Perhaps "Postage Pals Push Petition, Pushing Pluto Probe Postage" preferred, possibly?

Because infringement is very easy to do unintentionally, as Representative Smith found out, I feel there needs to be a safe-harbor course of action. If infringement is removed within (picks a number from thin air) seven days, then the infringement should be presumed to be unintentional and not liable for any damages. Furthermore, there should be a process where an alleged infringer can say to an accuser, "No, you've got it all wrong. I have a right to use this because of [insert reason here]." The matter would be settled either inside or outside of courts, using well-established procedures from Civil Law, but the matter would eventually be settled.

The bone-jarringly stupid thing about this whole mess is, what you describe is more or less the way a DMCA takedown request works NOW - a copyright holder claims their work is being infringed and the site hosting the material pulls it pending review. If it's infringing (ie, if the infringing user can't explain why it isn't) it stays down and if it isn't it's reinstated.

That's the biggest problem with this whack-a-doodle bill - the measures in place to deal with copyright currently work perfectly well for everybody except gigantic corporations with too much copyrighted material to effectively police.

Also, the government would have to either pay for everyone to have internet access, provide some sort of subsidy for those who can't afford internet access, start it's own ISP which would end up directly competing with private companies, or nationalize all ISPs.

Comcast already does offer cheap internet connections in hardship cases and subsidizes the computer required for it under congressional mandate, but ignoring that for a second: Access doesn't mean running fiber to every house in a neighborhood, it means making sure libraries have free and unrestricted access to computers connected to the net and can more-or-less meet demand.

Big difference, there.

So...you haven't bought a recent WoW expansion, or Starcraft II, and you won't be buying Diablo III.

In other words, you haven't bought a Blizzard game since, when? Diablo II? Brood War? You haven't bought a Blizzard game in something like ten years, and you're upset that the way games are played and the requirements for those games has changed out from under you? Do you still want your games only to be playable with the disc in the drive, too? Which, by the way, was as frowned upon back then as DRM is frowned upon now. Same stuff, different decade.

Get with the times, man.

From my experience, the older titles I've gotten from Amazon have been hastily OCRed and not proofread, I'm assuming to give Amazon a back catalog or books to intially entice people to buy their Kindles for. It worked on me, at least initially, but I had to train myself to substitute common OCR errors in my head as I was reading. It was a wholly unpleasant experience and wrecked my concentration. I went back to buying actual books, which has been better - I spend 8+ hours a day in front of a computer screen at work, let alone any home computer or screen-related downtime. If I pick up something to read, I want a BOOK - I want an interface I don't even have to think about, and readers feel too much like work to me.

My point being, Amazon leaning on their extensive library of "older" titles is a bit of a letdown. The quality just isn't up to par.

V for Vendetta? Seriously? That quote's from W.B. Yeats: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html Credit where it's due.

I think you underestimate the number of harmless people on that list. I didn't fly for years because of the extra hassle of having to prove that, no, I'm not a psychopathic rapist from West Virginia with a similar name.

You got invited somewhere awesome by a member of the /. community, and all we get is a thank you and a request to be let into more awesome places? It would've killed you to snap a few pictures, or to have set up an interview, or to have given us something, anything, back in return?

Either make a big deal out of it when this happens and do some actual, experiential blogging, or keep quiet about it, but this story is just...a smirk.

I work nowhere remotely interesting these days, but if I did, after this story I wouldn't be inclined to help yo

...which, if I had bothered to read the opening paragraph instead of jumping right to the charts, I would have noticed was factored in and included as "interaction."

Whoops indeed.

My issue I guess is with the summary - "apps such as facebook" implies applications with functionality similar to facebook, rather than applications, one of which is a facebook app.

ah well.

The study appears to have missed something fairly crucial and not especially obvious to people over 30 - they differentiate phone calls from "smartphone non-voice usage" at various times of the day, but apparently fail to take into account the fact that, for many young people, their alarm clocks are apps on their phones - I interact with my phone every morning in bed, but it's because it's waking me up, not because I'm checking facebook.