It doesn't. But not all pdf's are copyrightable.

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html

You can't print someone's book because the book is a work of literary authorship. If you get a non-copyrightable pdf, such as a simple list of facts or ingredients, then you can print that and sell it. We will likely see something similar happen in the 3D printing world.

At issue here is not whether or not the printer has two dimensions or three, but rather if the underlying object would be considered an original work of authorship. Probably not.

If you compare this to the fashion industry, for example, where a designs for clothing are *not* eligible for copyright. The fashion industry has responded to this by elevating trademarkable labels to be elements of fashion themselves. I can take a Tommy Hilfiger t-shirt and produce another shirt with its dimensions exactly, but I can't put that logo on it.

There is no line to draw Android uses the Linux kernel the same as Ubuntu and every other GNU/Linux distro.

It's a bit murkier than that. Debian can actually run without Linux. (See Debian GNU/kfreebsd.)

Graduate Record Examination

What could be more honest than, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."?

Sun CEO Scott McNealy

Actually, in the first episode in which it appears, the Doctor uses it to turn a screw. All the silliness that comes later is really a running joke in the series.

This is a pet peeve of mine. It's very bad advice to throw in meaningless initializations. If a variable has no meaningful value, you want tools like valgrind to be able to recognize this and catch code that tries to use this value. If you set it to 0, but then don't mean that variable to be read without being set to something else first, you've done yourself a disservice.

it's rarely more than one piece a week

I get at least twice that in Verizon Fios solicitations alone.

Basically it looks like we don't need any higher resolution than what the iPhone and others have achieved, anything more would be pointless.

Unless you happen to have a $5 pair of magnifying eyeglasses that is.

The biggest problem with viewing web pages on a cell phone is that you can't see enough pixels at the same time. If you want to keep a 1920x1080 display in your pocket, you need to go beyond retinal and use a lens to magnify it.

I am not seeing any phone that currently supports the whole flash experience: http://www.adobe.com/mobile/supported_devices/ Just the Flash Lite option.

That list is a little out of date. The Nokia N900 runs the desktop version of Flash 9.

On the other hand, many flash games require more CPU than a mobile device can really provide at the moment.

The latest release of MythTV (.23RC1) contains a new plugin called MythNetVision which specifically enables browsing of online videos.

It's still a little rough yet, but is under active development.

It leads me to the following question: "is there a place where we can buy ebook in a non-crappy drm encumbered format ?"

I use Fictionwise, which is now owned by Barnes & Noble. They have a very wide selection of what they call "Multiformat" ebooks that are available without any DRM at all. Although they do also sell "secure" ebooks, the web site makes it very easy to filter these out and only browse titles that are available without DRM.

The bigger *any* organization gets, the less efficient it becomes.

Is that why Walmart has to charge such high prices? To cover all that inefficiency?

It's not size that leads to government inefficiency, it's a lack of competition. If you could pick one of three governments to pay your taxes to, you'd see efficiency shoot way up.

The choice is not between "content with DRM" and "content with no DRM", but "content with DRM" and "less content with no DRM".

That's only true in the short term. Those who advocate boycotting DRM infected media are concerned with the long term. If enough consumers avoid products with DRM, then the market will adapt and cease to sell works with DRM and content with no DRM will become available. That's how boycotts work.