Interestingly all the key decisions on design, pricing etc. have been made by the community via online polls.

So, design by committee is okay when open components are involved?

[S]he's never going to see that one coming...

(sorry)

Better yet, try Pocahontas.

Quick! Someone check if he was formerly an investment analyst!

My Significant Other does this for a living, and they use language like this all the time. Reasons given:

1. The Great Vampire Squid can always claim to have been right and hence awesome and necessary for the world to progress
2. CYA in case clients lose money (which they invariably do)

I would (might?) not judge someone by their choice of email service provider. Being only human though, I would most certainly regard unfavourably applicants with email addresses like cool_dude19@hotmail.com or sistahs4eva@gmail.com. Pretty much anything which isn't some part of their name is a no-no, although the occasional exception for a well-thought out/curiosity-arousing local-part can be made..

Thus spake a BPI spokesnoodle:

We are confident that those costs will be a mere fraction of the stratospheric sums suggested by some ISPs, and negligibly small when set against their vast annual revenues.

As opposed to file-sharing taking away 98% of the meagre pittance earned by the record industries annually? Riiight...

The AdSweep linked in the summary is a 'counterfeit' copy, by some Vladimir Lafazan. The real AdSweep is available here (actual Chrome Extensions Gallery page) or here (original author's page), and works very well.

And I'd like to jump on the bandwagon of commenters pointing out that blaming extensions for contriubting to browser bloat is like faulting sour milk for ruining your cereal.

Was there any visibility into the geographical location of these 'pirates'? $2 is about 100 Indian rupees. For the typical engineering college undergrad here, that's lunch and dinner for a day.

Dewd, at least RTFS. It's not kitty porn..

Like Obama..?

Ah, a PulseAudio user, I see :-)

Red Hat 6.2 was released in 2000, IIRC. I know I installed a spanking new Red Hat 5.8 on a 266 MHz P-II desktop in 1998. Something doesn't quite gel - could it be the hyperbole in the pursuit of making a point?

[..] has sparked much debate over it's validity which makes it a valuable contribution. Even if it's incorrect, it has enough merit to provoke criticism, not dismissal.

You mean, like Intelligent Design..?

Anyone can put up anything in these times we live in, and have it accessible to a reasonable audience in terms of numbers with the right kind of 'marketing'. Some of them deserve stinging criticism followed by a dismissal.

I see all these comments saying "But Hulu shows only American adverts!!11".

If Hulu can determine so easily where you're coming from, how hard would it be for them to do some analytics on viewership for a particular show and tailor the ad prices accordingly? Additionally, how are these ads served up? Are they transcoded into the video being viewed? If not, dynamically change the ads being displayed to the user based on his/her region.

Win-win-win-win. Hulu gets more money from global advertisers. More companies get to shove their ads into what has become fairly hot online real estate. Global viewers get access to shows they otherwise would have to get from (what is considered) shady sources. And the show-makers/'content providers' make more money (not sure of this though - do they make money from Hulu views?)

Am I missing something obvious here? Is there a reason this is so hard it hasn't been done yet?