Are they suggesting we should stop boiling them alive? Preposterous!

This should have been modded Insightful. The comment was satirical in nature showing why a DA might push for one of these suits to go through. Really it's scary that they might be doing this to downplay the statistics. It's all a numbers game and the child's LIFE isn't even considered. Would the DA be a lawyer if he had taken pictures of himself to send to a girlfriend when he was 16? It's sad. Sad and scary.

EVERYONE has something to hide. Not to say it would be illegal, but how about credit cards? Or something even a little more trivial, how about the way you like to have sex? Let's say you were talking to your wife over the internet about the way you like to have sex. Is it illegal? No. "Not tasteful?" According to who? And is it potentially embarrassing? Depending on what specifically you're talking about, maybe. Especially if it were revealed to your work or maybe your insurance company. Here you thought you were just talking about the great night you were gonna have with your wife and someone has 'eavesdropped' on that conversation and has twisted it to be a weapon against you. Yeah, that's extreme, but just one of those things that 'could happen' if we (the people) don't try to fight the little things.

It wasn't the violence I didn't like about the movie. What got me was the copious amounts of sex in that movie. Why are superheroes fucking? I can understand they were trying to display the emotion they felt towards each other, but why not convey that relationship through dialogue and actions and have the sex implied? The violence is a little more understandable as Rorschach was a major character and the violence was key to his character. He was a good half of the movie, so understanding and seeing the world through his eyes was key. The blue schlong also didn't mean much to me, everyone's seen a penis (just anatomy). But 'superheroes' fucking each other, what? 3 times was it? Why not have it implied or something else. I know there are worse things out there and priorites are jacked when it comes to sex vs violence and such, this just happens to be what ruined this particular movie for myself is all.

I am shocked. Shocked, I say! You mean to tell me that better health leads to a longer life!? Well sir, I have apparently been wrong my whole life; thank you Slashdot!

There will always be one ISP that does not monitor it's traffic. Why? Because that's where the business will lie once all the other ISPs have monitoring equipment in place (even if it is imposed upon by the government). Not to say this will be in the U.S., but there will always be that one country. And on top of this, who is to say that encryption techniques won't make this argument obsolete anyway? If monitoring does break out on a wide scale, I see many, many websites turning towards things such as IPSEC or HTTPS. Darknets will be thrown up and proxies from that one country that doesn't monitor its ISPs will spring up like weeds. The internet is on a global scale, and as such we've had the freedom as an international privilege for far too long to let it go now. Someone or something can try to bring down the internet, but I just don't see it happening.

Quickly! If you squint, you can make a sailboat out of all those abbreviations. And is this review as thorough as recovery.gov is transparent?

September 11th 2001. Don't support the PATRIOT ACT? Sounds like terrorism to me...

Wow. Last time I went to a Hollywood Video store specifically was some years ago when at the time Blockbuster was costing ~$5 for a video game rental while Hollywood Video was around $3. I don't see prices on their website (of course), but if it really is $9 for a video game for 5 days then that's insane.

Blockbuster has been dead for a while. The only thing they had going for them was their physical presence for those with slow internet or those who like brick and mortar stores. Now they've killed the interaction between the two and alienated those who will now go to Netflix (likely) and those who see themselves as being screwed and will go to Hollywood Video and other rental stores. This wouldn't have been such a shot in the foot if they had given notice to users, but now they haven't and costumers are going to feel like they got the short end of the stick. I haven't been to Blockbuster in years because of their prices alone, but that's just me.

The game delayed
The Chinese silenced
The Blood Elves bowed
The Gnomes didn't mine
The Mainland was still
And the government hath said
The game shall be delayed
The Night Elves wept
And the world once again
Fell to it's knees.

Solving it the American way baby! Can't shoot at it? Aw. Throwing money at it doesn't help? Aw. Wait... revolutionary idea... let's deep fry it!!! *The suits come out of the conference room giving mental pats on the back to themselves*

Oh noes! Not the Kindle restricting meh puchases!

As you said, "here in the UK...". In the United States almost nobody has the option to change ISPs (much less changing for the 'better'). I'm in a Charter area (on the east coast of the U.S.) and you know what my options are? Dealing with a 100GB cap they implemented without my consent or... changing to dial up. There is no in between for me at all. Do I download songs? Absolutely 3-5MB per song. For video games we are talking 4GB - 50GB per game. Therefore, my chances are good that I can only download 2 games or so (on top of my normal bandwidth) each month. I say chance because there's no telling how big the game I want to download is. One of two things must happen: American ISPs need to get their acts together and lift speed and bandwidth caps like they have not been doing... or video game companies can just stick to shipping my PS3 and 360 discs to Gamestop, Amazon, and the like.

I won't lie; this being Slashdot, I am absolutely shocked! Shocked and appalled that a valid response is such as this is marked informative and not +5 Funny! Outrageous!