It's too bad you posted as AC, you really seem to get my point but are maybe afraid of being modded down?
Hell, I've got karma to burn so maybe I don't follow that "don't mod me down" mentality. I've been building up excellent karma for years, speaking my mind freely the whole while. On the rare occaisions when I might say something someone with mod points and an axe to grind disagrees with, I don't give a fuck if they mod me into oblivion, they'll never have enough mod points to damage my karma.
Now, were I to completely go off the reservation and start posting in total dick mode, there are plenty of mod points, globally, to destroy my karma in short order. But no, I don't care if a dick with a grudge mods me down, I'll just post again. My karma allows that and I've earned that right by not being a dick.
You do realize I've been commenting in this thread since long before GP and GGP were posted, right? In fact, GGGGP was posted by me. I already couldn't moderate by the time I posted GP, so I didn't do anything to my moderation by posting that.
Oh well, lol
So, what you're saying is that, by not associating with people who bring *ME* down, I'm bringing them down? Well, then, by associating with them, I'm choosing to bring myself down, self destructive behavior, and I'm right for not carrying out that behavior. If you wish to argue that, come back when you have a psych degree.
I will not engage in self destrucive behavior, nor will I support the self destructive behavior of another person; and I will certainly not carry out an action that does both.
Indeed and I've battled with this for the last 14 years.
You can never blame the victim for the occurance of a crime, you can only fault the victim for making themselves an easy target, relative to others around them. Even at that, not every crime is committed against easy targets. When my former GF roofied me, it would have been much simpler for her to ask for consent and, had she taken the easy route, it wouldn't have been rape. I could not have prevented this, because it was perpetrated by someone I knew and trusted, but I did learn from it and now I get my own drinks and don't drink anything that's left my sight. It's not perfect prevention, but it's a simple measure I can easily take. Similarly, I no longer leave my radio faceplate in my car, let alone on the radio, after having one stolen; in that case I did make myself an easy target, I was in a nice area and figured the risk wasn't enough to warrant the extra effort. I was proven wrong and I learned from it.
I guess it boils down to recognizing your mistakes and learning from them. If there's not a clear-cut mistake that was made, one still must make the effort to learn from the situation and look for a way to prevent it in the future. It's not a perfect system but it does preven repeat occurances.
In case my previous reply was too involved for you to follow, I'm not saying I don't respect a woman's right to dress or act however they choose. I certainly respect that, and believe me when I say I do like to look, too. There's nothing wrong with promiscuity, either, provided all parties involved are consenting. There's a difference between acting slutty and being promiscuous.
I have no respect for anyone who knowingly puts themselves in a position they don't want to be in, through their own actions, then complains about being in that position. To be clear, in this instance I am talking about women who dress provocatively and behave flirtatiously, then complain when they get hit on or used for a one night stand. Well? If that's not what you want, don't act like that's what you're after, pretty simple concept and I have zero respect for anyone who can't wrap their head around it.
You do understand that limiting other peoples reproductive and social behaviours can seriously harm their well-being.
I certainly do, and I never proposed any such limits. I simply said, knowing what's out there, one should expect to be treated a certain way when they dress and/or act a certain way. I state this quite explicitly in the first paragraph of the post to which you are replying. I did fail to proofread prior to posting, but you will note the correction I posted immediately after.
Given that these are core aspects of our existence (what your parents never had sex?) the danger that you are doing serious damage is far too great.
There is no danger that I am doing serious damage by simply not associating with someone who acts in a way I find unacceptable. If you wish to argue this further, please go into great detail regarding how, by not interacting with someone, I am causing any damage at all.
The fact here is that, through extreme attention-seeking behavior, including social and sexual promiscuity, people often times are doing more damage to their own self-esteem and self-image than I, or anyone else, could ever do. Case in point, one of my best friends in high school, very well respected girl but for some reason after graduation felt the need to seek any form of intimacy she could get. After a year or so of social and sexual promiscuity, she came to the conclusion that she was useless, that nobody wanted her, that she would never be good enough for anyone to actually stay in her life. Why? Because all the guys she was flirting and sleeping with were using her, none of them stuck around for very long, and she thought it was a problem with her, as a person.
Well, she survived her suicide attempt and reevaluated her behavior while she was in the hospital, and came to realize that her behavior was attracting the kind of people who use people. She made behavorial changes and has been the happy girl I remember from high school ever since and is now in a committed relationship with a man who treats her well. Her life has improved since she moved on from her slutty phase, and I don't think anyone would argue that.
