Hehe, that's funny. I'm 29 and I was programming a C64 by the time I was 7. But I'm also really really weird, so it all balances out.

...we do what we must because we can, for the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead)...

(for some reason I just thought of that)

It could also be a case of volume. An example is the Deschutes River in Oregon -- on any given summer weekend you have raft after raft going down the river. At all the major rapids there are photographers set up taking pictures of each raft as it goes over. It looked like they went for the less creative (but possibly more reliable) means of having runners that drive the cards back and forth to the home base. That seemed effective enough, though it would be less effective if there weren't any good roads to/from the best places for the pictures.

I had a image on my site hotlinked without permission by a political website. I 302'd the image to a t-shirt of the opposite political views (but only if they viewed from that site). Fun ensued :)

On whole, I agree that the researcher and/or those reporting are a bit naive in their responses. I just have two points, though:

Point 1: Developers get to say what the game is

When you play, you've agreed to a TOS. If they felt like having it in their TOS that players can't idly stand by talking to the 'enemy', they could do that, though it would be a weird way of approaching it. Some games don't allow it from the start, such as WoW (they've gone through efforts to make sure that players can't communite cross-faction in-game). That's not to say that such decisions could be unpopular and could cost the developers their customers, just that it's their decision in the end. Hopefully the relationship, though, is mutually beneficial with the developers listening to the customers and the customers paying the developers (aka, business).

Point 2: Laws versus customs

Your example of the speed limit is actually wrong (at least everywhere I've lived). If you go 45mph in a 55mph zone in good driving conditions and obstruct traffic, you will get a ticket. AFAIK, most states have laws against any actions that create unsafe driving conditions. In Washington, you could even be going over the speed limit and get a ticket if you'd obstructing the left lane.

Noise violations at 3am are also breaking the law, as are unwanted sexual advances (whether or not they occur in a night club).

So I thought I'd give you a better example: escalators in Japan. I like this example since it's a contract to the US. Depending on what part of Japan you are in, people either stand on the left side or the right side of the escalator if they're just standing. It allows those that want to walk up to get by. While you're doing nothing illegal if you stand on the other side, you'd still ignoring a custom and will likely aggrivate the people around you because you're getting in the way.

Too bad the shirt just got discontinued: http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=9102

You may want to cover your eyes and ears. Some of us are going to leave your frame of reference for a moment, and do not wish accidentally reveal any spoilers...

Put differently, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve is broadcast in Seattle three hours after it is recorded in New York. You can deny that Dick Clark has yelled Happy New Year because, in your frame of reference, you have yet to observe this. However, you would be wrong. You are free to only acknowledge events that are observed from your frame of reference, but everyone else is also free to speculate as to what may have already happened from a different frame of reference.

Yes, at least the part about Earth colliding with a Mars-sized planet (according to the giant impact hypothesis of the moon's formation)

Well, it won't be all bad. Get enough space debri in orbit, maybe we'll shave off a little global warming (if nuclear winter doesn't do it first).

Also, it won't matter that we can't launch GPS sats anymore. With all that shiny debri in orbit, we can just look and a see where we are.

Win for everyone! (except the ones who are dead)

I have to admit, after playing Burnout Paradise, I felt the urge to drive through any yellow blockades I saw in real life...

After a little testing, now it makes more sense. Message-ID is set by the client. I just sent myself an email by manually doing the smtp (I just made up a message ID and it worked fine).

So it depends where you send it from, not so much the service.

Also, if you really wanted to, you could relay outside of gmail for sending the messages (which would avoid this issue completely), though that might get you flagged as spam (if the domain's mx record doesn't match where the email came from).