Re: Copyright Mafiaa wildly exaggerate, as this shows

Good luck trying to get accurate figures on piracy in any medium

Re: Not "imminently"

"either I'm a hardened criminal organising terror vie the internet, or I'm helping out some old folk skyping their loved ones on a borrowed laptop"

Same thing, apparently.

Re: Curious to know...

When it's long enough that stray hairs find their way up a partners nose when you kiss, its long enough to provoke complaints.

Re: Beards are Best

"I overheard a feminist co-worker say she thought beards were a disgusting symbol of patriarchal oppression"

Most feminists don't employ this level of, shall we say, recreational schizophrenia.

Re: "an experiment in education of pirates"

"the word is STEALING"

It really isn't. You aren't deliberately and dishonestly permanently depriving someone of their property. You can call pirating "making unauthorised copies" or "unlicensed use", because that's what those words mean. The word isn;t stealing, because that means something else. Unless of course I am unaware of some aspect of english grammar where capitalising a word changes its meaning.

The developer claims the game phones home (anonymously), so I guess the claims amounts to them saying 3000 people have played the pirate version at least once each

Re: In a survey

...but still smart enough to realise that even if everyone uses less electricity per-unit prices will go up and the average bill won't go down

Re: Exactly

"No they didn't"

That doesn't mean people won't say they did.

Re: Eh?

It's clear - either membership of the EU enhances personal liberty, or it inhibits it, and the author thinks it's obvious which is the case.

OK, not clear

Re: The UK's Supreme Court...bounced it up to Europe

I don't think the supremem court is supposed to put "I'unno, ask that guy" in their decisions.

Re: Nope

"the truth is an absolute defence to libel."

You'd think so, huh? But sadly in the UK this isn't currently the case.

Re: Risky

In publishing pictures of a crime is he risking prejudicing any trial?

Obviously no, he's just showing them to a few hundred geeks aroudn the world, but maybe there's a principle here.

Re: Excellent!

"Which evidence is that?"

On the blog he says a subscription to another fetish site plumpy is subscribed to was bought with his card. So either the current holder of the card and the plumpy, who bought the laptop, are 2 separate people who like 'brick butts' (I don't want to know what it means), or plumpy bought both the card and the laptop, or plumpy is the thief.

It could be a coincidence, but it seems very unlikely.

Re: Nice, but..

It clearly is an invasion of privacy to publish pictures of someone as they pootle around at home, not aware they are being recorded.

So the question is whether doing so is a proportionate response to the theft.

Re: Why...

It is rarely a bad thing for an idiot to reign in their thoughts

Re: Easy fix

'Fixed' in the sense of 'made correct' or fixed in the sense of 'nobbled again'

Re: There is a simple explanation

"the Word UI is the result of extensive testing in usability labs"

Usually i'd save this comment for more serious matters: That's an extraordinary claim, and as such requires extraordinary evidence.

Re: My grandmother died after they shut down Megaupload

Neither of mine did, so, by MPAAstatisticsing the data, out of the 2 applicable grandmas, neither was affected by the Megaupload shutdown,

Re: "insisting on special treatment"

That depends on the feminist.

A lot of people self-identify as feminists, ranging from so-obvious-you-shouldnt-have-to-still-say-it feminists arguing for equals pay for equal work to so-obviously-wrong-you-should-just-stop-saying-it feminists writing special pleadin garticles in the guardian.

Re: Now Let's Drop Romanticism

"because I am a man and physics education mattered to me"

That might not be the best thing to saywhen you are trying to persuade people.

Re: Personally,

"As of about 4 or 5 years ago, the amount of pro-Warmist lobbying money floating around Washington DC was running at about 20-1 compared to anti-Warmist"

That's an extraordinary claim, please provide a citation.

Re: Crimson Editor

Crimson used to be my go to editor(*), but didn't handle non-latin character sets well.

So if you only have to edit files written in english I would recommended it, if you are using all of unicode I wouldn't.

(*)not 'goto editor'

Re: Neither are man boobs.

And when you vomit out all of your internal flora after reading about that chinese guy, you appendix will kindly reseed your guts with replacement flora.

Hmmm, interlinky.

Re: New Balls Please

She has a new boyfriend... but he has a new iPhone, so who is winning.

(The answer is her. She is the one who is winning)

Re: Mac perv's visit porn and gambling sites at work, this is why they are getting 'attacked'.

Given the numebr of times infections have come from banner ads served through legitimate sites is there any reason to believe that the mac users have been up to something they shouldn't?

Re: Karma's a bitch

I'm pretty sure the organisation breaking laws that they lobied for are the ones who look like hypocrites here.

If TPB were suing a 9 year old for copying their logo onto her winnie the pooh laptop your argument would hold water, but that isn't the case here/

Re: Karma's a bitch

The article and the linked article both make it clear that the legal action relates to the css file, not the image, so good cause alteration isn't relevant here.

Re: @AndyS - Lets see if this self-fulfills

"If you don't want to be bothered to learn how a computer works, then why would you want to use Linux ?"

Because an OS aimed at consumers should, for the most part, just work

Re: No i?

"> They've already annoyed apple with iPlayer, there's no need for them to rub it in.

There's lots of need :D"

Good point. I retract my earlier statement.