The difference between things like this and what IE used to do is that the manner of fixing applied by Chrome is 1. documented, and 2. controlled by an HTTP header to which the server must opt in.

One thing TLS does is make sure that only you can post comments under the name fahrbot-bot, not somebody who copied your cookies by looking at your HTTP headers.

The Perspectives extension for Firefox mostly solves the problem of certificates from an unknown issuer. It uses "notary servers" scattered throughout the Internet to verify that everyone is seeing the same certificate. If the rest of the Internet is seeing the same certificate as you, it automatically skips unknown issuer errors for that certificate. (I haven't checked whether it's on other browsers.)

Also Steam sells Origin games and EA games with their always on line requirement

But if there's an online requirement for those games, and you don't have a persistent internet connection you're not going to be buying those games right? Even if you buy them at Wal-Mart, you won't be able to play them.

It's not Steam's fault that EA and Origin have those always online requirements.

OK. My friend's daughter. She has 3-4 games on her Steam account, one gifted by her father and the others gifted by me.

Five dollars. You can deposit five dollars into her Steam wallet right now and let her buy an indie game.

She's too young for a credit card, but not too young to build things for the Steam workshop

No credit card needed.

The most local radio stations in Santa Cruz are the university station which is weak and an AM station which is literally in the middle of a slough at sea level.

Now I live in Kelseyville, which has three radio stations I get clearly, but all of them are repeated and I wouldn't count on 'em.

Wait, you left this anonymous comment? Because that was really fucking douchey. I assumed, since it was an anonymous comment, that comment was a reply from the same person who left this comment.

Now yeah, I did fail to put the comment together correctly — I failed to include the anonymous comment that would have made it make sense — but you failed to log in for just one comment you made in the thread.

So everything you said was factual, but it was not clear, because it wasn't clear that you said all of it.

Quite a few. Like when new exculpatory evidence comes to light, like someone else confessing, or recanting the testimony that led to the conviction, or new or improved technologies can determine innocence.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, from 1973 until today, 152 people have been exonerated after being sentenced to death. Unfortunately, many of them were executed before being exonerated.
Without the death sentence, many more innocents would be alive.

The life plus 70 plus end of year copyright term gives the Bundestag until December 31, 2015, to pass a bill that extends the term of subsisting copyrights.

Copyright additionally subsists until the end of the Gregorian calendar year.

Any extension of the copyright term that becomes law extends the copyright term of all works whose copyright still subsists as of the date the extension becomes effective. This is the approach the United States adopted in the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. This U.S. law was a response to an even broader European Union law that restored copyright in works that had already entered the public domain. The EU copyright term directive had as its goal harmonizing not only the copyright term but also the set of copryighted works: if a work was under copyright in any member state, the copyright was restored in all. And at the time, Germany already had the longest copyright term of life plus 70 years.

Fair use differs from country to country. The Berne Convention allows limits on the scope of copyright that do "not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author" but does not require such limits. This means fair use in Germany may have a scope far smaller than that of fair use in the United States.

PROTIP: Copywriting means creating text for an advertisement. Copyright refers to the exclusive right to reproduce said advertisement. Confusing the two marks you as someone who has never read a copyright statute.

That's because the Greek poets, the apostles, and William Shakespeare died more than 70 years ago. For example, translations of the Bible into modern language are still copyrighted.

As you go on to explain, someone could own the exclusive right to make more blocks of wood with a Mona Lisa painted on it. Had current law applied then, this exclusive right would have expired at the end of 1589.

And pay for what they not-so-willingly experience. The music publishers get a cut of the revenue of grocery stores that play music, for example.

But does that explain pseudo-amateur porn films such as 1 Night in Paris? What was Ms. Hilton really famous for before that film?

That's what people thought in the mid-1990s until the European Union extended the copyright term by twenty years from the Berne minimum of 50 years after the end of the year in which the last surviving author dies to a longer term of 70 years after the end of the same year.