Knowing the nature of Gene Simmonz, it was probably his parents who taught him that one. It's ok, if Anonymous reads /., I'm sure that got Gene one more attack planned. Got to love it. Watching the likes of Lars Ulrich, and Gene Simmonz get their panties in a bunch over how people choose to share their media online, is like watching an elderly person yell at the tv...and almost as ineffectual.

-Oz

We already know what is going to happen. Sony is going to make a righteous little gaming device (that just so happens to be a phone too) and for about a year, everything will go smashingly well with it. Game developers will fawn, coo, and write code for the ubiquitous new gaming interface, and all will seem just peachy. Gamers will game to their hearts content and laugh hearty belly laughs at their "non-Sony-gaming/wunderkinder-devicenonhavenum contemporaries". Almost unnoticably (at first) a cancer will start growing. It seems that some of the users (not content with just playing SoCom 14: Shadow Recon and talking to their team- mates in both Guam and Amsterdam online while.... driving) will find something inherently wrong with the fact that they can't seem to get their car started and warmed up without having to go out there, put the key in the ignition and turning it. Yep, despite all of the other wonderful things the device was designed to do, it seems the dev-teams at Sony neglected to add the libs and drivers for "their" iCar that would have allowed the device to perform this task out of the box. "Shame on you Sony" will be the rallying cry, and droves of users dissatisfied with this device's lack of support for "remote" speed-control on their girlfriend's iVibrator, will come out of the woodwork, and begin conspiring to home-brew their own firmware that would facilitate such functionality. Unfortunately, Sony's firmware will be intrinsically woven into the DNA of the Cell processor, thus requiring the use of such workarounds as after-market Rogue-Cell flash-cards, and virii that invariably "brick" a solid third of all devices they are initially introduced to, (and infect another third of Cell'd devices wirelessly). The lawsuits will abound as users attempt yet more uses not covered in the original EULA, and under the burgeoning weight of the ensuing lawyer fees, Sony will drop all support within the following 2 years

BTW: iCar, iVibrator, and all other words made up by Ozlanthos are mine, so don't use them in attempts to make money unless you intend to give Ozlanthos some of it!

-Oz

So I goofed a tad...You understood everything I wrote, (for the most part)so I don't see what the problem is. Normally I am a stickler for grammar and spelling, but my gf was waiting in a full bubble bath for me, so get over it already!

-Oz

Joe Rogan actually played out that exact scenario in one of his acts...funny, AND though provoking!

-Oz

No dipstick. The moderators and I are both aware of the fact that Marijuana was originally illegalized because it was the number one textile crop in America at the time. And as such, it existed as the primary competition to wood, cotton, and oil. Look up "The Marijuana Trick" on Youtube, and you'll find out the truth: That Marijuana was made illegal so that William Randolph Hearst didn't lose MILLIONS (back when a Million dollars was an OBSCENE amount of dough) on his thousands of square acres of woodland due to hemp existing as a competing textile to wood in the paper-pulp industry, DuPont didn't lose MILLIONS due to the fact that Hempinol was fueling our cars,and making plastics from hemp seed oil, and that cotton farmers didn't lose MILLIONS because we were getting by making Levi's (and other clothing)out of Hemp fiber. This has been the single biggest FACT left out of 95% of every American history class taught since the 1920's! Mostly because the Yellow Press (named as such due to the rapid oxidation rate of newspapers printed on wood-pulp paper...as well as it's inherent sensationalism) succeeded in demonizing Hemp by calling it "Marijuana", and "Hashish", and convincing everyone that Mexicans, and Negros were driven to rape white women under it's influence.

As many farmers were relatively under-educated by today's standards, they unknowingly nagged congress and the senate to ban the crops growing in their own fields, and feeding their families. Although it hasn't been officially stated as such, I feel that this also brought about the "Great Depression" due to so much of this country's economy being dependent on the production, refinement, sale, and export of "hemp", before it was made illegal as "marijuana". One can only hope that California will lead this country back to a sane path by reigniting the flame of industrial hemp as a by-product of their attempt to legalize marijuana.

