Noone is kidding, it IS bad. Give me a second to tippex out bad in my dictionary and replace it with star wars holiday special.

Maybe thats what happened to Venus; no oceans, meaning the energy went straight into the atmosphere making it 600 degrees. All those poor venutians and their computers...

Maybe its breaking news to you but Microsoft was convicted in court for using their monopoly in the operating system market to gain a monopoly in the browser market. I'd wager that meets your criteria of "illegally affecting the market".

Its just too bad the US government didnt have the balls to step in and do something about it. EU shows the way.

The question I see before me is,

Which for-profit company will patent and profit from the work? And in the process stifle innovation in protein folding for the next 20+ years.

"How did y.." He clicks. "It's you isn't it? THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL!"

Today there is no incentive to get rid of DRM (if you listen to RIAA/MPAA).

If you go bankrupt there is no incentive to incur extra costs to disable the DRM on media that your former customers purchased.

And there is no legal ramification for not doing it either.

With time being infinite, the chance of a company going bankrupt is also infinite. Thus the chance of your DRM media paper-weight'ing over time is infinite.

Good luck.

Holy crap thats a lot of passwords all with lower-case statistically predictable letters. And even if they do contain any uppercases, in most cases it will only be the last one.

It has always been my understanding that hitting those opting out links only verifies that your email address is valid.

Thus increasing the amount of spam because a valid email address is worth so much more...

True Security is when your opponent knows everything about you/your systems/your hardware/your nukes -- and still cant break it.

Tho it seems this doesnt apply in America.

Now we know the reason why Linux wasnt created in the great US of A.

If Linus had been american he would be on the 10 most wanted list.

Eh, Im sure he is tho, a different one tho, not the kind police look at.

As a swede, I can say that our laws seems to function quite alot better than the american laws do.

We actually have the freedom to watch our watchers (in most cases). The government is quite significantly more "for the people by the people" than in the United States.

And just for you, the european human rights convention explictly states "habeas corpus" rights, although not under the title "habeas corpus". This convention is also considered part of swedish law since 1998.

And we certainly have the sense not to run camps were our "habeas corpus" doesnt apply...

And in the Mythbuster way, thats totally busted! (BOOM)

As for the language, use whatever floats your boat. It could be total crap and still work (like PHP for me).

multi-billion dollar companies are using those same "technicalities" to avoid paying taxes.

yes and as we all know, media companies are not citizens. the artists are however and they get royally screwed with the current system.

They might actually have a case with being free to teach COS stuff at work.

But they are entirely fucked if they force their workers to attend?

Atleast thats my impression..