Part of me thinks the interface between you and the device needs to be more ... interactive for lack of a better word.

The word you're looking for is feedback. I took the course in Cybernetics at Reading and the first year pretty much revolved entirely around feedback systems. The online dictionary definition of cybernetics waffles on and on and fails to mention that feedback is a huge part of it. It sort of sideways behind-your-back refers to it using the term "control", but unless you are an engineer and understand the word "control" the way an engineer does, that vague reference flies right past you.

Agreed. Banning or criminalizing this app is like trying to cure the disease by just treating the (one) symptom that betrayed it's presence.

ADS-B itself and the ground systems that use it in an official capacity need to be updated for a more paranoid world.

Some IRL Sith Lords find your lack of faith disturbing. That ticklish feeling in your throat? That's not a cough. That's a warning.

Ever heard of The Mindset List?

What you just described is a direct and perfect example. Relevant from item 11 onwards (John McEnroe could arguably be the Shatner of tennis while no one gives a flying sugary toroid what fancy names we give for non-fat non-dairy lattes).

FRIENDLY WARNING: The Mindset List will make some of you suddenly realise just how out of phase you are to current popular culture.

That said, I don't feel bad at all that the young'uns totally missed out on getting to enjoy Heather Locklear in her youthful, blonde glory in TJ Hooker. I think we're even getting to the point where Bon Jovi aren't even relevant anymore, so except for showing up occasionally in the tabloids in connection to her ex-husband, she's pretty much completely off the pop culture radar.

What? No Mark Zuckerberg?

But have you seen how much a bear poops in a single no. 2 session? You wouldn't inconvenience the morning joggers, you'd block the sidewalk!>/p>

What about winter? Hibernation? Unless you went for one of the tropical bears, like a Sun Bear....but I hear they aren't too aggressive. And the whole endangered species list and animal trades acts might be a little bit of a hassle.

No please, don't say such cool things knowing it will never be true.

Seriously, with Google's wallet, you could actually pay for a decent writer to rescue the farce that is Tekken. Don't get me wrong, I love the game as a fighter and it works quite nice as a Double Dragon style beat-em-up. But with those amazing cutscenes...it looked beautiful but they were re-donkey-lous.

Nina is what...40? 50 years old now? But she's the sex symbol and so some cryogenic-hibernation handwavium keeps her in her 20s. Paul doesn't even have that excuse. He should be looking as dodgy as Dolph Lundgren by now. Weirdly, Heihachi makes sense. He's a centenarian by now. All the bad mojo or something.

The various war gods they fight are just lame. It's approaching SNK territory. First was the Aztec-ish Ogre. Then Heihachi's dad with the ridiculous facial hair. Most recently some weird Egyptian beast made of ice that definitely suffered from SNK Boss Syndrome as well as SNK lameness.

Ultimately it would be nice to hire some fresh creative non-Japanese brains to come in and sweep away the tropes and stereotypes that stained the latest release. Alisa and Lars were irritating and lazy additions to the roster, Lars being a decent re-hash of Heihachi karate (who'da'thunk the old man liked Swedish blondes). The robot-girl however was getting into Darkstalkers tongue-in-cheek territory which I can't tell is intentional or not.

That dude's soul patch is unscientific....

How do I ask Google to add Klingon to their list of supported languages in Google Translate?

You could just be getting your cat to walk back and forth across your keyboard. There are definitely Trekkies among Google's ranks that could spend their "20% private project time" adding it to the service.

I don't like the use of this word "approved" anymore.

My Swedish keyboard uses the same key-press. Norwegian too. I'd imagine all European QWERTY keyboards would be the same.

Not sure about French AZERTY though....any Romantic slashdotters care to confirm?

You know coding is quite a heavy thing to just throw at a kid. Him being from the "gratification-right-now" generation will make him quit long before anything cool can be done with coding.

How about leading him into mods? You can get results very quickly and pretty much for free after an initial investment. Get him a copy of Oblivion GOTY or Fallout 3, introduce him to TESNexus.com or fallout3nexus.com, download Blender, some of the easily available scripting wikis and forums and away he goes.

He can have a replica of his favourite Final Fantasy weapon in a couple of days, usable in-game. There are at least a dozen mods of Cloud's Buster sword he can reverse engineer to teach himself the shapes and the textures and how to make a file usable by the game engine. Immediate reward. May make him plug at it long enough to begin modeling NPCs and elaborate armour.

Why do this? Why do this and enter the complicated territory of having a different face and voice for any of the characters? Yet more actors who may ask for more power over their "IP" when lending their faces and voices for the movie. Deal with the ones you already have and the voices people know and love. How about the risk of disappointment from a badly adapted script, bad acting or shitty execution? Crappy special effects with blue/green screen on the level of the new V series (that's really bad) trying to merge live action with CGI spaceships? Stupid latex rubber alien faces no better than Babylon 5 or Ster Trek? I'm not knocking either of the last 2 in and of themselves. I'm just pointing out that there's only so many variations of "humanoid head with extra bits and a bad hair day = alien" and "tortoiseshell box with a pin hole and tubes = really alien."

They have the foundation of a 3D CG feature film already in the two games. Why not bring in Blur - who did that fantastic Dragon Age: Origins trailer and I believe the WAR Online trailer too - to inject an upgrade of graphic goodness. Then pretty much just link the cutscenes from the game together with the paragon/renegade choices considered canon by the developers.

You might even increase the sales of a movie-linked GOTY edition of Mass Effect when people who don't usually play games realise they can actually play the movie with their own choices and their own version of Shepherd!

I did a Ctrl-F to find any mention of "Starship Troopers".

Surprised nobody mentioned it. How far away is this from mandatory conscription in order to get citizenship?

Acrobacy?

Criminy Jicket! I shall adopt this fascinamazing cryptologism.