iRant, please stop calling "copyright infringement" "theft" or "stealing". They're not the same, please don't believe me, but believe some law professor - [www.nytimes.com].

iRant, thanks for answer. Finally some more nuanced attitude than the wrong "copying is stealing". One by one, to your points.

bnjmnddd, you're just very wrong.

if they cost like $50 I'll get a pair

"Merino is a kind of sheep that lives in Southern New Zealand"? Please enjoy [en.wikipedia.org]

open wireless, NAT and DHCP should already make it more difficult for them to "trace" ipv4 addresses, the serenity with which they pretend these issues don't exist is worrying already. this kind of desired ignorance is the reason MPAA and RIAA can sue people without computers, etc ([brainz.org] - I think most of those…

I actually believe that the SSD on the Air will make it look faster, in general (most programs which fit in the 8GB will execute faster on Pro, but bigger programs with harddisk access and swapping will give advantage to Air). What you give up on, choosing the Air, is the 4x bigger harddrive and an optical drive…

asus "hits bottom"??? Oh, that funny... not. Gizus, you can't possibly complain in the same lines about some "rear" joke, while making another one. Are your two personalities at odds this morning?

Actually this is the perfect proof that the "extra security" implemented by Tsa is unnecessary and, as such, abusive...

got it, thanks. Never used the java updater (first thing I disable after I install java somewhere), but I see how someone could be fooled into installing that crap. Quite a low blow from oracle, unfortunately "as expected"...

Been programming java for only 10 or so years, and I'm not aware of a 'java' toolbar... What do you mean by java toolbar? Can you attach a screenshot?

heh, actually I wasn't asking you to promote the dvd/cd/br you want to get rid of, but just leave them somewhere where they can be found. maybe other people would have liked the dub version of rick astley you had on CD, but didn't know it existed ;)

Still waiting for something interesting about this feat. Anything! And no, having *nothing* jumping at me 3D-style is not enough to make it interesting...

"i don't have a bluray ripper, so i can't do those" - ok, so the physical media is not THAT dead yet.

sorry, not going to copy the response for Xander, you find it in the thread... The truth is that, at this moment, is not really a "people-driven movement", but a content "creators" (actually facilitators) decision. THOSE are the bottleneck to progress, and if they did distribute by streaming or downloading, then yes,…

thanks for answering, the thing is that I'm not convinced that someone with 8TB of storage and 400 or so DVDs who took the time to digitize everything represents the "majority" (which would be needed to indeed kill the physical media). ALSO, not convinced AT ALL that a majority is needed for that kill, see at the end…

would you share with us how big was the library? which formats (video/audio/stream) did you use to digitize them? how big was each movie? how long did it take to digitize each one? how did you store them? how do you backup that? which software did you use to break the protection on dvds? frankly I thought about…

very sweet and sad little movie, I feel it applies to all sudden disappearances from our lives, not only the sept11 ones. many conversations get broken to never be finished, games stopped to never be replayed, unfortunately we can't finish or replay EXACTLY those (pity), we can only start and play others (with…

Actually I find the ninja comment very cute, admits to tears but pretends an impossible made-up reason... Sorry for having to explain, regardless, don't think it shows lack of respect.

did it take long to come up with such a deep and thoughtful comment? There are some degrees of safety between what the tsa is doing with the scanners and "without screening" as you put it. At this point, TSA is a very ineffective organization, expensive, payed by me (and you if you live in US), with a long history of…