet pr0n. With the original IP tied up in a giant Activision-Gordian-Knot, Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe ("The Two Guys from Andromeda"), the creators of SQ, have set up their own indie studio to invent a whole new hilarious universe, new characters, and puzzles; maybe respecting the style of art and comedy for which they are remembered. They sure aren't telling us what they'll do, so don't sue us if it turns out to be a space themed version of Animal Crossing! SpaceVenture is rumoured to lambaste sci-fi franchises, and the team claims that none are safe, including Doctor Who, Stargate, Avatar, and others. One thing is certain, they'll make fun of YOU. They've lined up an all-star voice-acting cast, including Rob Paulsen (off-camera voice on "Funniest Pets and People"), Ellen McLain (cut-scenes on Godzilla: Unleashed), and radio legend Gary Owens (pre-recorded station ID announcer for CHPQ-FM). It's being promoted with a blog, podcasts, videos, live chats,and fan efforts including SQ marathons,comics, and fan videos. Sex tape coming soon. Best of all, as funding milestones are reached the team releases Chrome Web Store exclusive prototypes; somewhat playable concept art demonstrating how l33t their HTML5 sk1lzz are! The Kickstarter project targets everything under the sun — PC/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android, none of them well — for release and includes expensive swag and rewards that can land you in the game itself — for the price of a nice car. So go on and look if you're a diehard fan of adventure games with sci-fi parody — yes, the two of you. Did we mention we're desperate? Funding has bottomed out so we're now down to desperate measures and running on fumes. WE NEED YOUR HELP!"
Submission + - Space Quest Spiritual Successor Project, SpaceVenture (kickstarter.com) 62
Mr. Jaggers writes: "Remember the old-school Sierra On-Line Space Quest series? With the original IP tied up in a giant Activision-Gordian-Knot, Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe ("The Two Guys from Andromeda"), the creators of SQ, have set up their own indie studio to invent a whole new hilarious universe, new characters, and puzzles; all the while respecting the style of art and comedy for which they are remembered. SpaceVenture is set to lambaste sci-fi franchises (as was done in SQ), and the team claims that none are safe, including Doctor Who, Stargate, Avatar, and others. They've lined up an all-star voice-acting cast, including Rob Paulsen (Animaniac Yakko, Pinky, TMNT's Raphael), Ellen McLain (GLaDOS), and radio legend Gary Owens. It's being promoted with a blog, podcasts, videos, live chats, and fan efforts including SQ marathons, comics, and fan videos. Best of all, as funding milestones are reached the team builds and releases prototypes; living, playable concept art demonstrating the character of the final game! The Kickstarter project targets PC/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android for release and includes awesome rewards that can land you in the game itself. It's definitely worth a look for fans of adventure games and sci-fi parody!"
Comment Have you looked at... (Score 2) 204
If you meet the requirements, why don't you do BizSpark?
Pretty sure Google Apps for Business also meets your requirements, but it's around $50 per year per user.
Comment Re:User control (Score 5, Insightful) 411
As long as I can opt-out of the silent updates, I see no problem with this. The quicker we can get users to update, the better. Developers, on the other hand, need stability and control.
So your end users are running a version or three ahead of you? Typically the developers are ahead of the end users not the other way around...
Comment Re:Vaccine Safety. (Score 1) 1007
Thiomersal hasn't been included in vaccines since 1999. And Thiomersal isn't even mercury like Amalgam fillings were mercury. Still plenty of ignorance out there...
