How does this get modded as insightful? People feeling depressed and clinical depression are two very different things. Its easy to laugh off and make glib comments. It doesn't make them true though.

When were these old days of which you speak? Winston Churchill, yes that one, suffered from depression which he called his "Black Dog". Greater access to healthcare, and better trained physicians, will always increased apparent incidence of mental conditions. Is it right that in previous times these people would suffer in silence?

I wear glasses to read, I'm wearing them now. I don't need to wear glasses for anything else yet. Casting my eyes around the office, over the glasses because they are distant, I can see a fair few people in glasses. So perhaps there is a market for glasses after all. Google Glass I can't see a use for though.

Speak a lie often enough and its accepted as the truth.

Apple is not, and never has been, mainly a marketing wonder. They have made good use of marketing but the success they've had is based on quality and usability rather than simply marketing. Check out the user satisfaction surveys of Apple users.

Yes phones in Japan were more feature rich than phones elsewhere when the iPhone was released but that was largely due to carrier limitations. I had a number of Nokia 'smartphones' whose facilities were crippled by my local carrier. Apple changed things partly by refusing to give the carriers the ability to cripple the iPhone.

Assange strikes me as someone that's lost in his own self importance. He's become more important than Wikileaks. This often happens to people placed in the spotlight. The reports of his actions in Sweden don't paint him in a very good light.

All that said is doesn't make any sense, other than flexing of muscles, for the Swedish Prosecutor not to call his bluff and interrogate him in the UK (or Ecuador as he is at the moment). Its just posturing and dick waving on behalf of the Prosecutor not to do it. If they have the interrogation in the Ecuadorian Embassy and then press charges the grounds for his asylum become more shaky. Just play out the scenario and let him hang himself.

Hmmmm ... most legal systems have appeal processes, and the ability to lodge counter appeals with a higher court. I understand it happens in the US all the time. Why should there be a problem with the Italian justice system because following the conviction one court overturns it on appeal, but later another higher court rules that it shouldn't have been overturned? Isn't that the way the law should work, it gets tested in court until a final judgement is found?

If Knox was innocent then she would have nothing to fear from Italian justice. Unless, like most USians seem to, she doesn't trust any country outside of the US.

There are still signs around the all of the pumps here banning use of a cell phone in a filling station. The current reasons is because they could cause a spark. Is there any evidence of this, or is it another feeling that's become true by repetition?

The problem about not believing this sort of report is that there will always be some pseudo scientific journalism piece that will highlight a leukaemia cluster, or similar, near a phone mast. The fact that it doesn't happen around all, or a significant number, of phone masts won't make the piece. The conclusions will be incorrectly drawn that there is no smoke without fire and that the cause must be the phone mast, regardless of the fact there there are many other factors influencing these people and its likely to be something else.

A lot of the anti-vax in the UK was linked to a single, now discredited, study that was latched onto by a journalist eager to make a name for themselves with a scoop. The measles outbreak, and potential deaths, that it has led to are as much on their hands as they are on Andrew Wakefield who faked the evidence of the link.

Sheesh ... its the $9,223,372,036,854,775,807 question, we're all 64 bit these days right?

Ooh, can I play?

I've been reading for years too and I don't like the new site. Specifically I don't like the commenting system.

The new site seems very Foxnews...

I keep coming to Slashdot because its a website, it doesn't try to foist some pseudo print layout on me. It scales nicely, wraps nicely if I resize windows, etc.. The beta doesn't. Instead it controls how I should view the site rather than leaving things up to me.

The other thing that it seems to miss is what provides the content of the site. Here's a clue, its not the stories. The stories can all be found elsewhere, often earlier than they appear on Slashdot. The real content is the informed comments and insight. The beta seems to make the comments an add-on rather than the thing that makes the site what it is. I'd start again with the redesign putting comments as the main purpose rather than an after-thought that interferes with the magazine layout.

You can do more, but for more money, than a dedicated games console. Seems that you've missed the point of the games console completely.

Count on having to upgrade your games PC over the years though to keep games running at a decent level. You need to factor those costs in as well. The console will keep going, and games will probably get better as the toolsets mature. In the PC world the developers can assume that their users will upgrade to maintain relative performance.