Thanks for all the kind words on SPDY

What kind words? Most of the comments here seem negative.

Then he should simply point out to the board that the document is not authored by a professional engineer (seeing as it was not signed by one). Instead, he is officially accusing the guy for breaking the law, because his arguments are too cogent.

You are being misled because you don't read the signature?

This has nothing to do with you "being represented fairly". It was not your government's assessment, it was the assessment a government employee sent to his superiors. Even if it *was* the government's assessment, it should still not be public knowledge. Hell, most people don't want their assessment of their in-laws to be public knowledge, and you think this is a good idea for foreign policy?

That said, I am glad this stuff came out. Governments should conduct their business assuming the public may find out at any moment what they're up to.

Playing piano music on sight is the perfect example. It is a tremendously computationally intensive task and requires a very high degree of parallel processing. However, while one will definitely improve with arduous practice, it is unlikely it will translate into increased multitasking ability in other situations.

No. Instead it is because, as he said, that is the same situation [Jobs] imposes on all [d]evelopers. Jobs' own behaviour doesn't meet his proclaimed standards. Pretty much the definition of hypocrisy.

That's like saying true perpetuum mobile machines have never been tried, only bad implementations have been.

Ok, then: countries tried to try it, and failed. Every single time, soon after embarking on the road towards it, it always devolved into dictatorship. True communism cannot properly be tried on a society scale, because it's fundamentally against human nature.

The grandparent post listed such examples.

No, rather your argument is non-sequitur, because no matter what Pirate Bay says it is for, the listed uses are still legal.

They already do that here in Canada, through their corporate subsidiaries. Trying to shut them up has as much chance of succeeding as the censorship laws; it's better to speak up against the ideas. What I object to are the DMCA-like laws themselves, which is why I support both local and U.S.-based groups like the EFF.

I understand and generally agree with your point regarding self-determination. At the same time, I recognize that borders lose their relevance with every passing day when it comes to laws of a certain authoritarian flavour. The market of ideas is just as globalized as the other kind, as this very forum demonstrates.

I would agree that foreigners shouldn't vote in the elections and shouldn't be allowed to contribute to candidates. Other than that, they are well within their rights to express their opinions, and also to support groups opposing or favouring policies that may end up affecting them. This is how various NGO's work, and it's a good thing.

Because people outside Australia may very well end up being affected by it. Western governments have a habit of citing other governments' policies as a way to make those policies more palatable to their own citizens. The British have CCTV cameras at every street corner, let's also put them on our streets. Software patents are allowed in the U.S., let's harmonize the legislation. Australia thinks of the children and censors the Net, we should do the same!

For instance, even though I'm not in the U.S., I donate to the EFF. It's a global world. We're running out of places where we can hide from these things.

Yeah, it's exactly like that. Only completely different.