This is sofa king lame.

You don't need a service to extract the audio.from a YouTube stream

While I have no objection to anyone doing this themselves for the convenience etc, I DO object to someone trying to extract $$$ from something that is not his

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I have always been like this.
I do not remember anything bad that happened to me.
I can be reminded, and when I am, I remember them in sufficient detail, but in general, I just plain don't.
One of the the greatest blessings of my existence.

Then get them back there RIGHT NOW and make them clean it up.

And a geological period at that.

So following the announcement of the postponement, MS decides to include the updated calendar info in a patch.
Since the patch isn't a critical or security patch, a large portion of end users -- and a larger portion of systems administrators would not install the patch.

Still not a news item.
I gave up on the holidays calendar years ago due to an overabundance of errors -- primarily inclusions of US holidays in the Canada calendar.
I suspect most Outlook users in the UK did the same.

In any jurisdiction where a machine sits between the voter and the offical count, no election outcome can be trusted.
"the people" as in "Government, of the people, by the poeple for the people" have been disenfranchised for decades.
The situation now is more along the lines of "Government of the powerless, by the stooges, for the elite"

There are no candidates for office anywhere in the "free" world that are not controlled by corporations & their cartels, trade unions or organized crime.
Even if sufficient numbers of independant canditates could be elected, their ideologies are so fragmented that they would be unable to stand against the onslaught of the powerful self-interest groups.

I was tempted to mod this funny.
There is a common misconception amongst law-abiding people that making something illegal will change other people's behaviour, because they themselves change their behavour in response to a change in law.

As society becomes increasingly fragmented, the fraction of the earth's population that could be described as "law-abiding" is decreasing rapidly, and the process is further accelerated by governments that bow to the pressure of special interests.

Examples of laws that are defied or ignored abound.
Here on Slashdot we tend to revile copyright laws, and other IP laws.
Others openly defy laws controlling substances -- drugs, alcohold, tobacco etc.

Why on earth -- or above it -- would anyone abide by a "law" that would be ultimately unenforceable?

And the rule is:
Never say anything that you would not be proud to have on a sign on your front lawn.
"Say" in this context includes anything written.

You could burn a diary if you wrote something in that you later came to regret.
With anything transmitted electronically, there is no going back. Once you hit the send button, it is out of your control forever.
So before you click it, be certain that you mean it.

Drive in such a manner that you don't hit stuff.
Be sufficiently aware of the world around you that other stuff doesn't hit you
Hold the wheel whereever you please.

Your personal, private affairs do not belong in the workplace at all. Although I have friends at work, and we do socialize with them, none of them are facebook friends, nor ever will be -- and they all seem to be OK with that.

I'm not sure what I would do if a personal friend came to work for this company, but since it isn't likely I won't fret.

Time and time again I see people losing jobs -- and friends -- by failing to keep their employers/jobs/work out of their private lives and vice-versa.

My answer to such a request from HR would be, "I strive to keep my personal life out of the workplace, just as I don't discuss work-related issues with family and friends. For that reason, I don't make facebook friends with colleagues. You are welcome to connect with me on LinkedIn, though, since that is where I keep my professional connections."
If that doesn't satisfy them, then I'm perfectly happy not working for them.

That is the question underlying the entire discussion.
I have a so-called "living will" that sets standards for when I should not be resuscitated.
I don't really care if a miracle cure comes along later.
When I'm done with my body, I'm happy that someone else can get some use out of whatever parts remain usable.

"Value of a human life" is more than just a "life or death" question. The quality of life is of concern in this issue as well.

It does not matter if you are later cleared, acquitted, exonerated or whatever your local legal system calls it.
If you are cleared, there will always be those who think that you are some sort of pervert who "got off".
Also, if you are convicted just because there was porn on your computer, there will be (hopefully) be some people who will recognize the miscarraige of justice..

Once accused -- guilty or not -- your live is forever changed. I will likely cost you your retirement savings to pay to a lawyer to mitigate the damage.

Therefore, do not be your own accuser.
If you find anything incriminating on your computer, delete it irretrievably -- if you don't know how, find out.
Then ever afterwards, stfu.

Never EVER again buy any CD, DVD, Blu-Ray or ANY OTHER crap that these industries try to sell you.
Go to movies if you must -- when you're done, remember them.
Attend music concerts -- the artists get more money from live performances, so you're helping support them. Buying media does the artist very little good -- pennies per item, or so I'm told.
If they come on TV record 'em on your PVR if you like.
Listen to music on the radio, and enjoy its fleeting beauty
Download whatever you please, after all, your advertising dollars, your theatre tickets and your concert tickets paid the FULL COST OF PRODUCTION.
All the rest of the drek merely goes to line the pockets of the rich greedy leeches that use the performers as pawns in their quest to mine your pockets.

So take it away from them. Don't buy the crap.

When you exchange money for "something of value", you now have complete control of that thing.
You own it.
You control it.
You can do with it what ever you please.
This has been the case since barter was invented.


When that "something of value" is a so-called license to use some other thing, then it comes with some form of license agreement.
Read any of them and in there you will find a clause that grants one side of the bargain an exclusive right to change the agreement without notice.
If one side has that right, then the other does too.
Even if the agreement says otherwise . Fair is fair, after all
. So...
Whenever you click the "Agree" button, say out loud, "I can do whatever I bloody well please." then agree to that.
There is no need to inform the other party.
They may haul you before the courts, but at least you can do whatever you bloody please with a clear conscience

You can alter all the notices etc on all of the physical media you buy too.
Very liberating!

Are they coming out with a new series of dolls -- oh, sorry, "action figures" -- to further mine the pockets of the lame?