I finally got HoMM VI despite DRM reservations on extreme sale and I have to say it wasn't worth it even for 90% off. They stripped all the strategy from the game and left it an empty advertising husk. Don't bother.

Tor: now featuring exit nodes that wrap advertising around your browsing.

All this talk about 'cyberwar' and what do they suggest? The cyber-warfare equivalent of putting air defenses in a hospital near the front. Even with proper SLAs, you paint a giant target on everyone around you.

What can we expect? Probably demanding that the hospital be armored and sealed up which will drive up costs for everyone without accomplishing what they intend.

The lawsuits would be glorious to behold. Everyone sue Verizon for anything online.

Dallas Makerspace has a laser cutter on site. It is almost certainly the most popular tool (outside of the internet connection which is terrible and will be until they put up the tower). Pretty easy to use too though using it does require a class.

>Individual interests *must* take a back seat to the good of society. Period

Nope. It is not even good for society for individual interests to always take a back seat to the good of the society and it is certainly not always in the best interests of the individuals.

You could say it is best for society to have a balance between societal and individual interests but this means re-framing the question inevitably involves how much is fair for whom.

Realistically its a side effect of the work culture and the family moving from stay at home mom to dual income. Latchkey kids became common and parents slowly realized that their jobs didn't allow them to pay the same level of attention to their kids that their parents paid to them. They were ashamed and felt a need to prove that they do care about their kids, even if they don't have time to spend with them. That leads to overprotectiveness as a proof method and the precious little snowflake situation. Add that kid success is also used as a societal status claim for the parents, that our politicians have figured out that fear is a vote getter and so push the danger of crime, that we have an overabundance of lawyers and that we have a serious dislike of someone being treated better if they haven't been seen to earn/deserve it and this is the result you naturally get.

So time for wireless cellphone dial up then? It sounds like this is AOL's big chance to return to profitability.

Probably monitoring the pressure of the fluid in the buttons rather than the surface of the touchscreen while the buttons are up.

This assumes competent management hiring competent employees through a fair skills based hiring process and wisely managing the project over multiple administrations and the long term to achieve success.

If you've worked in government or big business that one sentence should be enough to make your risk management tendrils wrap around your neck and attempt to strangle you.

I'd just like to be the first to say welcome to the U.S. Mr. Assange. How was your brief visit to Sweden?

Sure you can still play. You just feed in quarters at double or triple the rate of the rest of us.