This really makes me wonder why the scammers out there aren't signing up for tons of generic name sounding e-mails, hoping to get people's misplaced mail. Of course, for all I know, they already do.

As cool as that sounds, if we start colonizing the solar system, chances are people are going to branch out if it's possible. People are going to find ways to live on as many planets as possible. I know that the technological barriers are much greater than that of, say, the Oregon trail, but presumably by the time we have colonized an environment as hostile as the moon or mars, we will be at least a little more nonchalant about space travel at the least. People will expand to the area available to them. People with differing viewpoints and conflicting aspirations will push for colonies elsewhere. Then they will all multiply. By the time we fill up the livable parts of the solar system, I fear we would have enough people using enough energy to have some level of impact on Jupiter. I don't know what exactly, but we should bear that in mind before we go raping planets for their energy. After all, we've seen how well it worked out for Earth.

Now that you mention it, I've heard that it's cold as hell.

I'm sure it's somehow different, but at my college, we have a public wifi all over campus and as you walk around, your connection will get dropped and picked up by several different routers, but you continue to be connected. If you go to a totally dead area, yes it will drop and you'll have to reconnect, but not finding it for a short bit doesn't seem to be a problem. Of course this is a private university paying for large wireless routers that cover larger areas, concentrated in a much smaller area than Manhattan.

But he was implying that the majority of gamers are dropping 2-3k on a computer. Which is insane. I've only known a couple of people in my life that spent that much on a computer to improve their gaming experience. I will give you, those 2 people probably did pirate the majority of their video games. But that's like saying I know that the MAJORITY of people jaywalking are running across the street to get away from the cops after committing a crime. Sure, some do, but the majority of people jaywalk so that they are not "inconvenienced".

I thought the constant internet connection requirement was PART of the DRM, not a legitimate requirement to enjoy the game. If that indeed WAS the case, then you post is saying people's reasons for not playing the game were the DRM and the DRM. Which sounds about right to me.

I thought that was facebook...

As long as I can hit them with a crowbar or use my zero-point energy field manipulator on them, I don't see a problem...

I think the best part is that every time you come back to comment on your taste for puppies, you sig continues to assert that another seven puppies were harmed.

Who would actually do that? That sounds highly unlikely to me.

It's cases like these that make me hope I get picked for jury duty and end up in one of these cases. Just so I can be more objective about what actually happened. Of course from what I know about the legal system, the prosecuting attorney will probably kick off any juror that knows what a computer is.

I take it you're speaking from personal experience?

I have to disagree somewhat. I mean the idea is that we will move in the most powerful appealing direction. If prosthetics have more to offer than just having our own limbs again, it will happen. Of course at that point it makes you wonder if people would be hacking off limbs just to get that sweet tech. What I find a lot more likely is that if we gain the ability to regrow limbs, that prosthetics will move in an enhancement direction instead of a replacement direction. Instead of having a robot arm, maybe you'll have a robot sleeve that you wear that makes you stronger.

That's a good point. In that same line, are there off peak data usage times? Surely they have a time that the data network is under a lighter load. Maybe it's just not as much of a time though because people will use the internet later than they would decide not to call people anymore.

How often do you end a sentence with Mr, Prof, or M? I suppose it would happen periodically, but not often enough that you couldn't just set those types of words as exceptions. All that being said, I do my writing in gedit or vim because I think a word processor should allow you to do the typing instead of trying to do the thinking for you.