As a college aged kid I'm also finding it harder to enjoy video games as I used to.
It is something that can be grown out of, people change yadda yadda...

All I know is that I can't be mesmorized by a video game experience anymore as I could when I was younger.

You know what? Good for the porn company.
It's messed up that the EFF thinks that it's not okay to sue thousands of people at once. In my eyes, it seems like that's the best way to deal with it.
I mean, piracy is messed up. I pirate things, but I know that pirating things doesn't help the people that create it. Music, movies, books, porn, no matter what you are pirating it. The only way to sensibly deal with this in court is to deal with everyone who's committing the "crime" (I say crime in quotations because I'm not going to say if piracy is really a crime).
So I say good job porn makers. You guys are getting shafted, and it is messed up.

That's all well and good, but I'm really a sucker for oxygen.

This is such a stupid article. It doesn't take into account atmosphere or presence of water at all. The only data the the guy uses is that there happens to be one planet 20 light years away that is roughly the same size as Earth. That is the only data he uses to come to his conclusion. What a waste of time.

The humidity in Maryland is suffocating.

Going back to the old story and looking at what data the companies used to predict the outcome, it doesn't surprise me it's inaccurate. They used:

• Betting market data
• Elo ratings
• Salary data
• Historical World Cup data
• Socioeconomic data

While that's not a bad way to start, what seems to be more important is how well the team plays together and the chemistry and attitude of the team in general. As we saw with England (and France), you can put a bunch of great soccer players on one team, but that doesn't mean they're going to play well together.

Would you guys really like to sit on the couch with a keyboard and mouse? Remember, this poll is for console games; if you want keyboard and mouse, just play on a computer.

How does Africa already have a choke-hold on energy production? Are you confusing Africa with the Middle East?

This summary doesn't accurately describe the intention of this device.
It was actually mentioned in my human-computer interactions class.
The idea is that a long-distance couple wears these vests and one of the couple can trigger the other couple's vest to simulate a hug.
So it's a way for long-distance couples to deal with being away from each other for a while.
A little silly, but a cute idea.

This makes sense to me because companies can use each others names in TV commercials, Google ads seems like a sensible online analogy.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the user you're stalking ignore/ban you, and stop you from /who-ing them?

The problem with this is that there is no way for a user to opt-out.
So I say shame on Blizzard for putting all of us into Web 2.0, willingly or unwillingly.

Disclaimer: My WoW account has been rarely used for the last year or so. But you don't have to take my word for it, you can see for yourself now!

The technology behind this is interesting, unfortunatly I have a bad feeling the only games for this will be silly "casual" (there's that word!) games. Maybe with just one killer app this will be worthwhile...

But China doesn't want to steal Google's proprietary secrets, they want to access the emails of Chinese rights activists. I'm sure accessing some activist's inbox is a whole lot different thing than hacking into a place where Google is going to keep their secrets.

It's not that the word "Evolve" in the title is misleading, it's that the whole article has NOTHING to do with males evolving faster than females. It says that the Y chromosome is evolving rapidly. That's it. Nothing more. The Slashdot editor took that simple premise in the article and decided to create a masterpiece of flamebait. Thanks for turning what might have been an interesting genetic discussion into nothing.