I don't think Cisco is at fault here. They're not a charity. I blame the poor sap that signed off on the PR. Of course Cisco is going to try and patch this up as it's generating bad publicity for not doing anything wrong.

Why bother rolling your own? It's like developing your own encryption algorithm - probably a bad idea. A commercial (or open source) forum suite has had way more eyes looking at it than your home-brewed solution. That being said, for $$ vBulletin is good and if you wanna go free, try phpBB 3.0.11.

Was it Coach K or Warren Buffet who said something like, "if you love your job, you never have to work a day in your life". It's hard to find a 'fun' job. There are so many crappy only-work-to-pay-the-bills jobs, a fun one is extremely hard to find. If you're not hurting for money, keep the one you enjoy.

Indeed. I played for the better part of 5 years. Man, I loved that game. Sure there was some grinding (especially at the 45+ level), but I never felt so super in a video game. My level 50 tank (fire/ice FTW) could take on a shit-ton of bad guys and not break a sweat. They nerfed the shit out of that build and I slowly lost interest. CoH will be missed, thanks for the awesome memories Paragon.

Caught by the drug runner's stupidity. Dude went down the wrong line, that's how they got snagged. I wouldn't say the TSA "caught" them by their elite skills.

Meh, the day Yahoo! charges for an e-mail is the day I switch e-mail providers. It's not like they are the only free e-mail provider out there, gnome sayin'?

I'm a big fan of Megadeth, but I can't help but wonder what if Mustaine stayed with Metallica.

The only issue I have with micro-transactions are that you shouldn't be able to buy game-changing powers/skills. This rewards the sweaty kid in the basement who buys every skill available with his paper route money, while hurting the person who doesn't have the money to buy . If you could buy shiny stuff that doesn't really affect the game, I'd be more welcome to micro-transactions.

Forensically marked? BWHAHHAHAHAHAH!!111OMGWTGBBQ Who would bother watching this steamy pile o' crap anyway?

Godspeed batman, godspeed.

Ouch, youtube video quality absolutely sucks. How can you possibly watch those steaming piles of dung for more than 2 minutes?