6 bucks to see a shitty movie?

Leave it to Sony to make money from having crappy IT security...

Don't worry, it will be available outside the US. The internet treats territory protection as what it is: A bug. It will route around it.

Right out of the playbook of "how do you market a shitty movie that has been panned by critics left and right so people would STILL want to see it, no matter how big a stinker it may be".

It's almost like they hired Uwe Boll as consultant.

It differs in such a way that I pay my utilities for their use. I use water, I pay for it. I use power, I pay for it. It's not like I have to pay extra again to use power I already bought.

Make that legal? As far as I can tell such shit is already legal. What would keep them from doing it? You bought their crap, it sure says something like that they can fuck with you any way they like in the fine print, so what's not legal about it?

Consumer protection whatnow?

No, but 3d printers need some input. Only allow corporate, sorry, government approved input and we're good to go.

If it stopped at gun printing... but you know, we have this tech in place to keep people from printing guns, why can't we keep them from printing those trademarked (or patented, whatever) car parts? There's a business to protect here!

What security? The security of its maker against your outrageous idea of actually using something you buy the way you want?

You're not supposed to control your appliance! If you would, you could not only fix them instead of replacing them, you could find new applications for them instead of buying another, specialized, one. And the maker could not at will end its life so you'd be buying the next one, bigger and better than your old 6 month old ancient garbage.

It's not a bug. It's a feature.

Some politician's restaurant/hotel finally got the shitty reviews it deserves and we somehow got to compensate them for it.

This, and a billion times this.

9/11 would NOT have worked out if the drill for hijackings had not been "cooperate and nobody gets hurt". Today the pilot's capsule is locked. And no matter what kind of threat you would bring to the table, the pilot will NOT unlock it. Kill a hostage? Do it. If I open, you kill us all. Kill ALL hostages? Do it. If I open, I die too.

There is NOTHING you could threaten a pilot with to make him open the door. He actually has the ORDER not to cooperate with you, so there is not even going to be any kind of repercussion against him if you skin everyone in the back alive.

9/11 worked once, because the safety procedures concerning hijackings operated on a false premise. They don't anymore.

I can understand why they are forbidden, but if I read your post correctly they are utterly useless for a terrorist attack. If it incapacitates the attacker itself, it better be a (suicide) bomb, i.e. the attack itself being carried out by the time the device is set off. You don't accomplish much in terms of terrorism by incapacitating a plane full of people (hint: the pilots don't really get any of it, so the plane keeps flying, though I could be inconvenienced if the flight attendants are out of order and I can't get my soda, oh the humanity!).

There is exactly one person in this whole wide world whose judgement about content and its appropriateness for me I will accept: MINE. There is exactly NO other person, organization, entity or being in existence that can successfully convince me that they should have any kind of say concerning my consumption of entertainment.

Personally, I consider a whole lot of shit inappropriate for consumption. Most of daytime TV comes to mind. Almost 99% of music is right behind it. And guess what, I make that decision for myself that it is inappropriate. For ME. Everyone else, I certainly do NOT think I have the right to dictate what they may or may not see, hear or for all I care smell.

That's THEIR decision. Not mine.

And it for fuck's sake certainly ain't any politician's!

Me? Most certainly not.

Oh, ok. So it's ok for them to say their imaginary friend hates me, but if I go and say that usually people who heed the dictate of an imaginary buddy should probably consider seeing a shrink I get fucked over with "vilification of religious teachings"? Believe it or not, that is actually a legal term around here.

Just in case anyone thought that only in the US the religious hold the rest of the state hostage. There's equally insane bullshit littering the law books in Europe. Separation of church and state, my ass!