So, basically Monsanto is lobbying to have people declared certifiably insane if they don't eat their products ..?

This is going to make child rearing so much easier..."Eats your damn peas,Timmy,or it's back in the straightjacket"

This solution would probably have the additional benefit of not resulting in him waking up one morning with his head cut off and the money being blown on vodka and coke by some russian mob type..

The battery that powers it is,though, unless licens plates would come with "batteries included"

They're probably worried it'll be easier for the students to turn off the webcam on a windows pc

Maybe borderline slashvertisement...

It's one of the few mmos with native linux support, meaning there's a fair few nerds in the playerbase, so they generally send news items to known geek hangouts, slashdot included .

I'd say it's "news for nerds", it may not be "stuff that matters" but these days I could say that about at least a handful of front page items here on any given day :-)

DISCLAIMER: I've been a regular there for the last 2.5 years, originally saw it it mentioned in a Wing Commander newsgroup...

...they never claimed to be. Think Jumpgate, Freelancer or Privateer ( or Elite for us old types, but without the thargoids )

Not at present, they seem to be concentrating on android based smartbooks initially

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/23416?page=1 has some good info..

If the government is jealous of the data the search engines is gathering they could just buy it.I'm sure Google would be more than happy to sell it to them, it's how they make a living after all

Jail sentences and multi billion dollar fines would certainly be in order, and that would probably make the next batch of company brass think twice before cutting corners. For about 6 months until the banks, hedge funds, investment firms et.c who really run things replace them with others more likely to get them the ridiculous profits they've come to expect.

Until these people/institutions start incurring real,substantial losses because of situations like this nothing will change long-term.

If you don't like the music, don't shoot the monkey,shoot the organ grinder..