The previous to 'automatic copyright' was registered copyright. The amount of paperwork required for that would be amazing overall.

I only watch from the sidelines. I am not American.

So are we going to have this song and dance every year?
1. Politicians introduce legislation against common people's interests.
2. Initial concerns over privacy/abuse of power are voiced.
3. Companies of all sorts voice support, and how much it is needed.
4. Apparently clueless politicians make statements minimizing critics as somehow insignificant.
5. Huge outrage swells up from 'the people'
6. Politicians and Companies back-pedal
7. Last clueless politician stays the course.
8. Bill dies.
9. ???
10. Rince and Repeat

Not surprising at all. GNU Coreutils has for a very long time (don't know if form inception) as supported command line parameters in almost any order for these utilities. So on Darwin or *BSD, ls / -l will fail, while it works on Linux just fine.

Have a citation for that? Sounds interesting if true.

"A new feature in GTK+ 3.8 is support for Wayland 1.0, the display server that will replace X on free desktops." Who said this is going to replace X on 'free desktops'? As far as I have been hearing, this is just another in a long line and because it hasn't done it yet, it is not justifiable to say it will.

But they can do the both at the same time.

The 60/66 MHz versions were rather special ones, because starting with 75MHz they had a new socket. Not sure why.

A revolution is often bloody, and the results afterwards often includes civil war.

It has always been the deepest pockets.

to drop... I am waiting for some kind of bad security hole. How many bitcoin sites have been laughably insecure?

Never would I want to get paid in Bitcoin. I am not anonymous. Bitcoin has benefits for sure, but there is too much uncertainty in the market for it to be worth this.

I run a student operated server, and I inherited an ancient Debian install that I had little control over. I proceeded to wipe for FreeBSD9 (partially the decision of the operator just before me), had that for about six months. Now that I am on Debian Testing again, life is simple again. I appreciate this about Debian. But given the nature of the 'student' part, I cannot have a compiler that is ancient considering the C++11 stuff people are using. Even in testing it is a great system.

Have you read the article? The blog entry is entirely plausible, sounds like research I have been seeing for a good decade or so. I also found the article via the author's website: http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/201302-18_RoyalSoc-NetworkScience/201302-18_RoyalSoc-NetworkScience.pdf Interesting citations it has. One can also derive things with statistical methods. I would also note that this is talking about websites, not pages.

I appreciate the contribution of an engine of this nature, but I have to wonder how the company behind it can remain viable if this is their only 'product'?