This is interesting. By adding new units, Blizzard just destroyed the multiplayer scene. Will different games be able to play each other (my copy of WoL versus a HoTS copy)? If not, will multiplayer split into the WoL, HoTS and whatever-the-protoss-one-is-called scenes? This is gonna get pretty interesting to watch. On another note, I'm not sure if I'll be getting this or the next game. I bought WoL on my personal love of James Raynor, and while he didn't disappoint me as a character in SC2, the overall story is fully fucked over. I liked 3 factions all with their own interests, vying for supremacy, but now it seems to be turning into a generic "Good versus Evil" thing and following Warcraft into fluff hell.

Veteran here. That needs to be set up and maintained by someone familiar with the technology, which probably means more government contractors (MILIT4RY-1NDUSTR14L C0MPL3X!!!1!). Soldiers are too dumb to be able to use that stuff. We have one password to get into a non-secure system and the wait time at the help desk to reset your password is never shorter than an hour. You think more than 1 in 500 soldiers even knows what Linux is? Soldiers =/= technical people. Guys in the Signal Corps are little better.

I've sen this line of reasoning once or twice in this entire discussion: -Party A says "Hackers were wrong and should be punished" -Party B responds "Nuh uh, (some kind of moral or politically motivated reasoning stating how it wasn't that bad) -Party A responds "Oh yeah, well then let us do it to you since it's not so bad." -Party B responds "Good luck. All my shit is locked down tighter than a lock factory." So to all you guys who say that the hack is right and just and the hackers shouldn't face any kind of prosecution, until you put your information on this thread so the well-intentioned population of Slashdot can mess with your stuff (all for the lulz of course, nothing serious), you don't have an argument because apperantly the severity of being hacked is enough that you have 7 proxies, 4 million character password encryption and all your servers are disconnected from the internet sitting in the Fortress of Solitude.

That's the most entertaining part for me: Video games like this can't really instill soldier skills and they can't prepare you for the ridiculous noise and confusion of any battlefield. I speak as a veteran: you can play as much Call of Duty as you want, but you won't be ready the first time you get knocked on your ass from the pressure wave of an explosion. Doesn't matter to me what's going on with this. If the chinese are not using this as a training tool, then they can have their video games; Call of Duty sucks anyway. If they ARE using it as a training tool, the more fool them.

Couldn't you just add some kind of exception system? Wherever the reports go back to should have someone there that administers the system or something. That person can look at the locations and if they fall where there is a "pothole" due to a railroad or something, just label it as a railroad crossing and have the system classify any reports from that location as a railroad and ignore it. The phones will continue to report that there is a hole there, but the centralized system will discard reports from that area.

The title of this posts suggests that Bill Clinton stepped up and said "Government should police the internet", which is not at all what was said in the interview. Bill was asked if government should have a role in policing the tubes, and he said that while it seems like the something the government would be interested in, there are too many problems associated with it for it to become a reality. I agree with this. On top of the nightmares mentioned, how can any government police the internet? It's international in scope. The cyber-wars between governments would be breath-taking, at least.

I usually read through the first couple comments for Slashdot stories, because I generally like the arguments that are made. I read through the first couple for this article because I'm interested in the brewing war between Windows and ChromeOS, and this whole topic is a disgusting shitstorm: fights about nationalism, racist crap, petty name-calling....what the fuck? I know I'm not making it any better, but I was just so surprised I had to comment on it.

So people can be (or at least feel) molested over the internet now?

The Yahoo! article cited in the Slashdot post that's cited by this post starts off the first paragraph or two talking about the "Geeks make successful adults" idea, then veers off and becomes an observation on the ideas of social conformity telling stories of teacher cliques in schools, peer pressure and social hierarchies; I had to read it twice just to figure out what the point of the article was.

Sony was attacked and the calling card of the Anonymous group was left behind. Anonymous denies involvement and might not actually be involved, since their calling card is easy to replicate. On Slashdot, a post contains a link to a news story proclaiming Anonymous's innocence. This is posted by an Anonymous Coward. What a sticky situation.

I sort of agree with this, but I think that there is at least one or two people in the Federal Election Comission or SOMEWHERE that would make sure that he was able to be President before he got elected POTUS. Don't forget, he was also a Senator for a couple years and someone is trying to tell me he slipped through the cracks time and time again? I would be absolutely astonished if his Republican opponent at any of those times failed to overlook his ineligibility to hold those offices.

To anyone interested, this exact article was in an issue of EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly).