How can a company be a threat to an ISP's DMCA safe harbor status without actual court decisions to back up their copyright infringement claims?

On the other hand, there are people happily paying to go into a sensory deprevation tank.
It's all about context. If you choose the sensory deprevation, it's relaxation, if you're put into the same situation, it's boredom.

What about Bingo?

Bingo involves the physical act of moving your hand to tick the scorecard, and there's a clear, objective winner.

+1 insightful. Wish I hadn't already commented.

Three words in reply to the "real sports are all segregated by sex" argument: "Mixed doubles tennis".

How about rock-paper-scissors?
[X] physical skills involved
[X] some kind of scoring system
[X] objectively declare winner
Ticks all your boxes!

Is it your feeling that SAS is "stifling any real innovation" or do you have examples of projects that are impossible with SAS but possible with Python or R?
Do those example projects actually help the bottom line of the company or are they just "cooler"?

If you can think of examples that have clear financial benefits to the company, you have a solid business case already.
If there are no such examples or other factors negate the benefits, then the company has nothing to gain by switching and should not switch.

Short answer; if you're asking on Slashdot for reasons to switch from product X to product Y, you probably have no real reason to switch.

Assuming the data was in some attachment (of could have been easily put in an attachment), how about just encrypting the attachment if it contains information so incredibly sensitive that it warrants a court order if it ever leaks out.

You don't need PGP, IMAP or any specific OS, just a small bit of common sense.

Losing a few thousand dollar is little more than a minor inconvenience for GS.
So how about it GS... send me a few thousand dollars.

Google is abso-fucking-lutely right to require a court order. If they don't, it'll just open the flood gates for other companies and people to "retract" damaging e-mails. The news here isn't that Google required proper legal procedures before violating it's users rights, it's that GS sends highly sensitive data by e-mail.

Just because an issue was quickly resolved doesn't make it a non-story.

If Goldman Sachs uses the insecure SMTP protocol to transmit highly sensitive unencrypted data, they deserve the reputation damage (and a security audit).

FTFY

Ask yourself. "is any of what I said an argument or am I trying to let the reader do my work?"

Now we're in agreement on that, do you see how wrong you are?

I guess you majored in "pedantry", with honors.

What "Authors have right to be paid for their work" means is that if other people want to use the result of their work, the authors can ask payment in return.

Ofcourse you fully understand what was meant, but thought treating another person like a moron would make you feel superior. Enjoy your fuzzy feelings.

How accurate does Cardboard track head movement?
Note that head displays have been done many times before over the past decades.
The problem has always been motion sickness inducing head tracking, never the display technology.

The ruling is a German ruling, not a European ruling (Europe has it's own court).
German rulings do not apply to Europe or any part of Europe other than Germany.