From my perspective, hacking and censorship are one and the same issue here.

Those who want to express opinions that the ruling party doesn't want people to hear are the targets of hacking. In this case, hacking is just the means of censorship.

Get rid of the mindset that censorship is OK and you get rid of the motivation behind the hacking.

You're right -- turning off your auto reply because it included a link to your home based-business doesn't make sense. On the other hand, turning off your auto reply because several thousand users' auto replies included a link to your home based business might make sense.

Going to more fundamental principles, could you have a display centered around boolean logic with mechanical gates? I recall having seen Lego-based logic gates in the past that could probably be scaled up in size and built out of more durable materials.

Or to take things a step further:

Mr. and Mrs. Smith rushed to the grocery to buy ingredients for making a cake (eggs for $1.20, milk for $2.50, etc.) but were not able to leave the store for 4.5 hours... long lines prevented their departure.

Or unless you're using an "electronic cigarette" in an attempt to stop smoking.

Seems like the current "online interactions not rated" could at least be split into 3 different classifications:

• Online interactions may contain unrated visible content (i.e.: Second Life)
• Online interactions may contain unrated audible content (i.e.: voice chat)
• Online interactions may contain unrated textual content (i.e.: text chat)

I'm seeing a potential other side to this that doesn't seem be being explored (unless I've missed something) -- if the optimizations are specific to .exes listed in the driver's .inf file, has anyone tried adding other games to the list (or alternately, just renaming another executable to match one in the list)?

It would seem like an interesting turn if the optimizations are generic, but only enabled for games/applications that Intel has spent time testing them on.

For the launch of a game, why do there need to be starting areas at all? Why not just let the entire world be the "starting" area?

Rather than sticking with fixed stats for enemies, most areas could start out at a base level and have the stats for enemies ramp up based on players' average levels for the server.

To make it work long-term, different areas could scale faster (or slower) than others so that there would still be challenges for newer players.

Don't worry, it's just a ploy to distract the masses from realizing just how pitifully small 5GB/month mobile caps on bandwidth are.

If operating under that assumption, you could learn just as much from those systems since you could extrapolate that the things found on those people's machines were things that probably weren't malware. So you'd essentially have 2 classes of users: - Those who opt in (easier to gather data on what's likely to not be malware) - Those who don't opt in (software not used by the opt-in users may be more likely to be malware)

Why? If the video and audio are compressed already, are you really gaining much by trying to compress them again? As for subtitles, aren't you better off with a container that supports them (i.e.: mkv)?

I think you're right -- most students majoring in hard sciences would be hard-pressed to get the same level of education outside of a traditional lab setting. I'm thinking more about the large portion of students taking a first year science course (be it Chemistry, Biology, or Physics) simply because they have a degree requirement of "1 year of science". If we think about the reasons why a university would require a student to take a science course without regard to which course they take, I would assert that the point lies in helping students to gain an understanding of general scientific methodology and learn to apply and connect theory to real-world practice. Given that, I'd question the entire idea of requiring those students to pick a particular branch of science to focus on. A solid "science overview" lab curriculum online might be better suited to teaching basic principles to non-science majors with relatively inexpensive materials and equipment than a traditional lab designed more for teaching chemists or physicists the building blocks for more advanced work in their field.

You mean it's impossible to ship out chemistry sets to every student in an online class, give them a video of lab instructions for a starting point and (heaven forbid) actually allow them to experiment with the equipment for more than a 1 hour period of time each week?

Signed up right away, got my Dev Phone 1 and then came the news that pretty much knocked most of the wind out of my sales when it came to development: Google announced that they were requiring developers to deal with collecting sales tax. I'd imagine that I'm not the only person wanting to write a few small apps in hopes of making a little extra income that was completely put off by the decision.