...and just who is going to enforce any action against the parties that Sony wants to stop here?

Without the government, none of Sony's threats have any teeth.

RMS only commissioned the license. He did not create it. The lawyer that actually drafted the license would likely be a much better "witness" assuming that such things would even be considered in this case.

Amicus briefs are likely the only means of being seen or heard in a case like this.

Learn? Learn? LEARN?

Crack open a book sometime. Islam has been trying to take over the rest of the world pretty much since the day it was founded. Liberal fantasies about Western colonialism are flatly contradicted by the entire rest of history. From Charlemange to Dracula the rest of the world was actively under siege.

This is just the next chapter in a very long history that's not pretty if you actually bother to pay attention to it.

Being able to ignore their oil really wouldn't change the situation all that much.

Everything else has DRM.

The only way you can think that "DRM has disappeared" is if you are still living in 1998 and think that music is the only kind of media file under consideration.

Also, "services" contain DRM. They're specifically engineered to disallow copying. They are kind of nothing but DRM and they seem to be the current wave of the future in music.

Hell, I was done with vinyl when it was still the in thing originally. It's a terribly inconvenient format. I was happy to have an alternative (tape).

Having avoided it in the past I am fascinated to see people fawn all over it now as if it's the hot new thing.

Although the format was better for cover art...

If you can't tell game from livestock then you have no tastebuds.

"Organic" when it applies to animals can be a bit trickier since it also relates to how the animals live and are treated and this can impact things other than just taste.

You could certainly trim bits out of a theoretical CS program in order to favor more useful humanities courses. It would not harm the discipline to treat it more like a proper branch of engineering and include communications and management requirements would help in that regard.

Programs in some places already do that.

Perhaps there's something to the pervasive media narrative about Silicon Valley after all. Not only do they have no ability to relate to the non-asian and non-white crowd but they also have no ability to relate to whites that aren't rich enough for east coast boarding schools either.

I have plenty of anecdotal data points that would contradict their race based criteria. That likely comes from not living the life of privelege that they imagine I have.

Or perhaps this is just what you get when you let liberal bleeding heart SJWs run amok.

...all of the multimedia I have collected since acquiring my first PC clone.

This includes any CD, DVD, or BD that I buy.

All of the convenience of streaming media but none of the downsizes like network outages or license revokation or just plain lack of availability.

You're missing some zeroes in there somewhere.

It does take a long time to "rebuild" after a failure of a large drive. There's no denying that. It's silly to even try.

What I would despute is the idea that one of the other drives will magically fail during the rebuild if it wasn't already showing signs of dying.

Due to Seagate's current quality levels, I have some personal firsthand experience with rebuilding large RAID arrays.

It's not quite as scary as the fearmongers would have you believe.

Broken is still broken. Shipping a broken product is perhaps tolerable for a GAME but it simply shouldn't be tolerated for hardware. If the end user has to "patch" a piece of hardware then it's still an engineering fail and Seagate deserves every bit of grief anyone gives them.

Their 3TB drives in particular seem to implode at about 18 months.

Livable huh? Did you live in one of them? Unless you were willing to live in one of these places, then you can't really call them liveable really.

The fact that people for whatever reason end up in a slum doesn't make that place "liveable".

By such a weak standard, you could claim that any slum on the planet is "liveable" including that notorious one in Hong Kong.

Plenty of other people are willing to put them up on a pedestal. That's kind of the whole point of the "Greatest Generation" moniker. It's so pervasive that it's just taken for granted. No one has to bring it up.

> Not so sure. Try to find another mp3 player with massive storage, an excellent user interface, and good to excellent build quality.

Any Android device.

My 500G Archos still refuses to die. It fits a particular niche that Apple will refuse to address and Android hasn't quite caught up yet with (but will eventually).

No. The proper term is speculator.