I feel the same way. DLNA support was something that I thought would become a standard moving forward. Now Sony is yanking it to push people back into using its (overpriced) media storefront. Yuck.

for users who are disappointed that their cable company isn't showing them enough ads. No, but seriously, this feature sucks. You get voice-activated input swapping, but when you go to the Xbone's interface to swap it shows a pane completely bordered by advertisements ala Idiocracy. Who would find such a thing desirable?

How does he sleep? On the finest silk sheets, of course. Morality is for the little people.

Problem solved!

Jackson and Sharpton are a mixed bag, like many public figures. Some of the causes that they pick up are more noble than others. I agree that hate speech ought to be protected where it doesn't directly incite violence. The NAACP is wrong to try and criminalize mockery of the president; that's one of the things that separates the United States from countries like Russia, where mockery of the leader is verboten.

I don't think you can say this. There have been numerous other Americans tried when they murdered another person and claimed self-defense. Trying Zimmerman was not a race thing. Not trying Zimmerman was what many of us felt was a race thing. Maybe there was enough evidence to convict and maybe the prosecution did a poor job; maybe there wasn't enough evidence and the verdict was correct. However, Zimmerman was charged, as he should have been in a case where there was some doubt as to how valid his self-defense claim was.

How does affirmative action make the civil rights movement a joke? It was one of the movement's crowning achievements. You do realize that affirmative action was instituted to counteract widespread institutional discrimination against African-Americans, Native-Americans, Hispanics, women, and so on, right? Are you claiming that institutional discrimination no longer exists, and that the need for affirmative action is no longer there? I totally disagree, and I think information such as this supports me.

There will come a day when AA is hurting more than it is helping. I don't believe we have reached that day, yet.

Do you think that King would want his speech (of historical importance) locked up behind copyright? Is this how they choose to honor their father's memory?
Just disgusting.

Obama did expand drone strikes in his first year in office. He did assassinate American citizens, which Bush didn't dare do. You cannot say that statement is completely false.

I think Obama is actually more dangerous than Bush. Bush was a bit of a buffoon; a caricature of a Texas cowboy or a "Joe Everyman" (neither are accurate, but that's how he presents himself. Obama comes across as more refined, more intelligent, more compassionate. He promised transparency, an end to Gitmo, and a renewed focus on diplomacy over military intervention. The current president won a Nobel Peace Prize as the world hoped he'd be the change he preached! But, by his actions, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

I blame myself too. I voted for Obama, twice. The second time I did so with my nose pinched shut. When our broken system gives you two choices, "bad" and "worse", then sometimes you just have to hold your nose and do the practical thing rather than the right one. I didn't vote in 2000 because both candidates were flawed,and sometimes I think that the many of us who abstained from the process during that election set the stage for a lot of the mess that we're in today as a nation.

I agree with you. I don't leave the current administration out of my condemnation. The Granai airstrike that Manning leaked happened under Obama and many innocent civilians were killed. But my understanding is that the bulk of what Bradley Manning leaked occurred under the Bush years. I'm not trying to claim that Obama and co. are innocent of war crimes. They are not.

Meanwhile Bush, Cheney, and a whole line of people that authorized or performed torture remain free. People who murdered innocent civilians and laughed about it, free. It's all a big joke.

Friend, I think you are lost. You probably want this site.

in national politics. But who will get him, the Dems or the Republicans?

Why shouldn't a nation be able to take steps to maintain its own sovereignty? I'm not a fan of Chinese human rights violations, but they have an interest, no, a responsibility to secure their borders from US aggression. Including espionage.

If it's all disc-based, with no Internet connection required, it would be very difficult to become more stringent. Publishers can lock content behind online passes (which EA already does this gen, among others) but DRM like Microsoft's essentially requires you to use license-based games from the start.

Who'd have guessed it?

This is true. If you read the comments on the Xbox One announcement and stories about things like used game restrictions and online licensing check-ins, they are overwhelmingly negative. If you read the big game and mainstream journalism sources, most of them are glossing over it. There's a huge disconnect here. Gamers have accepted a lot of crap in the last 5 years, stuff like day-one DLC, for instance. But it seems like with the Xbox One there's just a massive outpouring of disgust and dissatisfaction. I've been on gaming sites since 1997 and I can't remember an announcement as poorly-received as the One.