Why do you suppose TPB is still up, after incurring the wrath of the Movie / Music Industries, and Governments everywhere?

I'd like to add this is also what email providers do.

The Oculus requirement to transfer all rights to them is nonsense.

Surely they mean Decrypt, right? I mean, these are supposed to be the best and brightest, MIT "creme de la creme", right?

What's with all these pilots and HAM operators coming out of the woodworks to defend this?

"They can violate my privacy online because I operate a multi-million dollar flying piece of machinery where many lives are at risk, therefore anyone operating an RC Toy that can hover in the air should be on the same list."

Yes, who indeed? GKH? Alan Cox? Lennart P? Kay Sievers? rms? Linus?

This is the same thing that happened to a Texas Firefighter who supposedly had praised that sadistic little shit Dylan Roof, on Facebook. However, the post was a response in a thread, and the Firefighter claims it was in response to another poster, who had donated to a fund for the victims of the shooting. The words were "He needs to be praised for the good deed he has done." He was immediately suspended and is now a social Pariah, a walking target. The disturbing trend in these kinds of situations is the accuser doesn't even have a chance to defend themselves before they find their lives ruined.

Have they ever considered text polling / text surveys to solve this crisis? Does the FCC's interpretation of the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act extend to texting? I would be a lot more likely to respond to a text poll than a phone call from an unknown number whose intent I haven't yet determined. Usually these kinds of calls are just from automated credit scam calls anyway.

I forgot to log in >:/

Big industry won't be able to claim a shortage of CS workers to justify more H1B visas for long. But by that time, the market will be so over-saturated with software developers, and salaries will plummet - then they won't need H1B visas, because American software devs will be more affordable than foreign workers on H1B visas.

Good luck running an errand for a friend. Do they not have debit cards and Pin Numbers in China?

It's pretty obvious that Musk provides the answer, and then gives a pretty vital clue to the answer. "You're standing on the surface of the Earth" Now the clue is "You end up exactly where you started." Even though you've walked these miles and ended up a mile west of where you were, he tells you that you haven't gone anywhere. Because you're still standing on the surface of the earth. Simple.

a 70% decrease in [the detection of] online infringement. FTFY.

Except the GNU restrictions are designed for the complete opposite effect: to prevent anyone from monetizing what should be free for anyone to use, in accordance with the developer who chose the license. I don't think what you say can be taken as a fair comparison, because nobody "buys" software from the GNU project, and they're not really "customers". And why would anyone buy Office 2013 with the great GNU based alternatives? They are also cross platform, I might add.