Actually, fairly recently (starting with the Bush Regime) the Government has taken to the idea of "Free Speech Zones" -- basically, putting anyone who may expose the GOP to alternating viewpoints in cages, far, FAR away from any media.

You also saw this with the illegal Occupy Wallstreet crackdowns -- reporters were rounded up, their credentials illegally confiscated, and they were either locked up, beat down, or placed in caged in areas.

This will, of course, come to bite us on the ass in the future, but for now the horrific consequences are ignored by most (and those who do notice are off in Free Speech Zones, 5 miles away from any press coverage).

I agree!

At the same time, we should also make sure they don't allow anything else that's morally questionable. We can start with these works of literature. Hell, there's Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov on that list, and that's basically child pornography, so we had better get on that.

We could also probably do without letting terrorists research things like bomb making and the like -- so how to guides and books teaching chemical or mechanical engineering, they have to go, since they could be abused. Works on the details of how our government and legal system should probably go too -- no upstanding American would need access to those, and they just run the risk of letting terrorists find evil loopholes in our systems designed to keep them suppressed.

We could also get rid of books detailing any of these oddball heathen religions, like Buddhism or god forbid, Islam. Since the United States is a Christian Nation (the books saying otherwise were morally questionable) we shouldn't be allowing the risk of youngsters seeing this kind of material. We don't need to know these things, we only need to know their vague direction ("overseas") and if they have any resources we could use before (or after) we bomb them. ... Or.

Perhaps we could instead recognize that as a nation, our right to free speech (and, I would go so far as to say, "free information") is one of the most important, vital rights we have, one 100 generations of Americans have been willing to kill and die for. Just because you don't like the idea of someone looking at erotica doesn't mean his right to look at erotica is any less important than say, looking up how to program PHP or using the computers to make his resume. We don't -- we can't -- differentiate between the two, because the second you do, you open up wide the gates of objective censorship.

Putting it another way, would you like barely functional wingnuts like Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, or god forbid, Sarah Palin to decide what you could or couldn't read?

And then destroying the contents of all the units in the storage facility, with some smug asshole telling you "Well, you should have picked a better storage unit, eh?" when you complain.

More importantly, the business, "MegaBox" (one of the main reasons MegaUpload was targeted) is also dead, meaning the first real challenge to the RIAA is stillborn.

Just as planned, Mission accomplished, etc etc.

Believe you me, if YouTube hadn't been bought by Google, this would have happened to them. The various Copyright Cartels would still love to do this to them, but can't because Google is too big.

Er, someone already corrected you about the 3DS comment, but I feel the urge to point out that the WIiU's graphics look amazing.

Here's the nightmare scenario for Microsoft and Sony, and why both of them tried to retrofit motion controls into their console:

The big joke of the last 3 generations is that Nintendo has put together under-performing hardware. You simply can't run the same amount of processing power on a Wii, Gamecube, etc as you could with comparable consoles. What they do have this generation is something the other two cannot compete with them over -- motion controls.

Now, the problem facing Sony and Microsoft is that Nintendo can now afford to put out a console with good graphics capability and keep the console very affordable. As any PC gamer knows, game graphics aren't getting any better. A sub $100 card is enough to run video games at a very respectable resolution and quality. You can bump up the AA, the filtering, the resolution by buying a bigger card, but all things considered, we've hit a plateau. What's more, the games aren't even using these advanced cards to their fullest -- and they can't. It's just too expensive to make games with these ultra quality graphics.

The WiiU will be able to play PC ported games. It will be able to feature match Microsoft and Sony, AND has features they cannot match -- high quality, 3rd generation Motion Controls and an integrated tablet for a second viewport and touch screen gaming.

So here's the question that the next generation is going to have to answer -- if the WiiU can play the same games as the PS3 / PS4 / XBox 360 / XBox Next, and can play the WiiU exclusive games... Why in the world would you ever buy the more expensive PS4/XBox Next?

And good riddance.

They want income from libraries per each book loaned. Presumably this is supposed to be similar to how deadtree books decay and must be replaced by libraries. In reality it's just a money grab from the content middlemen, same as the RIAA, MPAA, etc etc.

It's this, combined with some odd effect I'm sure marketing has named, but I remain ignorant of the lingo.

For example, it's like how if I take my Kindle out in public, someone asks me if "The Barnes and Noble Kindle" is any good, too. "Oh, Sony has a Kindle out, too, did you hear about that?"

I don't listen to music on an mp3 player, I listen to music on "an iPod."

To my parents, when I get home, I play "Nintendo." Not the Wii, not the Playstation, not the 360 -- The Nintendo Nintendo, the Sony Nintendo, or the Windows Nintendo.

And nowadays, you don't buy a tablet PC, you buy "an iPad."

The most successful member of a product group names the group, permanently.

Better an A+ and MCP tech making a living wage of $12 an hour (+benefits) than Dell outsourcing the same jobs to a shell company they own and hiring people off the street for minimum wage (no benefits, no job security, etc).