Seriously... if its someone's job to make sure that the time is consistent across all adds and product unveilings, they have too much free time.

I read No Fluff Just Stuff... lots of advanced developer articles written by people who actually know what they are talking about. Aptly named publication!

A LOT of universities require freshman and sophomores to live on campus. In those cases, it is indeed a requirement.

Well no... that simply is not the case - and this isn't inane ideology either. It's just how the law works.

A license is unilateral permission to use someone's property. A contract is an exchange of obligations. Groklaw gives a very good explanation of the difference and describes why the distinction is important: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851

Except the GPL is not a contract... its a license. There's a difference.

But yeah, your point still holds though. The work is still under copyright (though appearing to be "abandoned" - whatever that means), and the GPL is the only means for which it is legallay able to be used.

What's really scary is that an unelected bureaucrat is stating whether you like it or not, the FCC will implement net neutrality. A sweeping change over one of the most influential technologies that impacts almost every American... yet no one gets to vote for it. Net Neutrality has morphed from what it once was when people started talking about it (a means to prevent ISPs from throttling/blocking content in order to create a tiered service model) to a means for bringing the Fairness Doctrine 2.0 to the Internet.

Slashdotters talk about the technical merits of the proposals, but the politicians and bureaucrats are talking about something entirely different.

http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2010/11/20/tech-at-night-red-alert/

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1993/10/em368-why-the-fairness-doctrine-is-anything-but-fair

If the economy and the fall of the major auto makers haven't put dealerships out of business, this program surely will. Many dealerships have already delivered multiple $4500 rebates to their customers, and have yet to be reimbursed. It looks doubtful that they ever will. Many of the deals have yet to be accounted for by the NHTSA system due to glitches and server load. So... not only is this idea horrible from a national fiscal policy point of view, but now the very businesses that this is intended to help out, which are already struggling, are being forced to give large interest free loans to the federal government that very well may never be repaid.

Nothing really. Firefox is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), an open source license. Don't see any barriers related to copying code here - that's one of the main advantages of open source software.

Pre-Beta is what Beta used to mean before Google came along... Will GMail ever get out of Beta?

Are you kidding me? Freedom of the press is the cornerstone of our (the U.S.) democracy as we see it today. Even if I don't like the media's biased view points and influence, I would never ever want the government to come in and dictate what can and cannot be said... even if its in the spirit of "fairness and balance". For who is to determine what is fair or balanced?

Today's Obama supporter would cry foul if the Bush Administration forced the Fox News format of "fair and balance" onto CNN, ABC, CBS, and MSNBC, just as today's conservatives are currently crying foul regarding the Democrats (Schumer, Kerry, Feinstein, and Bingaman) plans to reinstate the "Fairness Docterine" that will surely squelch conservative talk radio.

Don't be seduced by an attempt to control speech in an effort to keep things balanced. The suppression of speech leads to tyranny.

Wait... people in prison get to play Warcraft all day? Gee... that sounds like a deal