Vote with your money

This is the crux of it, however it raises an issue that I haven't seen mentioned yet, the price of games.

It has long been argued (largely unconvincingly admittedly) that piracy "costs" developer money. If the MS DRM is shown to "work" then there is an argument to be made that the games released on both platforms should be cheaper on the Xbox (especially if the opportunity for earning more money on resale is there)? If the publishers buy into that theory and the Xbox One is cheaper to run then I think, for a lot of people, the question will become muddier. Similarly if publishers begin to see better rates of legitimate purchases on Xbox they may favour it with more exclusives (or at least release the Xbox version first).

All theory of course, but as someone who only uses a console to play games and has little time to do anything that would require more freedom than the Xbox allows the practical differences between the Xbox One and PS4 are negligible and other factors are likely to take greater sway.

I think this will be an interesting test. With the consoles releasing more or less side by side and with similar capabilities it will perhaps help show once and for all whether DRM can be done in a way that makes customers prefer it.

Less SHOUTING. Too often they seem to try and create a sense of excitement through the sole mechanism of having the Doctor get excited and shouty. I don't think it Matt Smith's fault, he does do some of the darker, more ponderous moments very well. I think the situation should be exciting in itself and the Doctor then rising above it.

It was a 'clue' for the 50th anniversary special.

There is a clear difference between a company deciding how it sells shares it currently owns in an IPO and restricting someone from buying shares from other parties.

The article isn't entirely clear though, at first glance it makes it sound like Icahn is being frozen out from buying the company, however I think his offer as far as that goes is still on the table. This agreement seems to be more about preventing a hostile takeover, ie Ichan gaining enough shares/influence in the meantime to control the process and have his offer approved with less oversight.

As it's an agreement Ichan is presumably OK with it though if you were a Dell shareholder you might be annoyed that the company has taken someone who might buy your shares out of the market for a while.

Awesomely creepy!

Ie is there a practical difference between 30%, 50% and 90% of people's browsers being exploitable with a particular exploit? In any case it a phenomenally large number of people.

And you have never copied files from one device to the other.

He does, he's just ultra paranoid and routes it all through TOR.

Remember back when the EOLAS patent was being waved about and it was suggested that browser makers may have to implement "click to play" to avoid it.

Strange that a year after EOLAS gets their arse handed to them in a Texas court we get to a similar place for entirely different reasons.

Do you operate purely on cash?

Of course not, he clearly operates purely on sarcasm.

What the hell is this? A death star for ants? How can we be expected to deploy storm troopers to destroy planets... if they can't even fit inside the building?

That's easy, you just build it round one of these.....

It depends. How much do you want to bet on your not finding yourself in this scenario:

Everything? But feel free to live your life like a scared little pussy if you want.

Just to be a pendant,

Slashdot would be so much better without your kind hanging around.

A certificate can (obviously) only have one issuer.
What he's suggesting is having multiple certificates corresponding to one private key.

This seems like an eminently sensible idea. Part of the problem is that the Certifying Authorities get "too big to fail" and it takes something pretty massive for a CA to have their authority revoked as doing so impacts a lot of users.

If sites (at least those interested enough in HA to preemptively guard against the invalidation of a CA) could back their keys with multiple certs that would be very useful.

Angry Birds seem to sponsor all sorts of things, why not space exploration?

An Angry Bird shaped vessel hurtling out of the solar system would be awesome though I guess we'd have to hope that aliens aren't green and porcine lest they get the wrong idea.

In any case, there were tracks in the silver like some animal scurrying and eating through the layer.

That's the problem with WORM media.