To be clear, I have no problem with people dressing or acting however the hell they want. I have the right to not associate with people I don't wish to associate with and I excercise that right vigorously. What I have a problem with is people, knowing what is out there, acting like they shouldn't expect to be treated a certain way when they dress and act a certain way. If you dress like you're looking for attention, don't be surprised when you get it. That's all I'm saying. With regards to my friend from the story above, she knew what she was doing and she accepted the consequences rather than complaining about being hit on. What she didn't realize was that the reason she couldn't find a decent guy was directly related to how she dressed and acted. When she changed her behavior, she changed her whole life. What I have a problem with is people expecting to be treated better than they treat themselves.
That leaves the following question: Do I tend to treat people better or worse than they treat themselves?
I'd say I treat people at least as well as they treat themselves. I tend to treat a person with respect from the start and, if I determine that they're not the kind or person I want to associate with, I simply stop associating with them, no mistreatment or disrespect involved. If they care to ask why I don't talk to them anymore, I politely explain that our lifestyles are not compatible and that it's nothing against them, as a person, but rather their behavior, something they have full control over changing if they wish, that I choose to not associate with.
Surely, there are people you don't associate with?
Indeed and the point wasn't that it's ok to mistreat someone else under any circumstance. The whole point here it does happen, not that it should or that it's OK or in any way justified. Knowing that it does happen, regardless how wrong it is, why would someone choose to put themselves in that position?
As a rape victim, myself, victimized by my (at the time) GF, I reflected on how it happened and implemented behavorial changes to prevent it from happening in the future. For one, I get my own drinks, now; and I don't drink it if it's left my sight. I also make a distinct disconnect between being raped and dressing or acting slutty, so the whole rape scenario didn't enter into my mind when I posted; I was spending time with a girl I was dating, dressed in rather modest clothes, when it happened to me.
Indeed, I'm all for treating people decently. It would be nice if everyone was, but the fact of the matter is that's not the case. I've stated in this thread that women who dress and act slutty do not get my respect and I did mean that; that does not, however, mean that I would simply not speak to them or interact with them.
That said, one should note that I said dress AND act, inclusively. This was to be taken literally; just because a girl dresses slutty doesn't mean she's a slut. Some women love the attention but make boundaries very clear by simply saying "no" when hit on by a guy they have no interest in, and I respect them for that. As for girls who act slutty but don't dress the part, in my experience, getting into costume is the first step in the act, but were I ever to encounter a slutty girl who didn't look the part, she probably wouldn't get much respect from me, no.
The fact is that I don't want a slutty woman, regardless of my enjoyment of sex and independent of any interpersonal feeling you may wish to project onto others. Further, I never labeled anyone, good or bad. This would be why you fail to understand why I did so. I'm a married man, my wife doesn't dress or act slutty, and I treat her with the utmost respect. Yous assumptions and projections are, quite frankly, insulting.
As an aside, I think this thread hold the record for most occurrences of the word "slut" ever on Slashdot.
Forget the car stereo analogy I made elsewhere in this thread (though it's also a true story). I learned to get my own damn drinks and keep them in view.
Being a rape victim myself (yes, it can happen to a guy) and not afraid to talk about it openly, I can declare with some level of certainty that being stared at and being raped are two entirely different things, that nobody deserves to be raped, and that GP has their head stuck somewhere that is most likely uncomfortable. How GP was moded insightful for their "no shit, Sherlock" comment, I do not kn....oh....this is Slashdot, right.
For those who might feel the need to ask, I was roofied by my (at the time) GF. I totally would have consented, but lack of consent and the involvement of drugs qualifies it as rape. There are other circumstances (mostly regarding a witness to the event, which is how I'm even aware that it happened) which I will not discuss, in order to protect that witness, but I am open to any legitimate questions regarding the event.
Again, I have never treated a woman like this, nor would I. I tend to avoid women who invite this kind of behavior, as a general rule. My wife actually has some self respect, as well as my full respect; were she the type to dress slutty and flirt with every guy she meets for attention, she would not be my wife, nor would she have my respect.
Look, if a girl wants to meet a guy who will treat her with respect, she needs to not dress to acctract guys who will take advantage of her. Plain and simple, it's a fact that these guys exist and it will happen if you invite it. Note that I'm not talking about rape, I'm talking about being willingly used for sex, there is a huge difference.
