Americans won’t take manufacturing jobs unless they’re very well paid, require little education or skill and have plenty of benefits. While those jobs used to be had in America long ago when steel and the auto were king, Americans now hand those jobs off to imported labor (Mexico and elsewhere) rather than do it themselves.

America does not have the infrastructure or manufacturing flexibility that China has now. A design change at Foxconn that takes a week would likely require months at an American plant. No sign that any American investors are willing to put up the funds or resources to match what China has now (and has been building up for decades) or set up the massive supply chains and shipping systems that Foxconn has access to now.

You don’t want those jobs anyway, the good jobs (design, research, software, marketing and yes even retail) are the ones you want and all those are already in America.

Do you have a receipt for that claim that you paid for Linux on the PS3 ?

And the OtherOS removal patch was purely voluntary, if Linux on the PS3 was something so valuable to you that you explicitly paid just for that, why did you go ahead and remove it ?

Pirates are not customers, paying customers are.

If you never use Sony products, then you're not a Sony customer

If you pirate Sony software & media, then you're not a Sony customer

If you hack Sony networks to attack it's members and steal from them, you're not a Sony customer

So who exactly are you referring to when you state "Sony's war on customers" ??

Most hated among pirates & hackers I would think, actual customers not so much.

The vast majority of Sony's "real" customers (that is, those people who actually pay for and use Sony products) don't have the anger & entitlement issues that you and the remnants of #OPSONY seem to have.

Sony the #1 hated tech company? Citation if you please.

They never stored any data in plain text. The incident you're likely referring to was a PSN user that had installed custom firmware on his PS3. The CFW was purposely designed to steal credit card info and transmit it back in plain text.

Sony is hacked all the time because they're the only company to take a stand against piracy and mostly succeed (at least compared to Microsoft and Nintendo).

Ever since the GeoHot episode there has been a persistent campaign to smear Sony and attack their customers by remnants of #OPSONY , you know, the people who threatened to go after family and children of Sony employees, organized a completely unsuccessful boycott of Sony retail outlets, stole a hardware debug key and attempted to sell it off as a piracy enabler, then use it to attack users of the PSN network and knock it offline.

Meanwhile, we're into a full year of the Microsoft Live FIFA hack and hundreds (possibly thousands) of XBOX Live users having their credit cards used for fraud. The same company that knowingly sold a defective console for three years, charges a fee for their users to use an internet connection, fills their console with more ads with every update and deliberately degrades or disallows any third party media or hardware on their consoles.

Yet not a single verified case of a PSN user having their credit card or personal information compromised as a result of the PSN hack has come to light. Sony apologized for the downtime, offered free games and sucessfully locked down the PS3 once again (forcing the pirates to rely on old firmware of they wanted to keep their hacks).

And what has Microsoft offered it's users for the abuse they've suffered? Anything??

So when I see people talking shit about Sony, there's no doubt in my mind that they are either ignorant of the facts or shills working for Lulsec/Anonymous/4Chan or whatever piracy clique is popular now.

Microsoft lied & denied about the RROD for a full three years until the threat of a very public lawsuit forced them to admit the problem.

Not what I would call being honest.

The last Blu-ray profile update was in 2007. So forced firmware updates are unlikely unless your player was sitting unused in a box for a few years or the manufacture had to issue a technical fix. Occasionally a key update is required but those are quite rare, haven't encountered one for a couple of years.

I’ve gone through over 200 Blu-ray discs and have not encountered a single disc that had “unskippable” previews. Many go straight to the main menu, some required nothing more than a single button press from the remote and a few had multiple previews that required repeated presses of the skip button on the remote (Disney is the worst offender here). It should be noted that his behavior is nothing new, DVDs had the same problem and you’re actually less likely to experience this issue on newer Blu-rays than on the equivalent DVD releases.

  So when I want to watch an HD movie, I put in the Blu-ray discs and am watching full 1080p and lossless sound in 2 minutes or less. No worrying about bandwidth caps or the blockiness & banding that comes with low bitrate downloads. No fussing over codecs, audio problems or subtitles issue from pirate downloads either.

".. They were compliant with the DMCA, from what I understand.."

Apparently not, try ars technica for what these scum were really up to

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars

Indeed, I keep telling people that ID theft is really ID sharing and it should be decriminalized, after all you can't steal information, right??