I hope al Qaeda shares their findings with everyone else who might need that information.

A nice theory, but it's also nonsense. What you describe is a long-shot gamble, hardly enough to make your point. At that point in life, they're going to either choose to create or they're going to choose not to, and would probably offer their kids more financial benefit simply by flipping burgers.

In socialist Brazil the secrets of the Amazon are explored by YOU!

Good thing I'm a notorious shifty-eyed weasel or I'd be inclined to join them in whatever their shenanigans are likely to be. Think they're about to pick up outsourcing of the NSA?

I think SO.

Yeah, they should be rolling out a Wrist Gaming Console with a Microsoft original game, to boot!

Introducing the Xwrist One with Exclusive: Mildly Perturbed Aves!

Also means you can look forward to identifying yourself through the services of a company known to track your information for marketing and other purposes.

Yay. :-|

"You have gone through the guardrail, knucklehead, stop looking at your phone while driving"

Hey, these really are smart phones!

On the Android phone - You are about to be hit by a Google mapping car! Massive pr0ps!

To counter this big push into wrist computing Microsoft buys declining mobile phone maker Nokia - Well played, Mr. Ballmer!

Honestly, I laughed out loud when the fellow from the Motley Fool said the acquisition was the biggest deal of 1999. About how I felt regarding the acquisition - about 14 years late and out of sync with what is going on in the markets right now.

"You will not win the lottery!"

"Whoa! Good thing you warned me, phone, I was about to buy a ticket ... um ... this is one of those Catch 22s isn't it?"

"HA HA HA!"

"Damn."

When I was a wee young coder in college I pulled an all-nighter on a coding project. Big ol' statistical engine. Somewhere around 3 AM the code took on a narrative form ... I went off to the dorm for a couple hours sleep and came back to look at it ... whaaaa??? It looked perfectly fine to an exhausted brain. Perception clearly suffers from sleep deprivation.

That means we can land there and live and farm and ... be magnetized by the hugely dense magnetic field. Oof.

no subsidy for you!

Nobody said it'd be the user of the device that employs those circumvention methods.

Whichever is longer? I disagree, I think a "whichever comes first" would be more appropriate. But I do think you're on a much more logical track than current law. Personally, I favour something more along the lines of 7 to 14 years, as the likelihood of software somehow getting a clear-cut difference in treatment from other works.

I think it's important for software to enter the public domain before it becomes completely useless and before the origins of the works are lost to the mire. It would certainly help avoid problems like we saw with the SCO lawsuits several years ago that sought to stifle rather than foster the growth and innovation of the marketplace.

First off, the definition of "sex site" is always questionable in this kind of situation, especially a workplace. Second, an infected computer is a pretty effective way to "hit" a lot of porn in a short period of time, at least as network monitors would count them. Third, it's been several months, meaning any number of variables could have changed that would significantly change the quantity of "hits".

It feels silly to count "hits" in this day and age. I'd better stop reading this thread before I get nostalgic for the days when I got to hate Geocities.