Strongly disagree. The main deterrent is knowing the police are in an area. Otherwise it falls into the category of being anywhere, so why not commit crime x here?

Also incorrect, mass scanning of communications including metadata gives you not only locations of people, but patterns of movement. So every Tu evening at 7pm, you truck over to the YMCA for what appears to be an AA meeting, since there are several convicted and recently released DWI people there. How do we know they're DWI people? Because we know where they sleep every night and have cross-referenced that information against our criminal DB. The sad part? That's the only day you're free to meet John for racquetball. But now, thanks to that inconsequential scanning of communications, when you're pulled over next Sun coming home from Joe's house watching the Superbowl, and having a beer spilled on you, you're now heading for a DWI and prison because you've been tagged. You're innocent? Prove it.

Incorrect - the Bill of Rights were a list of rights that should not be abridged. Numbers 9 and 10 were there to reinforce that the feds were limited strictly to what was in that 10K word document.

Nope, and I have no interest in it either. My interests lay with developers like Black Isle, iD, Valve, and Bioware in the distant past and a bunch of independents today are more likely to get my dollar. I'm not interested in massively online game play, unlike most, because I simply have 0 time available for such game play. Heck, even posting on /. takes too much time some days.

While games with DRM based on online codes is at least semi-problematic for reasons that have been listed ad-nauseum, my original writing off of Ubisoft was due to the always on DRM stance they took a long time ago. Apparently they've retracted that stance in 2012, but after reviewing their game list for the past few years, I see why I was unaware of it - not a single one is on my potential "to-play" list so no interest in anything related to Ubisoft. Honestly, I was surprised they were still in business.

What I really like is the outcry by police against the Waze app. All it does is notify you when police are known to be nearby. Apparently that's not ok at all. So why is it ok to track random non-officer 'A'?

Not sure how you figure that one. No party affiliation on the ballot would eliminate rote party voting. It would also probably give rise to many local parties, although I doubt nationally there would be more than 4 or 5.

Wow, I just went through the list. It's like someone went through the game catalogue and listed every game I don't own nor want to own. How is Ubisoft in business? Except for one game from 2009, there's not a single title on the list that I own or have played or wanted to play that Ubisoft was involved with since 2002 (and they were merely distributors for that one). That's absolutely amazing. I stopped in the late 90s, it appears a long string of losers as far as I'm concerned. (I will mention that I own Far Cray, but that came as part of a graphics card package, was never installed, and Crytek was the owner/publisher at the time.)

I agree, I don't buy EA or Ubisoft. Especially nothing Sony. If it's got DRM, it's not going to run on my system (this is not merely an idealistic stance, but a realistic one - it literally most likely won't run on my system or, if it does, it will screw something else up)

People are still buying Ubisoft? Why? That's a serious question actually, why would you pay money for some DRM infested crap that corrupts your system? There's no game so important I'll corrupt my system to play it. Any Ubisoft game can wait until it goes on sale on GOG, or be avoided forever. No loss here.

I don't either, I want 25+/25 to be the new minimum, 100/100 would be a good upper end goal.

OK, I'm not watching 240P, I'm watching 1080P on a 55"+ screen. It's why I bought them and not a 15" B&W CRT. On 55+, everything I've seen so far streaming wise sucks, because the compressed bit rate is far too low. Based on my analysis of the stream sizes, Netflix / Hulu run between 2-3 Mbps, Dish runs 2-3 Mbps for SD, AT&T U-verse runs about 6-8 Mbps for HD, TWC runs about 5-6 Mbps for HD, and OTA runs between 8 and 15 Mbps locally. I'll note that Netflix/Hulu had horrible artifacts, TWC is very noticeable, U-verse is mediocre, and OTA has very few artifacts. For comparison, BD runs roughly between 25 and 33Mbps streams depending upon material and compression schemes and has virtually no artifacts. As you can tell from these numbers, 10Mbps is a bare minimum for streaming a single TV channel for me (up and down, since I'd like to be able to stream to the relatives).

Many are idiots. And the tin-foil hat line seems passe now that it's been proven that quite likely even the most paranoid tin-foil hat wearer underestimated the true scope of the surveillance operations.

So they want to continue their illegal activities by threatening more illegal activities? And those other activities have precedent on getting them jailed? Sounds like popcorn time!

Ewoks didn't appear until Return of the Jedi....