This is so close to working on ios. Needs way to rotate image after it is uploaded.

Obviously. We're, primarily customer driven though so I'm sure we will need to ship it some time in the nearish future.

How does this currently apply to software? Specifically desktop software apps, and OSs.

Exactly the same way as other media. In fact sometimes worse.

I have tried to sell a few bits of software via eBay (used windows XP pro retail box) which have been uninstalled or replaced with partner action pack licenses. After a day or so, I get an email from eBay saying that the item has been withdrawn due to a complaint from the manufacturer.

This is what they want.

I'm in the UK btw and am concerned this may become an international issue.

That's ebay's choice, but they're certainly not obliged to do that by copyright -- in the EU, at least. First Sale has been upheld (in the context of software) by the ECJ pretty recently (even for software you've downloaded rather than bought in retail), in the UsedSoft case -- http://www.linklaters.com/Publications/Publication1403Newsle...

Choice quote: "This broad interpretation of Article 4(2) is necessary as otherwise the effectiveness of the rule of exhaustion would be undermined since suppliers would merely have to call the contract a “licence” rather than a “sale” in order to circumvent it."

IANAL.

This article covers some of the case law http://www.lw.com/upload/pubContent/_pdf/pub4047_1.pdf but basically at least in the US software licenses as licenses not sales have been upheld. Other countries may differ.

Was it worth it? Really?

Compared to the amount of work involved after unscheduled power loss in a data centre yes. Been there done that, and I would defiantly haul buckets of diesel for 12 hours rather than spent the next months sorting out systems that had not restarted cleanly.

I don't think so. At work we set up some servers on the west coast to take over in case our main provider on the east coast went down.

I'd say the chance of one of their people getting hurt isn't really worth anyone's uptime.

Also all the single site prep in the world doesn't help if that one site is taken out completely. Keeping multiple servers in multiple areas is a must if 100% uptime, even during events like this, is key.

If you know of some way to swap out servers with 100% uptime, I'd like to hear it. Even Stack Exchange, which had that sort of plan in place, had to go 'static' for about a half hour.

Would they be wrong? I'm not certain about that. From the single clip I would believe that maybe she is.

You know, my mom still prints 80% of her emails. Maybe she needs this.

seriously? make her stop.

"404 Error" made it to number 6! Proves that numbered error codes are not so user friendly.

Although at first I thought it was Wikipedia's own 404 page and was going to comment on how they must have a lot Of broken links.

I guess I don't see the point. The data is stored on their servers where they offer the same "promise" that they won't sell your data either.

The only benefit I see is a central location of all data.

Selling your encrypted data seems like a somewhat more difficult proposition for them than the one social networking services usually have.

Do you not understand how encryption works, or do I?

If they have the ability to decrypt data on their server anytime they want then this whole thing seems utterly pointless. I sincerely hope that's not the case.

Sorry for being flippant. I'm just having a hard time imagining how I could post something that you could read that's somehow unreadable to them.

That's the entire point of the service being discussed, no?

Define "them".

If "them" = Facebook or Twitter... it's true, they could not read the text.

But if "them" = the service provider of the encrypted messages, well, I suspect that they can decrypt from their description. Which means that they can be compelled to decrypt, or that a member of staff could access the decrypted message... in which case we only have an illusion of privacy because it only gives us privacy from some parties and not others.

s/only benefit/other downside/

Time until hacked by some authoritarian government looking to suppress dissent, T-minus...

Yep, in the long run something will leak out of our servers. The plan is only to store ciphertext.

We're starting this already? Yawn.

From the post: "protecting American consumers from the dangers that they face on-line"

Seriously? I dont need someone to protect me online. It's. It the Wild West. Who will protect me from the crap they sell on late night TV? Maybe we should put a stop to infomercials next.

I thought the supporters of this were supposed to be anti "big government". Seems like this bill is just imposing more government regulations.