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That will only last for a little while. I'm sure Anonymous would be interested in making it public knowledge.

Every professional INTERCAL programmer knows that the name is "C Mesh".

It all depends on how they got their money and power. If they got it by producing the best things that people want, then it's not good for them. But if they got their money by regulating away their competitors, enriching themselves through subsidies, or empowering themselves through controlled media then it's in their best interests to restrict freedom. Allowing Internet freedom could threaten their guaranteed profits (by circumventing restrictive copyrights and patents) or threaten their power to influence people (by allowing the free flow of information). That's why they keep trying to pass these bills. Instead of trying to innovate their way to more profits, they turn to forcing people either directly or indirectly to give them more profits through government action.

Meh. I have a better one: "Method and application for use of the Higgs Boson to generate speculative stories which are published on technical news sites to derive ad revenue."

This is actually the best solution. The "browser pluggable module" makes this system not much better than Flash or Silverlight. It's not architecture independent, and not secure. If the plugin is automatically downloaded, than it'll have to be very heavily sandboxed to keep a malicious website from sending malware instead. If the plugin has to be installed manually, it's not any different from Flash except that you have to install multiple ones for different sites's DRM schemes.

Javascript is the best solution for making it work across multiple browsers. It's already standardized and implemented, and it's architecture and platform independent. Hulu and Netflix can't send it plain, since Hollywood would complain, but a JS solution would be secure enough. Java and .NET are fairly easily decompilable, but you still see Hulu and Netflix making Android and Windows Phone apps.

The main issues would be speed and API difficulties. To support this, it would be best for browsers to implement:

• A standardized Javascript crypto library implementing common, patent-free algorithms like AES, RSA, and DSA. This would make implementing the DRM scheme easier, keep the decryption fast, and could take advantage of hardware optimizations (AES-NI).
• Hooks for decrypting video content. Let the browser play the video, but have it invoke a JS event that could decrypt the content before it is played.
• Optional: A "secure memory" object for storing the keys. This might provide Hollywood with enough security that they'd let something like this fly.

While it can contain a link to a tracker, most magnet links just contain a hash of the .torrent file and use the DHT system. Your torrent client would look up the hash in the DHT and find a user who is currently downloading or seeding the file. It then downloads the .torrent file from them.

It depends on how much hand-waving and bribing the MAFIAA do. Several years ago I would say that they would probably be legal, since you're not getting the file from them and the "link" to the files is very weak. Nowadays it really doesn't matter, our due process doesn't apply as long as the politicians and prosecutors are sufficiently bribed. They'll just seize your domain, block your donations, and threaten/raid your web hosts without judicial approval.

So you want to make our food staples even more expensive?!?

What would be better is to eliminate the import quotas and tariffs on sugar, so that it's more affordable than corn syrup/sugar.

If you don't want to see them, there's a box in "Settings->Interface->Notify me about additions or changes to my games, new releases, and upcoming releases" that you can uncheck to disable it. Personally, I keep it on because I like to see what's being discounted. If they had a way to notify me when one of the items in my wishlist was on sale, I might prefer that instead.

Don't worry. President Gingrich will happily ignore the decision and detain them anyways!