Comment Re:You don't (Score 0) 704
What in the hell does that have to do with anything? All GP pointed out was a love for problem-solving.
Learning To Profit From Piracy 275
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wired has an interview with Matt Mason, author of The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, which discusses how businesses could make money off of piracy, rather than attacking people in a futile attempt to suppress it. And some of his ideas are gaining traction; work is underway on a TV show called Pirate TV, which he describes as 'two parts Anthony Bourdain, one part Mythbusters.' (Heroes executive producer Jesse Alexander is on board.) Also, Mason is pretty good about practicing what he preaches in that you can pirate his book on his own website."
Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents 311
An anonymous reader writes "For those with a stake in the opposition of Jim Prentice's C-61, the Canadian DMCA, this previous week's election results will be displeasing. The Conservative Party, which promised to reintroduce the DMCA if elected, gained 19 seats this election, mostly at the expense of the flagging liberal party, a mere 12 short of a majority government. The increase in Conservative representation, as well as the relatively low profile of this issue amidst other, more pressing concerns, increases the likelihood that the son of C-61 will come to fruition. On a positive note, the number of MPs supporting Geist's copyright pledge has increased to 34. Given the Conservative Party's historic disregard of public opinion, however, the efforts of the copyright-pledge MPs will have to rally the full opposition across three major parties in order to defeat the bill. A mere 12 MPs now stand between the Canadian public and the MAFIAA's hungry maw."
Comment Re:It is the thought process (Score 0) 690
Worst part of it all? It turns out that there's a very significant percentage of a post-industrialized nation's population for whom double clicking with the mouse is a very difficult task, mainly because _dragging_ and _single clicking_ are very similar to double clicking. Those people do far better with a typewriter-like interface, because they've damn well used typewriters in the past (because it used to be part of basic schooling). They're perfectly OK with typing "oowriter" on a command line. Now they can't, because pointing and drooling is the Officially Dominant Interaction Style.
This is highly true, at least among my family members. I don't even want to think about the legions of people out there convinced they're "bad at computers" because they don't have the dexterity, muscle memory, whatever, to double-click or hunt down icons and menu items.
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