Regardless, if we had movements like this in all EU member countries it could make a difference. But no... They'll take their free vacation courtesy of the RIAA and they'll screw you with the same smile.

There ya go. Fixed that for you. :-p

I have something for you: Every time there is a robbery, let's calculate where the robbers could be (100mph * time from robbery) and then let's detonate a bomb that wipes this exact radius at the place of the robbery.

That way, robbers will think twice about doing robbery again. Guaranteed 100% efficiency.

See? The robbers are wrong, but the stupid cop detonating the bomb will be even more wrong because he'll kill thousands of innocent people in order to get the robbers. In other words: the reaction will be far worse than the offense.

That's what is happening here. Nobody claims the pirates are in the right. If you want to have this debate though, I'm all ears, I'll let you shoot first ;-)

You forgot the most important point: All the shit they're moving doesn't bring them a dime in return, at the contrary! All that publicity for TPB make them more and more popular.

The truth is that is you get IE out of the game, anything working in a browser either works in others of degrades gracefully.

It you get IE in the game, you have to test and develop whole chunks of your website twice.

There's not enough satellite bandwidth for more than a handful of drones, not to mention latency is too high for air to air combat and that any enemy with better than stone age tech will be able to jam your control signal. No, remote piloted drones are NOT the future, perhaps non-piloted drones will be, but they're unlikely to be 100% of the force anytime soon.

So your answer to "You've already seen a double side CD?" is "Yes I've seen a double sided DVD!" ?

Reading comprehension issue? Sudden inflammatory urge? Anything else?

Fox claims that giving viewers the ability to skip commercials on recorded television shows demonstrates the "clear goal of violating copyrights and destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem."

Good! Let's tear down that century-old ecosystem, including the business models of those leeches. They're dying anyway. Let's start over from scratch and figure out how we can do it again, this time in ways that don't require stunting technological innovation.

No, on any decent array background scrubbing does full stripe verifies which will in fact catch bit-rot. Parity might not be calculated on a standard read but that doesn't mean that RAID5/6 has no value with respect to data integrity.

But then again, right from the app that gets you the location of said phone, there is a button to make the stolen property ring, and ring loud. Do you think it's so unlikely that they'll find the perpetrator with no mistake in that situation?

Also, if the perpetrator is unaware of the police tracking him down, there is little chance he'll "hide" in a group of people. following the GPS signal for 5 minutes should be enough to identify the thief very precisely.