But the gun that has anti measures to prevent you from shooting your foot off, isn't necessarily more complicated to operate.
One can argue it's simpler because you have fewer body parts to watch out for ...

In rust sense, one can argue it's simpler to code because there are entire classes of bugs that can be avoided with static typing. So you don't have to worry about that kind of bugs anymore.

Similarly one can argue that haskell is simple because if it compiles, then it'll very often do the right thing. So you don't have to watch out for bugs, the compiler will... Of course it's very hard to write anything non-trivial that compiles in haskell :)

Are you sure... I mean it would explain a lot :)
(Sorry, I just long for the good old days where we could get away with windows bashing)

I hope that's not to say that it's okay to discriminate based on citizenship? :)

The summary says "Asian Americans", I strongly suspect their native language is English...

I'm not sure it's simpler... But the type system offers some really interesting ownership models.
One can than argue that it being harder to shoot yourself in the foot makes it simpler :)

He he.. maybe... I think the argument would be stronger if we had major epidemics... Which we're increasingly likely to see if nothing is done about it.

On topic, I agree with you... Also not vaccinating put children who can't be vaccinated (due to medical conditions) at risk.. Not to mention that vaccinations doesn't always work, so people whose vaccination was ineffective are also put at risk, when someone chooses not to vaccinate.

Yes and no, it's within reason... The right to religious freedom can certainly be used to invalidate laws that targets religious conduct for no good reason. Say a law that makes the printing of a specific religious symbols illegal. Or a law that shoves beacon down the throats of religious non-pig eaters...

I (sarcastically) like the death one... it's like the witch tests were only death can prove your innocence :)

That said, if you're threaten by the state your right to freedom of religion have been violated. So again, you can only prove that you have a religious conviction by accepting punishment for that religious conviction and having your religious freedom violated.
That smells wrong.

That being said, freedoms such as that of religion, speech, etc. generally doesn't extend to allow you to hurt others. Not vaccinating your children is dangerous to others.

So just to be clear, Mozilla supplies a sandbox that and downloads a decoder from adobe (I think). This is a LOT safer than flash, java plugins or silverlight.
DRM sucks no doubt, but at least it's now isolated... In a sandbox that is open source, not a sandbox created by adobe.

Long term, I think DRM will die on it's own, like it did in the music industry. But I don't see Mozilla having the capital to change the market, not when Google, Apple and Microsoft all embrace DRM. Honestly I would rather see Mozilla around to fight another day, because the I don't think the war on DRM is over.
That said, at least this is better, safer and less intrusive than current alternatives (flash, silverlight and various other plugins).

Afaik it downloads a binary decode from adobe (I think it is) and runs it in a sandbox managed by Firefox. It's a LOT better and safer than flash...

There is something about recurring expenses... that people don't like...
Now if they decided only to sell it as $50 and then you get spotify for 10 years... with no binding or recurring expenses people might bite :)


Note, I pay for spotify, but I bought it in Denmark even though it's $20/mo, because the European selection is much better than the US selection (I live in US).

Hmm... Maybej JPay wants to argue that the original poster was not authorized to send the video to his sister because it was copyrighted :)
Lol, I hope the summary is inaccurate, because there is so many disturbing elements (like criminally corrupt violations of human rights) to that summary...

Yeah, that's what blows my mind too... :)

Also isn't copyright violations normally a civil matter, and resolved through damages, as in money. So effectively this is solitary confinement as a form of debtors' prison...
Wow, that's a lot of disturbing things.. :)

I see a business opportunity here... You leave your domain with the hosting company, the company does a scan (convert site to static site) and hosts it on say S3 once you're dead... You pay them upfront for say 1000 years of hosting and domain management. Why not, 1k years keeping the lights on a static site is only going to get cheaper, so how expensive do we really think that is...

We could call the business "dead simple hosting" :)

For all the people who ask why, I ask why not keep my personal blog around 1k years after I'm dead. Sure it might be worthless, but some of it might have interest to my grand children.. After all my blog is my legacy, however, uninteresting it may be.
Yeah, I know there is the wayback machine, but it's also not the same...

So far the Americans haven't recognized their "failure", nobody have been persecuted for these transgressions, the only one anybody is talking about persecuting is Snowden.
So this is clearly a political provocation, aiming to signal that many Germans takes the transgressions committed by the US very serious, at lot more serious the than most Americans. It's not "a dick move" when the Americans aren't acknowledging their faults, and correcting their wrongs.

Note, I for one can't blame the Germans for being mad about the NSA, keep in mind they have very bad experience with mass surveillance (stasi, gestapo enough said).