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The proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) isn't just a bad idea for freedom of speech -- it's shot through with technical issues as well.

A hacker working on a jailbreak for Apple’s upcoming iOS 5 says he is considering introducing a very controversial feature.

Stefan Esser, known online as i0n1c, says the idea of installing his own DRM in order to block pirate apps is going “ping pong” in his head.

The team behind Installous, the world’s largest cracked app repository, informs TorrentFreak this is a very bad idea.

Bandwidth caps seem like not a bad idea, until you find yourself struggling to figure out how your home network suddenly started downloading hundreds of gigabytes of data in a matter of days, and you have blown through your monthly limit in less than a week.

The robotics industry is slowly moving towards one common goal - robots we can bump uglies with. On paper, it sounds like a great idea, but it really isn't.

Robert Scoble:

Then I went and tried to figure out how to turn it off. I couldn’t find a setting.

Keep in mind, this is to answer questions left over on Listorious. Why was it spamming Twitter? Where was the off button?

So, what problem does OAuth solve exactly?

It’s obviously not user confusion. And Scoble is a knowledgeable technical person—imagine what this does to a regular user.

Like any technology that allows the user to abrogate their responsibility to be alert, OAuth is one bad idea.

It's obvious to most Linux users that Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a really bad idea. It's not just because DRM-encoded media usually won't play with our operating system, but rather because we understand the value of openness.

The really sad part is that DRM, at least on some level, is attempting to do a good thing.

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ZDNet: "While I believe that browser diversification is a good thing, I feel that approached used here is a flawed one, and will make Windows user more vulnerable to malware."

Jani Hartikainen has posted some of his opinions about code commenting in a response to this post from James Carr claiming that code comments on fresh code is a bad idea.

Revisiting an earlier post dealing with superglobals and classes, Brandon Savage looks at an example of why its still a bad idea.

Embedded.com: "Embedded Linux as an operating system for modern ARM processors? Maybe not such a bad idea?"