I agree with you, but I also agree with his idea that information should be set free. We The People enable, protect, and to a large part even pay for the production of mass media content due to Hollywood's and Big Music's creative accounting practices which show them losing money or breaking even on clearly profitable media. And the same goes for the telecommunications infrastructure: We The People largely paid for that, not just by paying for services but actually through government grants and the like, and it's used against us to milk us of every possible cent while providing the lowest possible standard of service. The fact that we still pay more to send calls across town than to send them across the country is just ridiculous and it's based on legislation bought by the telecoms industry.

I feel about Kim the way I feel about a big rock rolling down a hill. It's going to make a path I can follow, but I don't want to hang out with it... or in its way

Nobody involved with enabling massive copyright infringement (for good or ill, let's save that for other arguments please) is ignorant of the fact that the USA has criminal copyright infringement. It's a ridiculous idea that to suggest that they were blindsided by this. What's happening here is that Kim is making a statement for the record, which is actually a lie, and it's being amplified and rebroadcast by the masses of asses, like slashdot editors.

What? Yes, you absolutely can. Yes, it was absolutely predictable. Yes. YES! Look, yes. The answer to all your objecting questions is yes. Yes, he could and should have predicted that the USA would do its best to sow his ground with salt. Just fucking look at us. LOOK AT US. Of course we would do that.

There's nothing good at the bottom of that hole, unless you've got a smoking gun that proves not incompetence, but deliberate negligence.

When I say something like this, I mean it. Yes, there would be a temporary disturbance (in the force?) if Sony went under tomorrow. But the world would eventually be a better place for it. Same with most corporations, honestly.

Flamebait means what you think I was doing, which also isn't what I was doing. Trolling is making shit up to make people angry. I was expressing heartfelt beliefs. I know many here agree with me. But I guess you're still humping your PS4

Actually, it's the argument from exaggeration, I think there's a better name for it, but I haven't formally studied logical fallacies. I didn't formally study to learn to read, either. Instead, I read stuff. I can't diagram a sentence for you, because I don't care and because we spent maybe one day on that in my entire school career, IIRC, with no homework. I can tell you when a sentence is broken, and usually suggest multiple ways to fix it. And I can tell you when logic is broken, and suggest that someone fuck off :)

The point of making the extreme example (a form of hyperbole) is to illustrate a point — where do you stop sliding down the slippery slope? Because history tells us that mission scope tends to creep, and that like any organization law enforcement agencies tend to acquire power when possible and give it up only at gunpoint. Oh, sorry, that was more hyperbole. I imagine you're crying into your Kix now.

Sure they care. They care a lot. They just don't care in the way that you care. They care about whether their efforts to maintain the status quo succeed. That's it. But undermining the law is very much part and parcel of that maintenance. The people running our countries are career criminals and if the law were to catch up with them, they would be in trouble. They must continually erode the law, or they will be labeled as what they are. Thieves, crooks, con artists, frauds.

Let's see, some people at Sony lose their jobs, that should happen anyway. Some Sony customers get boned, that will happen anyway. No great loss. Fuck 'em. I hope they burn. The world would be better off without today's Sony.

We still hate you for your MBA because you were "just following orders".

Especially if they don't have one of the fancy forms of health insurance that ensure they won't simply get shipped off to another hospital on a busy night.

That's because there's a lot of assholes out there. It wasn't my idea, I simply recognized it as the best solution. So have some automakers. It's not an accident that Honda got it right, or Subaru for that matter. Once you get caught doing something stupid, you have to pretend like it was smart or you look like an asshole to idiots. Since most auto customers are that, you don't have to do it right to sell cars. Ford proved that forever. They did see their lead slipping, though, so they decided what the fuck, I'll do it correctly and see how that works out. And guess what? They're selling lots of those cars.

The only other design which makes sense is true parallel hybrid, with different wheels driven by different power systems. And sure, you can use a manual box, but that's actually trickier to do well (don't have the luxury of having the transmission tell you what it's about to do.) But if you're not driving separate wheels, then it pretty much has to go there. There's literally nowhere else that makes sense, because literally everywhere else adds complexity. Putting it between the engine and the transmission is the option which adds the least parts, even down to bracketry.

Exactly. The biggest issue is that it's difficult for a PHB, even a technical one, to reliably determine ahead of time who is worth 2x what everyone else is getting for a particular technology job and who is worth 1/2.

Then once someone is hired, in most companies HR makes it impossible to either give appropriate raises to those who actually deserve it or to get rid of those who aren't worth their salary as long as they're minimally performing.

As J. Random Citizen, or even just as a small-time politician who wants to Do The Right Thing, you have absolutely zero chance of becoming president of the USA. That the law says that it is possible in no way changes that fact. It is utterly impossible to become president of the USA without media support, and they have nothing to gain by upsetting the apple cart.

It's not security in depth if only some levels are secure, since you're only as secure as your weakest link. Windows isn't secure because of how it's developed and because of how it behaves once it's booted. That the boot process is a bit more secure doesn't make Windows more secure overall.