To be fair –most europeans would argue that this is pretty retarded ;)

Blocking child porn and other illegal things is quite different from blanket blocking porn. Similarly, blocking illegal things on the internet is quite different from blocking all data on the internet.

I hate to tell you, but many of us have a more refined sense of humor than "zomg, he said dickfuck lawlawlawlawlawl" ;)

The entire reason for putting rebar in concrete is that it gets you the best of both worlds –you get a composite material with the tensile strength of steel and the compressive strength of concrete.

But still has extremely low tensile strength, which is what they're after when adding rebar to concrete.

stainless steel is not 100% immune to such problems, and has much lower tensile strength than normal steel, and I'm unaware of any protective coating that would be up to the job.

You realise that that's exactly how airbus has been building planes for years, and exactly how the A350 XWB will be built too.

On the other hand, carbon composites often suffer slow degradation and eventual delamination through simple sun exposure.

Right Which is exactly what the parent said – it's dishonest to steal that work ;). That's fundamentally what's being argued here. Don't take things without paying for them (unless given a license that allows you to do so). It's dishonest, and directly impacts someone else's income.

Then why are they calling for the abolition of copyright and IP? They should be calling for the use of BSD like copyright licenses instead. Copyright law is exactly what stops someone copying your work and taking the credit, if you want to say "take this, but cite me" then the BSD is what you're after.

No, actually, getting credit is exactly what ownership and copyright is about. You get to get credit for it because you made it and own it, copyright is the law saying that someone else can't take it and take the credit (amongst other things). This is exactly what most people around here seem not to understand.

Not quite the same thing. No one ever tells the police where the mafia are hiding out in Italy, nor do they ever stop paying for the "services" the mafia provide. Doesn't mean they're supportive of the mafia.

You do realise that they'll not simply write an API that asks "what version of the software are we on" but instead has the game issue a challenge, have the OS compute a response using a private key (quite possibly by contacting microsoft's servers in between), and checks the response using a public key.

Believing that the issue no longer exists because one person cracks the first implementation is foolhardy at best, and idiotic at worst.

All it takes is for MS to bump the minimum software version required for new games, or add a critical new feature that everyone wants and suddenly you need to updated, and get into the never ending war of jailbreaking and patching. By buying a console with the expectation of it being regularly jailbroken, all you guarantee is that you end up unable to keep up with the latest software update, and hence the latest games.

I never claimed this was a practical approach to building such a craft, only that it was a good thought experiment that demonstrated that it's an entirely reasonable concept to travel downwind faster than the wind.