Yeah, because struggling artists are well known for their crack legal teams.

..the a large copyright aggregator like Rumblefish comes along, claims over and over again that they own the rights getting your accounts suspended while they rake off a profit from their own monetization of said music.

There is quite a difference in companies partnering with NASA, and thus needing NASA to succeed for their own growth, and corporations actively competing with NASA for their profits, where NASA's success is a threat. Because that is the goal, make no mistake, for the corporations to carve out all of the profit from NASA, until NASA will be lucky if they have funding to launch a bottle rocket.

You act like NASA has a choice and isn't caught between corporate funded Libertarian/TeaParty/NeoCon PACS paying off congresscritters and senators to strong arm them into these deals by holding their budget hostage.

Of course corporations will exploit any new worker category. Just like how they exploited the role of "associate" into a meaningless mockery so they can claim a justification for unpaid overtime. It's time people started to accept that corporations are not designed to be benevolent overlords but exploitative con-artists.

I would bet serious money this "article" is part of some astroturf campaign by Uber or the Koch brothers to put yet another chink in the laws and protections that protect us from outright corporate serfdom.

A decrease in price does not equal an increase in quality. I put forth as evidence everything Wal-Mart sells, especially clothing.

No, the Parent was wanting to say "A city large enough to host a pro-sports team".

"Free Speech" is not without it's limits. You can't shout fire in a crowd, you can't threaten other people, you can't say outright lies about people. 99.9% of the AC's commenting on /. are not afraid of government reprisals, they're worried about their friends and family finding out what raging a-holes they are, and possibly getting sued for libel.

Posted by an Anonymous Coward, so certain of their freedom of speech they won't identify themselves.

That is the most laughable thing I've ever read, coming from an AC. How about signing in with your real name and address, THEN posting comments about being able to speak freely.

It matters, in some cases, such as their sync cables. Apple's walled garden is so high most people buy Apple's peripherals just to be sure they'll work.

I'm still shocked, to be honest, that Apple uses standard headphone jacks though.

Back in the day of analog cables, there was some margin of truth in Monster's claims of cable quality and gold plating. Now that everything is digital though? A rusty coat hanger can carry a digital signal as well as their best cable, so yeah fark 'em.

Annd corporations are WHY you have a 401K, instead of a pension plan or a proper social system. It's all about their profits, always, if you mattered you'd be a CEO.

Thank you for your well thought out and rational post. Now hurry along, you've got to make it to your MRA meeting on time or you'll miss the next episode of Coast to Coast. Tonight they're revealing the lizard people who are trying to take away sovereign citizen's gun rights!

Interesting.. and yet the people who "invested" their money in this kid didn't insist on his getting a degree that would guarantee their ROI, now did they? They took a gamble, much like how you take a gamble when you go into a multi-year degree program just what will or won't win the economic lottery in the future.

Of course it's easy enough to sit on the sidelines and say Engineering! or something similar, except that's still not a guarantee and it ignores the person's individual proclivities. Not everyone is capable of or interested in being an engineer. Also why would you want all that additional competition, it'll just lower that industry's wages.