He claims to love Linux, but what he really loves is himself. And every time it looks like Linux might achieve even a modicum of success, his overinflated ego is always there to ruin it.

Someone needs to tell him that it's hard enough to get people to adopt your OS with 3 million competing distros, much less with the leadership of an egotistical ass who takes every opportunity to scream like bipolar child at anyone who tries to actually help. The only thing Garrett was doing in this case was recognizing a problem going forward, and fixing it. And Torvalds tears his head off for it. He thinks everything has to be a big heroic stand--with him as hero, of course.

Westboro Baptist Church is made up up maybe a dozen individuals in a nation of hundreds of millions. Radical Islam is now a significant majority in many Muslim countries, and a significant minority in many more.

It's a battle between secular democratic government and koran-thumping nutballs who want to impose their religious beliefs on everyone else at sword point.

They're not getting privileged treatment. Enforcing civil contracts is one of the primary functions of government and has been since the Romans were still enjoying gladiator matches.

Yeah, that's called BUYING AN UNLOCKED PHONE, and you can do it at pretty much any carrier (and on just about any model phone) in the U.S.

The major carriers will unlock after contract and the DMCA has a specific exclusion for legacy phones.

And of course, once again, no one made you a slave to begin with. YOU agreed to the terms. YOU had the option to buy the more expensive unlocked version. YOU are the cheap-ass who decided to buy the subsidized one.

All the major U.S. carriers will unlock after contract and the DMCA provides a specific exclusion for "legacy" phones (i.e. off-contract).

Yeah, just like you actually bought your house. But the mortgage company still makes you send them money each month, requires you carry insurance on it, and would be pretty pissed if you tried to burn it down.

No, you bought a subsidized phone under a contract. You're free to unlock it as soon as you fulfill that contract, or you're free to buy the unsubsidized/unlocked version in the first place and never enter the fucking contract in the first place.

What you're asking for is to have your cake and eat it too. If you want freedom, BUY THE UNLOCKED PHONE!

Uh, that's one of the primary functions of the entire U.S. civil court system, and has been for hundreds of years now.

The law in question specifically states that it's only illegal to unlock your phone during the contract period . After that, you are of course free to do what you want with it. This petition is for cheapskates who want to buy subsidized phones, but not fulfill their contract.

No, what we have now is:

You go to buy a phone
Carrier offers you the unlocked version for $600 or the 2-year contract version for $150
You buy the $150 model
For the next two years you bitch and moan because you can't unlock the phone and switch carriers.

Oh, you want it unlocked AND dirt cheap....Well, pick one.

4K is going to require some *SERIOUS* GPU muscle. I doubt the PS4, with those specs, could handle it.

I love the fact that it still has an analog out. Seriously, anyone buying a PS4 or Xbox 720 and using a composite cable for it should be pilloried. What's sad is that is probably what it will come with too (because they're too cheap to include a $3 HDMI cable).