Yeah, right. You're just afraid because you believed the propaganda about sperm count and tiny nuts, and yours are already minuscule. Anyone who wants to smoke pot can do so and get away with it, if they care even a little. There's lots of states where it's legal now.

We don't really care if people create unless they are driven, because we want them to do their best. And yes, they can release their songs into the wild if they want, or not. If they don't share them with anyone, then nobody can copy them. And their ideas can die in obscurity with them.

Are you ignorant, or trolling? It's hugely important that we lack the original manuscripts of the bible.

Who says you can't make money from things in the public domain? Where do you think symphony orchestras get their material?

Italicised colon followed by a period to make the "therefore" symbol... clever.

I do miss the "swim across the Atlantic" bit they used to have.

But I miss far more, the old Google Calculator. You used to be able to stuff like "circumference of earth in football fields", but now-a-days it's not much better than a four function calculator.

Monsanto to the rescue, I'm sure.

Your perspective is warped. If characters performing behaviour that would get you thrown in jail were the criterion for making a movie bad, then we can toss Pulp Fiction; Kill Bill; Ocean's Eleven; Batman; The Usual Suspects; The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly; practically every western, actually; every crime movie; every vigilante movie; every horror movie; and a whole slew of others right on the trash heap.

So what you're saying is that your altitude is zero most of the time. Well, there's two options that fit.

Sorry, fourth or last option.

Chris Hadfield is retired from the Space Agency, and has been on Earth for almost two years now. He does lectures and book signings now. His home town of Sarnia is at 180 metres, so chalk up another vote for the third or last option.

Right, but then the USPS was claiming that they simply threw away all of the resulting data when they were done with it. That's a ridiculous claim in every way.

So what? They don't have to OCR anything that has a properly printed label; they just can it for bar codes. Those pieces of mail, which are the bulk of what passes through the postal system, never has to be photographed at all because they already know where it's coming from, where it's going, what it weighs and whether the package weight was reported accurately. The scans of the remaining minority of mail could quite reasonably be saved ten years ago, especially if you were not picky about resolution. Today, it's trivial.

But the real "so what" is that they are OCRing the mail, so even if they were throwing away all of those scans, they would still reasonably be storing the metadata. Why would you ever throw that away, unless forced? It's small, and it's valuable. But moreover, one of the Snowden revelations was that they are in fact storing all of that OCR data, it all gets handed straight to the feds. Before Snowden, it was generally believed (heh heh) that this data was simply flushed, and only the fringe believed that it was handed to the feds as a matter of course. Now we know that to be the case.

Yes, that was my fear, I didn't want slashdotters picturing me fapping to such a poster. I love freedom, but not in precisely that way

No, people like himself (and CmdrTaco) can see that what Apple actually does bring to the table is mostly marketing.

That comment would have been a lot cooler if I'd written it correctly. I bought a T-Shirt with his face on. I'd look a right moron walking around with a printed, loose picture of Snowden saying LOOK AT THIS

Yes, slashdot, I know it's only been a minute since I posted a comment, but could you just let me post this and move on with my life?