I don't think the current Congress can do anything at all. Certainly not in any issue that has even the slightest chance of being kidnapped by demagogues.

You do know that there is a launcher with command completion in GNOME 2 as well, right? And in pretty much every other window manager or desktop environment for the last 10 years?

You don't want data about your activities being sent to a server somewhere, so you use iPhone?

Without patents this would be so much simpler.

JUDGE: Did your client write this software?
LAWYER 1: No, your honour.
JUDGE: Did _your_ client write this software?
LAWYER 2: Yes, your honour.
JUDGE: Alright, then it's theirs and they can do what they want with it. Case closed. *bangs gavel*

Does anyone really think that would be any less fair than the current system?

Does this mean that "webmasters" will stop trying to optimise their pages after search word hits? That can't possibly be a bad thing.

The banks are certainly tax-funded, and I'm sure they have security guards with guns somehere.

The Guardian already did that months ago.

Wouldn't turning on LTO give exactly the same benefits but without the horror of huge source code files?

Showing a page in an IFRAME is really no different from viewing it in, say, an ad-supported webbrowser (like older versions of Opera). There is no reason to try to stop it other than being an asshole. It's like DRM for webpages - you may only view this page in the way we tell you to!

ALL YOUR document.window ARE BELONG TO US!!!

If they want to know about game programming, then obviously they are at the wrong talk. Programming is not computer science.

Does "bipartisan support" mean that it has the support of both the major parties, or simply that it has the support of a couple of guys in each but will get voted down by a majority in both?

This is religion, this is hysteria.

Religions are usually the ones who, after having been proved wrong again and again and again and finally have to revise parts of their dogma to match reality, claim that the bit that was proven wrong was never that important to begin with. Yes, alright, the earth is in orbit around the sun, and there are lots of other planets, and lots of other suns. Yes, alright, heaven can't be a physical place in the sky. But that wasn't the point.

I think it's pretty obvious which part is the religious one in the politicised climate change "debate". Yes, alright, the earth is getting warmer. Yes, alright, the statistical models and the results we've been ridiculing for years and years seem to be pretty accurate. But that wasn't the point. Is it man made? Is it? Is it?

...which is ironic, considering that "intellectual property" is all about restricting normal property rights. No, you can't put those chips together in that way and sell them, that's patented. Buy a licence. No, you can't play that song in public on your own guitar, it's copyrighted. Buy a licence.

So, more correctly, it was signed by 8 out of 29 participating countries.