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It's like how the Inuit have 35 words for "snow", or the Swedish have 51 words for "tax evasion". Some cultures have a need for nuances that necessarily gets reflected into the loc…

It is reasonably common in the voicing part of the acting industry, when a famous name turns you down, that you instead turn to a voice imitator to give a performance that's remini…

Hurra: yet another way for the NSA to exfiltrate data from my keyboard.

Fair enough. In Sweden (my native country), the primary factors for a good credit rating are assets, income, and the lack of mismanaged credit.

I'll support most entities - not only corporations - that put people's rights ahead of government agencies' data cleptocracy.

I'm writing quite a bit about this in the leadership handbook Swarmwise - how being leaderless prevented Occupy WS from achieving long-term goals or direction. http://falkvinge.net…

Carbyne is a quite logical name, considering the -y- vowel (and even the -yne ending) is used to denote triple bonding between carbon atoms in organic chemistry. Compare ethane - e…

I'd have to agree. But it's not about everybody converging on one project, as implied in the question; it's everybody doing their part to create a huge decentralized mesh - decentr…

Shout-out to my activist colleagues down under. Good to see y'all.

Yes.

The idea that "parental controls" are needed is contradictory to the entire philosophy of Open Source and Free Software. Parental controls - or, as it should be called, parental ce…

How shall the artists get paid? http://falkvinge.net/2011/01/31/how-shall-the-artists-get-pa... Cheers, Rick

Sorry if I sounded aggressive in my terse response. I frequently publish a story when I'm 98% sure - pretty much every single time, the details will fill in as people come to visit…

Because a justice system must consistently uphold rights of citizens. Its best-case scenario is not particularly interesting; it is the worst-case scenario that must be good enough…

The Pirate Bay is indeed a technical trailblazer. Not necessarily for back-end architecture or user experience, but damn, the site is resilient against anything you throw at it. Pr…

Illegitimate - no. It's my site and I can confirm that. I've been working hard on it for quite some time. Suspicious - well, that depends on exactly what you are suspecting. Cheers…

You're thinking of another judge, in the Netherlands. I haven't written in English about this subject before AFAIK.

Of course I am biased, just like any other publication. The principal difference is that I openly declare my bias, and try to provide alternate sources for verification. Cheers, Ri…

This article misses the point entirely. CloudFlare doesn't shine on single page loads. CloudFlare shines when your site hits Reddit's front page, you have 1000 people online at the…

This. So many upvotes.

The notion of "selling with restrictions" is a contradiction in terms. If the property is transferred to a new owner, then there can neither legally nor morally be any restrictions…

You do not buy a license when you buy a DVD. You buy the DVD, period. You buy the good. The physical item. Consumer protection laws are adamant about this. There is no "limited lic…

> What this article is describing is the exercise of those rights. Yes, when you purchase a DVD, you are not purchasing the underlying property. This statement is utterly and compl…

This looks like a different article - namely, "The Analog Letter: It is entirely reasonable to demand that our children inherit the rights of our parents". http://falkvinge.net/201…