Still remember nearly getting kicked out of my guild for aggroing a boss with my Eye of Kilrog in MC. Good times.

I played for nearly three years in WoW's earlier days. I started about the time of the Hakkar Blood Plague.

I enjoyed the story and the leveling, but after BC was released, there was a rush to push up to the new level cap. The expansion didn't add to the story – it just added more grinds. I finally quit when I realized I was paying to go to another job every day.

My kids play occasionally now on the free trial accounts, and they want me to pay for a sub so they can level a Worgen. I've told them I might pay for a month during Christmas break, but we won't get the expansions. With this next one, I'd need to pay hundreds before I even paid for any game time.

Blizzard doesn't realize their current model is prohibitive to new players. Even with Battle Chests, to get the full game experience, requires new players to purchase WoW, BC, Wraith, Cataclysm and now Panda. With each costing ~40 you're looking at a nearly $200 barrier of entry.

Rovio accounts for 98% of it.

/obvious

Exactly. For the last year, I've had the mid-June contract end date for my 3Gs set as an alarm (in iCal). Then Apple came and fracked up the iPhone model release schedule. I might get a 5 if it has the right features, but I would jump on a 4 if they dropped the price to $50-$99 right now.

I've never had this problem with my landline. Odd charges crammed on my cell phones? Now that's another story. Just last month, a recurring ringtone download subscription showed up on my wife's phone bill. She doesn't even have a phone that can get data.

EA announced the next update to Bejeweled won't be available until sometime late in the next decade.

I work for an ISP that is represented in the list of emails and passwords. We determined all the addresses from domains we control are not, nor have they ever been used, on our system. I'm not saying they are all fakes, but all the addresses I'm able to verify are not legit.

We're a niche market dominated by 18-34 year old males with an education and high disposable income. Any business/marketing majors out there want to comment on how desirable that demographic is?

Most of the articles I read show cable continues to grow despite pressure from "cord cutting" and Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter puts cable sub counts at an all-time high after the first quarter of 2011: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/analyst-pay-tv-subs-hit-185858

I read it a little differently:

Dear Slashdot,

How do magnets work?

Sincerely,

I own a horse

Just because Microsoft won't support XP, doesn't mean my company won't still be using 14+ year old software.

... and to the republic for which it stands ...

Nothing to see here. Move along.

I knew SciFi was gone last holiday season when we didn't get to see a classic literary work re imagined like "Tin Man" or "Alice" from prior years.

The company I'm currently working at hasn't changed the alarm system code in 10 years. They've fired several vengeful people in that time, plus we've never modernized with a facility access logging/keycard system. Yep, 200 employees all use the exact same master key that opens every door in the company.

A former employee with a copy of their physical key could access a nearby building undetected; disable the alarm; and shut down a major fiber backbone line between Salt Lake and Las Vegas.

So you're suggesting we take Mars by having anchor babies?