Also copper thieves would have a field day - no need to haul anything away - just cut the cable near the bottom and watch the metal flow into a bucket

I think the predictions of the death of consoles may be a bit premature. A console is merely a walled garden similar to that provided with IOS, but without the portability. So long as there is a place for televisions as a large, immersive non mobile media experience, there will be consoles.

Incorrect - java will allow assignment code inside a conditional statement so long as it is a boolean - most decent IDEs will flag it as suspicious but it will compile. e.g: if((i = 3) == 2){ }

Absolutely - don't feed the trolls

No other ammo aside from that he provides will work with the gun? He must work for Apple...

I hugely support free speech, but this falls outside the realms of that. To illustrate: I have the right to call my neighbour a jerk. I probably even have the right to put a sign on my front lawn, with an arrow pointing to his house saying "a jerk lives here." I do not however have the right to put such a sign on HIS lawn. Westboro can spread whatever message they want, but as individuals we all have the right not to listen to them. Once we have expressed this, what happens next is NOT free speech, but rather an attempt to harass others into submitting to their will. Preaching "God Hates Whoever" in your church is like putting a sign on your lawn. Picketing a funeral is definitely putting a sign on your neighbours lawn.

How are they suppressing free speech? Seems to me that all they are doing it removing somebody else's veil of anonymity. (Ironic...)

On the flipside, automated payroll deductions mean that I am far less likely to have to go through an audit and never have to pay somebody to "do my taxes" for me.

Remote desktop in cases where bandwidth is limited is just painful - SSH is your friend.

Have you ever been anywhere outside the US? There are enormous urban areas where you shouldn't expect the police to arrive at all!

And how do you orchestrate this "retribution"? Perhaps a system where everybody gives over some resources in order for nescessary business like this to be conducted..

Anybody with an XBox live account would disagree

You can bet that there hasn't been a salary negotiation since the dawn of time when management hasn't said that if they have to pay employees more, then the company will fail. In most cases, it is pure FUD.

I bet the results would be even worse if every player was given a different number of chips.

Do you really want cops to go around wearing these? https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSIPe3ksD52uHSUG07yEyX10nBqF1_B8SyumATzKqr4Q43eCcYK