There already is an opt-in when you buy the service. You bought the service, not your children, it is your responsibility how you let then use it. If you want to limit what your children do with it, either educate them on it, or if that is too much for you get some software that do a default blacklist and add you own whitelist of sites that are okay for them to visit. Parenting is not something you can magically get others to do for you.

Let me be the first to congratulate the person who manage to make a 911 video call where Rick Astley is present. :)

Ah, that would explain the main purpose of the 'rally to restore sanity' on the 30th of October. ;)

Soon they will be so fast that the default theme is plaid. ;p

Please stay away from Hello Kitty online, pleeeease.

( I actually miss Tabula Rasa. :( )

For an encore the robot snake grabbed an apple and headed for a tree next to a robot female.

Protect it from who, what and why?

And if you are serious, start by getting rid of spam. And if you should somehow manage that, you have most likely also killed the (free) internet as we know it.

*drops monocle into the tea* Good Lord! Get a hold of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar quickly, he will fight for all that is good and pure.

Opera have had this feature for years, I assumed every other browser out there would as well by now.

This is due to the built-in smugness generator that all Apple products (and even some employees) have, one of its effect is that it reduces negative perceptions of itself and Apple within its working radius. The effect is easy to prove, simply lick the Apple logo on a device while in a public place, if people around you start to find the device creepy you have managed to find a device with a non working generator (caution: this will alert the fashion police and you might have to flee to another country just to be safe).

Rumours will have it that Jobs is currently using a beta of the smugness 2 generator which is capable of repelling gravity, and hence offer the user the ability to levitate and even fly*!

*Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) was onto this development early on when he wanted a propeller hat.

And why should they? They managed to resist the urges of telling a good story or develop any characters beyond the pointless plot and one dimensional characters needed to glue all the computer graphics into a cinema product.

If you have ever played with a cat or dog and having it chasing after the dot from a laser pen, you would see that Avatar was much the same. It was simply something shiny that distracted you for a few hours, nothing more.

Avatar is a great example of how lacking Hollywood and other medias is of any kind of substance, their drive is to find the lowest possible amount that will still get the masses to buy their drivel.

I bet the lawyers at Disney went into full battle mode when they heard the news of a bright white celestial object orbited by seven smaller ones.

If all you care about is resolution (in a SLR camera) this is great. But if you also care about stuff like low noise, dynamic range or a diffraction that isn't limited to f/4, you are much better off with at least a medium format camera.

Looking on the bright side, you don't have to worry about acne or shaving anymore.

Great film, just don't grab the DVD release which (as usual) got raped by Lucas and his CG pals. :(