Oh I agree, you shouldn't be modded troll. You should be modded off-topic because nobody cares if you feel this belongs on the site or not.

Get over yourself.

This guy is known for running a website that supports the First Amendment but he argues that the Fifth is a a detriment to society?

So you have the right to openly and freely speak your mind, but you dont have the right to NOT openly and freely speak your mind? Could you please cite some arguments on how these two views dont completly contradict one another?

Or are you just speaking out your back end? I'll simply asume you're wrong until you speak to me directly about it, because clearly by choosing not to speak you are admiting I am correct. See how that works?

Random Corp cant hold a gun to my head. Great, I feel so much better.

They can however, prevent me from obtaining employment (and being self-employed is not always an option folks), obtaining credit (That's an awfully nice credit score you have there...be a shame if something...happened...to it.), track my every movement through various means, take me to court on bogus charges then drop them forcing me to miss days of work to defend myself (if I am already employed), or bill me for services they did not provide and force me to spend more time and money fighting them in court.

They might not be able to kill me, but they sure as heck can make me want to kill myself. Is that really any better?

Of course not, those people are still stuck trying to read through the first half of The Silmarillion.

I think we need some actual specs before we can make such a judgement.

Based on what we've been told, im assuming its going to work more or less like a normal PC currently, switch in and out hardware as you please, but we dont nessisarily know that for sure yet. There might be 'options' but it may be limited to whats supported by the OS or something. I think its safe to say this will change the landscape, in my opinion for the better.

Weather or not they can compete is really really hard to judge right now. What games will be coming out and supported on it? We dont know. What hardware will work and currently does work? We dont know. Is support mainly geared at PC type games or will we be getting effectivly a third console option? We dont know (though it sounds like its mainly a PC port of sorts, as opposed to a SteamMachine only release of a game).

I'd say with good support we should see them compete well, and make more profit even if they fail to sell more machines and games overall. If I had to guess, that would be my guess of how it will play out.

DEA didn't get shut down...there that was hard.

Ahh yes, exactly what we need. A dead document on delivery that lays out whats allowed and what's not, whatever happends next be damned.

The constitution was written the way it was for some very good reasons. What do you suppose is going to exist, say 100 years from now? Do you think 100 years ago anyone forsaw 3d printing? The Internet? Cell Phones? Nuclear weapons? Jet Fighters that can exceed the speed of sound?

If you write a document like that, ridged, unforgiving, you end up with something that works for about 10 years then needs to be rewritten. Abstract interpretation is very important. Its also clearly a huge problem when people take things like "secure in your papers in effects" to not cover things like Email and IM conversations, but thats more because we're a bunch of corrupt jerks than anything else.

We're just experiencing the very thing they forsaw when they wrote this thing, eventually people will corrupt anything you give them. Eventually, you're left with little choice than to take over and redo large parts of the goverment. The nice part is we have legal, non-lethal means to do that, right now. The problem is they're not being used, yet. It remains to be seen if they ever will be.

Thats sorta like asking people for a show of hands of who wants an apple, then insisting that if you dont like apples, thats not a reason to not raise your hand...

Dear UK,

Chinese hackers in your system? Some troublemaker from the inner city poking around in a highly classified file network? Just dont like what some guy from the internet is doing on your home page?

For the low low price of 1 billion dollars, I will give you the solution to your problems! DISCLAMER: By reading below you are utilizing my advancted technique and agree to make payment in full to myself. Thank you.

Step 1:

Unplug the machine.

Problem solved. I will be expecting my payment shortly. Thank you.

what are you frothing at the mouth about? Nobody said anything about bringing ads into your house via the controller in question. Try reading what people post before you go crazy next time. And refit that tinfoil while you're at it.

Twitter is also not the US goverment, the amendments do not apply. If Twitter doesn't want you to speak, there's not much you can do about it.

It's the difference between "Some sources cite redbull energy drink as a possible cause of the crash" vs "An anonymous source who worked at the plant said "Oh yeah, its clear Redbull and actual bulls are a really bad idea, those steer went crazy and caused the crash."

What is a map app other than 'data on the backend'?

Either the maps are useful, and therefore the app is useful, or the maps are horribly buggy pieces of garbage, leaving the app a horrible buggy piece of garbage. Just because you like Apple doesn't mean their Map app is worth...anything at all.

What?

You people really are daft. Absolutly nothing in the 'premium' package wouldn't have been developed by the community at large if they were allowed to. These 'packs' work out to be little more than extra maps. Sure you got a few extra vehicles and weapons, but it still works out to be very little content for the money.

Lack of mod support, lack of custom map support. About the only thing BF3 had was you could actually still own a server for it if you wanted to, but I suspect that wont be true for long either.

Netflix doesn't need to be open source. You can stream Netflix to a PC, so you can add it to SteamOS if you wanted to, even if its just through a browser.

I loved my PS3 for some things, but browsing the web was horrible on their terrible piece of garbage of a web browser. This thing can be built to support Firefox or Chrome if you wanted, and im sure the devs of both of those will be working to make sure that happends. That opens up so many options..this thing IS a PC, but its a PC that you operate like a console system, which is the game changer involved. Nobody here will care much for that i'm sure, but its not aimed at geeks, its aimed at mom and dad, your semi-sentient cousins, or your own kids. The masses.