There's still five months before the consoles' release. One segment of the market (non-gaming parents who will be giving consoles for birthdays/Christmas) has no idea any of this is going on and they wouldn't understand it regardless. As for the rest, I don't really trust the gaming community to be able to sustain this level of vitriol and/or fanboism for that long.

All Microsoft needs to do is ditch everything they said at E3 and start over. Not fixing the problems, but presenting the situation properly. It'll still be terrible, but at least some of the insane restrictions will make some logical sense with regards to what they're trying to do.

It's proxies all the way down.

The men on the front page of the Post today?

CBS News reported that the FBI sources said it wasn't them (they're not white, 6'2", wearing the right clothes or... well, anything like the suspect).

I have it on very good authority that the iPod had less space than a Nomad.

First problem: the poverty line is variable. For one person under 65, it was ~$11k, for a family of two (single mom + kid, for instance) it's $15k, for a family of four it was $23k. Would you advocate a different minimum wage in each case? Or would you choose one? Those create, respectively, a $5.37, $7.27 and $11.08 minimum wage.

Second problem: at the minimum wage, you have to work every day of every week just to not be impoverished. There's no way to retire if you can never save, no way you can take an unpaid day (sick day, vacation day, personal day for your kid's doctor's appointment; I didn't have paid leave when I was a wage earner)... Heck, if your hours are reduced one week due to factors outside your control (your boss schedules your hours), you're in trouble. You're basically fighting every day just to tread water.

Or he has a knife or is lobbing home made pipe bombs or spoofed the GPS signal so it thinks it's at a firing range or he stole a cop's gun...

Radiation for all!
Boooo!
Very well, no radiation for anyone!
Boooo!
Hmm... Radiation for some, miniature American flags for others!
Yaaaay!

Out of curiosity, is there a list of games that are expected to be released on Linux? Is it everything that says "SteamPlay" or some subset therein?

That grocery store was fully stocked. It was odd that they ran out of one particular item. Now, however, it makes perfect sense! Twinkies were discontinued, then zombies showed up, and now Tallahassee can't find any.

Not quite true. Teddy Roosevelt in '12 (27.4%), La Follette in '24 (16.6%), Wallace in '68 (13.5% of the final vote, but was polling higher than that), Anderson in '80 (6.6%; was polling closer to 20% at the time of the debates) and Perot in '92 (18.9%).

That's why I got Old Glory Insurance.

Also, "DANGER: LANDMINES".

My socially awkward and geeky personality led to pretty much every pre-med I met in college trying to diagnose me with autism. One of the diagnosis criteria that I remember them mentioning was food acceptance or preference issues (eating the same thing all the time, refusing to try new things, etc.). It's since been removed from the diagnostic criteria (it's not nearly selective enough), but it still occurs in a significant majority of cases. I'm curious if there could be a link here. The mice in the study were treated with a diet high in branched chain amino acids. According to livestrong, those foods are... well, I'd generally call those "kids food": red meat, chicken, nuts and cheese. I wonder if food acceptance issues in autism have a biological underpinning and kids are, essentially, trying to self-medicate with chicken fingers.

Though I don't visit as often as I used to, SlashDot is still the top link in my "Daily Sites" folder. Thanks for all the hard work and best of luck in the future!