useless, because a forum is all about it's moderators and staff.

i doesn't matter if you've found a flaw in his logic. his article still is reasonable. it's talking more about general legal implications and how the consumer can or should respond. this doesn't necessarily have to do with "locked down" versus not.

"Here are a couple of proposals that I'd consider more realistic. Both of these really do involve voting with your wallet. (1) If there are no options that avoid DRM and lockdowns, don't buy. This is my current attitude about the Kindle and iPod. I'll buy one when there is a non-DRM'd library of books available for it that is roughly the same size as Amazon's current catalog. (2) Buy the lesser of two evils. E.g., I believe Android is significantly less locked down than iPhone, so if I were choosing between the two, I'd buy an Android. "

sounds good. i'd go further and only buy it, if there are proper import and export functions in an open format (pdf, txt, etc).

No CmdrTaco option?!?

Morals and Christianity 101

But what about the variation in sound quality? Can't the ear distinguish between quickly shifting bit-rates?
In other words, doesn't the CBR sound "smoother"?

increase* latency ofc. that and once you're part of a botnet u wanne wipe ur machine clean with a reinstall. or else the malware will just spread on further.

nowadays bot net controllers are hard to track, since they use peer to peer methods and hierachies. going through a proxy will lower latency :s

the problem is, that the 10% of features varies from one user to the next, so much, that essentially it's necessary to add them, sooner or later to the core OS. look at linux: there's many utilities, that developers rely on (and as a result end users), it's just more modular there.