You were and are quite right in my opinion.

The single most powerful weapon at the U.S's disposal is the internet. Since the U.S has the most influence on the internet and the most content out there, it follows that simply encouraging other countries to ramp up broadband penetration via subsidies, foreign aid and such makes the cultural values embedded in the media produced flow like a torrent (no pun intended). Video, text, audio, decentralized communication and publishing are the tools of soft power for the united states.

More internet = more american influence. The taliban understood this very well.

I'm speaking as an arab-american. I've lived this stuff so I know it works.

If you want to keep playing online while a custom firmware is released. All that is necessary is to plug in this as the primary DNS in your PS3 network settings:

67.202.81.137

And ta-daa, we're back online with 3.55.

As a chrome user, let me offer a couple of compelling reasons:

Adblock plus
Segmented downloading (downthemall)

It makes perfect sense. When docked AND plugged in, the cores can be turbo boosted with a doubling of the Ghz. Bam, double the speed, fast enough to compete with a budget laptop.

When it's unplugged, the cores are underclocked again, and battery life is good.

Of course, such phones would be expensive and the dock will eat up some mainboard/battery space.

But we would need a universal dock to make such devices convenient enough. If there are terminals everywhere for you to plug your cellphone into, your cell will become your backup laptop.

Yes I agree. His living conditions are hellish. I hope no one here argues it doesn't amount to torture.

In fact, it is long-term torture, lasting for close to a year now.

The man has yet to be sentenced. He should not be punished, especially not by long-term torture, in the interim.

Minimum security is plenty to hold him.

Decades behind bars is a horrible sentence. Almost as much as execution.

What we at Sony try to say is that the PSP2 is as good running a 720p game as a PS3 running a 1080p game. That is to say the PSP2 is 50% as powerful.

Of course, that's still impossible, everybody knows that. What we really mean is that the psp2 can run the kind of games that the PS3 runs, so the power of the psp2 is "in the ballpark", basically it's 25% the power of a PS3, kindof.

I hope this clarifies it for you.

For the video conference feature I chose to write my own codec to avoid all these "politics", sure, it's re-inventing the wheel, but screw it, I want my product to just work...

You're joking, right? Please tell me you are joking and not insane!

And France's Minitel! Don't forget Minitel!

To those of you who are not familiar with Minitel, it's like the internet only extremely horrible. I don't recommend googling it.

Basically, quantum computers could do magic on encryption, probably, in the future, possibly in 20 years?

Also possible: flying cars, cold fusion and immortality.

Steam uses DRM, which is evil, and does not provide a way for customers to resell their games, which is also evil. In addition, it strangles LAN play by requiring an unnecessary internet connection, which adds some more evil to the mix.

I am saddened by the popularity of steam and deeply disappointed by the decisions Valve made regarding their customers' rights and privileges.

Beautifully said, esteemed brother!

I don't mind the more invasive pat-down because when it's done professionally, it's really not uncomfortable.
The real problem is that the time to get a pat-down will about an order of magnitude longer than the time walking through the machine.

It's funny. Books are even easier to pirate than music, movies and games. Book publishers have had decades to observe what happened when the DRM crowd got greedy and evil instead of humble and sweet and they are poised to make enough blunders to drive would-be pirates to say "Oh, it's like this? Then fuck all of you!" and give them excuses to pirate books wholesale.

Trust people's gratitude! When I read a good book, I am grateful, I feel [i]love[/i] for the authors, I [b]want[/b] to give them my money, [i]and[/i] buy them drinks, [i]and[/i] lavish them with praise, [i]and[/i] proselytize for them. Hell, I will give them my blood to keep them alive and read more of what they write!

Publishers: What you need to do is make me, make US believe, [i]really[/i] believe that you take good care of your authors, that you are fair to them and that the vast, vast majority of the money we pay is going to them, not you. We don't care that much about you. I care a little bit about the editors that help shape a book but that's about it.

If you don't do this, people will just feel entitled to pirate your books by the hundreds. It's SO easy and a thousand award-winning books can be downloaded in hours and last anyone a decade. The honest ones among us will just send 10 bucks to the author for all the books he/she ever wrote. It'll probably be more money than they'd get in royalties. And those of us who won't pirate them can read some of the million free books google has put online.

This is coming from a 1st gen kindle owner who has bought dozens of DRMed books and magazine subscriptions. Now, I want my ePub format support, I want my DRM-free files, I want my resale rights. I'm asking nicely, aren't I? Oh, and give authors at least 80% of the price of the book.

Looking forward to buying from you again!

Chrome supports "extensions" and Opera 11 will do as well, however, these are weak add-ons that do not allow something like Adblock plus, which actually blocks unneeded content from downloading, significantly speeding up browsing and, less importantly, reducing bandwidth usage.

I'm not knocking down Chrome (which I presently use) or Opera (which I've used and loved for years) but as far as I'm concerned, as long as they are not as addon-friendly as Firefox, Mozilla's browser will be in my list of must-install software.

The same thing happened to me. I had to spend 5 minutes looking for the relevant option in preferences. SOmething went awry server-side I guess. I know I didn't change it.