First, people have done it before the advent of the internet and world wide web were popular. Of course, it has become so ingrained into our society that there are things that you might miss out on if you disconnect from the grid...

Second, my wife and I did that before the birth of our son. We did it for six months. We got rid of cable, internet, and cell phones and stuck with only a landline. Possible, yes. Inconvenient as all hell? Better believe it.

We wound up going back to all three and ditching the landline. Cable has better entertainment choices, especially adding in Hulu and Netflix. Internet adds tons of possibilities for reference, entertainment, news, etc.

Just remember, those above you in a company, may have a clause that indicates something along the lines of "As long as the company shows a profit, ANY profit, then you will receive your obscene bonuses..."

Greed is a motivator.

So, people are saying that Apple won't do something that would infringe on their income (re: iTunes). Others have said that they won't do something to screw over their userbase. The whole problem is going to be in the EULA that comes with iCloud and whether or not by accepting the EULA that you can have your files reviewed to see if they contain pirated material. Proving that you are in legal possession of copyright material will be YOUR responsibility, not Apple's. Factor in that RIAA probably realizes that more money is to be had from sales from Apple and that they have probably had some prior collaboration prior to iCloud. Otherwise, if RIAA pisses off Apple, could Apple not just say "screw it. We're closing iTunes store to all members of RIAA. Everyone can just download their pirated stuff for free." or they could offer a monthly rate that might screw RIAA over.

I think that the RIAA is not going to fight with Apple. Not that the RIAA is smart, they aren't. But, taking on Apple is kind of like SCO taking on IBM.

Everything is debatable, given the right lawyer(s).

Are you kidding? The airlines will blame anyone they can in order to defer their incompetence unto another party, ESPECIALLY United.

The last thing that an airline wants is for the public to lose confidence in them, so they'll blame lulz or anonymous or the Chinese... whichever will get them the most sympathy from the public.

When their ban includes every existing programming language and these guys can't play their Farmville...

Except that a gesture used to interface with a touch screen is a process. It's a process to interface with the system.

This is news? Isn't this the same as the US admitting the existence of Delta Force, Seal Team 6, or Area 51? I mean really?

Rah, rah, the Chinese have a "computer commando" unit... big freaking deal. A "blue" team the same as a US "red" team? Great, so it's a pen-test team, maybe with other duties. Like the US doesn't have anything like that in the government or private sectors...

/., it's too early to be wasting my time on this...

Really? Define "secret" bases? Ones that someone on /. could claim to have worked at but cannot say anything?

Do some research and let the rest of us lazy folks know what you find...

Do they? What about Delta Force?

Well, this whole incident has reaffirmed my complete LACK of faith in Sony and any of their entertainment services. My son asks me daily if I have heard an update and I tell him. He just nods and guess what? He doesn't need his PS3... he's happy off playing Legos or riding his bike or watching TV or whatever...

Me, I couldn't care less. I'm sick of the speculation and hearing about how a corporation got completely self-confident and self-absorbed to where simple system updates were not done... I mean are they all running Window 95 out there??

3) Take credit for success, blame the admin for failure. 4) Profit!

It's a damn shame that those forces (Navy Seals and CIA) do not get the $25 million reward or any other reward...

Hopefully they used bullets soaked in pig blood...

So this is making me wonder... Sony claims that some "hacker group" called Anonymous, breached their security, hence the outage. Yet Anonymous, who has both made a claim to attack Sony AND has claimed their past attacks, is not claiming responsibility?

Any chance that someone over at Sony broke something and PR wants to blame it on a "hacker group"?

Doesn't matter - TFA states that you can deactivate it... we must all believe the general counsel for Apple as they would never the lead the public wrong...