Used media has always been a legitimate business as has used software. If there is really only one user with one installed copy, the gaming companies need to have a big mug of STFU. Games are crazy expensive anyway. It's a wonder that they sell any copies at the original MSRP.

Here's link to Garth Brooks and his anti-used CD crusade:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/304702/GARTH-BROOKS-HASNT-THROWN-IN-THE-HAT-ON-USED-CD-CONTROVERSY.html

Thanks to Rob and the gang for making Slashdot. It's part of my nerd heritage. However, I am happier to hear you are moving on. 15 years at one job? Is this Mad Men or something? WAKE UP TO THE NINETIES!

Whether or not the US is adequately prepared for "cyberwar" is certainly an open question.

However, this article is riddled with neologism ("cyber-space-time" really?) and magical
thinking (e.g. I Ching, synchronicity).

If the Internet really isn't a hardware-software system, what is it? Why not claim it has a soul too
and that we should sing to it?

The real issue is that the Internet infrastructure is public resource controlled by private interests.
That's what makes the DoD's job of defending it difficult. Defense cannot simply issue edicts like
"upgrade all your router firmware right now."

I do not propose we retreat back to a paper-based information system. I propose we go back to clay tablets.

15 years of developing software and I still don't know what P vs. NP means.

Sad, sad old hacker.

And a more thoughtful response to this hoax can be found here:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/132868/20110411/fbi-hottel-memo-reveals-ufo-hoax.htm

Those who forget their UFOlogy are bound to repeat it.

The "Roswell Incident" (AKA the Crash at Corona) is a well-picked over story that goes something like this:

  1) June 14, 1947, New Mexico rancher Brazel reports unexpected mechanical debris on his property.
          He tells a UFO story to the local paper and police.

  2) The cops call the Army, which sends over Major Marcel to collect the "alien artifacts."

  3) The Army issues a press release about the "UFO."

  4) Later, after more careful inspection, the debris is relabeled "as being a weather balloon and its "kite,""

The memo in question is from an FBI investigator Guy Hottel, written several years after this event. As wikipedia notes,
it isn't clear that this memo even refers to the "Roswell incident" at all.

Also, enjoy the retro-scifi techno-jargon contained in the memo:

"It is believed the [Army's radar located on the New Mexico base] interferes with the controlling mechanism of
the saucers."

At best, this memo is a report on hearsay. It is not direct evidence of a cover-up or even of recovered alien craft.
It is, in the neologisms of today, some government dude's blog post.

Don't thank me, Internet. I'm just doing my job.

Gee, why didn't I have this while playing Fallout?

Since Google Maps does not accurately place my house on my street, pizza dude takes an extra 20 minutes to get my food to me.

For the record, it's not that big a street.

Me? I use paper maps.

"like rubbing an amber rod with cat fur"

Dude! I've totally been to that web site!

That article is an opinion piece. Just because that crap is on ZDnet doesn't make it news of nerds.