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I understand. But understand that from their perspective, as a business deciding whether or not to stay in a particular market, it's also not their problem. They're going to act in…

A cheaper TV - or to go a level deeper, still having the manufacturer in question in the business of making TVs. TVs, and more generally high-unit-volume embedded hardware products…

I'm unclear on something - you've said that these are "clearly" criminal acts. What would the charge be?

The government still is the only entity that can silence dissenters. All the entities you listed are limited to merely kicking you off their platform. Facebook can't 404 your posts…

I've gotta say, I just read through the OVH DDOS mitigation docs, and for me the upshot is that if my servers were targeted, I'm in for an unspecified increase in latency, which fo…

So. You want prevent, through the use of force and the rule of law, private citizens from taking photographs of people in public places and comparing those photographs with a volun…

How are the dopamine hits from a nicotine-delivery product different from the dopamine hits from a glucose-delivery product?

I'm with you, and I also don't want to breathe the halitosis-infused mist expelled by my coworkers. Seems reasonable to me to have some legislation on the books to require people w…

If enough users disagree with that, let them take over maintenance of homebrew. But nobody actually cares that much, only enough to complain. At length.

Yes they have, yes it does, they think the world would be better if everyone Just Said No to DRM and the W3C isn't going along with their grand plan, yes, and because they (correct…

The constitution sets forth very real protections for the accused , for defendants . I see very little that could be stretched to apply to a third party that chooses not to comply …

I suspect the fees+interest thing is mostly a cover story. As unflattering as it seems, I'd be unsurprised to learn that the three pages of fine print are a calculated display, to …

While adding another piece of state and another UI control to an interface that, AIUI, did not require any changes to support this feature, which would have delayed shipping and ge…

hahahaha this place is going downhill. In fairness, maybe it's always been like this during the too-early/way-too-late timeframes. Sorry, but the world ain't full of copyleft warri…

Chill out. AnthonyMouse makes a perfectly valid and well-expressed point. Pulling a "wow" at someone else's "naive little worldview" is neither convincing nor constructive. I don't…