Comment You missed one (Score 1) 501
You omitted that DRM also stops technologically inept users from making copies for their friends. Everyone is not pure of heart.
Comment Mod parent up (Score 1) 123
Why did this even get greenlit as an article? They don't have a replacement architecture ready? STOP THE PRESSES!!! They don't have a replacement architecture yet, either, for the rice paddy, but it's not like this is something of concern or even interest.
Comment Incorrect (Score 2, Insightful) 1235
If there had been gridlock, your "idiots in the legislature" would not have been able to pass laws implementing programs that cost $43 billion.
Gridlock is great, and the founders of the country were geniuses for designing the government to make sure there was plenty of it. If only there could be more.
Comment Ask NASA (Score 1) 725
Ask NASA whether they wish the US had converted to metric 20 years ago.
Submission + - SPAM: HD DVD RIP: Universal, Paramount set to switch to
WirePosted writes: "Confirmation that Universal and Paramount, the last two movie studios that support the HD DVD format, are now free to switch to Blu-ray, joining the other major studios, appears to sound the death knell for HD DVD."
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