Any idea when the latest copyright law/extensions were voted in and who voted for what? I would like to see if anyone I can make a vote for/against was part of them.

I think you missed the point, at least with what you replied with. DRM didn't exist all those years ago. Great art was made without DRM. The music industry is finally waking up and realizing that DRM isn't the way to go (though I think there's still a little ways for them to go). Hopefully the publishing and video industries realize this as well.

I've used Gmail for years; hearing this, I think it's about time to switch. Does anyone have any good suggestions for a web email service comparable with Gmail, but maybe not quite so evil?

Funny, I don't remember too many drug offenders violating the constitution.

If there was any realistic way to be a competitor, sure. But it's a pretty locked market.

wtf? since when was america the global police? thats the attitude that frustrates me!

> Only the used portion of a library is paged in from disk.

That very much depends on the exact dynamic library format and such, actually...

IPv4 is a measurable finite resource. There are 2^32 of them. You can plot it on a graph fairly accurately.

Does IPv6 have the Evil Bit?

"There won't be an oil shortage any time soon, but if there is a shortage, the problem will be more severe than you think, tractors are currently machines that turn diesel into food, with no oil, getting food to market won't be the problem, growing it at all will be the problem."

Rationing would obviously favor necessary uses first, just as it did during WWII.

(and esp. PaddyM's link showing other researchers see selection bias in the Canada study

I checked both links and could find no reference to SEEING selection.
Some commentators have SUGGESTED that there may have been selection.
No-one has noted that a number of provinces have found the evidence sufficient to halt the promotion of the c\vaccine.ie a number of medical people other than the researchers have seen something.

And yet Office still boots twice as fast as OpenOffice on a typical computer, IIS and MS SQL are completely neck-and-neck with their competitors, and Outlook completely trounces its closest competitor, performance-wise.

I mean, I completely understand what you're saying: having multiple copies of the same function/code block in memory is inefficient. But in practice, it doesn't seem to be hurting them anyway.

http://www.wcg.com/6th/main.asp

They have a "reality" show up. Wouldn't be my ideal way to watch competitive gaming, and the style of the tournament follows the reality TV trend a bit too much, but it's still interesting.

Though, they really need to throw some nerds in there. :)

Go to http://www.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/83/. They have something to try and pass what you've suggested. Let's hope.

I'm sure it'll sell just as well as the EU version of Win XP that didn't include WMP...