Older plasma models were much more likely to have burn-in. Improvements in the technology have reduced the potential for burn-in on newer models, however it is still possible and is why you shouldn't leave static images on the screen for extended periods. I'm quite surprised that you got burn in from a "temporary" image only when changing channels (unless more than 50% of your viewing time is changing channels), in fact I doubt the burn in was from that limited exposure. Is it possible that the TV was shifted to an unavailable channel and the channel info was left displayed for an extended period? An example would be leaving the TV on a satellite channel that becomes inactive overnight - some setups will pop up the channel info until the feed becomes available again. I currently have a Panasonic plasma I purchased around 2006-2007. When I bought it the instructions were pretty explicit about avoiding static images for the first month of operation. A couple years in I accidentally left a game paused over night (8+ hours) which produced some burn in, but it faded within 24 hours.

and none of them are considered a British "province".

Article slashdotted - alternate story including updates below. Despite the obvious evidence, police continue to wave their arms wildly. http://gigaom.com/2013/10/24/uk-police-seize-3d-printer-and-printed-gun-components/

Ever play Super Mario Bros using only one hand? It's the HARDEST GAME IN THE WORLD111

Citation: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/nyregion/15dog.html?_r=0

I recalled this too and had to find the article :)

In other words, these companies are selling snake oil. Their systems provide no extra benefit other than quick deletion of messages. Nothing prevents the NSA from showing up with a FISA order to store and forward all messages from an individual. They are still just as vulnerable to NSA spying as any who came before.

Sounds very much like you have the Pando Media Booster problem. This is a P2P client that gets installed automatically with certain games, and basically whores your internet connection for other gamers to download the game client from. It is not commerically defined as malware, but its stealthy nature and bandwidth saturation certainly makes it seem like it. It is basically a bit torrent client you don't control, so that could easily explain why you see connections coming in from random places and low bandwidth. You do not need this software to play your games, and I believe it can be uninstalled quite easily and separately from your game clients. http://www.lo-ping.org/2011/07/29/the-pando-pandemic-why-you-might-already-be-infected/ I had bandwidth issues and this turned out to be the cause. In my case my wife had it on her machine after downloading some random MMO (Star Trek or Aion or something).

Except the site isn't just about drugs - one of the linked articles indicates the site was also used to advertise "murder for hire" services. I think that is a very significant line being crossed.

Can't we just get Sephiroth to use the black materia to summon Meteor? That pulled in an asteroid pretty damn quickly IIRC...

Nerd rage - that's a terrible Logan's Run reference. In Logan's Run society people are are killed when they hit 30. The median age certainly wouldn't be anywhere near 28/29.

Robert Sawyer has a few books that cover this topic. Sawyer has a great way of showing how technological advances might impact today's (western) society. He seems like writing about immortality as he has several books on the topic. "Mindscan" is about a man who undergoes a somewhat common process to create of an android replica, and how both the replica and the human live on after the process (the human is required by contract to permanently retire to a colony on the moon). The book "Rollback" is about a technology that makes you young again. This one is probably the most realistic as the technology is only for the extremely wealthy, at first. Over time as efficiencies advance, the technology becomes more affordable, as we would likely see if Itskov is ever successful. Regardless of the scenario, I suspect most of us alive today won't live long enough for this process to become affordable.

I, for one, totally believe and accept that they will not record you using the Kinect sensors and microphone. It's the other camera and microphone they installed on the console that will do all of the surveillance!

Farnsworth said: "I don't want to live on this planet anymore!"

If you don't boycott, you are indirectly financing an anti-gay organization. Card is a board member of an anti-gay group that actively lobbys and demonstrates against gay marriage. And given Card's past statements about just how much he is against gay marriage, you can be sure he puts his own resources towards that end. If boycotting leads to Card making less money (either by the contract being dropped, or less of a cut for Card), then he will have less money to use to spread hate. And don't get me wrong, I love Ender's Game - my wife and I bought the series a few years ago. And by doing so we unknowingly supported Card's anti-gay agenda. Maybe just a few dollars, or even a few cents of that purchase went to Card. The sad thing is, if I had known about this, and known how good Ender's Game was, I probably would have still bought the book.

That's a classy (nerdy) way to go out! To lend weight to the Battletoads analogy, Terra Tubes is level 9 and this is level 3. As you'll see it is nearly impossible to succeed without knowing what is ahead of you. Normally you would have to fail many times before you learned enough about the upcoming obstacles to get through.