Maybe Github shut down to...voluntarily add law enforcement backdoors. Yeah. Completely voluntarily. Totally not due to legislation by BSA bribe or anything.

What really catches my eye, irrelevant as it may be to its biology, is the capsid's vague resemblance to a monarch chrysalis.

On the contrary, they were really good at making people and distro maintainers move from their MySQL to MariaDB.

If your doctor told you that you have a disease that make you cough incessantly and will kill you in 3 months, and he gave you a medicine that would stop the cough but not the kill, when there are medicines out there that cost less and do both, would you be happy you got the cough-only medicine?

Calibre is the Robitussin, sure--it makes you feel good, and at least lets you talk without sounding like some sci-fi monster, so it can be used if the other medicines are out of stock--but not adding the bloody DRM is the cure.

Will there be a bug bounty program for our codes of law, or do I still have to be in a corporation and pay them for my fixes?

British badgers: beautifully badass.

I'm game kid and I approve this story.

The manufacturers probably already make them do this, though perhaps less to reduce future harm and more to keep secrets.

Stallman wants users to do exactly that, wrt regulations.gov and others, in the case "when the use of the nonfree software aims directly at putting an end to the use of that very same nonfree software". That's how he developed GNU: until it was more mature (and Linux came along), he used non-free Unix to test.

The BIOS, you say? Stallman's way ahead of you there.

It's a kinda roundabout way of saying, "You can't [or at least don't need to] give or show them the secret spell, but you better perform it and release the rune for the witches to see, or may they rain hell on you from every applicable plane of existence."

(Magic analogy, because car analogies are so passé.)

Well, this is the exchange that had Madoff as its chair. Draw your own concs.

They still compete! --granted, it's now called Trickle Down Competition, where companies race to bring their products, service, and general quality downward fastest, instead of upward...but they still compete! And now you can Join The Conversation(tm) on Google+.

The truckload of validation errors in iTunes web pages (to continue down the Call Me Maybe path, I checked the page for the album) don't help. The page has all the keywords it would need and is fairly well structured, so any search-placement improvements would have to come from valid HTML and fetid SEO.

But yeah, Google and friends can treat that problem by calling up Apple and negotiating to link iTunes directly to the crawler, something like how Google and Adobe got all loveydovey and *wham* now Google can read Flash. (I said treat; the cure would be to make the song files downloadable from the page, if for a fee, and be done with the whole RIAA love and general non-webbyness of iTunes and whatnot.)

Just make sure you can raise the child you two make after the dinner. :)

The real story here is that "Italian Parents Assocation" is a thing.