If I encourage you to jump off of a bridge and you do it, should I be held responsible for your death or should you just get a Darwin award for being a fucking moron?

Again, with the accusations of "thief". What have I stolen, exactly? You still have everything you started with. If I were to use the free stuff, it will have exactly the same effect on you as if I use "your" stuff without paying - either way you get no money. The enthusiastic anti-pirates typically claim that piracy costs them money, but if the pirate would use a free alternative if they were unable to pirate then it doesn't.

Ignoring for a moment that I don't actually use any pirated software, that you've written or otherwise.

LGPL is less free than GPL, really?

I'm perfectly OK with IE using the GPU to accelerate the rendering of web content as long as the actual web code is written to an open standard and does not require some sort of proprietary windows-only plugin or activex controls or something to work.

I didn't ignore that part... but how it works is pretty easily explained by reading the article. There is no need for his ranting post.

99% of desktops, maybe...what about mobile devices, appliances and phones. The desktop isn't the only thing to take into consideration when writing web code anymore.

http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/devices/windows-phone/

Anyway, for a site I would use either Flash or Silverlight for, I wouldn't be targeting mobiles anyway. While mobiles do browse the web increasingly more these days, they're still the fringe.

More people bitch over flash not being on iPhone than complain that the website contains flash...

You forgot to mention welfare sponges, liberals, jews, the global warming hoax, and water fluoridation. Other than that, 9/10. :)

I have to 2nd that. This reversal is contrary to the entire point of the web and something i have been bitching about for a while now.. ( flash for example.. )

Maybe I'm mistaken but, are you implying they shouldn't? That they should concentrate on studying the things we don't already know by experience?

Last.fm used to have a setting that was basically like this... they gave you an "obscurity" slider which let you set a preference for stuff that was a good match (via the usual "people who like x also like" algo) but removed the stuff that was over a certain threshold of popularity. I found a ton of bands that I really like this way, but at some point they took away the feature, or hid it in some way.

Long story short, I have found systems like this very useful, and hope to see more of them.

"Second, this is about the safety of everyone else sharing the road with you."

FTFY.

I hate to sound like a broken record here, but I'm seriously disappointed in the critical thinking skills of Slashdot today.

"Presumably from this exact bug?" People are involved in fatal single-car accidents every day where the floormats are securely in place. I believe the technical term is "falling asleep at the wheel." It's only in light of the recent hysteria that the default presumption has become "because the car took control from the driver and caused him to hurtle headlong into a tree." Unanticipated acceleration, even in light of recent events, is still a zebra.

how do you know? I think a lot of people might be more willing to try it if they see it sold at the local 7-11, which will result in more addicts.

Instead of talking hypotheticals, why don't we talk real world examples?

Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies

Incidentally, any nonprofit can get a fee waiver:

Too bad they don't mention this on the http://www.paypal.com/ page.