Mod me a troll if you will, but there was nothing trollish about my comment. I take the faceplate off my car stereo because I know there are thieves in the world. If I leave it on and it gets stolen, it is my fault I made an attractive target, just as much as the thief is wrong for having taken it. I learned this the first time I left a faceplate on a car stereo and came back to a broken window, fucked up interior, and no stereo, and adjusted my future behavior accordingly. If a woman can't do the same after seeing negative effects from the way she dresses and acts, then she does, indeed, deserve to keep being treated that way until she learns, just as I would deserve to keep being taught not to leave the faceplate on my stereo until I finally learn to stop inviting the negative consequences it can bring.
I never menioned rape, mostly because the fact is that the majority of rape victims are plainly dressed at the time of the attack and are often victimized by someone they know, not a random guy hitting on them because they're wearing short shorts and a low cut shirt. Rape isn't the issue here, expecting people to treat you any better than you're willing to treat yourself is the issue.
A closed window, no matter how sloppily closed, is at least an attempt to gain privacy. Putting your information on the public, searchable, internet is an attempt to forego privacy altogether; it's more akin to standing on the sidewalk and watching you fuck your wife on the front porch.
or, say, snapping a picture of someone who walked out into the street naked with a dildo up his ass (in which case I believe the person taking the picture is often morally and legally in the clear, though I'm sure it changes depending on state/country). IANAL, help!
It sounds like the guy in the picture ANALs, as well!
I have no problem whatsoever respecting a woman who respects herself enough to not put herself on display, similarly to how I have no problem not peeking through someone's blinds. But, ladies, just like I might catch a glimpse of your naked ass if you walk in front of your wide-open picture window as I'm walking down the sidewalk in front of your house, whether I wanted to see it or not (PROTIP: I probably didn't want to see it), I'm probably gonna see your tits and ass if they're hanging out of your clothes.
I guess what I'm trying to say is if you want respect, dress and act like a respectable adult. If you want to dress like a slutty Barbie doll and act like a highschool student, excpect to be played with like a Barbie doll and taught a lesson like a student.
That said, I've never been the type to play with people like that, or "teach them a lesson", but there is no denying that there are people out there who do these things. If you don't want to fall victim to it, don't dress and act in ways that invite it. If you can't get that through your head and adjust your lifestyle accordingly, for your own betterment, then I'm sorry to say you get what you deserve.
no one seems to be hating visa/mastercard for letting 10 million cards be compromised.
Uhm... Because it wasn't Visa and Mastercard who let it happen?
A payment processor used by some parking garages let it happen; that this company happens to process Visa and Mastercard payments is inconsequential to that fact.
You can't demand cheap products then be offended when they result in poorly paid workers.
I'd have modded you up, if Apple fans were, in fact, demanding cheap products. Apple hardware is, in fact, sold at a premium.
Actually, I take that back, Apple fans *are* demanding cheap products and they're getting them. That they're expensive doesn't make them any less cheap. What the impact the quality of the product has on the pay of the workers, I do not know; typically, however, you get higher quality product from higher paid workers.
I kinda feel bad for Vita owners. They bought a piece of hardware and think that means they own it, but there's a huge corporation who will automatically try to lock it down and put restrictions and (let's face it) limitations on it. It's two large opposing forces.
They weren't doing enough to secure quality content that was worthwhile on the PSP, and they claimed that the reason for that was because of piracy.
Wrong, wrong, WRONG! They did way too much to secure content on the PSP, posed a fun challenge to hackers, and found out (but didnt learn, apparently) that you can't secure something by giving both the lock and key to the person you want to secure it from. Of course they claied this was due to piracy, that's what they were (and are... and misguidedly) trying to prevent.
And yes, I do realize that you meant "secure content" as in "get people to develop software". I was pointing out the ironic wording.
Be more careful in the future, you don't want Sony reading things like this and thinking "They're saying our DRM wasn't strong enogh. Time to bump it up a couple of notches.", they'll do that on their own until they finally kill themselves.
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It's too bad you posted as AC, you really seem to get my point but are maybe afraid of being modded down?
