Seriously folks, no-one is looking at the free US Media and saying "That is the model to which we should all aspire". Would I rather have a democratic government or Rupert Murdoch controlling the media - well, I'd rather have neither - but at least I can vote out a democratic government.

Fox News or The BBC - no fucking contest....

You're left with nothing but dust...

I can't speak for Australian Law, but it most certainly does in some jurisdictions.

Except Sydney Opera House was opened in 1973, so its completely reasonable that its design is subject to copyright. Stonehenge was completed sometime around 1500BC, so that copyright has probably lapsed by now.

That applies to things that are actually copyright already -- so if I make a NEW henge on public display somewhere, I get to restrict images of it, because its my artistic work.. But Stonehenge's design is out of copyright now.

I've noticed a 0-day vulnerability in old ladies in that I can hit them over the head with a cudgel and steal their handbags. I'm going to a black-hat muggers conference to hand out cudgels and more detailed instruction. But that doesn't make be an utter scumbag, oh no. I'm a "security researcher", that's what I am, only interested in increased security for old ladies.

Better yet, lets co-opt pretexting: How about "Today two men pretexted themselves into my grandma's house by claiming to be from the gas company, then stole all her valuables." What's the difference here?

Can we have a new tag: "Rhetorical questions to which the answer is 'No'"

Oh, yeah? Then why is the first google hit for "Ja Me Yoon" a link back to this slashdot article?

Everyone that watched the debate last night was pretty horrified at how broken the "wash up" process was,

Really? Everyone? How terribly precise you polling must be.

Support the Open Rights Group and also support the Pirate Party UK who are currently raising money to field candidates. You can donate to the Pirate Party here if you are so inclined:

Or, alternatively, fold your ballot paper and shove it up your arse. It's cheaper, and the overall effect will be precisely the same.

Strange, isn't it, when you think about it.

Not when you consider the people who work in the media. Shock, novelty and outrage are their stock in trade. It's what they understand, so artists who provide these elements get written about. Aesthetic/decorative (for want of a better term) art is more difficult to write about -- there is a fundamental subjectivity involved that is very hard to get past -- and notions of beauty tend to be difficult to explain.

So art criticism, and music criticism, tends to focus on novelty and fashions If you're hip, it doesn't matter if your high concepts are dismally let down because you lack the talent to execute them very skillfully. So Tracy Emin and Animal Collective get on the front pages of the broadsheet culture sections, without very many people actually liking them, while high street art dealers sell local landscape watercolours in far greater quantities.

As the old saying goes: being difficult isn't difficult.

That's a very good point. Turn any object into art merely by signing it and putting it in a gallery.

Frank Zappa had a good point. He claimed that the only thing art required was a frame -- metaphorical or literal. To make something art, all one had to do was simply put it in a frame -- i.e. declare it to be art. Anything that was created with the purpose of being art is, intrinsically, art.

Of course, as Frank was quick to point out, that doesn't make it good art, or worthwhile art, or a good idea. Just that the artists intent is all that matters as to whether something is art or not.

sitting down too much is not good for you,

Well of course it is.

Because that is what "TOO MUCH" means. If you do something a lot, but its not detrimental, its not "too much". When it becomes detrimental, thats when we say its "TOO MUCH".

Fuckitty Fuck McFuck. English, motherfucking slashdot editors. Learn to fucking speak it.

Please do the calculation and tell us what the difference in transit times is for, say, 40m of cable.
Clue: do actually believe that a band who's musicians use different length guitar/mic cables cannot possibly play in time?