I'll give it five years, tops, before cameras become illegal and possession lands you many years in prison. Because we might use them to prove something government/businesses can't refute.

Pretty soon it won't make a difference which totalitarian regime we're under.

Nice. Really nice as opposed to the WI Dells water park I stayed at recently which locked down the TV completely. You could plug stuff into the back but they had managed to keep you from opening the menu, even with a physical button.

Really cool to see them taking a step towards openness and customer convenience (something which almost never happens in the TV/audiovisual industry).

Not EVERY person under 18 is looking to pick a fight. Not even the majority.

I have every right to go to the mall, eat, and browse at Apple. Heck, I'm about to drop $2000 there. Or would you prefer I be banned from entering?

This would be great if used specifically against menacing groups of teens. But used against every teen and child indiscriminately is just... evil. Unjustified. And stupid; it'll drive away legitimate customers.

It's not okay to blindly discriminate against black people or against women. Why is it okay to discriminate against teens?

I'm apparently not allowed to view that set.

Downtime while the cables get re-routed to a U.S. data mining center.

Or a cover for downtime that was necessary to re-route the cables through the data-mining farm.

The goal of a terrorist is not to kill people - that's just an added bonus. The goal of a terrorist is to create, well, terror - just like this. They have succeeded.

To others - exactly. It's the same as anti-Communism.