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Comment Re:Huh... (Score 1) 450

Likewise, i do consider it to be a great moral story to show that you do not necessarily need to fix everything, or have a solution for everything - but that every little bit of effort matters, and you can make a difference regardless how small it might seem on the greater scheme of things...

Comment Re:Huh... (Score 5, Informative) 450

This is the original story... An old man walked up a shore littered with thousands of starfish, beached and dying after a storm. A young man was picking them up and flinging them back into the ocean. "Why do you bother?" the old man scoffed. "You're not saving enough to make a difference." The young man picked up another starfish and sent it spinning back to the water. "Made a difference to that one," he said.

Comment Re:Law enforcement isn't a US sports game (Score 1) 134

You don't go to jail...

"After a three-hour meeting in London, the Featured Artists Coalition, which emerged as a breakaway lobby group in the summer, backed the government's proposed introduction of "technical measures" to combat the rising tide of copyright theft. If they ignore two warning letters, persistent illegal filesharers should have their broadband connections throttled "to a level which would render filesharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access", according to a statement after the meeting."

Source The guardian

Comment Re:Hmm...Giganews and other services are still the (Score 5, Insightful) 625

If you read the article you'd realize the writer was speaking "metaphorically"

it's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion. But the Usenet I mourn is long gone, anyway, or long-transformed into interlocking comments on LiveJournals and the forums boards on tech-support Web sites.

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