This is how we got rid of red light cameras in San Diego. It became an issue in the mayoral race and soon after the election they were gone.

If Chicago had legitimate elections, they might be able to solve some of their government-related problems too.

Sony is a huge company with a lot of divisions. These articles are written from a western tech consumer point of view. Western tech consumers don't know about the non-consumer, non-tech, or non-western-facing business that Sony has.

Rather than reading this article, find something better to do with your time.

"Should we still do this, even if 0.5% of our customers might use a workaround?" Or is the answer so obvious that no one bothered to bring it up at all?

You would have lost that bet every time in history. The humans always win.

Yeah. Missing option: "I'm a fan of music, not audio."

Lazy / efficient.
Careless / focused on what matters, not distracted by irrelevant trivia

If you report that that you have a video of a news event, and you don't make it available for the public to see somehow, that's hiding information.

Does hiding news from people serve a legitimate journalistic purpose?

Because the DVD's director and editor are a better director and editor than you are. Even if they are pretty bad. This feature sounded neat when it was first talked about. It's not a very good idea in practice though.

By socializing with adults, your child can learn how to socialize with adults. That will help your child prepare for the adult world.

You should also probably try to balance this with other activities where your child can learn to interact with children. Children can be really nasty to each other. But in voluntary activities (basically anything except school), your child can do what adults do when someone is nasty to them: escape and stop interacting with nasty people. Your child won't have the opportunity schoolchildren have, to be bullied every day with no escape and no recourse.

What happened to merit? It was re-labeled "privilege". You don't think you actually earned your accompilshments, do you?

If you are good at something, your achievements will be labeled as a "privilege" and redistributed to others. I hope you like the society that most of you voted for.

Question: Does creating a new, powerful disincentive for (the wrong kind of) people to achieve help or hurt our chances to have a prosperous society in the future?

How about just a fan?

They've created a buzzword so generic that it has already conquered 1/5th of software development. Bravo, pundits! Bravo!

Let's get the government to rescue us from the bad deal the government made. We can trust the government to help us to when dealing with Verizon, can't we?