Yay, another observation study that tries to mask its uselessness by oversimplifying the results. Correlation doesn't mean causation, no matter how many studies you do. Just because women over 50 rarely get pregnant, it doesn't mean they rarely have sex... but that's exactly the quality of results you get from observational studies and the fact that the results are easier to get mentioned in the media when you oversimplify them (fat good, carbs bad) means you get more research funding for more pointless studies. People should stress less about eating, have everything in moderation (which comes kind of naturally if there is no "forbidden" food that you end up binge-eating) and have an active lifestyle - we all die of something, we might as well live a happy life until we do and not make our lives miserable by focusing on what foods are allowed...

Just an attention seeking idiot, in my humble opinion. Just because a registrar's system will let you put a domain that's actually not available into the shopping basket and even lets you pay for it doesn't mean that you "owned" it at any point. It's like a real estate agent "selling" you the White House and accepting payment for it - doesn't mean that you now own it.

The thing to note, though, regardless of the BS nature of most of these statements, is that physical intrusions like breaking into someone's home and bugging their place of work etc. doesn't scale, so in that sense strong encryption thwarts mass surveillance.

Yeah, and if I sell 100 grams of fertilizer to someone, that has the potential of aiding terrorism because that person might be buying 100 grams from thousands of people to build a big bomb. Does that mean there should be a law against that? This whole "aiding terrorism" argument is so made up, it makes me physically sick... to be quoting "Friends": "congratulations, you have found the world's thinnest argument".

have you ever been on YouTube?

for the same reason that people use Internet Explorer - because it comes bundled and you don't have to deal with downloading extra software, setting up an account etc. Not because it's better, more secure or offers anything new - ease of use seems to be a lot more important than all of that.

who says that the artist or record company didn't put the live video up himself? Legally? And if my friends saw the video, maybe they would notice they like the music and *would* by the track...

The problem is that all it is is a social shopping network. And of course it's a "social shopping at the iTunes store" network, so it's very, very limited. I personally think that Apple narrowed the scope of their network too much (you can't even post a link to a live video on YouTube of a song you just bought - or rather, you can but it will show up as text only with no way to click or copy&paste it) and most users will be bored by it very quickly and just ignore it. Even if Apple expands it later, a reputation once ruined is hard to improve...

The question in the summary shows the extent of the problem. No, a man page is not proper end-user documentation. It's great for a trained IT professional who quickly needs to look up the syntax for a command. But for my mom or my wife's dad, even getting to the man page is a challenge - and to get there, they need to know that man pages exist. Are there even man page viewers for the desktop? Ones that are readily accessible and preinstalled with the default system? But I must come to Linux's defense, too. The documentation on my latest Windows system is not much better, except that a help system is built right into the desktop. It's the availability of third party printed documentation that makes the difference.

At least I've paid her a couple of times and I suspect others have done the same. There are some very convenient donation links on Groklaw and for every donation I have sent so far I have received a friendly "thankyou" email. But even if she *did* work for IBM, that wouldn't change the facts of the case and I would still enjoy reading the legal analysis, which is pretty sound once you take out the sometimes over the top OSS "fangirlism" that I occasionally find a bit annyoing.