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"Perhaps financial renumeration, while fair, isn't entirely necessary" Is it that in your world, eating and paying the rent isn't necessary either? 'Many' creative people sounds li…

This is not common in the gaming industry, nor is it professional, nor would it likely be legal in the United States. Given that they're in Germany, though, I'm less sure of the la…

Shouldn't we also care about who the copyright trolls are? I'm all for accountability from the provider side, but why not dig deeper into those that are issuing notices in bad fait…

In your first line, you say to drop Dropbox due to lack of client side encryption, and in your second line you mention that you can just roll your own while still using Dropbox...?…

Yes? I'm pretty okay with this. I'm okay with police going undercover, too, to bust up gangs. It turns out that policework is more than just standing in a pretty uniform.

It's written at least slightly tongue-in-cheek...

No Tumblr on this chart?

You call the cops/ambulance. This one experience, even if 100% true, is not necessarily indicative of the entire system.

I have had just about nothing but pleasant experiences with the cops. I was an EMT for three years, and the cops that I worked with on a daily basis were the ones that got me — and…

I think I was misunderstood — he's very genuine, and has always been. The copycats, though, are more unlikely to be.

No, no — I think Bill Gates is absolutely genuine. I think those who may follow in his footsteps will be less so.

I think this is really cool, though the cynical part of me thinks that so will the social media strategists of quite a few celebrities out there, looking to promote things around C…

Try reading the FAQ before your vomit more words onto the screen.

Can you lay out the charges, special prosecutor?

Oh my God, a new Ted Chiang story. I have to say, having read everything he's written, I'm curious what a full novel would look like, though I'd be happily content if he just came …

It just feels so juvenile — first he doesn't comply, then he says he'll comply, then he refuses to comply, then he's ordered to show cause and represents himself (!), then he print…

eat24, if I recall correctly.

I find the drip-feed of information a really interesting choice, though I'm curious of its efficacy versus the wikileaks style dump. It keeps the news alive for a longer period of …

Sarcasm.

I'm not sure it's really 'journalism', per se, as it is flowery language complaining about something with vague metaphors.

Not speaking for the security team, how likely would it be that this was an attack using reused passwords from another website? How likely, specifically, is it that someone got int…