The words "Permanently germ-free" should never be promised on anything larger than an atom. You show me a germ-free surface, I'll show you a lazy germ.

Scientists have created a thing, made out of atoms, that can PERMANENTLY eliminate any possibility of other atoms being arranged in such a fashion as to inconvenience me? Huzzah! An infinite number of solutions posted to problems seemingly thought to be unsolvable in polynomial time! Mathematics has been defeated! Long live ...US SCIENTISTS!

morons.

It takes a special kind of person, who, when presented with lots of free time and the tools to do amazing things, says: "I think I'm going to horribly violate the entire online world today."

Perhaps I should be thankful that I'm turning my talents to more productive ends. But I doubt I'll be hired before these assclowns find work.

If you want to blame someone, we could blame Obama, whose administration has practically continued the war on hackers and then wondered "why are we so short on competent programmers?" or we could blame wall street and its "rape the economy and then blame those that tried to stop us" philosophy, or we could blame industries that engaged in military action against america, deliberately using their racketeering scheme to attack children and college students, knowingly and willfully attacking our country's supply of future skilled labor - something they did for over a decade prior to "the crash", or there's china and india who are or at least were doing so well in spite of our country's failures, or there's our own prior administration who spent countless times more money than we had or would ever have to wage war against iraq, an enemy of the terrorists that bombed us on 9/11, or there's the new fascists of america who are using the words "liberal" and "homosexual" instead of "undesirable" and "jew", or there's global climate change, or those that deny it, or sick and twisted people in power in every position they could be in...

Fuck it. When the world runs out of victims and points in my direction I'll be happily enjoying life on Mars, in my secret volcano lair at Olympus Mons, with my consciousness-infused computer "phylactery" keeping me immortal, enjoying the ability to do in the real world what we do online now.

I'm not seeing it.
Having Steam for these games (which are freely available elsewhere) is like putting all your tools in one toolbox.
But what if someone steals your toolbox?!?
Then you kill them and get your toolbox back.

RIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.

Lemme get this straight:
You expect teachers to TEACH, from home, to students who can't even behave themselves in a normal classroom, while said students are effectively at home lounging around surrounded by stuff to distract them. It only takes one student being naked/topless/whatever for said teacher to suddenly be a felon. It only takes one student playing starcraft in the background to create enough of a distraction to negate the lecture. It only takes one absent student in the web conference to create a snowball effect.

GOOD LUCK!

Or, you could, you know, play League of Legends, where watching what your teammates do is actually part of the game, and thus, it appeals to both, and being a good spectator can actually help you in playing the game?

I was thoroughly unimpressed with Starcraft 2, because the developers seem almost hell-bent on refusing to innovate. If you really want to see something amazing and you're pointing your eyes at the RTS industry, be sure to take a look at the mod developers, because they've done far more impressive work.

I always try to visualize it from both sides - as many times as a floppy was made secure that way - it could just as easily be made unsecure - those aol floppies could be made read-write by literally cutting a hole where the floppy was sealed read-only.

They probably couldn't find a feasible way of including a physical switch ON the usb side of the device, though that would be pretty sweet.

And then there's the convenience versus security aspect of it - I can remember plenty of stories of aspiring astronomers and photographers who can't seem to get their telescopes/cameras working because the lens cap is on. It doesn't take but a few seconds or minutes to miss something huge.

Complete BS.
These are outliers. There are hundreds, possibly thousands of assassinations carried out which have the exact effect desired. We just don't hear about them because they're not meant to be seen or heard. For every Benazir Bhutto or "Polonium incident" there are plenty of persons, small time to big time, who are assassinated in various means and we simply never hear of them.

Did anyone respond violently and start a war over Hoffa?
Did the situation in Chechnya suddenly experience a shift when Fred Cuny was assassinated? No!

And I bet that book doesn't show any examples that would challenge its viewpoint or assumptions.

To add more information which is likely pertinent:
There is very careful indentation in the text, as though it may be a program or written in the form of a program. The text could be indicative of a whitespace program, though Whitespace is a programming language for the insane, and you should beware if you attempt to go down that rabbit hole.

(the three endline characters at the end of a whitespace program indicate its termination, so if there are other documents, DIGITAL documents of his, this would be the biggest indicator of such a thing)

Drizzt was taken.

Well, they need to hire a guy to put the traffic cones out on the information superhighway to reroute all traffic through their drive-through.

Sure, it'll kill business online for every single business out there that benefits even slightly from the Internet (100% of all business worldwide), but you gotta think of that one job. Or you won't get re-elected.

How they're going to get re-elected when all of their supporters find out that they're responsible for ruining all business worldwide? I have no idea.

Democrats - owned by Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA
Republicans - owned by Big Oil/FOX/etc
Independents - get bought out by one or the other as soon as they're elected
Green - owned by smaller but equally extremist radical groups that wouldn't mind passing ridiculous legislation for their own interests
That drunk guy asleep at the park bench - We don't know his name or damn would he get our vote.

"...Attorney... sentenced..."

Victory.

OMM isn't a special, unique snowflake. He's an angry white guy raging at everything.

fact is this describes damn near 80% of the "kids" playing videogames today. He's not special, and certainly not a groundbreaking, inspirational hero to the game players of this day and age - he's just a gamer.

Do I have a wikipedia page? no! And I prefer it that way. Let Old Man Murray write his own article about wikipedia bullshit. Hell I imagine he's slapping away at his keyboard already.

Each example you cited is more newsworthy than an article about old man murray. Fuck, if people want to know about old man murray and DON'T go to oldmanmurray.com right off the fuckin bat, there's something WRONG with them.

What was science fiction, is now not just reality, but obsolete.

I mean take a look at Dick Tracy's watch - not even as good as our cellphones. The stuff they did in Star Trek? We don't need a starship to do the same. Look at World of Warcraft. It's not a video game - it's a simulator for how human beings will behave in the future when we have the power to transfer our consciousness into bodies other than our own for entertainment.

Syfy is failing not because of a lack of sci fi material to work with, but because it's no longer more amazing than reality.