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No, but it's easy to say that with the benefit of hindsight. Nobody knew everything would turn out OK back before HL2 was released.

Aye. Crowdfunding is an excellent way to securing investment without the project being beholden to shareholders expecting a big payout at the end.

Yes, exactly. The other half of the article feels exactly the same: "PBS decided to kill the show, so LeVar is obviously wrong for wanting to continue anyway". It doesn't present a…

That's not what the message says, though. > WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues That is a perfectly reasonable thing to say if you are …

It says 'may', which is a responsible message if you're abandoning security software. Never know what the future holds; don't want to encourage people to rely on it if bugs will ne…

You're ubinator. Unfortunately, you come home one day to find Mr. Binator in bed with some 20-something blond hussie. The divorce paperworks sails through. Do you still want to be …

That does not give you license to steal other people's content and profit from it. If you want music but you don't want to purchase rights, there is plenty of creative commons lice…

What's the point of that? You still need to worry about your own off-cloud backups and a contingency plan for when your vendor goes out of business.

All I know is I'm not building badass bird simulation engines.

> ii) Should search engines pay the scraped sites if they are charging to access their indexed data? probably some of the scraped sites has a specific license forbidding the search…

> Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000/month, Google is making $2,352/month from that account. The publisher (ie your website showing ad…

ARIN does not have the authority to reclaim the blocks allocated before ARIN existed. This is the source of a lot of problems.

Seems comparable to Box's pricing.