The thing is... I don't think a free and open internet is possible together with strong, enforcable and actively enforced copyright laws.

Mozilla still haven't fixed Firefox to be able to handle automatic updating of language packs. Every time I update Firefox here, it reverts back to the language I installed it in (the rest of my family isn't as good as English as I am), so I have to manually go and get the newest en-GB.xpi.

Have you ever heard of ASCAP?

Or change your profile picture to a giant erect penis and start uploading full frontal nudity/porn. Your account will be banished shortly, I think.

Obligatory xkcd link.

And of course "Eternal Flame".

Yes, the capitalisation of my comment's subject is deliberate.

Mod Parent up. Leap seconds are a big part of why the timezone database needs to contain historic information.

"ooh I know this" — was it a Unix system? ;-)

As I understand it, VB.NET is a successor to VB6 in name only, i.e. it's more like C# with a BASIC-y syntax. Or am I completely off-base?

"open it's door"? Way to fail at a grammar nazi post there. http://www.angryflower.com/aposter3.jpg

But Stephen Fry had told us that there are two moons right now! The Moon and Cruithne... of course in a later episode he claimed there's 4 or 5...