Sony has a rootkit

I have been absent recently due to personal reasons.
I want to thank everyone who has sent me words of courage and support. I will not discuss my personal life here, though, since that is not the purpose of this blog. Nonetheless, I wish to thank everyone who has sent their condolences.

In other news, by now I guess you might have already read this.  Last week (before I randomly crashed aKregator) it was the "talk of the week" on Ars Technica and other tech-related sites. 
To be honest, I am not surprised.  $ony and Micro$oft are the two toughest DRM pushing companies (not to say that other companies are not "into" DRM.  I know Apple likes the idea too) I think (and this is my personal opinion) the reason why Micro$oft is rather pissed at $ony, aside from the fact that their rootkit exposes just how easy it is to breach Windows security and easily turn any Windows computer into a zombie (well... in case someone was absent-minded enough not to know it yet), is because $ony implemented this rootkit BEFORE M$ did it themselves and established a way "to do" DRM and tried to file even more patents on protocols et al and forced every media-related company to pay them for those patents, etc.  You know how this story goes.
Loosely quoting the Simpsons, "(Bill Gates) didn't get rich by signing checks."
Additionally, about the AIM bots.  I've deleted them the moment AOL took the liberty of adding them to my buddy list for me.
I am not surprised Microsoft intends to buy AOL, because this sounds like domino effect:
Yahoo! and Google are on frank and open war.  Microsoft and Google are on frank and open war. (I used to have a prettier link than the that one, but I can't find it) Yahoo! wants AOL's userbase (which they couldn't get).  Microsoft and Yahoo! are getting friendly with each other.  Well... grab your bag of popcorn and watch how they either tear each other's eyes out or team up and dominate the world and make us all their slaves. =/
Here it is!  Hehehe.