I heard a rumor that they will include a game where two tanks, or helicopters in some cases, maneuver through various predefined courses trying to destroy the other. It should include enough levels to keep people occupied until the tennis game comes out two months after release.

I'm hoping for a game where you steer a cowboy through a bunch of cattle, trying to rope one, all while avoiding cow skulls.

My God, it's full of electronics

uh.. i do believe the girl wasn't 4 at the time she sent the picture... she just sent a picture of herself *taken when she was four years old*

well, least i thought that was obvious

Cause R'lyeh is at 49 degrees South, 128 degrees West, which is in the Pacific. He prolly wouldn't hear it if he didn't hear the Bikini Atoll blasts.

seems like a CTRL+A, CTRL+C by a few thousand slashdotters might cause some issues.

no no, they'd have to have it on a line or something.

all grey ones

You have hit the nail on the head. The problem with implementing any kind of social/economic/political movement on a large scale is that the number of corrupt individuals involved increases proportionally (sometimes exponentially?) with the size of the movement itself. Those individuals do not have the same goals in mind as the founders of said movement, but have learned how to make the it work for them by exploiting the naivety/idealism of those founders. As someone above said, communism as in farming communes works on a small scale, just as anarchy would work on a small scale. The people in that scale need to be able to police their own to eliminate the elements that do not contribute to the movement as a whole though. Without that policing, the undesired elements gain too much power and create their own powerful -- and difficult to dislodge -- structure of corruption.

The patent is basically for an electronic mail distribution system that tracks if emails have been opened, etc. It does specify that the subscribers should be members of an opt-in list, which would preclude UCE. Of course it could be used to nefarious ends by having a spammer submit the addresses as if they were opted in, but it's initial purpose doesn't seem to be one of sending UCE.

wow, that sounds oddly parallel to going to work every day. *sigh*

From Sprint's site:

To make wireless communications possible, our network knows the general location of your phone or wireless device whenever it is turned on. Your wireless device sends out a periodic signal to the nearest radio tower/cell site so that our network will know where to route an incoming communication and how to properly bill for the service. This is necessary to make wireless communications possible. Location information derived from providing our voice service, in addition to being covered by this Policy, is CPNI and is protected as described above.

If you dial 9-1-1 for emergency services, we provide your call location to a public safety answering point, emergency medical service provider or emergency dispatch provider, public safety, fire service, or law enforcement official, or hospital emergency or trauma care facility. The law also permits us to disclose the call location of a device on our network without a user's consent (1) to a user's legal guardian or members of a user's immediate family in an emergency situation that involves the risk of death or serious physical harm, (2) to database management services or information providers solely to assist in delivering emergency services, (3) if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires or justifies disclosure of a device's location on the network without delay, and (4) in "aggregate" form. Aggregate data is collective data that relates to a group or category of services or customers, from which individual customer identities and characteristics have been removed.

We offer wireless location-based applications that use your wireless network location to provide the service you request. For example, you may choose to subscribe to a service that provides driving directions on your wireless device. Please review the terms and conditions for each service for additional information about how the location information will be used or disclosed. It is important to note, if you let others use location-based services to which you've subscribed as the account holder (or if you let others use your handset if such handset has location tracking capabilities), it is your responsibility to inform that user that his or her location may be tracked.

Your wireless Internet service may also be personalized using your zip code or other location identifiers. We use this information to serve you relevant content, and we treat the information like any other personal information under this Policy.

this seems to indicate some fairly loose wording regarding emergency services, which would include the police.

Now, from T-Mobile's privacy policy:

Location-Based Services

Our network detects your device's approximate location whenever it is turned on (subject to coverage limitations). This location technology makes the routing of wireless communications possible and is also the basis for providing enhanced emergency 9-1-1 service, which permits us to provide your general location to a public safety answering point, emergency medical service provider, or emergency dispatch provider. We may also use this technology to disclose, without a user's consent, the approximate location of a wireless device to a governmental entity or law enforcement authority when we are served with lawful process or reasonably believe there is an emergency involving risk of death or serious physical harm.

With your consent, we may also provide location-based services or provide third-parties access to approximate location information so they may provide such services to you. You should carefully review the specific T-Mobile terms and conditions applicable to your use of location-based services for any special privacy implications or rules. You should also carefully review the privacy policies and other terms of third-parties with whom you have authorized the sharing of your location information, and you should consider the risks involved in disclosing your location information to other people. Where a wireless device user requests that their location information be revealed to other persons (through a T-Mobile application or a third-party application you place on your device), the wireless device user will be provided options for managing when and how such information should be shared (except in the case of certain parental controls or similar services associated with enterprise or multi-line accounts, which may be managed solely by the primary account holder or their designee). T-Mobile follows the CTIA's Best Practices Guidelines for Location-Based Services

It would seem T-Mobile protects you a modicum better by requiring legal process. Someone who is better at looking for loopholes in legalese might spot something I'm missing though.

Churches!

No, they'd just eat the FAT. no evidence left then.

another person blaming their woes on those dreadful people dressed in black. it's like the German dude who blamed the shootings there on video games. An easy scapegoat.

Not to mention that the social goth movement was an 80s through early/mid 90s happening that has nothing to do with these idiots now who wear trenchcoats and listen to marilyn manson. I'm sick of this shit. As a person who is still goth in his mid-30s, I resent the continual scapegoating of a movement that had serious meaning to a great many people.

you should probably feed it more nutritious things then.

This might help... :}