It's not wasting your vote, it's just using your vote to influence future elections rather then the one you are voting on right then. Each extra vote for an "unlikely" candidate makes it that much more likely that the next election will see more backing for other candidates, or simply modify the behaviour of the candidates who see the extra votes to be won.

I say this from a country where I enjoy never having to contemplate this as we have multi-seat transferable votes. I usually have to spend a while ranking anywhere from 10-20 candidates for 5 seats. I invariably end up starting with the pleasure of trying to pick which piece of scum deserves the bottom ranking the most this time round. I enjoy watching the count results just to see how many piles my vote has moved through before it reaches one of the candidates left in at the final round where it is ultimately "counted".

Relax? I'd have thought "Two Tribes" would be far more apt.

Really? This bug was only present in kernel releases 2.6.39 and newer. Do any Android devices use kernel's based on a Linux this current? A quick search says Android 2.3. used 2.6.35 and 3.0 used 2.6.36 so the number of devices this might possibly help you root looks miniscule.

I think they would have to do something like make a >$100m donation to the FSF and put >$10b in some sort of FSF approved escrow before that strategy will get them anywhere. If they announced Linux support on the PS4 I would imagine that any positive noises would be drowned out by a million people crying out something along the lines of "fool me once ... you won't fool me again".

If they try this, I hope that the first journalist who is in the presence of a Sony representative making any claims about Linux support has a copy of the email from Sony around the time of the Slim release which proclaimed

That mail was sent 40 days before they announced they were disabling OtherOS or 42 days before Sony Fools Day when they actually released the "update" to do so. I'd hope the journalist would simply ask "you do know today isn't April 1st right?" unless of course it is, in which case they can just crack up laughing and promise "to write a great piece about how Sony has a sense of humour and won't be allowing any other OS on their consoles after learning their lesson when they lied to their customers the last time".

TFA talks about the pre-1978 law and how these would have still fallen out of copyright had they not applied for extensions, but I prefer to simply think about the scenario where copyright had stayed at 28 years (or less) and there was no option to extend it beyond that.

Released in 1983

Film

• Flashdance
• Jaws 3D
• Mickey's Christmas Carol
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Never Say Never Again
• Octopussy
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
• Staying Alive
• Superman III
• Terms of Endearment
• Trading Places
• WarGames

Literature

• Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn
• Jackie Collins - Hollywood Wives
• Roald Dahl - The Witches
• Stephen King - Christine
• Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic

Music

• Let's Dance - David Bowie
• Europe - Europe
• Sweat Dreams - Eurythmics
• Genesis - Genesis
• An Innocent Man - Billy Joel
• Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
• Madness - Madness
• Madonna - Madonna
• Under a Blood Red Sky - U2
• Who's Greatest Hits - The Who
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - "Weird Al" Yankovic

TV

• final episode of M*A*S*H
• Debut of Fraggle Rock
• music video for "Thriller"
• The Black Adder

Obviously the above list is far from comprehensive and biased by the idiot who plucked thoe above from the various lists, but I'm sure you get the idea. You might also notice I was slightly biased towards early (and final) works of an artist/series as I wonder how many of these might have seen a renewed interest in the rest of their catalogue now if these initial works were entering the Public Domain.

Thanks to the FSF they have decided that somehow the device will be more Free if they add extra hardware to remove the ability load your own firmware for the wifi. I'd rather they threw the wifi chip away and use a worse chip which requires no non-free code or just accepted you need the non-free firmware, don't up the cost to embed the non-free firmware into the board itself and then pretend it doesn't exist, it's just dumb.

Maybe with the right list it will work, if so would you please tell us what list? The iframes to facebook php got past my browsers adblock plus and NoScript so dns seems the sanest way to cut them off at the knees,

I use my hosts file (or dnsmasq) to point googleapis to my local apache which has a jquery mirror to match theirs.

NoScript is only a partial solution to that problem as you will find plenty of sites with iframes loading php from facebook. Requestpolicy might help or you can try to maintain a hosts file which blocks all the various hosts they use.

It's also making BD-R(E) look a lot more appealing. On a 5 year graph I don't expect this event to have much impact on SSD prices, however I do wonder if it might finally bring BD the volume required to get it down to being (at worst) the same price per GB as DVD.