Yes, but does it run linux?

Gouge out one of your daughter's eyes and install a webcam, pluck one of her ears out and mount an omnidirectional microphone, graft a microstrip antena on her forhead and replace one of her teeth with a GPS module. This system sends encrypted video through the cellular network of your choice that ssh's to your home terminal, which you can access via your favorite portable device. IPhone preferred, there is a relative app on the appstore
Maybe you can hack a python app that automatically notifies you when your child leaves designated areas without proper authorization. And when the brain is analyzed deeply enough, maybe you should think about remotely controlling your child.
Seriously, is there no limit to what people are willing to give up in order to achieve a false sense of security?
Imagine how YOU would feel if your employer installed a GPS tracking system on you to verify if you're really at home or in a hospital when calling in sick. Imagine how YOU would feel if back in the day your parents DID have such a system to track you down. Imagine what happens to a society whose members are taught that constant surveillance is OK by their own family. Seriously, take a chill pill and
think of the children

Yes, it's an SGOD: Software Glitch of Death.

Not quite the same
A physical medium has distribution and (negligible) manufacturing cost, artistic (booklets, special editions) and collective value. What is the value or cost of a ripped mp3?

I agree with the largest part of your retort. The point behind my previous post was that there can be a pretty serious degree of "reasonable doubt" in order to directly correlate content downloaded in an "unorthodox" manner with piracy. And also to note that there are quite a lot of instances where entitlement is actually not a weak excuse, but a very reasonable thing (such as being entitled to an electronic version of a book you purchase). To further relate this discourse to TFA, this is one more argument to vehemently oppose ISP's policing internet traffic, other than the obvious ones (of practicality and of course due process, with ISPs having powers only a civil court should have)

What's your opinion on downloading ripped movies you already own, because ripping a DVD is (arguably) illegal and in some cases more time consuming than actually downloading? (assuming you live in a country with real bandwidth, not the US) Or downloading a pirate version of a book you already own, just because you want to read it "on the fly"
What's your opinion on downloading cracks for the games you own, just because DRM makes you want to cry and requiring the original DVD on the drive is JUST PLAIN STUPID?
How about people who want to acquire a work that there is no legal alternative for them to buy? (example: out of print books, tv shows from foreign countries, movies that never came out on DVD, LP's that never came out on CD)
Are those examples of "entitlement" plausible enough, or do you find them highly unlikely?

How about this: the only one who can make a judgement about a civil case is a court of law?

This is another classic example of "Thanks, captain obvious" journalism

And publicly reproduce their works, or create a derivative work?? Nonono, if RIAA and MPAA had their way, you wouldn't be able to sing along listening to your CD's outside the house because that is public reproduction, or even talk during dinner about the movie you just saw with your date, because that is a derivative work!

Actually, you can do EXACTLY as you please with lots of money. With lots and lots of money, the boundaries of what is legal become veeeery flexible

This piece of news sounds more like Galaxy News Radio material than slashdot. Does the Lone Wanderer know about the situation?

um... I thought that the scenario "movie"+"pot"+"something to kill the munchies while watching a movie" is covered by the poll options, no?

When watching fried green tomatoes, do you really eat what the characters eat in the movie?
brrrrrrr

Madriva uses rpm packages. Ubuntu uses deb packages. While ubuntu is mostly optimized for GNOME (with kubuntu being an official derivative), I THINK mandriva is mostly optimized for KDE. For major package version differences, check out here for mandriva and here for kubuntu In Mandriva you can have a root account, while in *buntu you "can't" (or, to be precise, it's strongly advised not to)

Yeah, there are also imaginary languages for imaginary processors like mic1 and stuff. But TFA is talking about operationg systems