the creator was on board and excited about the project. i understand that cbs "owns" the script, but do you really believe that the author originally sold his work because he wanted a corporation to bury it forever? i totally get that cbs has to defend their properties, but they could have resolved this in a manner other than taking their ball and going home. shit, i didn't even know that cbs owned the rights to star trek; "CBS greenlights fan-made Star Trek project" would be a way better headline for cbs, but i guess they just don't give a fuck about anything but today's dollar.

well, this is slashdot so i guess it's gotta be car analogy time...

you bought a brand new Chevrolet off the lot; sales guy says "just make your way out the lot and talk to Dave, he'll have your new car waiting for you". you go out to the lot to find Dave standing there without your new car. he says "oooh, sorry, there was just a recall on that model. we'll get it to you just as soon as we've fixed the problem". so you start asking things like "when will that be?", "can i just get another car instead?" and "can i have my money back since i'm not getting a new car now?" but Dave just ignores you, goes back inside, and locks the door behind him.

and now in non-car-analogy terms, i guess i just think it's really really shitty that sony can take things away from people that those people have already paid for. their views on piracy would lead consumers to believe that sony just wants to be paid fairly for their product (seems reasonable), but now they don't even feel the need to provide anything for the money? they need to either provide the product that was paid for, or a refund. there is literally no other industry on this planet that can get away with the shit that media companies can, and they need to be reined in.

tethering only gives you somewhere else to pipe the data that you're already paying for. it does not provide you with a wider pipe. and that's all cell data is; it's a pipe. he could just as easily be streaming movies all day long to the phone. or what if you had a usb projector connected to a phone? huge sd cards in a tablet? bittorrent client on an android device? why does it matter to the data provider if the data goes through my phone to another device? it's not like tethering uncorks some technical genie-bottle to open the data floodgates, i can still only use what i'm paying for.

with science, we can design experiments around theories to determine if we should continue to espouse those theories. for example, i can design an experiment to test if indeed gravity has an acceleration of 9.8m/s^2. designing experiments around theories to test them is one of the core ideas of science (as i understand it; i am certainly not a scientist). while it's not possible to "disprove" any supernatural entities, it's also not been observed by anyone that there is an experiment to enforce the theories of a "god'. the logical response then, is to consider it untrue. i'd love to see some experimental data that alludes to the existence of a higher power, but until i do i'll file it under "highly unlikely" with omniscient spaghetti-men and leprechauns.

they don't want all those fancy test clients to be picking up the latest in drive-by syphilis; even microsoft knows better than to go on the real internet with explorer.

Children being dolled up all seductively for the viewing pleasure of adults has no place on the internet. Let's keep that where it belongs - on the The Learning Channel's "Toddlers and Tiaras" - Wednesdays at 10 (9 central).

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!"

as a side note, apparently this comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter and i should try less whitespace and/or less repetition. knowledge is power!

indeed. but this doesn't explain why, after detaining them for twelve hours, they were denied entry to the country. are we to believe that they were unable to convey that context successfully to their interrogators, or that those same interrogators couldn't get on some internets to investigate the whole "destroy" idiom? i can't help but think of the rob corddry character from the second 'harold and kumar' movie when i try to picture the clowns that thought these brits were an honest-to-god threat to america.

ok, so if foxconn wants more money for their employees they are free to renegotiate the contract, but apple can't just *decide* to pay somebody else's employees more. or did you think you could walk into walmart, buy one of their many chinese-made bathmats, hand the guy at the register an extra two bucks and tell him to be sure that it gets to the chinese slave labour that made it?

great, and i'm sure most of /. can do the same on their devices of choice. but the attitude of "well *I* understand technology so everyone else is dumb for using more than their allotted share of a finite resource" doesn't actually resolve anything. i've never once seen a cell provider's pitch for their service include "well yeah, it's great for data but you should only use it for small things". what's acceptably small? my mom doesn't know this shit, and she shouldn't need to. she can barely keep straight how to email pictures and use the maps on her iphone. if the phone is *capable* of doing it, the average user is not gonna grasp why they shouldn't, especially when the people selling them the service pitch it on how fast and convenient it is.

I think the real problem with Apple users is how clueless they are about technology. Cell phone towers are easily overloaded so you really shouldn't use them for things like backups. Wait until you get home or go to your public library or starbucks or something.

myopic and misplaced. that's like bitching that the problem with ford owners is that they don't understand the engineering behind road design. this is not a failing of the user; this is a failing of the cell phone providers to scale up their architecture appropriately for new technology. they absolutely had to know that every new generation of phone is bringing new ways to use data, and that they're selling them more now than ever, and that people are becoming permanently "connected" more and more by the hour. instead of spending their record-breaking profits on new laws and huge bonuses they could have been expanding their network capabilities and increasing service levels and satisfaction. but hey, screwing customers and litigating show up prettier on this quarter's reports.

in china, doesn't the lack of automation make the same manufacturing outfit more nimble? i'd imagine they can reconfigure the line for new models in hours instead of weeks because giving different instructions to humans seems much easier than reconfiguring enormous purpose-built machines while your smaller, higher-paid labour force sits on their hands and collects their union wage.

if current copyright legislation such as the DMCA isn't performing as expected, perhaps they could take it off the books before piling new laws on top?

as a canadian, i feel it necessary to interject on this whole pipeline-is-a-good-idea theme. with estimates that by 2020, greenhouse emissions from the oilsands alone would exceed combined emissions of all passenger vehicles on canadian roads, and the damage being done to the surrounding land and fresh water supplies, i find it really difficult to label the pipeline as "a good idea" simply because the whole oilsands project is still a colossally bad idea.

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