I'm not sure, but it sounds like you are implying that I've managed to at least support part of the infinite monkey theorem. Now I have to decide if I'm insulted.

Actually I spewed a little postmodern gibberish that came to me. Then I googled "postmodern gibberish" and found this: http://www.infiltec.com/j-postmd.htm. After that I pick a few choice words and filtered them through a thesaurus and strung it all together.

I guess a good magician shouldn't give away he technique. Just don't ask me what any of it was supposed to mean.

To understand it you have to frame the topic with postmodern vocalities to extract the deeper counter-context of the coherency structures embellished by undifferentiated interval exposition. Once you see that, it's actually pretty intuitive.

I don't use twitter. Knowing this I believe twitter should be help liable for every mistake. Every unsafe site a user is sent to. Every false positive and every false negative they report. If they want to obscure every link posted so the user can't asses if they trust the site being linked to prior to clicking it, then they assume the responsibility for what's on the other side. In exchange for that liability they get the data from snooping on every link that gets clicked provided that voyeurism isn't violating some other law.

I second this. Add to it that companies do Steam only releases. I can't buy games for the kids and let them all play different games at once on less I create a separate account for each game. (Even for single player games!) I have 3 computers but the kids have to serialize game time.

This call-home DRM only makes PC gaming worse. The publishers say piracy is what is killing their market. At this point I wouldn't cry if it would finally just die. Then they might be replace by something that doesn't punish the consumer.

I think this is the major issue/point for me. I'm not against this feature, put I personally don't find it that useful. I'd like their parental control to selectively share titles with the kids and I'd like to be able to let one child play Game A on one computer while another plays Game B on the other. We do that with our DRM free games.

I have to disagree. I'm not looking to give free stuff to friends.

Without steam, I can buy 2 games and play one one my computer while my son plays the other on the family computer. I cannot do that with this 'sharing' plan.

It is not useful to me. Steam is still a pain when making purchases for the household.

Normally I would have ignored this as crazy tin foil hat talk. But given recent events I guess I have to consider that you might be correct and may even be a little optimistic in your assessment.

Is code different in California due to quakes? Do they only frack mine in areas with building codes like California?

Parts will be walled off no matter what. Standardize DRM and you buttress those walls.

Oh wait! I just just had a brilliant idea to help reverse Global Warming!

Well, of course not. They're all getting ready for WWDC next week. You'll lose them again in September when they lineup for the new iPhone. I hear it has a better camera.

Perhaps I missed something. Is the W3C defining an ABI for web browser plugins? And do they think they can provide a way to prevent the user from inserting code between the plugin and video driver?

I thought the W3C only defined the document formats and network protocols. Failure to define an ABI will prevent the ability to implement a "standard" browser independent plugin. Failure to to lock down the full path from he html5 API to the video driver in proprietary code will render any DRM ineffective.

This is a feeble attempt to relabel the current state of affairs with its incompatible, insecure closed plugins as "standard". Nothing meaningful is being standardized and it does not increase in portability or accessibility of any content.

At $42K a year per kid? I think it's time to start on that family of 20!

How to you perceive things they are relative?