Not really. In fact, The State Media (CCTV) itself is in the process of translating The Big Bang Theory and releasing it in mainland China , and that is probably the real reason for this ban. IOW this isn't about censorship at all, this is simply using the censorship tool to protect the (incompetant) state media from competition by the more competant private media streaming companies.

And to think in this vast Universe, we are likely just another tribe, living on this tiny isolated planet we call Earth. I just hope we don't get to meet the metaphorical White Man in my life time, because no matter what their intentions are, it never ends well for the tribers...

Jefferson was much more Hamiltonian when he himself was in the presidential office. Just sayin'.

"Ideals" and "beliefs" are mostly useful in getting the sheeples in line, because sadly for most people "ideals" and "beliefs" are much easier pills to swallow than facts and evidence. How many "ideals" and "beliefs" have we had throughout the centuries, and how much good has ever come out of those? Those great men who actually got things done and moved our society in a positive direction almost always compromised.

Well, erm, so I guess my point is, it may be more constructive to critise a politician based on the actual issues, rather than painting him with a brush and attacking his "ideal".

Yes, because the need to avoid "official embarassment" outweighs the needs of the 239 lives on board and the anguished relatives on the ground. Naturally.

That's a good one, probably explains why Lamport only just got the award now and not much sooner :)

Sad indeed. But it's not my fault that Malaysia Airlines chose Facebook as their official channel. Here's a non-Facebook quote if that makes you feel any better, though I suspect all non-Facebook sources are second-hand sources who themselves copied from MA's official Facebook page.. http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...

Steam also doesn't require an "install", the game is playable after the download, unlike origin.

Nope. That NYT piece seems to have forgotten about the initial statement from Malaysia Airlines, which said the last time of contact with flight 370 was at 2:40am:
https://www.facebook.com/my.ma...
That was before the Malaysian authorities went into full denial mode and claimed last contact was at 01:20am. The 02:40 time was inconsistent with their estimated "crash site" in the Gulf of Thailand, which was one of the initial sources of confusion. However, 02:40am turned out to be the exact time of last military radar contact which they were forced to confirm more than 5 days later. Additionally, there were the "small" details that two transponder systems were turned off one after another more than 10 minutes apart, and that the ACARS system was turned off before the last voice contact with the pilots.
In order to fit all these facts into a theory of stupidity, you'd have to accept that: 1. an unidentified flying object the size of a 777 can just fly across the width of Malaysian airspace (more than 1 hour of flight time) at cruising altitude without being noticed by the Malaysian military 2. that 02:40am time from Malaysian Airline's initial statement just turned out to match the time of last military radar contact by complete coincidence 3. nobody noticed the time descrepancies between the two transponder systems turning off.
This is clearly beyond the realm of incompetance, and can only be explained with a touch of malice. The Malaysian authorities knew from the beginning what was going on, but was more concerned with the possible liabilities and damages to their "image" resulting from a rogue pilot, than with actually finding the plane. With wanton disregard for the 239 lives on board and their relatives on the ground, they knowingly misled the international community on a wild witch hunt across the Gulf of Thailand, delaying the search for at least five crucial days, thereby eliminating any possiblity of finding survivors (if the plane had ultimately crashed), and quite possibly lowering the likelihood of finding the cockpit recorders to near zero.

The firmware residing in hardware ROM is considered part of the hardware. The FSF only takes issue with the binary firmware that are distributed as part of the driver software, i.e. those binary blobs under /lib/firmware. RMS even said if the hardware manufacturers put those blobs on ROM then it would be fine [1].

Today's home routers are just small general purpose computers with a bunch of network ports.
Today's "smart scales" are just small general purpose computers embedded in a scale.
Today's smart TVs are just general purpose computers embedded inside a big TV.
Today's treadmills are just general purpose computers, in a treadmill.
Today's DVRs are just general purpose computers with an hdmi-in and an IR receiver.
Today's PS4s and Xbox Ones are, well they are just general purpose computers really.

They all do. If they don't, they'll have to at least double the price on most of these products.

matroska is definitely a no go on both. mp4 is recognized at least on the ps3, but can only play a very limited number of codecs. In the end I just said to hell with it and built a small XBMC box.

Oh, yes they do support DLNA. What I meant to say was that their codecs and container format support is so poor that it makes them practically useless as a living room media player, DLNA or not. I don't expect the next-gens to be any better in this regard.

That sucks but I don't see how the Xbox can be any better in these regards, speaking from my experience with the PS3 and the Xbox360.

If you want this kind of freedom then you need a general purpose computing device (i.e. a PC). The consoles are very locked-down, special purpose hardware, designed specifically for you to consume content in ways they intended, generating sustained revenue for MS/Sony in the process. If you're buying a console expecting anything more than that then you're bound to be disappointed. On the other hand, a general purpose computing device (i.e. a PC) of comparable processing capabilities would also cost you a fair bit more.

There's much more exploitable bullshit in Chinese traditional medicine than just big hard dicks. You just need to find the human organ that most resembles a "small, inert floppy goop-sack", and somehow link that organ to one's sexual prowess (through the theories of Chinese Medicine of course, I'm pretty sure it's in there somewhere). Do that and before you know it we're adding the jelly fish to the endangered list.

Or you can boot into a custom recovery like clockworkmod, start adb shell, mount /system and make whatever changes you like from there. No need to root at all.