Let's also ban talking to your passengers and thinking about food while you drive.

They way I see it, it's still possible for parents to educate their teens in any way they see fit, for if they want to allow their son/daughter to play after midnight, all they have to do is create an account with the parents' names on it.

I think this law is only providing a good tool for parents to control their children's addiction. Of course, if it's as simple as creating an account using your parents' info (without them requiring to sign up on anything), then the whole thing is kindda useless, but the article doesn't say.

I find it hard to blame Apple for this problem when parents are giving their unsupervised children an iDevice with credit card information.

It's a good thing they backed away. Anonymous usually attacks organizations that are somewhat bound by law and fear of PR disasters, so their retaliation is quite limited. Drug cartels care for neither of them. That's why being a reporter in Mexico is a very risky thing to do.

Had they gone ahead with their attacks, they could have unleashed hell for all bloggers in Mexico. A lot of blood could be in their hands.

I was under the understanding that most IE users were stil using IE 6 because big corporations didn't want to go through the hassle of updating not only their Explorer, but also any other platform that was dependant on it. Microsoft has been on a crusade to convince its users to stop using IE6, going as far as dropping support and security fixes. Faced with the fact that they must abandon IE6 and adopt a new one, it's only natural that they would choose the "best" explorer there is out there, and by "best" I mean the one that better suits their needs. That may or may not be IE9.

Well, if you read this page about superheroes debuts, you'll see that they keep trying and trying. Maybe people don't really care that much about superheroes anymore, except for the already famous ones.

Or maybe, the new ones aren't that famous precisely because they don't have decades of decades of cruft.

I know, completely off topic, but I want to mention that the mythbusters busted that myth. Gas tanks don't explode when you shoot them.

It also doesn't help that monitors' resolution race has completely halted at 1080p.

A few weeks ago there was this story on slashdot about how most people don't finish the game's main story anymore. I don't think adding more would do anything to help the perception of quality.

What? People played starcraft for ten years! What about Diablo 2? Warcraft 3? Age of Empires? All these have in common two things: First, they're from related genres, which just comes to show my ignorance on other genres. Second, they have really strong multiplayer, which adds replayability far beyond that provided by a good story.

So, how would this work? If I own the copyright to a movie and I know that site X is distributing an illegal copy, then I go tell yahoo to remove the link? Sounds reasonable, except for the implication that since they can't legally fight the site itself, they go to the Search engine instead, which means that the site owner never gets a chance to defend himself.

Man, it sucks to be an ISP or Search Engine these days.

The author of this little piece cites Peter Coroneos, one who is not in favor of internet censorship. So stop being so paranoid.

Isn't this how business is handled in the private sector?

From TFA:

Unless I'm waaaay off, I think they mean hydrophobic, as in "it doesn not bond with water".

It is very easy to falsify documents over here in Mexico. Actually, it's as easy as going to the registry office and using an ATM-like machine that gives out birth certificates to anyone who asks and from there you can get a whole new set of documents for yourself with someone else's name on them. Also, the one and only documentation that government agencies accept for a child is their birth certificate. For lesser stuff, the school id could be sufficient, but for official matters, you need the birth certificate or the passport (which again, you obtain with the birth certificate).

So how is this related to the abduction of kids? Well, easy: If you kidnap a kid and take him to another state, chances are no one will recognize him. Get him false papers and you can claim he's your kid and from then on, no one will bother you. Now, with these new measures, it'll be harder to falsify the documents and it will be easier for the government to recognize this child when the abducter is trying to go through any official place that requires and ID, for now the birth certificate won't be enough.

I'm not saying it will work and I'm not saying it's not security theater. It might be. I'm just saying that there's a good logic behind it.