Wait till someone registers $firstname$lastname.xxx .... of their least favorite politician. When they come along and say "hey you're domain squatting my name" you can make sure there is heaps of publicity about them wanting to register their .xxx domain.

this will have absolutely no unintended consequences and certainly wont be abused [/sarcasm]

sounds like a job for Watson - or at least a slightly modified version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(artificial_intelligence_software)

I guess they could re-use that hand which is currently used to press the buzzer to, say, feel your balls when you opt out of the x-ray.

just back-up during the 'visible' time. Does provide some limitations for an immediate restore, but better than driving to Austin to get the tapes......

I've worked with some military communication devices geared for Internet Protocol over half-duplex HF and they work just fine. While it's not 1.3 seconds latency, the problem is similar with half-duplex. You could easily have full duplex comms, and the need for forward error correction, Automatic Request for retransmission (ARQ) etc wouldn't be as high.

of course you wont be playing COD4 Black Ops and getting headshots......

Building on that,...... search could actually resolve (in a DNS way) IVP6 when segments of the network dont support it. Think of google being the 'portal' that IPV4 users use to access the IPV6 internet.....

I think search (i.e google) would adapt. Everyone would just bookmark 66.102.7.99 (or whatevs) and use that... let google do the rest.

Coffee keyboard spill on isle 5.

hilarious.

just as long as they dont as for my Slashdot credentials...... this is where i rant things they wouldnt like....

i think this is f%^ked.

its security vs convenience .... (their convenience or mine) The more secure, the less convenient..... it can be very secure and very private....

security vs privacy is BS pushed on the people by the patriot act...

I expect it would look something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdFuba8lPZo

Can they just move upstream and make game good development environments that 'everyone' can use - with the licences for nintendo things like mario - and sell these to the developers for a few hundred bucks? maybe new customer can use the tools to create and on-sell the games for $2.

either that or make games for the mobile platform that are better, and similarly priced, and go for volume?

Agree. This approach will stifle innovation in the US.

I'm going to put forward this argument next time my mother uses famine in Africa as the reason I should eat my vegetables...

wow. just wow.

I born in New Zealand in the 70's, played saxophone (badly) age 10-12, then delivered newspapers to people at 5:30am age 14-17.. does that count?