No, you get it from wrong point of view. Seriously, if Sony was smart enough they could use this as marketing, or even sell this kind of solution to potential customers interested in entry-level supercomputing. Just like nVidia does with dozen of graphic cards bond together and sold as Tesla. (Only problem is - I think - Sony is smart enough, but they would get their fingers slapped by IBM or whoever made those chips that they are competing in business with them now.)

Headless scans? I see those pictures are pretty matched to real photography of scanned person.

Aren't engines doing it anyway as long as you're logged on? Part of the customization. Or whats my tagging with stars and irrelevant links in google results?

If all they want to achieve by this is people saying "Screw them, I donate to EFF right now just to make them angry" they may actually succeed.

Seriously, by "Actively go out and find stuff that offends and appalls you" they mean browse p0rn all day?

Isn't this how Germans started thinking they are chosen nation, then educating their youth the right way, then establishing clear race, and you know the rest. For me, as European, I stop seeing difference compared to let's say Middle East countries with their own way of expressing religion into educational system. Hello Texas, Deja Vu? What comes next? Denying voting rights to women?

No, Europeans do pay insurance. It's part of the higher taxes - at least in my country and many neighboring. Everybody who pays taxes pay certain amount for health insurance as well. It goes to insurance company - commercial or state owned. It's not mandatory, but you better have insurance else you pay cash at doctor's. If you cannot pay because of certain reasons (kid, student, unemployed, sick, maternity leave) state pays for you.

World does not consist only of US, Canada and Mexico. There is couple more continents behind oceans.

And if I enter country with freshly formatted laptop? Like wiped completely clean. Will it be suspicious as well? Sure they may want to find something behind it. I do not wanna get my laptop being held for indefinite amount of time just because I bought it day ago and haven't had time to bring it up yet ...

Ummm ... my bank uses that for quite some time, I use internet banking since 1999.

My bank uses one-time PIN sent via SMS; you can pick also either RSA token, or challenge-response "calculator" bound to your card. Then you get static GRID card for interactive response. You get it free if you have internet banking enabled, just select what security means you want to use for logging in and verifying each transaction. Same if you have active phonebanking. (And I am from Eastern Europe.)

The only weakness it has is credit/debit card: all information needed for transactions are directly on that one card! What's worse, for online payments you do not even need that card physically! Still it puzzles me why is this highly insecure way of paying over internet still being used when there are lots of means to make transactions safer. Because "people are used to it" from offline world and something more complicated causes headache? History of credit cards in my region is not that long to get used to it, so I can just shake head and get one-time virtual i-card for online transaction...