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Not good enough. The person who got killed was not one of the people involved in the game. The guy who was the target to be swatted gave a false address to the person calling him o…

"I think the real longterm move for Netflix is to incorporate RottenTomatoes and IMBD into their business." I understand the sentiment, but I can foresee problems with them getting…

I'm in Spain, and I know a lot of local Snapchat users. Not sure what he's on about.

No, Netflix are interested in providing a streaming service where you rent movies instantly from their catalogue for a fixed monthly fee. Nothing you said changes this. You also di…

If LinkedIn are being that negatively affected by a single scraper, they should deal with it - block it, only allow a specific number of requests from an IP per day, anything that …

It goes both ways. If Thiel's money was necessary for Hogan to get justice, that is indeed a problem with the US legal system. But, on the flipside, Thiel was financing numerous la…

Actually, the chilling effect is due to that the lawsuit against Gawker only went as far as it did because Hogan teamed up with Peter Thiel, who had a personal vendetta against the…

The number of photos is irrelevant to the analogy, though, as is what people do with the photos afterwards. If the bikes are visible from the public street, people can take as many…

You won't get DRM free, because Netflix don't sell you the content, they rent it. Or, more specifically, they sell you access to the platform to stream the rented content. I'm all …

"I also hate the suggestions and that I can't edit them and ban them." If you thumb down a suggestion it will usually disappear from the suggestions list. Also, if you keep getting…

"they are selling a very well understood, easily replicated goods - namely content" No, they're not. They're selling a service that allows you to rent content and have it stream to…

The bike example is a very poor analogy - the data isn't removed from LinkedIn, it's merely copied. It doesn't matter how many times the site is scraped, the data is unchanged and …

I'd never heard of the investor.. I immediately thought "why are people asking him about investments, and didn't he die?"

"Isn't that the sort of thing that we have anti-trust laws for?" I might be wrong, but the way I understand it is that anti-trust relates to abuse of a monopoly position, not the m…

So, nothing happens in your world to drive older people into poverty though no fault of their own? It all has to be because of what they did? No financial crises, stock market cras…

Some people voluntarily help some other people with some costs. There's a lot of people who don't get the care they need for whatever reason, even in a system where there's a lot o…

But, by then treating the addiction as a medical condition rather than as criminal activity, that makes it much easier to overcome, and it's easier to intervene with someone perfor…

"for the general public, the concept of "anonymous hacker" is not associated with anything good" An association that's largely created by these tabloids in the first place. "that's…

Why would he be capable of only addressing one issue at a time? If I fight against racial discrimination, for example, why does that mean I'm not also battling for workers' rights?…

DRM might not be an issue any more (at least for purchases), but regional releases, platform exclusivity, etc. sure as hell are.

You boycotted Nintendo because of what Rare did to their own game when porting it? Do you also boycott Microsoft now that they own Rare or do you have some kind of weird double sta…

They fact that they included videos they had specifically authorised or uploaded themselves in the list of supposedly infringing videos couldn't have helped.

"the jet fuel that's used to transport all the world's hipsters to “experience the world”" What about the jet fuel that's used for the other 98% of people who fly on a regular basi…

"Data analyzed for this report reveals, however, that the U.S. led in many broadband metrics in 2011 and 2012." Anything more recent? I can tell you from my experience in the south…

"You spend 8 hours a day working. Why would you want to be isolated from other people?" So that you can get the work done and not have to think about it when you go socialising wit…