there, in the UK, where distance is still measured in that archaic unit, the "mile".

Get with it UK, it's called KILOMETERS.

-- your snooty offspring, Canada

They will probably offer a great service, so long as your usage of that service can be monitored.

But, on the bright side, Google doesn't seem too interested in the minority of users who are smart enough to get around it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#Canada

If I bought a spindle of DVDs, I should not be able to be sued.

they own the company, mostly for the purposes of having these patents. Not really a proxy war anymore.

Helps me concentrate on specific tasks if I know what to do. It puts me "in the zone" in ways that soberiety simply can not do.

However, it is counter productive when having to plan out what I need to do in the first place. The architecture and high level planning/design/etc doesn't work for me in any state other than being sober.

and they won't waste their time on the small minority that are savvy enough to enable the feature and instead milk the majority for all its worth.

this is slashdot, data isn't property to begin with, let's not kid ourselves here.

It's also not good for business.

Monopolies break capitalism.

I like Groovy for this.

class Foobar {
        String hello;
        String world;
}

will compile into:

public class Foobar {
        private String hello;
        private String world;

        public void setHello(String prop) {
                hello = prop;
        }

        public String getHello() {
                return hello;
        }

        public void setWorld(String prop) {
                hello = prop;
        }

        public String getWorld() {
                return world;
        }
}

er... positing a question on a discussion forum is a generally acceptable way of starting a discussion on said forum

presumably from this post, "being technical" only means complete knowledge of all tools.

I'm guessing you find it very hard to find work with that kind of understanding of what "being technical" implies.

your router, your connection, your responsibility.

If you leave your wifi open, you do not suddenly become a common carrier yourself.

If you intentionally leave your wifi open, and someone uses that connection to commit a real crime with real consequences, then why should you, the owner of the router, not take some responsibility for it?

Now, that said, we have to look into the grey areas. Should a company be held responsible for an employee that uses their internet connection for bad things? What about a cafe with free wifi? I don't know.

but if I leave my personal home router open, and someone parks their car outside and starts exchanging child pornography, then yes, you can not 100% prove that it was me who transferred that child pornography, but you can say I enabled it by not taking the necessary steps of securing my wifi.

for the same reason that a car company won't get blamed when someone drunk drives, but the establishment serving the drinks (or in some jurisdictions, the bar tender) will be.

why?

negligence, in some cases, should be considered criminal.

An IP address will identify a connection, that someone is responsible for.

There is plenty of cases of Person A committing a crime or getting into an accident, using something from Person B, and Person B getting into trouble as a result.