Actually, that wasn't Waldo; the man has a metric fuckton of body doubles that look nearly identical to confuse you.

The real Waldo is still out there, plotting his revenge against all the people who cut him off on the road on the way to work each morning.

Dungeons & Dragons Online has a similar "True Reincarnation" system.

Once your character reaches level 20, you can acquire a "True Druidic Heart of Wood", which you then use to "reincarnate" as a fresh level 1 character, changing anything you want except name and gender; certain permanent things like tomes carry over, although they may kick in gradually.

The first two times you do this, you get more points with which to buy your starting stats, and the XP you need to level up increases. EVERY time you TR, you gain a bonus "Past Life" feat for the class you had the most levels in, each of which gives you a minor bonus (fighter, for example, will give you +1 to attack rolls) that will stack with themselves up to 3 times each (ie, reincarnate from a fighter three times and you'll get a total of +3 to attack rolls). Having the "free" Past Life feat for a class also allowed you to take another feat "active" Past Life feat associated with your class.

Yeah, and it sucks to be them; their cable operator is screwing them over. But the point was that CableCARD CAN and IS a useful feature, without it being "illegal" or a "contract violation".

My provider switched over to all digital at the same time the OTA switch-over happened.

Of course, it used to be that I could get the entire extended basic lineup through ClearQAM (used a WinTV HVR2250), but about eight months after that, they started encrypting everything but the local channels (and Discovery, which is right in the middle of the locals, here).

Yes, the tuner itself will obey the CCI flag; it HAS to, in order to be certified. But so long as the content is marked Copy Freely, the recording itself has no DRM; in fact, SageDCT won't be able to record it unless it is.

So my options may be limited, but the content I get has no DRM, period.

Illegal? No. Contract violation? No.

I use a Ceton InfiniTV 4 CableCARD tuner and SageTV (using SageDCT to control the tuner), and am able to record any program that's flagged Copy Freely, which in my area is all of the Extended Basic channels (which is all I want, anyways).

All legal, no contract violations, no DRM.

If it worked before, and the only thing that changed was software, then it can fixed in software. It IS Sony's fault they didn't perform a proper QA job, and didn't fix the problem in the software before releasing the update.

If they were aware of the issue, and really DID feel pressured to release the update, they could have just come clean on why the update was being held up, and release the update as an unsupported beta version for power users to try out. It shows the community that they really ARE working on it, and confirms that there IS a problem that's holding it up.

No, but it's a decent indicator that the fault doesn't lie in the OS's network stack (and thus not Google's doing), but rather in the specific hardware (including drivers).

That being said, Google isn't the ones who've pushed out a defective OS image to devices in the field. As far as Xperia phones go, this is ENTIRELY Sony's fault for skipping on proper QA. Proper testing would've discovered this problem before it hit end users, ESPECIALLY if they are smart enough to look at known issues for OTHER ICS devices as part of their QA process.

FTFY. Might want to proofread before you start bitching about literacy problems, next time.