We will have a conference in Stockholm you are all welcome!

You use new lines in brainfuck? Don't tell me you use space as well, I can't stand that kind of sloppy coding style!

That's a fight you are never going to win, you prove this by claiming the superiority of SI and then use miles in the same sentence.. One megameter actually makes no sense, you just write 1000 km.

The worst idea ever was to make a bit equal a small "b", and a byte a capital B. brrrr.

You mean research?

We have been able to do that with radio for a long time as well, with your reasoning there is not "fundamental" difference there either. BBS:es and Slashdot are not the same at all, they are different in many social and technical aspects.

This is why copyright sucks, it's usually pretty hard to get a license to play something on air, and it costs a lot of money to get that work done. I'm guessing Glee needs a couple of full time employees plus lawyer time to do this. Sure Glee can spend this kind of money but it's really soul killing to do this for anyone who can't employ people todo this.

And yes that's why CC is nice, but CC isn't really the solution because it has such a small "market share".

That would be $150 000 per infringement times 6 million viewers, but it might just be per track not per downloaded copy. That single mom had to pay ~$35 000 per track, and it mention that people settle at $3 500 per track.

I could possibly agree that running a "hacking tool" is the same as checking to see if their alarm system is up and running.

Yeah... while in the rest of the world we are sane, and it's not illegal to check if a door is unlocked, and you most certainly can't kill someone because you think they are trying to break in.

DRM is a no no with CC-by-SA, it says it like this: "You may not impose any effective technological measures on the Work that restrict [the access to the work]" ( the CC-by-SA legal code part 4a)

But the license that OSM has adopted, the ODbL will allow you to do what you want with the created map, as long as you give attribution on it (and share the mapdata).

It's also free, but sure it's better to support the devs by paying

It's not a proposed feature, it has been used over 14 thousand times in OSM..

But you got bad UI and Lazy user correct, and that's enough reason if you have no interest in maps, and your local area.

You mean like not being able to pay for medical care, not fixing your teeth until it's to late, or loosing your job because you managed to get the flu, got pregnant or broke your leg? It's easy to be envious of those that have it better than you, and hard to sympathize with those that has it worse.

I live a simple life but it is a hell of a lot better than the single mom, with chronic back pains, that cleans our office.

It doesn't matter, we have multiple parties over here in Sweden but the big ones on both extremes of the spectrum still support things similar to DHS and TSA . Sure the small parties did ensure that we had a little more discussion, but in the end it was still supported by the big parties.

Germany seems like an interesting multi party country to study though, they seem to care alot about privacy. I wonder how that came about.

I had a friend who bought what he believed to be a genuine Apple charger and fried his tablet, the cheap stuff will always be there wether you use an Apple connector or the standard USB version.

Your story would be more interesting if you knew the specifics, i.e could supply make and model of both charger and phone.