That's all I ever wanted: for Sony to not attempt to steal something they've sold me. Then my family can log in to PSN, buy DLC, rent movies and buy new games. Until then... Sony loses.

My wife & I are in the same boat.
I sit and marvel at Sony's approach to public relations. Exactly how much would leaving OtherOS in place have cost them? How much would restoring it cost them? Compare that to how much the lawsuits and these attacks cost them.
Plus the lost business from people like us who can no longer purchase DLC or even new games that require firmware updates.

Oh, like maybe OtherOS will return? I would like that.
So would Sony. I used to buy DLC & rent video via PSN.
That was before their feature-stealing "upgrade" was required to let me log in.
Of course, so far Sony has been too stupid to know whats actually in their own best interests.

I've owned 3 Nokia phones. My current unit is an N900, which is wonderful for a software engineer. Apparently this will be my last Nokia device. All the work on their Linux infrastructure... discarded. Good bye Nokia.

We have a war on 2 fronts, a damaged economy and climate change. Still congress has the free cycles to sell out the public interest in return for some bribes (I mean lobbying fees).

Maybe we should fire them? Anybody have a list of which representatives supported this?

After all, they're supposed to be representing their constituents.

Is this a reboot I hadn't heard of?

Apparently, so do many of my co-workers whether they know it or not.

I was in a meeting the other day where everyone brought their laptops.

All of us with glossy screens (Macbooks) were crowded to one side of the conference table so the window wouldn't be behind us. Those with matte (ThinkPads) screens were unconcened.

Sony won't let us log in to the Playstation network until we install their OS update 3.21. However, this "upgrade" disables linux (the "Other OS" feature). I refuse to allow Sony to remotely delete this option, so downloadable content is not an option for my family. Cleverly, Sony is also preventing me from buying or renting films or other content. Well, that's their call.

I do use it on the handful of domains I admin.

Someone with points, please un-troll this. Just because we don't like what they are saying or just because they are partly wrong does not make this a troll. Open Source projects often ARE incomplete. The author often codes enough to solve their problem, then shares what they've got with the world. This is a good thing and benefits us all but to non-tech users or less-experienced engineers it's just unfinished code.

The moral of the story: Don't get lost in British Columbia.

Unfortunately I must disagree. The actual moral is: Don't help someone in British Columbia.