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These batsh*t insane idiots tried billing Wikipedia for the use of newspaper links on the site. Seriously!

I do press for Wikipedia in the UK. I have not spoken to ONE journalist in the past four years who does not use Wikipedia as their handy universal backgrounder.

We do it for everyone to use and reuse, but it's more than a little odious to turn around and try to bill us!

Failing that, I expect large donations to the Wikimedia Foundation from media organisations next fundraiser, as compensation for all the work we save journalists. Just ask Maurice Jarre ;-)

Don't be so quick to exclude those in caves. Those living in cars or under bridges can't do without Internet either: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124363359881267...

The thing is that Google AdSense is the owner of online ad publishing, and while paying best also upsets a lot of people.

So there's room for Microsoft (Microsoft!) to behave like an upstart and *outcompete them*.

I'm not sure what the holdup is. Are they waiting to make it only run on Windows or something?

David Gerard's last blog post..Sound copyright extended into perpetuity

When it was suggested in 2003, almost the entire Spanish Wikipedia community just got up and *left*, to form Enciclopedia Libre. It took years to recover from the schism. So WMF is understandably shy about the idea!

There's other considerations like conflict of interest with advertising on an editable site, how it looks to readers (a site that popular that doesn't have ads is very reassuring to the readers) and so on.

So for the moment I think the idea is off the table, unless it becomes critical to survival. So far it hasn't been. Cross fingers.

While a lot of contributors have no objection to ads (I don't, for instance), a remarkable percentage do. To the point where, if ads went up on Wikipedia, a lot of the people who write it would just get up and *leave*. So for the moment the ad option is off the table.

Personally I run the Windows version of Picasa on Linux with Wine, not the Linux version ;-) Everything works.

I have the picture from Apple's declaration to the SEC that they were adopting Evil™ as official corporate policy.

God forbid they discover pen and paper. http://notnews.today.com/2008/10/26/us-army-rt-...

MAN ON FIVE, Cook County, Monday -- The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error.

"Democrat voting fraud is famous since Tammany Hall," says Republican strategist Karl Rove. "So we'll win without votes."

Voting machines have been remotely reset and the counts adjusted. "Diebold have come to the party big time." Touch screen machines for West Virginia early voting offer voters "McCAIN" or "REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN LATER."

The rolls will be thoroughly checked for voter fraud. "If the typeface or font size is different on their driver's licence, Social Security or the voter roll, that's obvious blatant fraud. A typical Liberal knife to the heart of democracy."

The party will check for dead voters as well. "We're making the safe assumption that all registered Democrats are dead. If they're not, we'll correct that." Governor Palin has long dealt with Democrat moose in Alaska. "You betcha!"

All residents of properties whose mortgages were underwritten by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac will be assumed to have voted Republican. "We own the houses, of course we own the votes. It's nonsense to say otherwise."

Finally, under USA-PATRIOT, Obama supporters will be deemed associates of associates of terrorists. The offence will carry a penalty of one day's imprisonment: November 4th.

Mr Rove is confident in the future of our democracy. "One man, one vote. That man being me."

Source: http://tinyurl.com/5cc3ve

"Global Anti-Piracy Day" is rather tasteless and offensive of Microsoft, given the actual robbery and murder at sea currently in the news off the coast of Somalia. Copying that floppy is hardly comparable. Offensive idiots.

My blog rant: http://tinyurl.com/5rt664

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This is really quite breathtakingly tasteless given the recent news coverage of, oh look, *actual robbery and murder at sea off the coast of Somalia*. Yes, copying that floppy is *exactly* like that. Offensive idiots.

My blog rant: http://tinyurl.com/5rt66

I have the answer: They can use DRM on it! It's worked perfectly to protect music and software, there's no way it won't work for every detail of your personal life. What could possibly go wrong?

Blog rant: http://notnews.today.com/?p=152

Tentative names included Windows Blackcomb, Windows Vienna, WindOS X, Windex, Windows Steak and Bl*wj*bs Edition!!! (which proved in beta testing to be Tofu and Long Querulous Discussion About Where Our Relationship Is Going Edition) and Windows 2007^W2008^W2009^W2010.

Blog rant: http://tinyurl.com/3l8pws

Tentative names included Windows Blackcomb, Windows Vienna, WindOS X, Windex, Windows Steak and Bl*wj*bs Edition!!! (which proved in beta testing to be Tofu and Long Querulous Discussion About Where Our Relationship Is Going Edition) and Windows 2007^W2008^W2009^W2010.

Blog rant: http://tinyurl.com/3l8pws

Yes, this subscription service will work, unlike every other subscription service ever. And it'll be completely unlimited and DRM-free! Except for the limitations and, er, the DRM. I wrote a rant about it: http://tinyurl.com/4m2tjt

Yes, this subscription service will work, unlike every other subscription service ever. And it'll be completely unlimited and DRM-free! Except for the limitations and, er, the DRM. I wrote a rant about it: http://tinyurl.com/4m2tjt

The usual rubbish. "Pay, er, PlayNow Plus is completely unlimited, covers all major labels, no DRM, get all you want any time you like! This is the biggest deal in mobile music ever! Of course, it'll only play for the duration of the contract, all songs then disappearing. Well, just a little DRM. Honest." Perhaps subscriptions will make big bucks this time, since they didn't every other time.

Yeah, that'll definitely save their reputation and stop jokes like this being instantly comprehensible: http://notnews.today.com/2008/09/04/microsoft-d...

Yeah, firing the people who know what's wrong will definitely repair Microsoft's reputation and not make jokes like the image in this article - http://tinyurl.com/6mvcxn - immediately funny.

Way to go Microsoft! We are enjoying your slow, majestic sinking and look forward to the final capsize.

Yep. Airtight DRM is physically, mathematically impossible. But the content industry's lust for *complete control* is so overwhelming they go out begging for people to sell them snake oil. More thoughts here: http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/09/13/step-right-up/

"It's the way business is done these days," Mr Ulrich said. "And there's the novelty of anyone wanting to listen to a new Metallica album." http://tinyurl.com/5vn4r4

"It’s the way business is done these days," Mr Ulrich said. "And there’s the novelty of anyone wanting to listen to a new Metallica album."

I can't wait for the next redesign, in aid of Facebook: The Awful, Awful Movie. http://tinyurl.com/56n59e

I toldja ... they shoulda got a real comedian! http://tinyurl.com/5c3r6y