Gamestop's view is that New = Opened

Yes, that's intentionally a "=" and not "==" -- Gamestop does indeed open most of their stock so they can put the empty cases out on the floor for display.

The idealist in me wants to believe that we could also get more laws passed holding corporations more accountable for lax security.

If you look at the solutions for "editing" sites that scale, ultimately you'll find that what you're really looking for isn't a better visual editor, but rather a content management platform.

WordPress has a pretty decent track record for longevity, but there are plenty of other options out there as well.

Put it on an ipad hoping that it would fix the crashing issues with Safari & the search in page feature... nope, still crashes!

Amazingly easy to reproduce, too... just open a page with a large amount of text (i.e. a 500KB faq from gamefaqs), enter text in the search bar, click find in page, safari crashes after a slight delay.

Minor mistake -- that should be 1:3 ratio of PG:R...

Looking at some data for box office revenues, it looks like PG movies are actually the most profitable segment of the market.

Most years in recent history show a ratio of 1 PG-rated movie being released to every R-rated movie, yet the percentages of total gross have remained close to one another in recent history:

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/?view2=mpaa&chart=byyear&yr=2010&view=releasedate&p=.htm

In other news, developers come up with a great way to drum up press for a game that otherwise no one would have paid any attention to.

Here in Michigan (and presumably elsewhere as well), there's an alternative calculation for "use tax" that you can enter in that's based on your income.

Since you're only obligated to pay the lesser of the two amounts, if you order a large amount online it's often in your best interest to just go with the calculation and forget about trying to keep track of purchases.

(In most years, I think I've wound up paying $50-60 or so with the default amount.)

So what you're saying is that under current law scanning ceases to be legal as soon as teens start posing suggestively?

When you look back to Kinect's beginnings, this news is somewhat more interesting in the light that the original "Project Natal" team that came up with it included Johnny Chung Lee (noted for Wii-mote hacks he did at Carnegie Mellon before working for Microsoft):

http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/12/0450237/Why-Natal-Is-a-Big-Deal

If I were MS, Sony, or Nintendo, I'd be paying close attention to people in the community that start doing interesting things with this and put them on my short-list for recruiting people to develop next-generation hardware.

This was also a selling point of the ADP1 (basically the developer version of the G1). Some of us did shell out early for an unsubsidized Android phone with the expectation that it would be directly supported by Google.

How are mass-texts counted? If the study is counting texts sent to multiple people as multiple texts (as most US carriers charge for them on non-unlimited plans), the numbers seem a whole lot smaller.

i.e.: Something like "Do you want to come with me to lunch?" sent to 10 friends now becomes 10 messages sent and 5 messages received.

Depending on the size of kids' social circles, 10-15 group texts could easily get them up to the 100-200 message mark.

Of course! (Assuming you could the trilogy plus the "special edition" versions of the trilogy as separate films).

The article seems a little unclear as to whether or not destruction of files really took place.

On the one hand, it says that the files in question could not be recovered from the users' systems since they were overwritten.

On the other hand, it says that they were uploaded to a central server.

So were they "destroyed" or not?

Think of it like this:

System that is never intended to be secure: plastic apple with a warning label stating "THIS IS NOT FOOD"

System that should be secure, but isn't: apple full of worms

You're not going to have a good experience biting into either apple, but there's definitely a difference in the expectations that someone would have when looking at them.