You're making the assumption it's costing them money and not turning them a profit.

For instance, Google uses your emails to make money. Read your eighteen-page legalese documents from your ISP lately? How about their "third party marketers" legalese? There has been a marked increase in companies aggregating such data in a way that "maintains privacy" but we all know how usually pans out, don't we? Also, you have no idea if the data is scrubbed of all personally identifiable information before it's stored in their database, or just before they sell it.

And even if you know your ISP isn't currently selling your info, there is no guarantee that they're not building a database of your emails so they can start doing it next year.

It's simply a journalistic method for introducing somebody to a new thing by comparing it to known objects. For example, using an orange as a comparative object when trying to describe what a grapefruit is.

Yes, but you are required to have a PSN account to do so. And if you can't upgrade your firmware, you can't be on PSN.

Thank you for this, and (even more so) thank you for your previous work. I'm using my PS3 as a media center right now in part because of you, and I'm exceedingly grateful.

You might have a point, but it's entirely impossible to tell because the numbers are pulled directly from your ass. (No offense.)
 

I believe you are incorrect. Ask anybody who has successfully moved their house off the grid if they can pick and choose where their power comes from. Yes, if you have your big Air-to-Petrol plant hooked directly up to the grid, you can't choose. But there are plenty of other viable methods, and when you don't have a constant need for reliable power (like say a factory or even a house does) you can easily get away with a wind/solar farm powering your plant. This is even more true when you're in the business of converting excess energy into something transportable and easily stored.

If only there was some way of verifying his story... like looking through the texting logs from his carrier.

A successful one, from the looks of it.

Seems like increasing the bandwidth could indeed be the case. From what I understand of how this is working, they are storing the information in the photon itself, which differs from how we send info with light today by just using the absence / presence of photons. Just by the fact that we can now leave the stream on the whole time we're sending info should boost the potential bandwidth.

This is just my layman's understanding from reading a bit into it this morning though; I could easily be wrong.

/slowclap

It said nothing of the GUI working on Linux, only that the games would.

1k? We just had an infinitely long roll of tape.

I'm not sure exactly (and I wasn't around then, so take this with salt) but I think it probably had something to do with the populace being convinced that we needed stuff.

Why should love be free if you could turn a profit instead?

More interestingly, how can a company that basically runs the internet be so bad at using the internet?

Yeah, but don't forget that these Westboro shitheads are basically the real life equivalent of internet trolls. As such, the proper response if you want them to go away (and I think we do) is to ignore them. Arresting them just makes them martyrs and puts their name in yet more papers.

I'm not saying that ignoring them is the morally right thing to do here, just the smartest.

I didn't see him/her making that point.

The copyright holders already have copyright. Regardless of the moral arguments, copying a piece of media that you don't have the copyright for is illegal. As you pointed out, that is well and good and we already have laws set up to punish those who break it for better or worse.

What I don't agree with however, is eroding our rights to give copyright holders a bigger stick to beat people with. Especially when there is such a long history of big business using various laws that were written for other purposes to reduce competition and other shenanigans.