Then can you tell me what data storage method will still be in use in 50 or 100 years time? Without "being all futuristic and stuff".

There is no physical law that ties energy consumption to computing power. Efficiency increases, new concepts etc will take care of the that.

I'm pretty sure you are confusing "Golden Girls" with the comedy "Benson" that ran from 1979 to 1986.

lol. That put a smile on my face. You are either a jibbering fucktard or a comedy genius.

And its up to future historians to decide what was worth preserving. You seem confused over the point being discussed.

Nothing to do with DRM. If the DRM scheme/keys are preserved then whats the difference. And besides in 50 years time refrigerators will have more computing power than todays data centers and devices will crush todays DRM like it was nothing.

With respect, what is and what isn't worth preserving is up to future historians to decide. A bit chicken and eggish but there you are.

I remember our Mayor presided over the opening of a 25 year old time capsule put there by the local schools. Inside was a lazer disc. When he asked to view the contents of it, nobody could find a device to play it. Vint is right. And its not just a DRM thing, its a lack of standards thing too.

No. Apparently the lady spoke Swahili not French. Did you even read the summary you moron?

It was an accident? So all this ad injection tech was a typo by some developer? lol. Why is it that the more popular a tech company gets the more of a dick it becomes? Is that some sort of business law? Samsung's trustworthiness is zero as far as I'm concerned.

In my experience (as a dev team lead and interviewer) foreign workers are generally more educated, more productive and more willing to got the extra mile than the local self-entitled bunch.
Now because of your whiny "teamstering" here on Slashdot, the visa numbers wil probably go down, hurting US business.

... teaching the cops how not to alienate the people?

Some people think that because its on the web then it ahs no real world effects. Unfortunatly a lot of privacy types here are quietly rooting for these silk road guys, the guys who deal to anyone, kids included. They don't care who buys their stuff. But if a dealer was standing outside a school dealing to the students they would go crazy and call the cops, and rightly so.

... from our country that now judges food quality in calories per dollar?

Its disgusting seeing my nation turning into a bunch of blubber-pods.

Uh No. Sure Google and MS etc have seats on the board, but it does not consist entirely of browser vendors.