I thought South Park already covered this idea or at least the idea of getting whacked every time you start a game. Doesn't seem like it deterred them. http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e08-make-love-not-warcraft

If you're assassinated in a video game, what happens to your assets? I can totally see a new a career here. First, I play video games all day long and get really good at them. Then, I offer to assassinate other players with the stipulation that I get to keep all their goods. So I get real world cash for the hit and virtual world goods from the person I just wiped out. And all while sitting on my ass playing video games. Hmmm I think I need to take this idea to a good VC firm before Zuckerberg steals my idea and integrates it into Facebook.

Or maybe his father just needed to establish a usage contract for the video games similar to the cellphone one that made the news: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mom-attaches-18-point-contract-teen-iphone-article-1.1229991

Considering that a 1st grader just got suspended from school for making a gun with his finger and saying "pow" http://abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-grader-suspended-pointing-finger-shape-gun/story?id=18123294#.UOcsEaXstuo , I can totally see the son pursuing his father in court for "attempted murder". And then he won't need a job. He can just sue and live off the money he gets from his father. Oh the irony...

So with this in mind, I guess I can no longer take my game with me to my friends house to play??? Instead I have to go through the hassle of unwiring my entire console and bringing the whole console with me? Or worse what happens if my game console needs to be warranty replaced? Now I have to buy all new games? Sounds like a load of crap.

Not true responsible, legal citizens cannot have guns in these areas leaving only the criminals to get them. And the criminals don't care about the proper, legal process of getting a concealed weapon permit. If you make it legal for people to privately carry and defend themselves, the crime rate will drop. There are statistics proving this: http://www.humanevents.com/2009/01/26/concealed-carry-permits-are-life-savers/ "But since adopting a concealed carry law Florida’s total violent crime rate has dropped 32% and its homicide rate has dropped 58%. Floridians, except for criminals, are safer due to this law. And Florida is not alone. Texas’ violent crime rate has dropped 20% and homicide rate has dropped 31%, since enactment of its 1996 carry law."

Or if this other comment is true: "From what I hear, based on the StackExchange podcast, and the tweets that went out from SquareSpace and StackExchange during the whole idea is that Peer1 had a complete failure, and it was only due to the hard work of their customers (SE and SquareSpace) that the datacenter was able to remain operational. If your customers have to start carrying buckets of diesel up 17 flights of starirs, you, as a datacenter have failed. Peer1, left to their own devices would have just let the thing shutdown, and apparently head office wasn't aware of how bad things even were." then you better give your customers some free months of service for doing your job for you. Either way, figure out who kept it going and reward them handsomely or you suck!!!

All I can say is you damn well better reward all your employees that helped. They kept you up and kept your revenue stream moving. You need to give them some kickass holiday bonuses or you're all major douche bags.

Funny getting a concealed permit in NJ is next to impossible. In other recent news they're talking about the high crime rate in Chicago another city known for not allowing concealed weapons. Rather than study the problem, how 'bout letting the honest, law abiding citizens carry legally and watch the crime rate drop drastically as it has in other places? Places that allow private, honest, law abiding citizens that pass background checks to carry weapons have drastically lower crime rates. All the liberal, leftist, gun controlling areas that won't let someone have the right to defend themselves have higher crime rates. Statistics prove this. Stop wasting time and money researching murder as a disease and just let people exercise their rights and the rest will take care of itself.

The Mayan's are up to something sinister what did they know that we don't?

I heard last week you can cram 700Tb into DNA. Perhaps the DEA needs to look at DNA storage to solve their woes.

If you're willing to deal with the time it will take to write it all out, then its doable. You need a backup software that supports VTL (virtual tape library). With this, the physical drives are seen as tape devices. So it will start writing to drive #1 and when its full it will say "out of media" and it *should* pause for new media. You "eject" the drive, attach a fresh one, and hit continue. Then wash, rinse, repeat til complete. As others pointed out, it will take some time. You can speed it up with eSATA or USB 3. If you're on a Mac, you can speed it up using t-bolt. I believe Arkeia still offers a free version and they did/do support VTL. Haven't been current on free backup wares for a while. One thing to bear in mind as well once you write this 24Tb to a collection of media any single media failure will result in all data being unrecoverable. So you might opt for doubling your backup window and making a duplicate copy. Otherwise your best bet is to put all the drives in a NAS configuration (think FreeNAS) with a RAID6 structure, then have the backup s/w use this as its destination. You could do this with an 8 drive chassis of 8x4Tb SATA disks (2 lost for RAID6, leaves 6x4TB=24Tb raw). A similar idea could be accomplished with ZFS, but its future is somewhat unknown with Oracle these days. If you need longevity, I'd stick with a more open/compatibly filesystem. If you manage to setup it correctly and use exFAT, you could mount the backup volume to any current Linux, Windows, or Mac system and if the backup s/w runs on all platforms you'd have a lot more compatibility and recovery options.

Ironically, since the Safari web app came out, people have been asking for this especially since many of the videos won't play in the native app anyway you need the web app or Vevo, etc. Yet as soon as they pull it, people start making a big deal out of it. Sure Apple is distancing themselves from Google a bit, but its not like this broke something. It would be different if Google Voice was built into IOS like it is on Android and then Apple removed it. That would have some impact. But simply removing the YouTube app? Not so much.

The app has always been somewhat restricted. It was good back in 2007. Since 2010 the web app has been better. Considering its impossible to delete stock apps unless you JB, I'm glad to see this one go. It won't be missed and free's up space.

Also, his comparison to pharma is a bit off. Sure they invest years into stuff, but how many of them do we later find out faked tests or results and years later are being sued for killing or harming thousands? Not to mention the idea of gene patents and such. Even worse, for most of the psychological drugs out there, the pharmas don't really even know how they work. Sure they know they're affecting neurotransmitters or serotonin levels, etc, but whereas a technology patent such as Apple might have is intended to do one specific thing or one way of doing, they know how its done. Most of the drugs on the market are still sort of voodoo. Yes, we know they affect this level or that, etc etc... but we don't 100% know how it works and why which is why there are so many off-market or other uses and why the long term effects often result in death/harm and subsequent lawsuits. Yet, Posner thinks its okay for the pharmas to get a patent for years of work, but Apple or Samsung or Motorola don't deserve the same thing? Also, worth noting that the only reason pharmas invest so many years into their works and patents is because they have to: its called clinical trials. If pharmas could move as fast as tech companies, they would. But fortunately for us, testing needs to be done and it takes time and refinement. The comparison of fast tech to pharma doesn't equate.