Hell, I've got karma to burn so maybe I don't follow that "don't mod me down" mentality. I've been building up excellent karma for years, speaking my mind freely the whole while. On the rare occaisions when I might say something someone with mod points and an axe to grind disagrees with, I don't give a fuck if they mod me into oblivion, they'll never have enough mod points to damage my karma.
Now, were I to completely go off the reservation and start posting in total dick mode, there are plenty of mod points, globally, to destroy my karma in short order. But no, I don't care if a dick with a grudge mods me down, I'll just post again. My karma allows that and I've earned that right by not being a dick.
You do realize I've been commenting in this thread since long before GP and GGP were posted, right? In fact, GGGGP was posted by me. I already couldn't moderate by the time I posted GP, so I didn't do anything to my moderation by posting that. Oh well, lol
So, what you're saying is that, by not associating with people who bring *ME* down, I'm bringing them down? Well, then, by associating with them, I'm choosing to bring myself down, self destructive behavior, and I'm right for not carrying out that behavior. If you wish to argue that, come back when you have a psych degree.
I will not engage in self destrucive behavior, nor will I support the self destructive behavior of another person; and I will certainly not carry out an action that does both.
Indeed and I've battled with this for the last 14 years.
You can never blame the victim for the occurance of a crime, you can only fault the victim for making themselves an easy target, relative to others around them. Even at that, not every crime is committed against easy targets. When my former GF roofied me, it would have been much simpler for her to ask for consent and, had she taken the easy route, it wouldn't have been rape. I could not have prevented this, because it was perpetrated by someone I knew and trusted, but I did learn from it and now I get my own drinks and don't drink anything that's left my sight. It's not perfect prevention, but it's a simple measure I can easily take. Similarly, I no longer leave my radio faceplate in my car, let alone on the radio, after having one stolen; in that case I did make myself an easy target, I was in a nice area and figured the risk wasn't enough to warrant the extra effort. I was proven wrong and I learned from it.
I guess it boils down to recognizing your mistakes and learning from them. If there's not a clear-cut mistake that was made, one still must make the effort to learn from the situation and look for a way to prevent it in the future. It's not a perfect system but it does preven repeat occurances.
In case my previous reply was too involved for you to follow, I'm not saying I don't respect a woman's right to dress or act however they choose. I certainly respect that, and believe me when I say I do like to look, too. There's nothing wrong with promiscuity, either, provided all parties involved are consenting. There's a difference between acting slutty and being promiscuous.
I have no respect for anyone who knowingly puts themselves in a position they don't want to be in, through their own actions, then complains about being in that position. To be clear, in this instance I am talking about women who dress provocatively and behave flirtatiously, then complain when they get hit on or used for a one night stand. Well? If that's not what you want, don't act like that's what you're after, pretty simple concept and I have zero respect for anyone who can't wrap their head around it.
You do understand that limiting other peoples reproductive and social behaviours can seriously harm their well-being.
I certainly do, and I never proposed any such limits. I simply said, knowing what's out there, one should expect to be treated a certain way when they dress and/or act a certain way. I state this quite explicitly in the first paragraph of the post to which you are replying. I did fail to proofread prior to posting, but you will note the correction I posted immediately after.
Given that these are core aspects of our existence (what your parents never had sex?) the danger that you are doing serious damage is far too great.
There is no danger that I am doing serious damage by simply not associating with someone who acts in a way I find unacceptable. If you wish to argue this further, please go into great detail regarding how, by not interacting with someone, I am causing any damage at all.
The fact here is that, through extreme attention-seeking behavior, including social and sexual promiscuity, people often times are doing more damage to their own self-esteem and self-image than I, or anyone else, could ever do. Case in point, one of my best friends in high school, very well respected girl but for some reason after graduation felt the need to seek any form of intimacy she could get. After a year or so of social and sexual promiscuity, she came to the conclusion that she was useless, that nobody wanted her, that she would never be good enough for anyone to actually stay in her life. Why? Because all the guys she was flirting and sleeping with were using her, none of them stuck around for very long, and she thought it was a problem with her, as a person.
Well, she survived her suicide attempt and reevaluated her behavior while she was in the hospital, and came to realize that her behavior was attracting the kind of people who use people. She made behavorial changes and has been the happy girl I remember from high school ever since and is now in a committed relationship with a man who treats her well. Her life has improved since she moved on from her slutty phase, and I don't think anyone would argue that.
