That's what I thought when 'podcast' happened.

Nobody killed it :(

That is not anywhere near 'all' the DMCA does, you're either woefully misinformed or being disingenuous.

Takedown notices are a very small part of the monstrosity.

Actually, pretty sure that Dasani not only had worse levels than tap water but had to be recalled because it went over some or other legal limit.

And I never heard it called cancer water, I did hear a lot of people saying "fuck coke, trying to bottle out water and sell it back to us, what do they think we are, morons?"

No, it gets here by mail order.

For some reason it is way, way cheaper for me to order stuff from the far east, the US or even the UK and have it shipped over, than it is to get it from an australian website or retailer. Don't tell me that bulk shipping adds a 100% plus markup over individual shipping, these things work the other way around.

And then there are other things like games, which you get online, which often launch at $50-60 in the US and AUD 100 ($102 right now) here. For the same thing, delivered over the internet.

There is no justification.

Um, in England, on the BBC channels, there are no ads.

There are trailers for upcoming shows, but no advertising. It's one of the reasons to love the BBC.

Not anyone with unresolved problems, there are always unresolved problems on any platform you can think of. I'm talking about anyone who can't make linux work satisfactorily for themselves.

It may well not be ready for grandma, but for someone that reads and posts here it points to a stunning lack of competence with computers.

If it takes you several hours of googling to get ubuntu up and running, and three weeks later it's still not working as you like, then you are incompetent and have no business posting on a tech site.

Seriously. OS politics aside, if you're finding it that difficult then you probably should't be working in the tech sector.

Surely VP of SAP doesn't need to be doing that?

Some sort of mental illness of thrill-seeking?

Yeah, or there's open source, which you don't have to pay for, and you can get the source too.
I realise this is of little consequence to most, but I like it.

I do think that the BSA should go after everyone they cam though. High visibility lawsuits against users will drive many more people to open source, some of whom may eventually be the sorts of folks that contribute.

No, it was exceptionally stupid because he doesn't own the equipment or pay the energy bills, regardless of what the bitcoin outcome was.

Radar - Blumline.

Not sure if he invented the science behind it, but he was certainly the engineer that made it work properly. Also invented stereo sound recording and playback decades before it was thought of commercially. His (expired) patents ensured that one company couldn't stitch up the entire market.

Yeah, no.

This is exactly what we're talking about. Clever fella, certainly. God who took with him to the grave secrets we haven't discovered even to this day? Not so much.

Oh wait, was this a troll?

"There is enormous speculation about his death and his later work in dealing with bending space-time"

He bent space time after his death?

Yup, this is a major, major problem with the books too. The further the books go on, the wider they get and the smaller steps they have to take because there are just too many characters doing too many irrelevant things.

I mean, WTF is Daenarys doing for the last few books and WTF does it have to do with any storylines we actually care about?

Sorry, no, you can't credit Labour with the good years and then pass off that bad years as a worldwide phenomenon, when both were happening worldwide! My faulty thinking?

They rode the worldwide financial waves, and while doing it they expanded the public sector massively and ran up huge amounts of debt, all seemingly in anticipation that Gordon Christ had ended boom and bust forever. They were shown up to be incompetents that left the country in a financially dangerous state. So in answer to your facile points -

1) The world economy went well, so Labour spent like there was no tomorrow
2) Tomorrow came, it's their fault the UK has piles of debt and too many people sucking the government teat.

You'd have to be a cretin of enormous proportions to not see that the specifics of the British economy as it now stands are entirely the fault of the retards on the red side of the house.

Yup, great piece of software that, found it after my last Sony purchase (a good few years back now) and it really made a difference.

Of course it came preloaded with Vista which was just horrible anyway.