and Here is what Merriam-Webster has to say about the term Weirdo... they're different terms and those in TFA more closely resemble "weirdos" what's your point?

I typically buy a $50 (4000MP) card at my local brick & mortar store and the throw the points on my console... I don't see how that would really help MS gain interest on my purchase.

I do this for 2 reasons:

1. 1. Using a points card means I don't have to have a CC associated with my online account
2. 2. I can more easily keep track of my spending, if I'm limit myself to buying say 1 card every 6 months then when I'm low on points I'm less likely to make impulse purchases since I can't just add more points from my CC with the push of a button.

Honestly I really don't give a sh*t if someone is making interest on my $50... it's worth what? a few pennies TOPS. Good for them if they're smart enough to leverage that advantage, at least they're putting that money to better use than anything I'm doing with it (buying virtual garbage).

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!

You joke but that was ACTUALLY my first thought when I read the summary. If they had some mechanic to easily cluster these together I'd be curious how many you'd need before you'd have the equivalent power of a typical PC....

For $25 I'd be inclined to pick one up for every TV in my house to use for web-browsing.

You can blame a home owner for not putting a good lock on their door but the person that breaks in should still go to jail. Blaming the victim is just lame.

That's a BS analogy... This situation is more like the home owner blaming their bank for not putting a lock on the vault... In that situation the bank (Sony) has just as much responsibility to good protection as the thief had a responsibility to not steal it.

Just install network traffic loggers on each machine. Do some simple math at the end of the month.

This doesn't really work for me since most of my heavy network activity is through video game consoles (Gaming / Netflix / downloading demos / etc)

Why not "test" the jurors every so often to determine if they're really effective jurors?

It would work something like this: you would have a small group (employees of facebook, or wherever) that takes (actual) select complains and determine how their "ideal" juror would handle the complaint. feed these at random to the jury pool and if they're not voting the way they should, reduce (or remove) their voting power in effecting the outcome in the decision making process, alternatively if they have a strong history of voting exactly the way they should then their votes would carry more weight in non-test cases.

I wouldn't necessarily "kick out" jurors, but their voting power could be diminished to nothing if they have a very poor track record... I also don't think that the jurors should know that they're being tested nor, what their voting power is, nor that their voting power even has more or less weight than anyone else's.

More features to break down? Guess what... that ship has already sailed. "simple mechanicals" hasn't been a common feature in the automotive marketplace for nearly 3 decades.

Honestly I see this playing out just like any other automotive technology. A few cars will use it, it will be clumsy and unreliable, the manufacturers will learn from from their mistakes and improve on it year after year making it more robust. Within a decade or two it becomes the superior choice to the old system in nearly every aspect, at which point nearly every car on the market uses it, and no one but a small group of older gear-heads will care.

do you honestly believe that 95% of the people buying Android phones give 2 shits about Openess? Most of them probably don't know what that is... Heck I'm the biggest open-source advocate I know and that didn't even factor one iota into my decision to buy an Android phone.

^that's a very good point, here's another:

"I've been drinking but I should be good to drive.... hmm looks like there's a checkpoint on my way home, maybe I shouldn't risk it..."

If you're too drunk to drive, you're probably also too drunk to operate a smart phone well enough to locate sobriety checkpoints.

this could very well change with person to person transfers.... unless the fees are free or very small people who frequently make transfers would likely switch to whichever company has the lowest rate. At very least if Visa is smart they'll undercut PayPal.

The real sad part is that evolution favors the "characteristic" of humans that causes them to not believe in it.

Rez

So how exactly does that benefit the iPad 2 more-so than iDevices in general?

I took "still in use" to mean "in concept" for instance, when building ancient stone buildings they'd put log rollers under the stone and carry the rollers that rolled out the back to the front.... this tool is no longer used, however the concept still exists in modern tank style treads. Similarly while some obscure tape format might not be used anymore, there are a lot of places that still use "magnetic tape" for recording, backup and storage.

if you take the question at face value, then there are literally thousands of readily available SPECIFIC tools that are no longer used (or at least not commonly used or supported) but if you consider the question on a conceptual level then I can't think of a one.

according to the GGP that makes you a pirate. also, according to TFA doing that in the future might mean you wouldn't be able to access your save game.

I like the idea of my save game on a server somewhere and my being able to access it anywhere. Sony's update processes sucks though, I've never had a game or system update that took less than a half hour, god forbid it be an older game as it will take 2 to 3 times longer than that. More often then not I opt to just skip the update process because I don't feel like waiting. This is even more annoying when you consider that somehow my Xbox manages to perform similar system and game updates in about 10-20 seconds including restart time which makes it a minor annoyance at worst.

Unless sony improves their update speed I don't see myself using this feature as I wouldn't want to be locked out of my save game or forced to sit through a painfully lengthy update.