No, libre is the "new" (it's not really that new) free-as-in-freedom.

An example could be the songs you buy from iTunes. They have your email (or rather, the email associated with the iTunes account that purchased the song) in the song metadata, no? Multiple accounts having that same metadata = piracy? I don't know.

So you can put the music you have acquired over the course of your lifetime on there and be able to stream it? Anyone dumb enough to put music they've downloaded illegitimately on there?

Potential scenario:
1. This law passes
2. American companies (huge drivers of business in China) tell Chinese companies they cannot do business with them if they pirate Microsoft products
3. Chinese companies have mass migration to FOSS
4. Chinese companies want students with FOSS knowledge; Chinese colleges teach to use and improve FOSS; hacker culture develops in China in which millions of people spend time improving FOSS
5. FOSS software improves due to increased usage and developer base
6. American companies see cost savings by Chinese from using FOSS
7. American companies migrate to FOSS to save money, putting it on employee computers
8. Employees get used to FOSS and choose to use it at home because it is often free as in beer and because it is better
9. ???
10. Profit (= 2015 is the Year of the Linux Desktop)

Yeah. We need a site where people can have any Linux/FOSS question answered. "How do I set up an e-mail server using FOSS?" "How do I create a user account on ?" etc. The atrocious help menus in FOSS software could simply open up a browser to the appropriate wiki page. If there was a place where people could (easily) get Linux/FOSS help would be amazing!

I have a Kindle. If I want to strip the DRM off of my books and keep them in an open format for my own personal use (also in case they take my books away as in the 1984 fiasco, and also in the case a more free-as-in-freedom eBook reader comes around), which format should I convert them to?

How long until internet traffic to foreign websites becomes constantly monitored by the FBI, using this same justification? And after that, how long until all internet traffic becomes constantly monitored? Lovely.

One of the reasons we would not want to do this (change the path of the asteroid), as Carl Sagan talked about (I believe in the COSMOS TV series), is because if we could, it means we would also have the technology to direct the course of the asteroid into the Earth. I'm not sure if this is the only reason we have not yet tried such a thing (perhaps we've just never had such an opportunity), but I think some are hesitant to explore this potential doomsday weapon.

I have no idea. It was just an idea =)

Perhaps Google is just at that stage in the game. Let Android become the #1 mobile OS, and let everyone want it really bad. *Then* Google can start telling manufacturers to quit the crap, because if they don't they don't get to put the OS everyone wants on their phones. Until then they can't risk losing a potential manufacturer to Microsoft or whoever else is out there.

When I was on vacation in Beijing, the computers in the hostel I stayed at had access to facebook. This was in December 2008.

My question is, would it be a good idea to let an AI understand more about us than we do? Assuming it can even be done, given our lack of understanding about ourselves. What if we squint our eyes, move our eyebrows, or make a hand gesture without knowing it, and without understanding fully what our subconscious means by it? Should an AI be allowed to know exactly what were are feeling and thinking, and then act upon it?

While this could be very useful, for example a personal AI telling us that we should take a break, or provide us with sound assurances or advice, I can also see it being taken advantage of. If you had a high understanding of body language, and the needs of a certain person or group, you could influence people almost subconsciously.