What they're pointing out, and what I have noticed personally, is that once you discontinue use after a long period of time, you experience physical and mental symptoms of discomfort/boredom/trouble concentrating/anxiety, etc. So while you're using the Internet and technology, you undergo a physiological change similar to what an addict might experience while using, ie extreme pleasure/release of dompamine/wathever... and your body has a similar withdrawal reaction when it goes without.

Antipsychotics and other neurological (stimulants, antidepressants) drugs can cause tourettes like disorders, ie tardive tourettes. I imagine a persons physiological/psychological response could be severe enough to cause a similar problem.

Funny thing, IM on cellphones uses your text messages rather than data...

I think you're all wrong about what he means by being a victim/perpetrator; he might be talking about statutory laws that make it illegal for children to consent to engage in sexual activity. Somehow he seems to be a believe that sex-ed will promote underage sex with peers, and in by doing so be a victim and violate someone else at the same time. Perhaps?

how about: excessive engagement in high stimulating activities such as the Internet, TV and online videogames, that ultimately depletes neurochemicals and at the same time causes a depression when experiencing less stimulating/normal activities? sometimes there really is too much of a good thing.

That's a major lack of insight into this situation. DivX also hasn't ever inherintly meant AVI. AVI it's a standard Windows container format and DivX is something completely different, the data that can be stored inside the AVI format.

Windows Media Player 12 (Win7) will play most MPEG4/AVC files, including XviD and DivX out of the box. I believe it's due out soon for previous versions of Windows.

Year 2000? Get with the times, since then nVidia has been the market leader.

This problem has existed in Windows for ages, and it's probably a problem caused by third party software and drivers.

Another thing to point out, Bing is the only other search engine on the market that can compare to Google's search results, and often times it is a good alternative if you weren't able to find what you were looking for. Being the only other option available, naturally you're going to get some extra traffic that way.

Only thing I'm using it for at the moment is Bing cash back. If you're searching for something that you can buy, many websites have teamed up with Bing to offer discounts and money back if you found the link through Bing. The deals aren't really that great though when you do the research, many of these websites are offering the same promotions via coupon codes and back entrances on their websites, and when it is a bargain, that can be accounted for by the fact that you pay the money all upfront and receive the money back later, after they've managed to earn interest and been able to do other things with your money (ala mail-in rebates). It's also a great way for these websites to promote itself with tech savvy buyers that know the ins and outs of bargain hunting on the Internet.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/paypal.x.com/*

I knew it was familar, being a PayPal member since 2000.

Hasn't PayPal always owned x.com? if I recall, you used to access the website at paypal.x.com and it wasn't until a few years ago that they started using paypal.com.

With Intel My WiFi, the computer acting as a access-point opens up the door for a lot of devices that won't connect to ad-hoc networks, such as Nintendo's Wii and DS. Configuration is also simplified because IPs and DNS don't work over ad-hoc without configuration (like manually assigning IPs), whereas the access point includes DHCP and DNS servers that set all that up for you (useful for LAN gaming, filesharing, etc).

Does this mean Intel has been "exploiting" Windows Virtual WiFi with the "My WiFi" feature on their 5000 series WiFi adapters all this time?

Old news, it's absolutely not an exploit or some hack and has already been in use by Intel for months if not the past year.