It's too bad you posted this as AC. You could have gotten some good karma from the mod points.

Sony, the company that thought it would be a good idea to use other computers in ways the computers' owners wouldn't want, now finds others using Sony's computers in ways Sony doesn't want.

Karma's a bitch.

Just before the New Madrid earthquake hit, snakes that should have been hibernating underground were seen active and crawling on the surface. According to legend, a medicine man observed this and commented that "there is evil on the earth."

With the crazy UI shifts, the security debacles, the hunger for hardware resources, and the generally inconsistent (read: shitty) performance of the various Windows releases, Microsoft has made a lot more enemies than friends over the years. What's worse is that it took their Board of Directors so long to oust Steve Ballmer, who was at the helm during their "screw the customers" years.

So now nobody likes Microsoft, nobody trusts them. The end users merely tolerate them, and even that has its limits. Such a transparent attempt to wring even more cash from their remaining customers is going to do nothing to win back former allies, while at the same time vindicating their critics.

There were once those who cried "break up Microsoft!" during the anti-trust sentencing. If Microsoft decides to go with subscriptions, it may end up bringing about its own break-up with very little outside effort.

Come on, Slashdot! Google reports your online behavior to the NSA, Facebook alters your mood for their own fun and profit, and now Pizza Hut is trying to read your mind. It's getting harder and harder for us conspiracy deniers.

Right, no comments in over 8 months makes one a "regular commenter."

But every comment on the first two pages shows -1 score. So the first two adjectives stand.

This isn't your despised "liberal arts." It's practical application of STEM. How the hell is a degree in 19th Century Colonial African Literature going to help someone build a better aircraft?

Consider adding "print server" to your list. Mine does pretty good with my Brother HL-1240 on the USB.

$150 to replace a a fried unit? You miss the #1 selling point of the RPi: it's easy to replace. Never mind the on-board features. It's the price. Any "competition" that can't approach that, is in a different market niche, and isn't really competition.

You forgot to include "at a similar price point." Because, despite all the hoopla about its other features, that is the biggest selling point of the RPi: it's easy to replace a fried unit after a voltage calculation mis-places a decimal point.

The bird of paradise comes pretty close.

The onboard computer stopped working properly, causing systemic error conditions. The engine block ended up cracked, and the brake liners overheated and glazed. The windows wouuld only roll down. Replacing the compute module won't do any good in this case. It's time to total this one out and move on.

Oh, wait, the camel already beat them to it.

Because this really does look like a corporation bent on its own destruction.

Because TCP is a separate driver, and tracks the TCP connections on its own. And in ISO-speak, TCP is in the Session layer, not the Network layer.