To be clear, I have no problem with people dressing or acting however the hell they want. I have the right to not associate with people I don't wish to associate with and I excercise that right vigorously. What I have a problem with is people, knowing what is out there, acting like they shouldn't expect to be treated a certain way when they dress and act a certain way. If you dress like you're looking for attention, don't be surprised when you get it. That's all I'm saying. With regards to my friend from the story above, she knew what she was doing and she accepted the consequences rather than complaining about being hit on. What she didn't realize was that the reason she couldn't find a decent guy was directly related to how she dressed and acted. When she changed her behavior, she changed her whole life. What I have a problem with is people expecting to be treated better than they treat themselves.
That leaves the following question: Do I tend to treat people better or worse than they treat themselves?
I'd say I treat people at least as well as they treat themselves. I tend to treat a person with respect from the start and, if I determine that they're not the kind or person I want to associate with, I simply stop associating with them, no mistreatment or disrespect involved. If they care to ask why I don't talk to them anymore, I politely explain that our lifestyles are not compatible and that it's nothing against them, as a person, but rather their behavior, something they have full control over changing if they wish, that I choose to not associate with.
Surely, there are people you don't associate with?
Indeed and the point wasn't that it's ok to mistreat someone else under any circumstance. The whole point here it does happen, not that it should or that it's OK or in any way justified. Knowing that it does happen, regardless how wrong it is, why would someone choose to put themselves in that position?
As a rape victim, myself, victimized by my (at the time) GF, I reflected on how it happened and implemented behavorial changes to prevent it from happening in the future. For one, I get my own drinks, now; and I don't drink it if it's left my sight. I also make a distinct disconnect between being raped and dressing or acting slutty, so the whole rape scenario didn't enter into my mind when I posted; I was spending time with a girl I was dating, dressed in rather modest clothes, when it happened to me.
I should have proofread...
that does not, however, mean that I would simply not speak to them or interact with them.
Should read:
that does not, however, mean that I would disrespect them, either; I would simply not speak to them or interact with them.
Indeed, I'm all for treating people decently. It would be nice if everyone was, but the fact of the matter is that's not the case. I've stated in this thread that women who dress and act slutty do not get my respect and I did mean that; that does not, however, mean that I would simply not speak to them or interact with them.
That said, one should note that I said dress AND act, inclusively. This was to be taken literally; just because a girl dresses slutty doesn't mean she's a slut. Some women love the attention but make boundaries very clear by simply saying "no" when hit on by a guy they have no interest in, and I respect them for that. As for girls who act slutty but don't dress the part, in my experience, getting into costume is the first step in the act, but were I ever to encounter a slutty girl who didn't look the part, she probably wouldn't get much respect from me, no.
The fact is that I don't want a slutty woman, regardless of my enjoyment of sex and independent of any interpersonal feeling you may wish to project onto others. Further, I never labeled anyone, good or bad. This would be why you fail to understand why I did so. I'm a married man, my wife doesn't dress or act slutty, and I treat her with the utmost respect. Yous assumptions and projections are, quite frankly, insulting.
As an aside, I think this thread hold the record for most occurrences of the word "slut" ever on Slashdot.
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Hahahahahahaha, no worries, we all have our off days.
Forget the car stereo analogy I made elsewhere in this thread (though it's also a true story). I learned to get my own damn drinks and keep them in view.
Being a rape victim myself (yes, it can happen to a guy) and not afraid to talk about it openly, I can declare with some level of certainty that being stared at and being raped are two entirely different things, that nobody deserves to be raped, and that GP has their head stuck somewhere that is most likely uncomfortable. How GP was moded insightful for their "no shit, Sherlock" comment, I do not kn....oh....this is Slashdot, right.
For those who might feel the need to ask, I was roofied by my (at the time) GF. I totally would have consented, but lack of consent and the involvement of drugs qualifies it as rape. There are other circumstances (mostly regarding a witness to the event, which is how I'm even aware that it happened) which I will not discuss, in order to protect that witness, but I am open to any legitimate questions regarding the event.
Bingo! This guy gets it!
Again, I have never treated a woman like this, nor would I. I tend to avoid women who invite this kind of behavior, as a general rule. My wife actually has some self respect, as well as my full respect; were she the type to dress slutty and flirt with every guy she meets for attention, she would not be my wife, nor would she have my respect.
Who said rape?
