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Comment Re:Some companies are charging people for CD-ROMs (Score 3, Insightful) 543

Which is perfectly legally and morally fine. The LGPL allows you to charge money for distributing software (provided, of course, you also follow through with the rest of the license, incl. providing source), and there's nothing wrong with selling the service of downloading software and burning it to disc for you.

Comment Re:The Sectera Edge (Score 1) 374

But it's the only thing that can get you on the secret network on the same device as you can check your unclassified email on.

Which, IMHO, borders very close on a Very Bad Idea (TM). One pin-sized hole and "oops, I just posted the positions of the entire armed forces on Facebook"

Comment Re:Wi-Fi cameras (Score 2, Interesting) 209

It gets better. I ran across a service for my Blackberry called Qik that lets you stream video live from the phone, and saves the video to the site straight away.

So, for example, if someone who had a phone with Qik was taping the BART shooting or something equally embarrassing to $powerful_group, even if security forced you to delete the video and took the phone, the video's already out there.

Comment Re:Similar experience. (Score 4, Interesting) 855

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(Windows)

Microsoft intended Windows Solitaire "to soothe people intimidated by the operating system", and at a time where many users were still unfamiliar with graphical user interfaces, it proved useful in familiarizing them with the use of a mouse, such as the drag-and-drop technique required for moving cards.

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