Wrong! Possessing cash means that you are a reckless criminal who is involved in the drug trade! Possessing hot fudge and ice cream means you are a pedophile who is going to appear on Chris Hansen's "To Catch a Predator".

They should have given this compartment building lowlife life without parole, because he is obviously a criminal drug lord pretending to be a nobody. Everyone pretending to be a nobody when charged with a drug offense is obviously a drug lord. His biggest problem though, was not hiring a good lawyer. One who would bring up the Chewbacca defense.

Why hasn't /. checksummed the ACs IPs on their end so we can ignore specific Anonymous Cowards by IP address without knowing their IP? That's not innovation either but pretty much a simple solution where I don't need to know who is posting other than that I don't want to see their posts.

You might still be able to file a private prosecution depending on where you are in the US (or the world).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_arrest#United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution#United_States

+100 to this comment.

I'd agree to this if only the corporations allow the people to install spyware on their board's and employee's computers to check on whether there is any malfeasance in their accounting and to watch for deviant pornography.

Just for their own good, of course.

Sorry to add something non-serious into the discussion but the original article's link is:

http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/04/someone-just-leaked-obamas-rules-for-ass

I just don't know what to say when an article has Obama's rules for ass...

Reminds me of this image:
http://c580019.r19.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/obama-checking-out-girl.jpg

Not an EVE player but I thought the coverage and screen cap was impressive here:
http://themittani.com/news/breaking-massive-super-fight-asakai-lowsec

Original post is still cached on google.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Y48LvBtM0PgJ:answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/EA-is-Suffering-from-the-Issues-of-Always-Online/td-p/418246+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Better summary here:

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=beta

iFixit will give the new Death Star a repairability rating lower than the new iMac, then.

+1 to your post.

Better outcomes for whom? Your rationality would allow you to give up on someone you may care about because rationally speaking, it isn't worth the effort to stay with/keep caring for them. The overall expenditure may be rationalized to be lower for society but individual empathy for individuals can modify such behaviour so that you would spend more for people you care about.

You can say what you want, but I guess it crosses the line when you try to sue someone over a false claim, and then falsify evidence as well.

Comparing this to freedom of speech is a bit facetious.

Got this from MSNBC:

Costco works to keep prices low by buying in huge quantity and never marking up any product more than 15 percent, less than the typical 25 percent at a supermarket or 50 percent at a department store. Costco makes up for those low margins by charging a $55 annual membership fee of its 64 million members. With more than 90 percent of its members renewing each year, the fee is evidently not a significant deterrent.

This will be interesting to see what Apple's official response is. You can bet every other hardware vendor is watching this move, as well as the EPEAT people. If the public doesn't change their buying in response to Apple's move, then all the other vendors may decide that EPEAT certification isn't necessary for them to sell products. And EPEAT may have to change (relax/sell out/update) their rules in order to get Apple to return to the program if they feel that Apple will be the company that makes them irrelevant.