I'd like to add a number 5 to your list. Teachers promoted to administration because they are good teachers. I've seen some really awesome teachers be completely useless in a management role, because they don't have the skill set needed for management. Good teachers != Good Managers

I would sell up too if sony had copied my product

Mahahaha people are dumb :)

Of course not, you aren't allowed to blame guns for shooting people, apparently they have nothing to do with it. Its all about the dangerous out of control 8yo's, we must arm ourselves against them...sigh

Why do ISPs still provide email?

FWIW; I've seen inside a few large ISP mail deployments, but I speak for myself in my comments here and not my employer (etc etc etc).

Why do ISPs provide email? Because a huge percentage of customers use it, and want it.

I personally don't (I have my own domain, and use Google apps), and know very few people who do, but lots and lots of customers still use it. I can't get into numbers for obvious reasons, but it's seen as being incredibly important, up to and including in the CxO layer, and a lot of money gets spent on supplying it and improving it.

Oddly enough netbooks exist, or at the other extreme you've got 64 CPUs and 256GB of RAM but only crappy 2000era Matrox graphics. Neither of those, and a pile of other cases in between (eg. desktop with Intel graphics), are going to be able to do much or anything to accelerate the graphics in a window manager so there should be a fallback that doesn't need a GPU. If the fallback is handing over to something else like fluxbox, fine, that's better than the current situation.

Eh? I bought literally the cheapest netbook I could, and its GPU is more than capable of making GNOME3 perfectly smooth.

If you want a fallback for non-GPU, there's no reason it has to be part of the GNOME stack - LXDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, etc - all perfectly reasonable fallbacks that you can select during login.

Or not host it because it's disrespectful to the guy *in* the video, and his family?

This wasn't a "oops, I didn't know I was stealing...sorry!" case...this was a "you can't prove s**t, BRING IT" case...and so they brought it. Case closed.

I don't think anybody here is arguing about guilt here, I think the thing to remember is paying over $200k in fines for torrenting one album is just fucking stupid and shouldn't be allowed in the first place. If the judgement was for $9250 overall rather than per song, this wouldn't be news.

The embedded IP address is the IP address of the server you're connected to. IP addresses are not personal information. The account name is not personal. If I follow this logic your email address is personal information, and so is your license plate?

Yes, I consider those things my personal details, along with my street address, phone number, bank account number, etc. etc.