I'm sure you'd feel different if heterosexuality was in the minority.

If a company does good deeds in the name of profit, are they no longer good?

More than one request per day, in suspicion of a child-sex crime?

There must be a lot of sick perverts in Utah.

How soon until one doesn't feel guilty about throwing away a sheet?

While Nintendo has indeed released such variations of their consoles in the past (except for disc loading, are you thinking of Sony?), you're omitting that none of the redesigns introduced new features to the console. The user is not disadvantaged by not buying the new models.

Having differently colored casings does nothing to the capabilities of the system. The smaller redesigns use less material and may be more "stylish" compared to when the system was first released, but still add no new features.

The only system I can remember with it's redesign having a new feature that the older model lacked is a newer DS having a built-in web browser, but this was previously available on the older models via a cartridge.

Offering redesigned systems, where the features are still the same as the original model, is not detrimental to Nintendo users. If anything, it'd be Microsoft and Sony that are worthy of such criticism.

Reading the Google translation, it seems to say that the theaters had purchased enough licenses for their showings, but a glitch, or technical ineptitude, prevented the DRM from validating all of their copies of the movie.

I think it's a big leap to go from that, to where the submitter says that the supplier was unable to provide enough keys.

The most persistant argument against DRM surfaces here: because of the intricate technicalities involved in DRM systems, legitimate customers were denied access to material they payed for.

Even the most well-thought-out and well-funded of conspiracies couldn't erase this nightmare.

Look in the back of the instructional manual for your old Nintendo games. I remember that SNES games (and probably others up until the Gamecube) allowed you to make "one backup copy for archival purposes", or something to that effect.

Two caveats here:

I don't remember the exact wording, but I'm pretty sure "make" implied ripping the cartridges yourself, not downloading them from a ROM site.

Also, playing the game on your phone doesn't seem like an "archival purpose" to me.

There's a difference between not developing support for a certain architecture, and breaking functionality for a specific processor model that previously worked.
The point of the matter is whether Apple broke support on purpose to impede Hackintoshers, or if it just happened as a side-effect of some unrelated change.

They're supposed to be underpowered, it's a Netbook. The point of the Atom line was to make power-efficient processors, which would thrive in a market of devices that prioritizes battery life over performance.

Most screen readers can parse HTML so that visually impaired users can access web sites, as long as they properly write the web site to standards (not making the whole thing in Flash, for example).

It'd make sense if game developers got behind publishing a common API for all games, so that a user can just install a single program that'd give the proper clues to disabled gamers for every compatible game.

The problem with exceptions is that when you start making them, suddenly everyone thinks they're special and starts demanding the rules be bent for them too. If this goes through, how soon until the flood of requests from every industry in the country that they be able to get extended patent-protection time?

If pharmaceuticals are so unique the patent system can't adequately protect them, make them unpatentable and put them under a different type of protection.

The difference is that, as you mentioned,

By releasing modules for NWN months down the road, it implies that Bioware devs spent time and effort, after the game was initially released, into improving the product and giving players more content.

With this and other recent games, releasing DLC near or even on release day implies some executive went "Okay guys, strip out 5% of the game's content, and put it online for $10 instead."

It doesn't matter to the mechanics or plot of the game, but it matters to the potential audience. If you believe the character is similar to you, its easier to imagine yourself in that role.

One of the smartest things they did with Halo was defining your character as simply a space Marine; he could be of any age, race, religious belief, and so on, that the player wanted.

"XP mode" just lets you run older programs for which the developers haven't cranked out a Windows 7 patch/version yet. It's not like you can just dual-boot XP and ignore you have 7 or something.

A more legitimate usage in the case of the PSP, than other game systems' "homebrew" crowds, is to rip your UMDs to memory and play it off of there. Running a disc-drive on a portable system eats up the battery plenty, so putting it on a Memory Stick lengthens how long you can go between charges, and quickens loading times as well.
Compare this to how PC gamers do the same thing, because they don't want to damage their retail discs, and it's a hassle to swap the discs in and out whenever they want to play a new game.