".....Rest assured, we remain committed to bringing our customers the latest mobile experiences, and we will continue to build on our strong relationship with Facebook so as to offer customers new opportunities in the future"

Really now, offering us new opportunities, or Mark and HTC? I'd vote for the latter......

Minecraft says differently :)

How is the US any different. Take something simple like a traffic ticket. You were going 53 in a 55 and get pulled over and a ticket for 65 in a 55. The cop goes to court and claims that you were going 65 in a 55. You will be convicted. Short of video proof demonstrating your innocence, you will be convicted on nothing but the word of a cop. Sure, murder is harder to prove on the word of a single cop, but 10 cops could get a conviction if the accused didn't have proof they didn't do it (O.J. Simpson excluded).

Not necessarily. My son, a notorious speeder in his early twenties, racked up so many tickets he was very likely to lose his license, if not go to jail (the last was for drag racing.) He must have had 8 or more tickets, all way over the speed limit, in a relatively short period of time. What did he do? Go to court for each one, made whatever argument made sense to him at the time, and ended up with only 1 ticket sticking. A few times the police didn't bother showing up in court and that's an automatic off the hook kind of thing. This wasn't but a few years ago either so you can fight city hall if you want to. And some do succeed.

Could be, and I applaud any company that actually cares to change things to make a difference. This needn't be an either/or thing, both Amazons can co-exist. And I I said in my earlier post, I understand why Amazon (the company) would want to protect their brand. That's fine by me. But should the .amazon gTLD be dedicated to the rainforest and not abused, but rather used to increase public awareness and raise funds, change local practices that are detrimental, protect the indigenous population of all forms of life that live there, etc. then Amazon (the company) needn't be concerned.

No he doesn't. All he needs to do is make sure there is a free snack bar! Problems tend to solve themselves when your belly's full :)

More often than you think, actually. ".me" is having a lot of use, along with some dot coms adopting weird URL's to shorten their default ones for share links.....

This ^ is actually the problem. The whole "me" attitude. A corporate identity wants a domain because they think it will further their business. Some countries want to focus domains on what is important to them. Frankly the Amazon rainforest is of much more importance to the health of our world than the company could ever be. And anyone who wants to promote that domain in the interest of protecting this world we live on has my blessing.

What we really should focus on is what is best for .us. But, the US has that domain. Still, the sentiment remains.

Amazon, and other business entities can continue raking in their fortunes without these gTLDs. They're already doing it, they're (in my opinion) only being protective so someone else doesn't grab something that would lead to confusion between their brand and another.

One day, people will just not care about such things. They'll be too busy just trying to survive. Might be sooner, might be much, much later (way later!) My bet is on sooner, we do a good job of screwing things up in the name of profit and then move on once we go bankrupt, another company picks up the assets and not the liabilities, and continues onward. Bhopal anyone!

Yeah a bit rambling, but all important things to think about.

http://evergreen-ils.org/opensrf.php [evergreen-ils.org] I do not know much about it.

I was reading that as OpenSerf.php. What a great idea! All the help you need for a pittance, if anything at all. I believe serfdom is highly underrated and I'm glad to see people bringing it back!

Seems like the submitter wouldn't take kindly to an open environment lest he lose all his yet to be found new found riches so let's get the BSD types on board with UnlimitedHordes! Just be sure no one knows what anyone else is doing lest they put it all together and GIVE it away, no license needed!

Games are actually doing a better job of scaling, too, meaning it's less necessary to upgrade ever 2 years unless you simply must play every game on maximum settings.

I think a large part of that is that we're seeing a lot more porting of games -from- consoles rather than the other way around. They've already been written to be frugal with resources. Sure, they might juice up the graphics a bit when ported to the PC but they don't require the constant upgrade of video cards and other components that we used to go through year after year just to keep up with new games.

Of course we still have a few games that are PC first and foremost and if you want to play them on max settings you need high end equipment.

Oh and the numbers I gave are based on the U.S. Dollar, inside the United States.

I've been in remission for over 3 years thanks to Gleevec, but it still sucks that they (Novartis) push for profiteering over saving lives.

I'm happy to hear you're in remission, even though I don't know you personally.

You know, we have no problems taking peoples property under eminent domain for the "good of the people". There was a business owner where I used to live who was forced to sell his property to the local gov't because they needed to turn it into a parking lot to support the major retail center across the street. The reason put forth: the additional tax revenue would benefit the public. Of course the builder of this retail/hotel/restaurant center stood to profit the most and I am confident was the one who persuaded the city to take the property with the thought of increased revenue. Bastard.

I'd like to see eminent domain apply to drugs that would help save, or greatly prolong the lives of many people. That makes sense to me. But it's not the big companies who get screwed.....

Except that the Indian Supreme Court disallowed the original patent on a technicality.

Which means, being the cynic that I am, that our pharma companies lobbyists are to blame, er...... thank. They didn't get what they wanted soon enough.

This news pleases me.

I bought 11th hour, still content with my DX2/66. It played fine, until I got an upgrade. Then it ran awesome. I didn't realize how slow the game was running until then. Friggin amazing. Windows 95 could do things. Not just grind away and sort of do things.

Wow, I remember that game all the time. It seems like once a month or so I'll hear something in a soundtrack in a movie, or a song, that is so close to the very distinctive music in that game.

Of all the memories of my life that get triggered by sounds the 11th Hour (and 7th Guest) are the one that pops up most. I can still see the beckoning finger bones :) A lot of the puzzles in both were cool.

Off topic I know, but since we're reminiscing I'll take the risk of a good mod thrashing :)

And never mind the "poorer" countries. Their biggest challenge will be Australia. Not because they cannot deliver a quality service, but because they will not.

Look fuckers. I don't care where you live, or what the UN wants. If I can get away with charging $99.00 a month for 5Mbps I'm going to do it. I don't care where you live, what you do, or why you need it. The only thing I care about is how to get you to part with as much cash as possible and give it to me. BTW, way back when, when we first rolled out cable and you all thought it was worth it in order to watch TV without advertising? Priceless! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! See you suckers on the way to the bank!

Thanks for the support Slashdot. As CanHasDIY notes, it doesn't mean that the decision will be reversed, and I think at best this will be the start of a process to getting the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions revisited by Congress. But hopefully it'll help.

Or, it could help raise the number of required people "signing" the petition to be doubled! They will find ways to not listen! :)

P.S. I did sign it, and have signed others in the past. But I really think it's a sort of "let's make the people think they have a say, when it doesn't include a dollar or millions"

My entire state, according the the ACLU map, is in this zone. Our state motto is: "Live Free or Die". I laugh, sadly, every time I hear somebody say that here with pride.

Oh, we don't have to wear seat belts though. I guess I just don't understand what "Live Free" means as obviously not being required to wear seat belts is more than an even trade for losing your 4th Amendment rights.... Riiiiiight.

The question is whether there are enough to write a story about, ie a cod piece.

Well there was enough to write a lengthy Wikepedia entry about those :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece