Let me know when Firefox make tabs independent. Having one tab freeze the entire Firefox made me move to Chrome. It happened WAY too often. Oh, and the crashes.

Cargill: [gets out five files] Well, I've narrowed your choices down to 5 unthinkable options. Each will cause untold misery and--
President: [points to the third file] I pick #3.
Cargill: You don't even wanna read them first?
President: I was elected to lead, not to read. #3!

Perhaps its better to judge from case to case, instead of generalizations.

Sometimes a hard decision is necessary, a compromise has to be made.
But sometimes the price is just too horrible and unthinkable, indeed.

Obviously the "no sue" provision cannot be enforced since its illegal. In any country. They've put it there to intimidate some people. For them, its all about the bottom line. If even 5% of people get intimidated and they don't sue Sony because of that clause, its a win for them.

And Sony is not the only company that does stuff like this.

The only way to get rid of such crap are suits like this one. If they realize such provisions are biting their ass causing losses instead of guaranteed wins, they will stop putting them.

Next we know, any misleading advertising will not be allowed anymore. That's just nuts. Where is the world heading to?

Reasonable price is subject to permanent change. And not just on demand/offer, but something else too: customer base.

1. A couple of decades ago an hour of entertainment was selling quite nice for 30-50$ or more.

2. Now some people consider 0.99$ for an hour to be fair game.

3. In 20 years, most Chinese and Indians will get Internet access (after shelter, food, electricity and computers). When your potential audience is 10 billion and there are decent distribution networks I bet your ass it will be lucrative to sell an hour of good entertainment for even as low as 0.01$.

Actual numbers don't matter, you get the point :)

With time, even if people have more and more money the price is dropping. I believe "reasonable price" has nothing to do with pirates or why they pirate. A lower price may sell more units, indeed, but not because people pirate less.

It is the default.
I've checked both on my system (Adobe Reader X 10.1.1.33: Edit -> Preferences -> General -> "Enable Protected Mode at startup" checkbox) and both on their website:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/860/cpsid_86063.html#main_What_is_Protected_Mode_

Now, can we stop the FUD?

Actually, Sweden has quite a huge surface (450 000 km2) with a population of just 9.4 millions, making it 155th country in the world by density. By the way, US is 143th by density.

No, population density is not the reason. Now, America, stop searching for excuses and go work on your infrastructure !

Fair enough.

Since perfect random is not achievable from theoretical point of view, I believe most practical application don't need this level of unknown random, including crypto. There are more cheap ways to provide more than decent randoms. At least most of those "lesser" randoms(math oriented sources) have measurable level of complexity. These almost ... religious ways of obtaining a random number can be overthrown any moment by a new physics discovery.

Phhhsh, physicians and your imprecise science.
I believe you guys are throwing the term "unknowable" a bit lightly. I'm pretty sure its knowable, and even predictable, just very very VERY complicated. But not infinitely complicated. Therefore I demand you provide a rigorous demonstration that the process of it is unknowable(or unpredictable, exclude the semantic piss)

I remember very clearly a theorem during college that was proven beyond doubt is demonstrable, but was never demonstrated yet. Mathematics FTW!

I think the time has come and gone. Full SSDs are cheap, fast and lately even in high capacities. They are here to stay. Good bye platters!

Seagate needs to get on board and ditch the monstrosities that nobody wants. The link to the article is dead. It looks CNET removed/moved the Seagate advertisement ... ups, I mean the article.

- Hello, you've called Dell technical support in Manila, my name is Bala. How can I help you?
- What are you wearing?

Tell that to my wife, she still doesn't understand.

Running a business requires a completely different type of skill set. Its not a tech occupation and some individuals (including me) even if they would have those skills, would not enjoy doing that. Actually, I would hate the fuck of it, no matter how much money are we talking about. For me the path of the manager is a synonym with prostitution, almost at the same level as politics(which is a bit lower). No thanks.

Managing or running your business is not always the only progression of your career, don't let HR or society talk you into that crap. Being a techie can be way more fun and rewarding than managing people. Both from financial and moral point of views.

To keep this constructive and to respond to the article poster, get some work experience. Nobody cares about your (lack of) education if you had some solid experience.