I do agree with you 100%, Facebook does make it easier to communicate with people over the internet. While the original poster did make some sense that it is best to meet others IRL sometimes it is impossible to meet all friends IRL. For example I have met a few good friends through facebook. One person I have met has been such a wonderful friend to me. She lives in Ilkeston, Derbyshire and we have chatted quite a bit over the past year about the FB games we play, our troubles, our interests, Doctor Who, forum based Role Playing, and many other things. In fact I feel I could trust her with my life even though we have never met face to face. I think it is because we both feel like we have known each other for years.

Back to the original point without Facebook I would not have met her, or my other online friends for that matter, at all. As far a privacy I don't see what the big deal as I don't place some of my deepest, darkest secrets on Facebook. People just need to be careful what the post online whether it is a social media site, or their personal websites.

Thank you for the correction as I did not know about purchasing other games on steam.

According to the fine article "Duke Nukem Forever Demo Released, Access To First Access Club Only" In other words everyone should be able to download it soon. Right now only those who are in the club can download it and AFAIK those who have reserved a copy will have access to the demo.

Ah, the "go slit your wrists" troll has returned. What's wrong? Too intellectually bankrupt to write anything that adds to the discussions or debates here on /., or are you just too bored? If it is the latter then go out and get a life. If it is the former then grow up, further your education, then get a life. Simple as that.

I agree with you it shouldn't be there. Correct me if I am wrong on this point but TiVo was most likely forced to use DRM in their files in order to use allow the legal use of cable cards in their DVR. Fortunately not many channels are flagged for copy prevention. As far as the ease of copying TiVo desktop and Desktop Plus allows someone to download from the TiVo unit and then convert it to video that is playable on an iPod, iPhone, several blackberry devices, Palm Pre, Zune, PSP, and several other devices. As far as burning them onto a video DVD or Blu-Ray it does take a few additional steps. Start off with either TiVo desktop, TiVo PLaylist, Galleon, or any web browser to download the video or videos, using either Tivo Decode or Directshow Dump to remove the wrapper, then use any DVD/Blu Ray authoring software out there as long as it supports MPEG2.

While it is rather easy not everyone would be able to perform such acts. Then again, those who have little or no technical skill probably were not able to set the clock on a VCR, or copy a simple file on a computer. No matter how easy you make something there is always going to be quite a few people who will not simply get it.

Not everyone can use a computer so what is your point?

IMO the reason SyFy has wrestling is simple, they are transforming into another "Men's" channel much like TNN did as they transformed from The Nashville Network to The National Network and finally to Spike TV/spike.

At least SyFi isn't as bad as Spike. When spike had Star Trek Voyager they butchered the start time like many of their other shows. More times than not it started late, sometimes up to 25 minutes late which would prevent any DVR from recording the entire show.

As far as DRMs I can download the shows rather easily from my TiVo and remove the DRM to burn to either DVD or Blu-Ray. I have even converted the files rather easily for use on my iPod classic.

Although you are correct about Android not being an Intel based OS you are incorrect about it being about Android Phones. Samsung is a manufacturer of both Android phones and tablets.

Once again twitter you have no idea what you are talking about. First of all my name actually is John, not Joe. I live in Richmond Indiana and that can be verified at http://www.johnbwilcox.net./ Also at pal-item.com as the same user name. I have nothing to hide unlike you. I get absolutely no money from Microsoft. But since you are making the claim that I am this "Joe Wilcox" why not put the money where your mouth is and prove it?

Yep, once again another "story" that is really more FUD against Microsoft and a slashdot user. For example the story mentioned that "Google and Microsoft are working to make sofware patents livable" That is totally way off from the actual story "Microsoft, Google Sue Troll Who Sued 397 Companies" Plus this whole story is spun in such a way that makes it appear Microsoft is attacking Apple and Google over media patents when in fact Microsoft was attacked over them as well, and it was possibly by MPEG-LA. From what I can tell most of these stories are actually from patent trolls who just hold onto patents to make money and not to innovate. Is Microsoft free from being guilty? The answer to that is far from it, but stories should stick to the facts without spin and personal attacks against other slashdot users.