Problem is, even if you're a pirate you're contributing to the demand and popularity of Sony.

A vegetarian is often eating a strict vegetarian diet because he or she does not wish to support the "unethical" meat factory practices. And yeah, those practices are by neccessity messy. Now, the pirate is like the almost-vegetarian (doesn't eat meat... Except for Salami. And a bit ham sometimes. And salmon). Still contributing to the problem you're saying you're against.

A true boycott must mean an across-the-bord /ignore. Not just pirate it. Complete and utter ignorance.

I envision a future where the TV has a gaming module interface in the back. TV handles all the icky non-gaming parts (controllers via Bluetooth, firmware, network connection, IM/social networking, harddrives, USB sticks etc), and the gaming module is essentially a glorified graphics card with a general-purpose CPU tacked on top of it. Also, make it possible to connect your smartphone as a controller.

However, while I know many, many people who would buy this and love it, I know very few companies willing to design it. Therefore it will remain but a dream. *sigh*

I agree that the police needs to have checks and balances, therefore ALL their radio communication should be saved and be publicly available for atleast 3 months, maybe longer. However, letting the police have an encrypted channel plus a few relay stations for the media sounds like a good solution to the problem IMO.

Always remember, there is more to the world than the US.

If the US is stupid enough to kill off the internet, a new one will be born that excludes the US. After that, it'll just be a matter of time. Fifty years after the US killed off the internet, the rest of the world have evolved at a breakneck pace, most notably BRIC countries, while the US will be stuck by what is essentially the same tech we have today. Once that happens... Oh man, they are going to be so pissed when they realise their tech will be lagging after by decades. :)

F2P (Free To Play) does NOT equal P2W (Pay To Win).

League of Legends is doing it right; it's free to play, and everything except skins are obtainable, though paying makes you get those faster. I have no problem with that kind of model and have invested about €100 so far over the course of two years.

Battlefield Heroes on the other hand, now there's a game that's pure P2W. Sometimes I play it for a few rounds just to see if it has improved; everytime I find it worse than before. It used to be an awesome game. Nowadays, it's all about how much money you can spend on those über weapons... Makes me sad. :(

Stop being isolated islands. Google could use your data, but you won't supply it on an open, federated basis. So what should Google do about that?

Windows 7 isn't consistent with itself either - not even with the apps MS produce. You can find lots of examples of good UIs/bad UIs in both open source and proprietary software, from all sides of the spectrum. However, UI is one of those things that's both hard to get right and ungrateful, because no matter what changes you do, *someone* will complain. And if you do no changes users complain about that, too.

Paying a specialist for it is about the only way to get it right though, unless you happen to have a person on the team with a knack for great UIs. But proprietary makes inherently better UIs because it's proprietary? Demonstrably false.

What about no USB sticks and running coreboot directly from the metal?

No. However, Linus got inspired to write his own system because of Minix, and that system became Linux.

The FOSS movement can develop good applications and software; Gnome has quite a few good apps for example. The problem is that it most often takes a professional software company to step in and push the direction in a certain way.

However, that's fine; FOSS movement isn't just about the home hackers, it's an entire ecosystem consisting of companies AND enthusiasts. It's easy to focus on just the "community" part, but companies are part of that community, and they do quite a bit of contribution. :)