"Artisinal mining"? O.o

I'm impressed that easily available resources on the internet is sufficient for anyone to build a house. I wonder if the article would see the same kind of comments if it was a man...

Sounds like a great stand up act, I wonder why I haven't seen him on netflix with any other of his sketches

We don't need more producers - but we still need the consumption

Ever heard about algebra?

Fujitsu PalmSecure is rather straightforward. Scans your palm veins using IR, which means a reasonable chance to scan through gloves and other material

I would just like to take the time to point out that we have a 3-digit User ID here... So by default he knows what he is talking about.
He remembers the 23 disk A-series of slackware.

If they were to take the song note by note and making a new ensamble then yes, you're correct - but he has definitive non-negotiable copyright claim on his own recording of the cower - which they allegedly used.

It's definitely stealing - though not as in theft (i.e. larsony). It's completely inane to make this yet another slashdot anti-RIAA-related topic when the initial topic carries none of those attributes.

I really want to see Packaged Apps take off across all browsers, mobile and desktop. I'm willing to take a little performance hit to have apps available across all platforms.

Like Java -- "Write once; debug everywhere."

They use satellite which is rather ridiculously expensive, especially compared to say 3G hardware.

Sigh. Slashdot used to be a FOSS / open standards blog. Moving away from an MS protocol to an open one would have been cheered. I wonder what happened to /. over the years?

extradition from sweden as per european law would require that england (a far stauncher ally of usa) to agree. Extradition to sweden would thus decrease his chances of extradition.

Umm, they lost $35B in market cap just a couple of days ago. That's something. Their stock is down about 23% from a couple of moths ago. They're losing something.