Assuming technology exists to accelerate space ships to interplanetarily practical speeds, what's to stop warring planets from accelerating an asteroid in the same way and in the direction of the enemy planet? Or take that acceleration technique and speed up some ball bearings to ridiculous speeds and send them on their way towards something with a predictable position like a space station? Hell, you could use millions of ball bearings like a mine field, because any ship traveling through the bearings will have such a high speed relative to them. I just wonder that if we currently get so butthurt about orbiting space debris, a space war will focus on simple kinetic weapons at huge speeds and from huge distances.

I came in here to say this. What idiots thought that botnets died? Oh, wait, I forgot that MSM sometimes pretends they can report on technology without making fools of themselves.

Wait, why do you have to bring 4chan into this?

“It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust.” You could label it as... wait for it... "Artificial Meat"! Apparently I missed the day in school where we were taught not to trust labels on food.

You do. When you sign up for Live you can set your region. Then I guess its up to you if you want to recieve emergency messages or not, by setting your region or not. All in all, its your loss if you don't, but a great system if you do.

Spot on. Queue the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. We can only hope that these alerts would also come with SMS and broadcast TV alerts as well.

I fail to see how allowing emergency services to send you in-game messages is an "invasion of privacy". Those channels are mostly filled with 12 year-olds shouting their racist and homophobic opinions anyways. The real question is how the important alert will cut through the chatter, not whether it should be allowed to.

Wait - what are you trying to prove here?

That some school somewhere has a rule on the books about private use of the Internet? /shock /amazement /awe

Fortunately, school systems can determine their own rules. And they do.

Let's also not forget that lots and lots of companies and institutions have these kinds of rules on the book, completely unenforced.

"[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers." 1995, Marc Andreessen

Three words - why waste money?

Uh, no. That would be 10.1 on any ATI card that starts with 4. Nice try, though.

It's a little better: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gt-240,2475-8.html