They don't. The lawmakers are politicians elected by the Chinese peoples. The Prescott papers are not required reading for them. If the people are against porn, the politicians and therefore the government are against porn - it makes them more popular.

Profiteering from the own populace is not a possible motive because, being communist, the money the government makes belongs to the people anyway, and not to the politicians. (Profiteering from foreigners is ok though, it makes the Chinese people richer.)

I have some suspicions:

* Dropping out of the Kyoto protocol
* Sabotaging the Copenhagen consensus
* Starting 2 illegal wars in the last 10 years alone
* Getting allied countries to provide soldiers for these illegal wars
* Writing legislation for other countries and buying politicians to promote and pass it
* Illegal renditions of foreign citizens from their home countries to torture camps
* Gladio, 9/11/1973, Ajax, and other acts of supporting and perpetrating international terrorism

Of course, I could be wrong and it is just because "haeting on amercia" is a trending topic.

China's defense when critized is always "you are doing worse," which is true, but no excuse for the crimes the Chinese government does commit. It is however noteworthy that no matter what China does, it is always painted as somehow evil or stupid by the USA-led media, even if it is harmless or even benign. It is this hypocrisy that is attacked; an honest evaluation would point out the parallels, not demonify The Other. It also distracts from discussing the topic at hand.

Don't. You can always move to a more democratic country.

I think he meant The Legend of Aang - you know, the really bad movie, not the moderately tolerable TV series.

Regular guy with problems in the real world enters a fantasy world, where gods and magic rules, becomes super-powerful there, defeats the evil wizard, returns to the real world, and has his problems solved.

Standard fantasy plot, and also the plot to the original Tron movie.

I don't see how this is sci fi in any way.
But the gfx where done on the fastest PDP-11 ever built, and that is cool,
and I like how they turned Pelota into a computer game,
and their variant of of the snake game with motorcycles,
and the lightsaber-suits.

FYI, the Chinese Google is Baidu.

You mean like those backscatter X-ray scan vans cruising around in the US and UK? Here's one: http://www.as-e.com/zbv/

It is not legal for them to do. Search engine companies are not police looking for pot-smoking terrists.

Absolutely. The oscilloscope was not intended to be used as a moving picture display either. Nor were integrated circuits intended as toys.

Let's hope so. Hacking is fun. Developers, developers.

Is this about hacking the Kinect for use on systems other than XBox?

Well, it is easy to use.

The XBox itself might not, but Microsoft sure does.
There are lots of "Ages 18+" titles for XBox.

They are just pissed about the Kinect being used for PC games, apparently.
That is the only sense I can make from this statement.

The reality is, children on the internet are NSFW.

The global code to shut down all chips at once is 666, and can be sent from any cell phone.
Welcome to the stone age.

The government is the military?

Those are direct opposites.

For Nicola Macchiavelli, anarchy was bad and tyranny was good.
For Michail Bakunin, tyranny was bad and anarchy was good.
No matter what definition of anarchy you apply - war of everyone against everyone else, or democracy, both are the opposite of tyranny.

Movies just lack the complexity that a game requires.
It is a limitation of the medium.

The Wandals moved into Carthago to live there.

At times like these, I am reminded of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace,
and Mentor's Last Words.

True in principle, but the DDoS-attacks seem to be not about shutting someone up, but shutting someone down.
The attacked are still free to voice their mind, if they so choose.

The average people in the streets are not enemies, they are innocent bystanders.
Fox can only tell them who to cheer and who to jeer.

Those who would oppress the people, however, are making more enemies the more they oppress.
Their playbook is not by Sun Tsu or Clausewitz, it is Macchiavelli.

It used to be "for teh lulz", but people are so angry by now it isn't even funny.

Even more alarmed than over Stuxnet?