I love how your first thought after reading about a new scientific breakthrough is "How can we tax this???"

You should run for office in Massachusetts.

Did anyone else read this as comparing Cassandra from King's Quest and Voldemort from Harry Potter?

I'm sorry, why shouldn't we reward people who come up with a novel compression algorithm?

In any event, they only get it for the next 18 years. And in all likelihood, someone will come up with a better algorithm in the mean time.

I've never really understood the anti-intellectual property sentiment on Slashdot..

See, whenever there is a book transaction, a few cents go into a bank account. They're shaved off as a remainder. Initech will never know it's missi.. oh wait.

Yeah, this sucks.

We should have a 1st International Longest Slashdot Post competition. Same rules as the Twitter competition, except you have to deal with Slashdot's draconian input stripping

Except that Western culture has watchdogs like the SEC that will bring massive fraud lawsuits against you when you try to cheat and steal.

Sys admins pretty much live in caves already, right?

I can't tell if I'm being trolled or not.

It's an RTS. Comparing Starcraft to RPGs is apples to oranges. That's like criticizing chess because you *must* move your pawn or *must* move your knight.

The real question in all this is whether Starcraft 2 is hackable or not.

Your spelling, capitalization, and punctuation errors in no way impact the efficacy of your point.

The Economist is actually one of the more thoughtful news periodicals, in my opinion. Moreover, having a non-American perspective is very nice for those of us who get a majority of our news from American sources. The political coverage is especially enlightening, as it manages to transcend the Democrat / Republican talking points in a way that not even the New York Times or Wall Street Journal is able to.

Your anecdotal evidence it irrefutable.

Ah, the Ubuntu color scheme!

It does, according to the ex-President of a company of which I've never heard!

Insightful observation.

And yeah, I agree. The American system for this is far inferior to the rest of the world. It's almost as bad as not using metric...

Except the police aren't going to be able to get a warrant based on "some anonymous dude told us this guy was like totes harboring child pr0n"

I suppose I am assuming that they need warrants in the UK. They must, right?