Must be a slow news day...

No - include the educational sector please. Or perhaps you're just to young to have dealt with them yet...

I would gave points if I had +1000 (for ALL OF THE ABOVE)

... is to look at the porn industry. Seriously, when e-Commerce started and with the exception of the amazon's of the world, the porn industry were (and perhaps still is) leading the way in how we as humans accept new tech.

Even PM had an article about it a while back.

Machines can be how clever, but it's our choice if we accept them or not and for what purposes and within which boundaries.

Only we can screw this up (and we probably will).

Especially if you open one...

When it happens, most of us wont even know it :-)

The survivors amongst us might know after they can't access /. for 12 consecutive hours.

I remember the first time I landed in a plane - it was after about my 12th flight... You see - I started flying because that was the only way to get to altitude to skydive :-)

My first landing was due to engine trouble on the plane and unfortunately it wasn't yet on a safe altitude to jump.

At least since then I also decided to finally take the plunge and fly on a commercial jet. I hated it.

Didn't it happen like really long ago or something? Then we must be in a giant fishbowl which echoes :-)

You can't eat while watching /. - you'll choke while laughing.

Ok - that made my day! I love Perl but I think coding Perl in Eclipse is just madness :-)

o - and I just got this link from a friend... myus.com - a "package forwarding service for consumers around the world."

Wasn't the Internet supposed to break down physical barriers like distance etc.? Things like this really start to piss me off.

I am also a non-US person and the hoops we need to jump to to get stuff is unreal. I don't get it either... If we buy stuff over the Net in the US, the producer of the goods/services still get their share, so why must I wait 1 or 2 years before the material is available in my country?

O well - there will be a way to circumvent this shortly. I'll just add to my ever growing list :-)

This is just normal marketing - nothing was leaked...

In the end they know perfectly well how to manipulate most slashdotters :-)

"we killed 120 enemy soldiers" - which roughly translates to 20 chickens, 5 cattle, 3 sheep and 1 actual soldier - usually from own forces...