Comcast lets you download 1TB per month before they start charging extra... Should be plenty if you do the pull slowly over time.

Slavery still exists, it's just been broadened to include more people and they don't use that name for it. How else do you explain taxes, or more pointedly, the HUGE difference in compensation between workers and their CEO's?

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

Vacationing on Oregon one summer, we got to talking to some local residents. They mentioned that there was a saying around these parts, "If it's hooting, I'm shooting!"

Endangered spotted owls were not welcome at all in their area because if the Government got wind of endangered spotted owls moving into the area, the Government would place seriously negative restrictions on the area against the wishes of local residents.

If the government would have just left local residents alone, those same Oregonians probably would have been perfectly happy letting spotted owls move in, as owls help control pests like field mice and other rodents.

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This dropping of hybrids will be fine and all if they really do make cost effective all-electrics. But something tells me that they'l get down this road a bit and suddenly it'll be "Oops, there's not enough Lithium or XXX available in the world" and then the all-electrics will be discontinued or priced sky high.

I'm thinking solar powered barges, airplanes, and trains would be a better bet. Anything where you have a huge surface area that you can populate with solar panels for driving your motors directly will help reduce the need for heavy, high cost batteries. There doesn't seem to be any shortage of silicon for making solar panels and the prices just keep dropping. It would be far more efficient pretty much every way you look at it.

"Relocated" to a hot dog stand near you!

So obvious, nobody thought to try it, assuming it would surely already be taken. LOL, good job bro!

No, entrapment lawsuits are not "necessary to fund the whole thing."

Paid content either has to lower their prices enough to get people to pay for it over the freely available stuff, or they need to just stop producing the paid content, which is perfectly fine. It's not like there is any shortage of content. If there ever becomes a shortage of content, the price people would be willing to pay for it would go up and then the paid content producers could come back in and fill that void. That's free market supply and demand with good honest price discovery.

Tricking people into thinking they're getting free stuff like everywhere else, but then later suing them for compensation, is entirely dishonest. It circumvents market price discovery and discourages people from enjoying genuinely free content because they would be afraid it could be a trick.

One could even argue that such trickery degrades the right to free speech under the 1st Amendment for content producers that are not charging.

These days, I think a lot of people would not normally download porn that they have to pay for. There is very little reason to download something that's going to cost you, when there is so much other porn freely available.

The old days when porn was scarce and hard to find are long gone. Everybody owns a cell phone with a decent camera, and a surprising number of attractive people are willing to upload naked pictures of themselves. One could say, the market for porn is fully saturated.

Nonsense. Pornography is absolutely USEFUL ART. Said pictures/videos are pretty/beautiful and it is indeed useful if you're aiming to rub one out...

Besides, the government always rules in favor of whatever causes the most money flow. The court will rule that pornography is "useful art" and uphold it's copyrightable status because that will make it possible for the government to collect more taxes than just saying pornography is not copyrightable and can be copied freely without compensation.

Is it legitimate when the party holding the copyright intentionally makes the content available for download by unpaid viewers to entrap them into copyright infringement? Seems rather sleazy to me. If they want to charge for the content, they should be keeping the content behind a paywall.

And you actually gave it to them??

When I signed up, I left those fields blank.

Hey Slashdot, if you're going to force us all to log in to be able to post, how about we get the ability to mute particular user names that we don't like wading through?

Right now, I can set people up as Friend/Neutral/Foe, but all that does is make little colored dots appear on those user's posts (which is good, but insufficient). I'd like a fourth option: Muted, which makes all of their posts completely disappear for me. Bonus points if I could easily import new Mutes from my Friends.

Also, this moderation system is assinine. People are gaming it to silence people by giving them negative karma just because they have political views they disagreed with, even when such people have perfectly legitimate comments that I'd personally like to read. This forces me to view at -1, which then pulls in all the spam I'd rather have Muted.

ZeroHedge's moderation system is much better -- there is simply a count of Up/Down votes and the scores are for indicating how many other readers agreed/disagreed with the post's contents -- it does nothing to hide or show posts. If I see a post with heavy down votes and no up votes, I know whatever was posted was probably garbage and I can save time by skipping over it. If I see heavy up AND down votes, I know the comment is controversial. If I see heavy up votes, I can probably bet the idea presented is pretty good and perhaps worth reading.

"Few, if any" security flaws? Like being only slightly pregnant, if at all?

Either your new processor has closed all the security holes, or it simply isn't secure. There is no such thing as being "secure, for the most part."

It's not. But something needs to fill the void to push Epstein's article off the front page and let it disappear into the memory hole and be forgotten, just as fast as his scheduled arkancide^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsuicide allows.

You can only post so many climate change articles before people's blood starts boiling, then you gotta dip into some inane tech rubbish to help them cool down. More posts, more clicks, and the world just moves on...