@micahwhipple It's too much to type out on Twitter, so I've made a blog for you, Micah.

Here's what I see:

Sue Smith can't post without everyone knowing she's female. Women in the video games world frequently face harassment; this isn't news.

Timothy Chan and Jose Perez can't post without everyone knowing their ethnicity. It shouldn't come as a shock to you that people of different ethnicities face harassment as well.

Exotic McUniquename can't post without (1) his posts being tied to his name forever through google searches and (2) everyone who reads his posts and disagrees with him digging up information on him. I think you're familiar with this one?

John Smith can post anonymously and without fear of harassment. His name doesn't reveal that he's a vulnerable female. His name doesn't reveal that he's a targeted minority. His name doesn't reveal everything about him with one simple search. He is safe.

John gets to post on your new forums without fear. For Sue and Timothy and Jose and Exotic, well, they can just not post, right? Won't the forums be a much nicer place once all those "different" people are gone?

I totally agree that this would happen if such a system was to be implemented in an environment like Blizzar'd forums.

I was once in a guild where the vent was so racist that new people would instantly quit it. I've seen this happen in just about every guild I've been in. The more hardcore the guild was the more racist the teenage->20something players were. There view towards women were not that great as well.

Now that people are forced to disclose their names, I'm pretty sure guilds would start openly discriminating people based on their race, religion and nationality just based on the names alone. In North America, if you have a "strange name", it's pretty easy to pinpoint exactly what you are IRL. This I think would be the basis for a new form of pretty disgusting discrimination among gamers.

I'm not sure why he didn't run memtest right off. He says he has not run it and was meaning to do it since that happened. I think mostly he wanted to write a story, one that has nothing to do with cosmic rays (btw).

You literally have to be an Internet Olympic hero to delete or remove your Facebook account after these changes. But I found this story/guide, by Mathew Ingram very useful when I removed my facebook presence.

http://gigaom.com/2010/04/22/your-moms-guide-to-those-facebook-changes-and-how-to-block-them/

Even if you are not logged into facebook, due to instant personalization, many websites that partner with fb can track you.

According to John Gruber ( http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/19/gizmodo-rumors ) , Gizmodo bought this stolen iPhone prototype from the people who "found" it. He considers it to be stolen vs lost, so I wonder how Apple would react to this.

> Does anyone think this clown has actually "cracked" this? Sounds like his other "crack" for the PS3, which was basically not a crack at all.

I'm not sure why you are calling him a clown, he's a respectable hacker that has worked on jail-breaking the iPhone, and enabling access to the locked out 7 SPU's in PS3. If you are eluding to his age, then it's sad.

Here read more about him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz

If you thought that was crazy, see something recent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8IufkbuD0&NR

1. Do No Evil.

2. ??

3. World Domination.

We all knew given the naming of iPad, that they had no women in their marketing/strategic decision making (all that synergy stuff) dept.

As someone who has been reading e-books since 1997 (palm et el), I have to say that I absolutely loathe e-Ink displays. The reason is cause, I mostly read in dark or low light conditions, and e-Ink fails here as do normal paper. I find LCD's with low brightness less straining than a Kindle, thus am looking forward to what Apple and possible competition would have to offer.

Wrong thread... my bad.

Here is his twitter feed.

http://twitter.com/JNels

Apparently they are blocking outgoing access to a port 80 of 4chan, cause they felt there was an attack being generated from the 4chan IP range. The twitter feed is hilarious.

While I've been mildly interested in OnLive, my biggest excitement over this was a confirmation that a streamed remote desktop session with real good responsiveness (say LAN) could be had soon. I even started poking around for similar systems that actually streamed the desktop in 2mbps or similar video stream with interactivity, but alas, it seems like no one is working on this issue.

So, I'm open to suggestions, is there any current existing remote desktop server/client system that actually streams the desktop in the OnLive fashion, or is anyone working on one similar to this? (And I do not mean in the old VNC fashion). I believe such a system is very feasible. Imagine being able to stream your desktop onto thin/mobile devices just like you were on it, being able to play video (at least) would be so much better than the current remote desktop offerings.

In a nutshell, I want this applied to remotely stream desktops with full control ala VNC but similar to OnLive.

How does this stop terrorists who board plans elsewhere and come here (with the thought of blowing up the plane?). These scanners need to be where a terrorist is most likely to board a plane. Thus a push for having them in international airports all over the world would be a much better plan than having them all over the US including tiny domestic airports.