Already Checked the store out.

If you run up and down george st (where it is located), you'll be amazing at how many of the tech stores look very similar in layout (esp all the mobile phone stores).

hell even some of the food stores (mainly cupcake!) are using similar layouts now as well.

Well it probably wasn't their Fault. A few accounts hackers have admitted to hacking fan sites and getting usernames and passwords from there, and trying them against battle.net, quite a few people use the same logon details.. and account hacked. Not Defending them what has happened (according to this article), But alot of people are blaming blizzard for hacked accounts that had nothing to do with Blizzard. They have really F'd up big time with D3, but account hacking issues up to now haven't been because of them.

even better. Australian DVD's - which are region locked to prevent us from using oversea's ones (ie paying less then 1/2 what they charge here) still have FBI warnings on them, they can't even bother to put the Australian warnings on them these days!

Your Forgetting that the standing government is going to lose the next election, hell they might not even get to the end of their term. When a government is in this position they'll pass a lot of legislation that will be bad, look at previous governments in this country that knew they where going to lose - like nsw labour selling off the power companies etc...

and therefore violating terms of service and corporate use policies is not a federal crime.

If it was a Federal Crime, Basically what it would lead to, is private entities been able to send people to jail for breaking rules not set by the government (ie laws...). If this does start to happen, then the corporations have effectively directly taken over law making in this country, and could even possibly put in jail terms and penlites for breaking their tos's.

They are running a "Business". You try to maximize your profits. More infections means more money to them. Time Vs Effort. It'll wildly more profitable to go after large targets like windows (and even Mac OSX these days), instead of things like BSD and Linux. They are Already up to 70k Accounts according to the summary, do you even think that there is that many people using Facebook from a linux system?

The Real Problem is, it can't be cheap, as if the wind stops, something has to generate the the power like gas turbines, which are expensive. We need some form of baseline renewable energy. Until we get that every solution we come up with is going to be expensive due to having to have to supplement the power when the primary energy driver stops (ie wind/solar/waves/etc).

So you can bypass them now for a payment. If anything doesn't justify removing them completely? as you can bypass their soul purpose for a little bit of cash. If the "bad guys" can afford plan tickets, i'm quite sure they won't worry about an extra $100, even more so if they don't expect to land...

While i Agree with you, However regardless if you use akismet, or keep it up to date, if your site has any decent SE rankings, you are going to get hit big time by comment spam, and search engines. The more content you have the more you are going to get. From 7 Wordpress sites, in the last 24 hours i have received over 400 blog comments (including ones automaticlly marked as spam). It's pretty bad, and getting worse.

If you run wordpress for your site... It's more like 50% Bots (search engines), 40% Comment Spam, and 8% Content Scanners and 2% Visitors....

It's another year before we can get data, it'll be another 27 years before it'll hit if it does. Don't you think it'd be better to wait a year, see what the odds are. If they start coming closer to hitting us in a decade etc, then we should looking into it. At this point in time, it'd be a complete waste of time. Even if we waited 20 years before knowing it's going to hit us, our level of tech will be much greater then, then it is now and it'll basically obsolete any work we do on it before then - making it a waste of time and resources, isn't there better things we can be doing with our science dollars?

I think You'll find is a case of Need Vs Want. It sounds like Viewtron was for entertainment Purposes Only. I was in I.T back then doing all the home setup's etc. Most of the customers where getting this "Internet thing" because they could connect to work from it. You'd tell them that they could read news etc and they where amazed. Company paying for for the connections back then, and been able use it for personal use as well what a great bonus. Alot of companies started using it for work from home style setup's as well, It saved them money, and made people happy, it also ment your sales staff etc could check in when not in the office. Business was a big driver back then, not just for the reason above, but i'm quite sure that's one of the main reasons the "internet took off" compared to various other services in the day.

Or how about, it'll get rejected again, and the goverment will use this to show that the patent system is infact working and not broken. ensuring the patent system can continue in it's current form.

The campground wants the bad results removed. These images and pages belong to other people/sites/etc. They have a "right to be forgotten", but that won't extend to other peoples property. If it was pages/results on their site, it'd be fine, but they are not, and what they are really trying to do is remove competion from the search results for their own commercial benefit.

Have we learned NOTHING from Jurassic Park?

You don't need to run fast, just faster then the next person...