No, it's about a quarter of that, but Microsoft does strange things so every hotfix and service pack needs to store it's installer forever, so that can easily expand to much larger.

Mr wiki might be wrong on this one - It should have been death +50 (+20 bonus years after 1998). The 120 years is suppose to be time after creation for corporate owned IP. Since it was essentially published (not just created), it would only be 95 years, but since Dr. King wasn't a corporation, I'd guess it'd only be 70 years after his death. Not sure now that his Estate owns it if that turns it into a corporation copyright, but either way, the 120 years seems wrong.

Your normal rate is £100/min? I gotta get into that industry!

Slashdot's gone through quite a few changes - sometimes the new versions take a little while to get used to

Looks like you accidentally applied the teletext tag to your comment. Slashdot's comment system can be a bit complicated, but if you preview text looks all blocky in harder to read mono-space you know you've made a mistake.

And we're the ones that understand what we're doing when we disable cookies or tracking for certain sites.

Part of the issue is browsers/programs that portray cookies in a bad light. When malware scanners flag cookies as "harmful to your computer", people get nervous about all cookies and want them gone (then wonder why they have to keep logging in).

But realistically, the President doesn't have time to write the bill himself, so it's going to be some other people doing the writing who might as well be writing it with the legislature directly.

Bills are written by the legislature, the President signs them. He can push an agenda, but he's not the one writing the actual bill.

They are measuring how much students make after they graduate, so that will likely be a large factor. In the past they've cut for-profit school loans because the students would not be making enough to pay off those loans after graduating.

Typical selfish Libertarian view I guess - you're right, it might not affect you very much in your life time.

Who else is going to take action on it if not a government? There's no short-term incentive for businesses to do it.

Well it's a more appropriate analogy. It's not like the Earth is just doomed now and there's nothing we can do about it. At the very least we can prolong the time it takes and slow the sea rise.

But it's not a single launch event - it's like we're bombarding Japan and have a choice of keep firing or cut back.

We certainly could stop the launch of the next bomb though.