I'll admit I wasn't aware of management changes at Sony. I hope this means that soon we'll be able to install linux on our PS3 again and that nonsensical cinevia support is going away.

Fair enough. My wife's HP laptop died literally 1 week after the warranty expired, and our PS3 still works.

Still, I can't play with linux on it anymore. To play The Campaign I have to use my physical disc, and every time I watch netflix I need to do some kind of system update first. I thought there should be some discussion of that.

Given Sony's habit of disabling features, having the playstation network crash for days on end, and adding copy protection as a mandatory software upgrade, is anyone really interested in their next gen gaming system?

Well, sure but.... um....
..... ... ... ... um.... Ok. Fine.

Thanks for the reply-- I'd never heard of that. I must have missed the "netflix comes to linux via netflix-desktop" headline. gotta check that out...

Wouldn't it be easier to run an android image in a virtual machine and just use the android netflix app?

If there was something that the US was doing that bothered him, why didn't he just leak what was relevant to that instead of just dumping everything? There were a lot of embarrassing revelations that came out of his wikileaks dump, and whatever he was trying to accomplish, those stupid but insignificant tid-bits overshadowed it.

Given consequences as grave as those predicted, it seems like this should be looked at very closely, despite the skepticism of prominent scientists.

When this fails to produce results, they will come back and say, the reason why it failed is because we didn't have enough money to really do it right. What we actually need is more, and then we can succeed.

We all know this here. Could Slashdot editors please start putting quotes around untruths like "CS Education Crisis" and "Technical Worker Shortage" as a matter of policy?

I thought Carly Fiorina was the Sarah Palin of computing?

And yes, I'm aware there's some doubt as to the authenticity of the quote, but it still probably applies here.

--Gauis Petronius Circa 50AD

What did it used to be and how is this an improvement?

I put a button in my software. Click it and a form pops up with a "describe what you were doing when a crash or bug happened, or make a suggestion for a new feature" type message. It also, behind the scenes, captured the state of the program when the button was pressed. That worked well. I got a bunch of new feature requests, as some good hints as to what the user was trying to do when things went south. YMMV