Great product placement dude, I'll give it a try.

Wasn't the Half-Life mod Counter-Strike (which requires other players) pretty freaking awesome? IMO, it kind of sucked to play against bots.

In other news fun is more important to a games success than graphics, plot.

It seems you can never fully remove a McAfee program without formatting and restarting. I'd probably just get a new hard drive, install Windows XP and McAfee on it, pass the system through, then swap in my normal drive. But, I am an IT nerd.

You make people use McAfee to get online? That would be enough to make me transfer.

That makes sense, I also was confused about why they'd say Google Groups instead of Usenet at first. I forgot that Google allows creation of your own groups until I signed in to try figuring out how this could work.

I've had too many assholes hit my car, so it goes:

1) Me
2) Them
3) Others
4) Employees of anyone
5) Profit (?)

I agree, and I'm surprised that discussing that laws can be enforced without being constitutional can be off topic here. Oh well.

My big concern is more the simplicity with which activities like Jury Duty (or apparently, moderation) can be done without concern for the results of those issues.

As another benefit, in the next 1000 years we may find ways to use it again, and maybe get the half-life even lower. Nuclear research should be embraced by environmentalists, unfortunately most of them have been raised on the dangers of nukes, and not the reality of them.

So you're saying that since it was a freakin' huge gun it's much more dangerous than a much normal-sized gun? In what sense does the size of a gun reflect on the intent of the owner? Your excuse for making a legal act legal because of outward appearances makes me wonder if you're okay with police stopping a black guy since he doesn't look 'right for the neighborhood?' It's the same basic concept, just taken to a politically incorrect extreme.

Shouting and being a dick in public can be illegal enough to get arrested, if you go too far. You can argue if it's constitutional as a freedom of speech, but in our legal system that's usually left up to the courts to decide. I'm not saying it's right, just saying that you can be arrested with little to no recourse for your time and troubles for doing so.

Didn't the Segway get the same response?

The example in the article is even misleading, since it was a Facebook account that was hacked, who knows if the hackers ever touched the system of the user. He may have just used the same password too many places. I'd assume Facebook isn't using Norton Internet Security, so I'm kind of wondering what cases this will really make a difference in. Most worms/viruses even don't come from the creator's PC, but infected zombies.

Oddly one of the biggest techo-social changes in the twelve short years between Terminator 2 (1991) and Terminator 3 (2003) allowed for them to change the concept of SkyNet from a mainframe/military solution to a computer virus that was able to spread across the world, and presumably use distributed computing to destroy the earth, even through a large scale nuclear exchange.

As far as science fiction writing goes, there have been few time periods where that level of consciousness of technology was raised to a mass-market pop-culture type of plot point. During the space race was the last time it seems there was such a jump in science fiction writing involving technology meant to be understood by even the less tech-savvy population.