Must suck to have just received a new Nintendo for the holidays, then have Nintendo cut you off from the supply of new games.

We used to have cartoons before ours. Same thing in a way.

It seems pretty well defined, it is "Online harassment" if it is something that someone else says that I don't like, and it is "Freedom of speech" if I say it and someone else doesn't like it. Looks like it is time to remove the EFF app that I just installed yesterday, as there is no way that I can support assholes that have become this self righteous. I expect to be modded down for saying that, as the EFF is popular so questioning this will likely be silenced.

Yea I agree. Clearly there are some people in this country that see themselves as members of some of these mental and behavioral disorder groups and want to get a lot of people worked up about this. Hard to get worked up about who Russia gives driver licenses to when they are busy invading and annexing other neighboring countries and shooting down civilian airliners (well. to be fair, just one recently). Perhaps those who live lifestyles that many would consider perversion could effect more change in Russia by opposing Putin's invading other nations than by opposing who they give the privilege of driving to.

"I have two daughters of my own coming up on college age," he (Intel CEO Brian Krzanich) said to the NYT. "I want them to have a world that's got equal opportunity for them."

Just what does this bleeding heart liberal want? Equal Opportunity for his daughters, or affirmative action for a bunch of people who may not have earned it and are just coasting along on the liberal charity? Because you can't have both Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, and this sure sounds more like Affirmative Action than Equal Opportunity.

No, Neil deGrasse Galactus is a destroyer of Planets, not Suns.

In it, the outgoing Senator said that DHS's strategy and programs "are unlikely to protect us from the adversaries that pose the greatest cybersecurity threat."

DUH! DHS and the NSA are the greatest threats to American cybersecurity.

NO, not as far as I can tell from the linked article and a Google search for an image. ZZT seemed to be more related to scrolls and gems and torches and other D&D stuff. The game that I'm trying to find was more of a "build the machine" or "play one of the provided machines" type game and the machine was a complex cellular animation where certain cells caused movement and other reactions in other cells.

Thanks, but no, not LIFE. There was at least one "map" that was cellular like LIFE in that it started with a complex setup and then ran with no further input by the user, but most maps involved the user providing some sort of input between frames of movement. Things tended to move around the map and moving pieces could be created and removed, but not in the same sense as LIFE. The cell contents were much more complex than just the simple "empty or occupied" concept of Life.

I've been trying to remember the name of an old DOS "game" without success for some time now. Can anyone remember this game: It was a shareware DOS game the used only the native character set, mostly symbols like slashes and * and other pseudo-graphical characters. It used the screen as a large 2 dimensional workspace, and moved pieces around the screen based on other cells that served as twirling propellers, moving panels and other simple character animations. Some of the "maps" were amazingly complex for such a simple basic concept. I don't really remember enough about it to find it with a search (I have tried), but I'm hoping this rather poor description might trigger something in someone else's memory.

You can't defraud a digital currency without some form of hacking.

I take offense at the comparison. I like monkeys.

OK, early fish could see in colors. And clearly modern birds (and their dino ancestors) can see in color. There is strong observal evidence that amphibians can see in color too. So just how is it that virtually all mammals supposedly lost the ability to see in color (which itself is hard for me to buy) and yet then the apes evolved the ability to see in color again and they did it with the same rod and code mechanism that was used in the primitive fish. I'm hard pressed to believe that there is an advantage for colorblindness that would have been selected for in the earliest mammals.

Hi Peter,

We exchanged e-mails a couple of days, but my problem is still unresolved and my Kyocera Event is still showing in the Android Market as incompatible in spite of your saying that it matches all of the requirements. Are there a lot of people having such problems or is my problem relatively rare?

Also the summary and the linked article lists the size of the current library, but I have not been able to find that actual list. Is there a list of available books so that those of us who cannot yet run the app or download their shelfie can see if we have many matches to what you can offer?

I would have preferred to have been asked, "should the Olympics be abolished?".

The Olympics is little more than dirty politics, enriching the members of the IOC with bribe money and having an overall negative impact on the common citizens of the countries that host the games. Of course, they do provide free condoms and a great opportunity for the few privileged participants to have lots of sex, but unless you're one of the uber-rich that can afford to compete then that probably isn't important to you. And lets not even get started on what they have done to legitimate businesses who innocently used the words Olympic or Olympus in their names for decades before the games came to their city. They do at least as much harm to the overall community as a Papal visit. The games and the IOC should be abolished, not grown.