-Oz

In a word...GOOD! We've been doing it the prohibitionista way for the last 8 decades and gotten NOWHERE. It's about time we do something smart for a change and legalize it.

-Oz

Yeah it's just too bad hardly anyone knows that the real reason for making it illegal did'nt have any6thing trying to stop people from smoking it...

-Oz

What, makes you speak as though you are thinking more than 2 years in advance? Yeah I made a lot of good calls when it came to stocks while I was smoking weed.....Just too bad I'd already blown my investment capital on weed!

-Oz

Adjusting our behavior is necessary due to the fact that other species do not threaten the existence of ALL OTHER SPECIES in their pursuit of survival. In all other cases, the survival of a species is contingent on the survival of other species. In the case of humans, because we can supplant the necessity to ensure the survival of other species in order to ensure our own, we often disregard this necessity, making our pursuits our "only" concern. This trait ensures that before too much longer there will only be us, and our "net loss" pursuits here on earth. The way to avoid this is to attempt a more symbiotic relationship with other species (ie attempting to make that which enhances our lives, enhance the ability of other species to exist)...something we as a species are entirely too self-absorbed, and conceited to do.

-Oz

What fills me with joy is the thought of these copy-protection schemes being made completely worthless by a 14 year old Scandinavian boy after some company spent tens of millions of dollars developing them. It is proof positive to me that given enough determination, imagination, and time, the digital world is such that any wall can be surmounted.

-Oz

I don't have any idea why someone would mod this statement as funny. Everything like this was considered "tin-foil hat wearing wing-nut conspiracy-theorist fodder" not ten years ago....

-Oz

Every time I think about your last sentence...I smile. Oil, and our dependence on it has kept us running long enough that many of us are blissfully unaware of what real threat it's loss will mean for the future of our race (sometimes I suspect that was the intent behind switching our dependence from renewable resources, to non-renewables). It gives me a nice warm feeling inside knowing that, I know how to build a shelter, a fire, how to catch, and forage for food. I also know that so few people share the level of knowledge I possess, that I won't have to compete for food for long. First I will take to the hills, while they fight one another over cows, and other forms of farm food. Then they will look at one another as food, and after a few months there will only be those who thought far enough ahead to buy lots of ammo...and people like me. After their ammo is gone, I will come down from the hills, and try to assemble people who are smart enough not to over-populate to the point of exceeding an area's natural carrying capacity, and we'll re-create society in a way that balances our needs with nature's needs.

That is really where we as humans have gone horribly wrong. Whenever I hear some schmuck say "Human's first", I cringe because what they are saying is "It's ok to kill everything else, and spoil the environment in every way possible...as long as I get to keep my car, my ipod, my modern way of life". Well, to them I say, "You can't, and sooner than any of us expect, that lifestyle will no longer be possible...for anyone". It will take a decade or two, but we will get to a better level of existence. I just don't see this version of civilization lasting long enough to get all 8 BILLION+ of us there.

-Oz

That is act 2 of this little parody called "Track the Planet". Right now they are just trying to establish that they have the legal right to track you via GPS without your knowledge, a reason, or a warrant. Next will be a right to implant one in your body under the same auspices, and the grand finale will be a legal REQUIREMENT that you are implanted with a GPS-type tracking device at in utero or at birth...Stay tuned!

-Oz

I warned all of you about this when they ran the "cash for clunkers" program! I told you all then that the GPS devices in any newer model vehicles would eventually be used to track you. Everyone seems to be under the assumption that the devices that will be used to track you would be some discreet device implanted on your vehicle "after" some policing body decided they wanted to track you. NAY! The device that came standard in the vehicle you traded for is the same one they intend to track you with. The device ID is probably associated with the VIN# in some data base. All they will need to do is to look up your vehicle registration, get the VIN# of your vehicle, run it through the GPS database and bam...tracking your vehicle's location anywhere on the planet.

-Oz

I don't know why anyone is surprised at this latest development. We insisted on utilizing UAVs for more than "surveillance" purposes, so now everyone else is starting to get the same idea.

-Oz