1) The article is from mid 2011. 2) There is nothing in the article that says that it's dead. I want a news article posted on Slashdot. Let me make stuff up about it and post links to a year old article that says nothing that's in my summary. This is why I have been frequenting slashdot less and less... ( It used to be multiple times daily & is now maybe twice a week ).

Exactly this. I have a relative that went there on vacation with 20 or so friends. They were walking around late in the evening & turned down a "wrong street" they were all arrested & held for no reason for several days. My relative & his friends think that the only reason they were released was because it was such a large group. When they were released, they were told to never travel without a guide again & make sure they didn't go down that road.

I'm not going to say that, but I could see it happening. All they'd have to do is tell people that it's to stop pedophiles & terrorists and far too many people would be perfectly OK with it. It's not that bad here, but give it a few years and it may get there... the only difference is that here we will vote for it.

Huge numbers of people pirated the movie before it was released. The movie broke the record for opening weekend sales. Therefore, using the same figuring style that the MPAA uses ( only in reverse ), piracy actually made the movie industry millions!

I really wish I had mod points for this...

"They intend to accomplish this by offering a configurable app that players download from the gaming site which would allow bitcoin mining jobs to run on these beefy GPU-outfitted client computers. Like DropBox, the CoinLab app will reside in the background so that the players are not even aware of the mining that occurs during the gaming session. To the gamer, certain virtual items or level upgrades would be obtained. " How is this putting a trojan on the computer? It seems that their business plan is to offer a separate download that will mine bitcoins automatically while they are playing. In return, the player will get bonus items for every X number of blocks processed/bitcoins mined.

Unfortunately, I think you're right. Either that or they're planning on recording all the IP's that connect to it for "tracking" purposes.

If they start calling them that, the price will go way up. Just think about how much they could charge for a pill that cures just about everything!

In my school (which graduated 75 when I graduated), they required some basic computing classes - how to use MS Office and typing (among other things). Back in 2000, that was a rarity... They also offered 2 "programming" classes. One was HTML and the other was VB6. I have to say that while HTML isn't a programming language, it is a lot better than most of the other schools in my area. While I didn't use VB6 in any of my classes in college, having a basic understanding of form and logic definitely helped. So I have to say that *some* high schools do know what Computer Science is.

I thought robots already taught themselves to lie to each other... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/19/185259/Neural-Networks-Equipped-Robots-Evolve-the-Ability-To-Deceive

I'll stick with my netbook because I prefer having a real keyboard (even a smaller one). I don't know if it's just me being a late adapter, but I like the feel of real keys over a touchscreen. I'd never buy an iPad because I'm not a huge fan of any Apple OS I've tried through the years. I'm still not really sure if I'd buy a tablet from any other manufacturer either.

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/243/googleh.png There you are..

it actually shows results real-time for what I'm typing. I'm accessing the .com site in the US. It looks kind of cool.