Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-28-2010

[andrewducker]

• Super Meat Boy - low-fi platforming fun, currently 33% off on Steam...
  (tags: games indie game)
• What's the point of Windows Home Server (at least without Drive Extender)?
  I was considering getting one of them when my NAS died, but only because of Drive Extender...
  (tags: technology microsoft)
• IPv6 transition myths
  (tags: ipv6 internet migration)
• Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun
  (tags: astronomy spain funny wtf)
• Empathy Causes Facial Similarity Between Couples to Increase Over Time.
  (tags: behavior biology emotion empathy face environment relationships)
• 100 days of IPv4 left
  (tags: ipv6 internet)

Comments

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

The Spanish woman is misinformed. Oracle owns the Sun. Soon, we will all have to pay a per user license fee.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

No no no, Oracle owns Sun. The Sun is published by News International, which is owned by News Corp - which is traded publicly so is owned broadly but essentially it belongs to Rupert Murdoch since the family still own most of the voting shares.

Maybe the Spanish woman has simply drawn a happy card, XIX THE SUN, from the Major Arcana.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

And has she really considered the legal implications? Aren't there any regulations on owning uncontained fusion reactions? The "oh dear, whoops, I radiated my unconstrained fusion reaction all over your country, now you have to pay a license fee" gambit is an entertaining one, but no-one has had the guts to try it yet, and it would benefit immensely from a way to turn the reaction up or down...