"Too much choice" is strictly a developer problem. If I'm going to be releasing big budget, AAA software on a given platform, I need to know that 99+% of that platform's users will be able to click the icon and have it "just work" with no extra effort, and I also need to know that binaries I release today will still work 5+ years down the line, on the latest version of the OS at that time.

On windows it's easy to meet those requirements. On Linux it's nearly impossible, because "Linux" isn't actually an OS, it's a hundred different OSes, each with it's own GUI quirks and package availabilities and update schedules and hardware compatibilities.

"You will go to hell" is only coercive if hell exists. (it doesn't)

After reading your post I am actually a little excited for Wii U. Maybe we'll get a whole new generation of XBOX is hueg jokes! I can't wait.

I'll be checking in on the Wii U in a year or two; if there's a nice strong catalog of "hardcore" games at that point I'll consider getting one.

Even though there are already a million people posting this, I'm posting too just so you are aware of how tiny a minority you are with your viewpoint.

I believe that if the rightsholder refuses to make a copyrighted work or patent available, anyone and everyone has the unquestionable moral right to pirate that work, and FUCK prevailing law.

When I die, my "work stuff" folder and the password for the truecrypt container found within shall be passed on to my eldest son, as is done among my people.

So you've bought every single game they released, then?

Fixed for proper Steve Jobs analogy.

Why is everyone so short sighted about this? The food pill does not replace real food; it suplements it. "A well prepared meal in good company" is not always an option. Can you honestly say that you've never been in a situation where you were late for something or too busy and you ended up eating a less-than-healthy meal just because it was convenient? Wouldn't it have been better in that situation to be able to say "fuck it, one pill, 100% perfect nutrition for the day".

Do you carry large sums of paper money on you when you go walking around town? Do you have thousands of dollars stashed away in a shoebox under your bed?

I'd consider Bitcoins on a server to be roughly as secure as the money in my pocket as I walk around downtown, and Bitcoins in my personal posession about as secure as cash in a shoebox under my bed. So, I'd never keep more than $20-$60 in bitcoins on a server, and probably never more than $100-$200 worth in my total Bitcoin holdings.

Seriously, what happened? Have they always been a mustache-twirling, comically evil organization? Did they make Lex Luthor the police chief on 9/12/2001?

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but... ... Firefly isn't on TV any more. It was cancelled. I'm so sorry.

Oh please god no. It's bad enough waiting for a comment thread to collapse for 15 seconds after I click; don't spread the slashdot comment code to other sites, please!

If by "fairly easily" you mean, ten years of clinical trials and hundreds of millions of dollars.

I guess I'll just have to hope I don't need any of these treatments in the next decade.

I think that's an overly optimistic appraisal of the situation. Laws are selectively enforced all the time. Mostly they'll leave people alone, but when election time rolls around I think judges and DAs all over the place will be more than happy to bust a few random exit node operators for trafficking in child pornography. Bonus: if you lead protests, or run for office against the incumbent DA, or start a business that competes with a business owned by a local judge's son, all they have to do is watch your exit node traffic until some unmentionables slip by and they've got you.