if you're in the US, I can throw you an invite if you don't have it.

At least they'll be better than the ones using console controllers.

It's rude to interrupt a correction with semantics.

There are some people who's adblock behavior is kinda on principals rather than "block everything unless it breaks"

Early after I made my Slashdot account I had adblock on but didn't pay it any mind, and then I saw the "thanks to you contributing positively to this board, you are eligible to turn off ads"

I felt it was such an honorable and honest system that I disabled adblock for Slashdot and didn't opt-out of the ads. It also made me disable it for other sites I appreciate, like Hulu or even Google.com. Reddit has a "Thank you for not using AdBlock" graphic in place of an ad sometimes. I think it's what Google was saying some time ago: adblockers aren't ruining free websites, people will eventually use them to block out annoying or undesirable ads while choosing to support the websites they would like to support.

Not that I'm saying this behavior is in the majority, but it might grow with the usage of AdBlockers.

Disagree, mod points are given to people with good Karma and therefore are obviously less likely to be wrong.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but Xbox LIVE silver accounts are unpaid and "let" you buy content on the store.

Dunno about you, but my walled garden sure keeps that pesky rabbit out.

I will now list everyone surprised by this move:

This. Having played free WoW servers before (and idling in their official IRCs), I've seen how time of the day gets blurry when others aren't as constricted to the same schedule as you are.

Not only that, but there are OTHER insomniacs in OTHER time zones, meaning interaction can depend more on "when they happen to be awake" and not "what time they're usually up"

Great, you HAD to mention Splashup. Now Google is going to buy them too. Way to go.