This isn't that file renaming program, is it?

Actually, they're guilty of antidisestablishmentarianism.

Since we're changing definitions, I figured I would go with something that sounds much cooler. Also, I get paid by the letter, so there's that.

I think they were referring to editorial freedom, but like most editors on Slashdot they need to take a journalism class.

So, just printing more money isn't accounting fraud?

What Internet were you visiting?

There was music sharing using WAV and others for several years before MP3, the problem was bandwidth and storage, so it was unpopular. Running LHA on a WAV didn't do much, but people did it anyway.

Is a vague concept and would be unenforceable.

There's nothing stopping you from telling everyone what you spend your token on.

I'm willing to bet if enough people go and publicly video themselves buying new games with with any gift cards that it will be enough to be an additional blurb in a news story.

Fucking Microsoft, not letting me install Android on my Zune and Xbox. It's obvious, they're trying to sell the Xbox by using the fact that it works better with Windows as a selling point.

Yeah, no. New platform, new rules. If you argue that the ARM platform and PC platform are the same, then Microsoft is not a monopoly, and the restrictions placed on them are void, including those on the x86 platform. If you don't combine them, then ARM Tablets are not related to the PC and MS is not a monopoly in ARM and is a monopoly in x86 and the restrictions placed on them apply only to x86.

So, which do you want? Let MS do what they want in the x86 market or let them compete with yet another walled garden tablet?

How much difference is there between a PPC Mac and a Dell Optiplex? They're almost identical hardware, except for the chip and both can run Firefox, so, same software, right?

In the PC market. Not in the ARM consumer tablet market.

That dominant market share of 1%?

That's nice. Pointless, but nice.

You made a specific claim:

Skipping a pedestrian red light when you're young will increase the likelihood you'll skip a red one as a motorist later on

I claim that's not true. Now, prove your fact.

I have never heard of a study done that links jaywalking to red light running. You obviously have or you would not have made that claim. So, where can I read this study?

Yeah, that's not true, go make something else up.

Not really, I'm taking the non stop surveillance society to it's logical conclusion.

Have we changed topics from automated surveillance to world politics? I must have missed the topic change, I'll go back and check.

No, I'm worried about some insane view of society where you seem to think that I need a parental figure or big brother watching my every move to make sure I don't litter. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and you're volunteering to run the steamroller.

One person's utopia is another's dystopia.

I see your vision as the path to a sterile world. An automated society where everything is monitored for someone's vision of what the world should be like. All mistakes are punished and eventually you're deciding that people don't seem to be exercising enough, so you fine them for that. You don't like what they are wearing, so you fine them for that. You don't like what they said, so you fine them for that. It doesn't end, an automated society where the people are just cogs in the machine, nothing but slaves to IT.

I strongly suggest you call your society "Camazotz". At least then people will know what they've signed up for.