I'm not sure, but it may be that debt collection laws apply in this case; meaning you can't inform any third party about the debt, among a whole bunch of other regulations.

I wonder if Yahoo or Bing made some exclusivity deal with the studios.

You should start a personal programming project, or try some freelance jobs on vworker.com. Vworker jobs suck and pay incredibly poorly, but it's a great way to get started again, particularly since nobody will have a clue how old you are.

Seems to me that freedom of speech is pretty useless if you can't use it to express your beliefs, or denounce someone else's beliefs.

Your sarcasm is unwarranted. This is a nice story for us programmers because it's just the kind of anecdote that makes businesses seriously consider hiring more professional programmers. Nobody is suggesting you need custom software for everything.

Just wait until it has some moronic marketing-expert-driven UI overhaul every few months like your typical corporate site. Then nobody will know how to edit it.

The greatest weight loss plan the world has ever known.

You've clearly struck on the real reason for this, which is that people just like candy. I think for a better user experience they should just get a piece of candy every time they type a command. Then we can keep the command line, plus, hey, candy.

How the hell would you enforce a "cyber-arms" ban? It would be easier to ban actual arms. Like a worldwide gun ban.

Lots of apps don't work too good when you scale up the font size. Text overflows various graphical borders, windows, the edges of the screen, so you're forced to use a font which is too tiny to read at ultra-high resolutions.

Safe cracking skills are FAR more rare than computer cracking skills. There's a reason for that. The whole point of a computer is to make data EASY to manipulate. That's the exact opposite of what voting should be. Voting should be done with media that is a pain in the ass to manipulate. If that also makes it a pain in the ass to count the votes, then so be it. A computer is simply the wrong tool for the job when it comes to voting.

Because anybody can be a memeber. It's sort of like saying the human race is the most powerful race. Pretty much trite and meaningless when you think about it.

WE all know that viewing and downloading a file is really the same thing. If you're worried about accidentally downloading kiddie porn, there's something in criminal law called "intention" that protects you from being wrongfully convicted. It's the same reason why you can't "accidentally murder" someone. Although in that case, you may be found intentionally and therefore criminally negligent or reckless.

For scrap metal. That's why its so cheap.

Perfectly fine with me if the media wants to make us software engineers more scarce.