Look, if a girl wants to meet a guy who will treat her with respect, she needs to not dress to acctract guys who will take advantage of her. Plain and simple, it's a fact that these guys exist and it will happen if you invite it. Note that I'm not talking about rape, I'm talking about being willingly used for sex, there is a huge difference.
Mod me a troll if you will, but there was nothing trollish about my comment. I take the faceplate off my car stereo because I know there are thieves in the world. If I leave it on and it gets stolen, it is my fault I made an attractive target, just as much as the thief is wrong for having taken it. I learned this the first time I left a faceplate on a car stereo and came back to a broken window, fucked up interior, and no stereo, and adjusted my future behavior accordingly. If a woman can't do the same after seeing negative effects from the way she dresses and acts, then she does, indeed, deserve to keep being treated that way until she learns, just as I would deserve to keep being taught not to leave the faceplate on my stereo until I finally learn to stop inviting the negative consequences it can bring.
I never menioned rape, mostly because the fact is that the majority of rape victims are plainly dressed at the time of the attack and are often victimized by someone they know, not a random guy hitting on them because they're wearing short shorts and a low cut shirt. Rape isn't the issue here, expecting people to treat you any better than you're willing to treat yourself is the issue.
Funny, coming from someone who goes by CanHasDIY; no step-sister, I take it? So you have to do it yourself?
A closed window, no matter how sloppily closed, is at least an attempt to gain privacy. Putting your information on the public, searchable, internet is an attempt to forego privacy altogether; it's more akin to standing on the sidewalk and watching you fuck your wife on the front porch.
Adoption.
Creepy, but also convenient.
or, say, snapping a picture of someone who walked out into the street naked with a dildo up his ass (in which case I believe the person taking the picture is often morally and legally in the clear, though I'm sure it changes depending on state/country). IANAL, help!
It sounds like the guy in the picture ANALs, as well!
AMEN!
I have no problem whatsoever respecting a woman who respects herself enough to not put herself on display, similarly to how I have no problem not peeking through someone's blinds. But, ladies, just like I might catch a glimpse of your naked ass if you walk in front of your wide-open picture window as I'm walking down the sidewalk in front of your house, whether I wanted to see it or not (PROTIP: I probably didn't want to see it), I'm probably gonna see your tits and ass if they're hanging out of your clothes.
I guess what I'm trying to say is if you want respect, dress and act like a respectable adult. If you want to dress like a slutty Barbie doll and act like a highschool student, excpect to be played with like a Barbie doll and taught a lesson like a student.
That said, I've never been the type to play with people like that, or "teach them a lesson", but there is no denying that there are people out there who do these things. If you don't want to fall victim to it, don't dress and act in ways that invite it. If you can't get that through your head and adjust your lifestyle accordingly, for your own betterment, then I'm sorry to say you get what you deserve.
no one seems to be hating visa/mastercard for letting 10 million cards be compromised.
Uhm... Because it wasn't Visa and Mastercard who let it happen?
A payment processor used by some parking garages let it happen; that this company happens to process Visa and Mastercard payments is inconsequential to that fact.
You can't demand cheap products then be offended when they result in poorly paid workers.
I'd have modded you up, if Apple fans were, in fact, demanding cheap products. Apple hardware is, in fact, sold at a premium.
Actually, I take that back, Apple fans *are* demanding cheap products and they're getting them. That they're expensive doesn't make them any less cheap. What the impact the quality of the product has on the pay of the workers, I do not know; typically, however, you get higher quality product from higher paid workers.
I kinda feel bad for Vita owners. They bought a piece of hardware and think that means they own it, but there's a huge corporation who will automatically try to lock it down and put restrictions and (let's face it) limitations on it. It's two large opposing forces.
They weren't doing enough to secure quality content that was worthwhile on the PSP, and they claimed that the reason for that was because of piracy.
Wrong, wrong, WRONG! They did way too much to secure content on the PSP, posed a fun challenge to hackers, and found out (but didnt learn, apparently) that you can't secure something by giving both the lock and key to the person you want to secure it from. Of course they claied this was due to piracy, that's what they were (and are... and misguidedly) trying to prevent.
And yes, I do realize that you meant "secure content" as in "get people to develop software". I was pointing out the ironic wording.
Be more careful in the future, you don't want Sony reading things like this and thinking "They're saying our DRM wasn't strong enogh. Time to bump it up a couple of notches.", they'll do that on their own until they finally kill themselves.