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Sounds like a situation that could be polluted with something like what Moxie Marlinspike did with googlesharing, in an effort to bury the signal in the noise.

The myth is always that either one illegally downloads or pays for it through channels. However, most people I know will pay for some content and not others. It's a question of val…

i can't offer an internship or any really sound advice, but my email is in my profile, and i can offer mentorship and answers to questions from a software developer of over 20 year…

My age probably shows in this statement, but it seems odd to me to suggest that someone else change their behaviour so the poster does not have to rtfm. We're coders. When we don't…

I wonder how this correlating data can be used in cases of copyright infringement where the alleged infringer is only identified by IP address. Could a correlation between IP addre…

What concerns me is that I doubt the average user will understand the potential ramifications of entrusting a copy of their ID to a third party. If these documents are not well-pro…

Up-front disclaimer: I don't use facebook, but the precedent of this upsets me. It seems to me that a website can define the API by which you access their site (some subset of HTTP…

It strikes me that an ISP preparing a "test" page for a court order suggests they already anticipate the direction the court will take, an action they are content with so long as r…

Isn't spyware you don't have to use and can uninstall just software with a feature you do not desire? I'm completely against the feature, but I don't see why something must be done…

I run a simple djbdns setup locally with a caching resolver that passes specific domains to my dns server proper and the rest up the chain. Took about seven minutes to configure pr…

I for one love it when someone types whole paragraphs about the desire to avoid keystrokes. Every language has it's irritating quirks, none of which do I care enough to write about…

This labelling (501 or !501) is pointless and arbitrary. I'm a self-employed developer with four children. Some days I work until 11p or even as late as 1a. Some days I quit at 2p …

I don't have a degree at all, but I have been programming since the age of 9, completely self-taught. At first I found it difficult to find employment, but with enough work experie…

I'm sure I'm not the target audience, but I'm surprised that in this day and age there isn't always a shared resource lying around (a linode, a slice, an ec2 instance). Or just all…

While as a programmer I understand that perhaps this load time could be improved, and maybe splash screens are a lazy solution, but I wonder if it warrants this level of anger. Eve…

I agree that the so-called "news" is entertainment, but being completely uninformed about current events will make you non-discerning in addition to more productive. Perhaps it wou…

I'll make one if you want to fund it. :)

... and convincing my wife that I'll able to fly once I step off the cliff. I was fortunate enough that my wife (although highly skeptical) was trusting enough to go along. Sometim…

I find it amusing that he starts off with a rant about long resumes. Then half of what follows goes on to talk about all the extensive information you have to communicate on your C…

In so much of this discussion, people seem to get distracted arguing whether pirating media is morally reprehensible or not. This is irrelevant to whether SOPA is a good solution t…

Am I the only one that thinks someone bored by debate and process behind the passage of a bill (and childishly bragging about it) should be allowed (nay, encouraged) to spend their…

I have spent years upon years programming in perl, and I love it dearly, but I laughed pretty hard at this. No offense to Larry Wall, but if you've spent any time writing perl code…

As is typical with this line of thinking, it only scales so far and only applies as long as you are "on the map" of what is standard. Stray too far and your devops personnel will s…

> You don't need to worry about this (not what the law is for). The law's purpose when written does not preclude all the clever uses they find for it afterward.