Yes, advertising in-game if it's done right can add "flavour" to a scene, like mentioned in the article.

However, far too often advertising in-game tends to be placed in ways that are an eyesore. I know there's a couple of games that actually use their multiplayer scoreboard as adspace, which is a significant eyesore. High visibility isn't always a good thing when it comes to in-game ads.

I don't know. I think ads in games aren't going to disappear anytime soon, but I can say with certainty that a game that uses in-game advertising won't live long if those ads are overly distracting or take away from the gameplay.

Agreed.

If he was spending his breaks at his desk, watching some porn, who cares? If he's spending most of his productive time surfing porn, then there's a problem. TFA doesn't specify how much time each day was spent getting his porn fix. That's a dangerous omission of context. Previous posters have already crunched some possible numbers and they don't justify the alarm bells that The Washington Times is ringing.

And Jamie covers another crucial point. How "rampant" is misconduct in the NSF? From the tone of the article, one would think most of the staff are porn addicts. This clearly isn't the case. 10 out of 1200. Less than 1% of the "career" workforce. Add in temps, part-timers, etc. and it dilutes the numbers even more. And where they got their "six-fold increase" is questionable, considering the previous year had 3 misconduct cases. Last time I checked, that would mean it was 3 1/3 times the previous year's numbers, not 6.

The article smells like a whole lot of FUD to me.