Holy shit! It was all a lie! Thank you, Internet atheist who posts to a technology website!

What friends? I'm a programmer, damn it!

Lance Armstrong used almost the exact same argument.

Because they talk with their friends on Facebook, and totally impersonal conversation would be a little weird?

I had the same problem, I clicked the wrong button and Facebook loaded up all these photos of my ex-girlfriends! Hopefully if I show this article to my wife she will take me back.

Your body is extremely efficient at digesting calories. Do you look down at your shit and see undigested pieces of hot dog? If not, congratulations, your body has digested the food you ate (and supposedly competitive eaters get that after 9000 calories or so). Micronutrients are different than macronutrients. Iron, like you mention, or many vitamins are only fat soluble. However, they have basically no calories to them and should not have been brought up.

If there's any efficiency, it's in using calories to digest calories. Your body has to supply your stomach with calories, after all!

At work I've got two 2560x1440 displays (27" dells). I run one horizontal, and one vertical. It works out pretty well.

I'm a little confused how your answer is a response to "Europe disappeared from the worldwide web." What you're replying to is a joke that google would get rid of all Europe links in retaliation, not a nationalistic claim that Google should abandon all business in EU nations. It's like you're deeply offended by something nobody is actually saying.

There was some game where a girl went to an abandoned house and it turns out her sister was a lesbian. It was like reading a young adult novel.
Kastle Krashers was OK for 10 minutes but the gameplay didn't have much depth.
Papers Please was an interesting gimmick where the gameplay got old fast.
Ilomilo (actually, on the XBox store) is a fun puzzle game, but something I just pick up every once in a while.
And probably a few others I can't think of right now.

Just in general, what I've seen hasn't convinced me there's a whole new world of great games I'm missing out on. Also, it seems like a lot of them can be played on even a really old non-gaming PC.

No interest in mods, really.

By the way, the EFF is backing this encryption effort. Good to see moderation quality here is right inline with the oligarchical collectivist snowden-chasing "Google NSA AOL Time Warner Taco Bell US Government"

Gaming PCs already exist. Everybody knows about them. A lot of people choose not to buy them. What's to be gained by taking away options from consumers?

Personally I enjoy my XBox very much, and have about zero interest in getting a gaming PC. If I was into MMORPGs or was a hard-core FPS player that would probably be different.

If you've worked in IT for a while you should be able to put together a $150k check...

I expect a lot of agents to come in and stump against transport encryption. I question why on earth you wouldnt want to make it harder to sniff. Even if there is a man in the middle possibility, they need a copy of every cert. Lugging around millions of certs and trying to apply them to every flow to see if you can get into that flow sounds a lot harder than not encrypting.

They put the inventor of PGP in jail - Phil zimmerman. Reason: simple transport encryption - even without trust - makes Fedzilla and its police state angry.

This would force the Fedzilla police state to obtain end-point warrants rather than be able to sniff the firehose.

I would rather have transport encryption than nothing. Also, even if these are back doored by the NSA, the government would have to prove how they got the information without a warrant.

This is an imperative first step.

I agree here. This is the actions of a police state. Its quite disturbing to see complete forfeiture of assets without a trial taking place. I know normally tycoons and other scum like Madhoff and Ken Lay deserve to be tarred and feathered and pilloried for their crimes against society and shareholders, but who exactly was DAMAGED by Silk Road? Did all of the buyers receive their goods? If so, what is the DAMAGE?

How does the government have standing to claim silk road DAMAGED all those buyers?

Why doesnt the government go after Jack Ma and Alibaba? (As in they block those transactions and forbid buying off that fraud-racket-exchange)? Alibaba sells stolen fraudulent broken junk that is masqueraded as legitimate (its basically a crime mall) but we let that go and shut down silk road and seize all assets? Doesnt make sense. Criminal rackets operate eyes wide shut but it seems the Fedzilla is only angry that they couldnt collect tax off these transactions in which case he should be sued for that money.

Total forfeiture seems out of the bounds of due process.