no the only way to be safe is to nuke the site from orbit ;p

This is silly, a console costs what 200, 300 dollars now? The only upgrade a gaming PC usually needs these days is a graphics card, which wow cost what 200 to 300 for a decent card? Yes DRM can be a be a pain I'll grant that.

While I agree that the FCC/EU would do frak all to apple over a denial of another browser. I fairly sure the app store is a market, and that apple is an abusive monopoly there.

My _portable_ tablet pc would in fact be radically different from yours. Since the only use I have for such a device would be art; as such it would need pressure sensitivity, a pen; have reasonably powerful hardware underneath the hood.

What you want seems closer to an iPod than anything...

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

Ars Technica has a very nice response to this: http://arst.ch/722

What are all these people claiming "Early detection of cancer will help" basing this statement on?

If everyone who had cancer detected early NEVER DIED, this might make some sort of sense. Since they WILL DIE, we have to change the way to tell if we've helped from "Didn't die" to "Didn't die in the next X years." Of course early detection helps THAT situation.

Let's take the case of someone getting cancer at age 50 and dying of it at age 65. Without detection, they'd wouldn't know til near the end, say age 63. They'd only live 2 more years. If they got early detection at say age 53, they'd live 12 more years, EVEN IF NOTHING WERE DONE! Looking at our "Didn't die in the next X years" definition of 'good' it seems we've helped this person immensely. EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T DO A GODDAMNED THING.

C'mon, convince me that early detection helps. And your anecdote ain't gonna cut it.

Actually, it's more than 500ms latency... more like 750ms+ by the time you're done with additional layers of routing/optimization software, on top of that trip from earth to space and back.

And when the locals of all sorts (Verizon, Comcast, etc) refuse you any sort of land-based connection, this is one of the few options (the other being cellular modem, which has its own set of problems and availability issues).

Can you show where you found that information? That's not what I've read concerning it. What I've read is, she was supervised online, except for the day the messages started coming, and that in fact, the parents had been monitoring her use (even reading the "boy's" profile and messages) up to that point.

Reference Article

I've read lots of blog comments claiming she was unsupervised/running wild, etc., but I haven't read anything from a reputable source to that affect.

LOL... maybe Firefox should include a "Does that sound dirty"-checker in addition to the spellchecker...

Games don't scale to 6 cores. At all. In fact, most desktop applications have a hard time scaling to 6 cores, even ones that can do 4 or 8 cores.

Wow! 15 films in 20 years. And some of them aren't just cult classics! Perhaps it's time for me to reassess the creative potential of the corporation.

Your argument might be more convincing to me if I weren't familiar with EA's products and their quality, or rather, the lack therof.

What EA actually does is more like having a woman make a baby in a month, removes the baby after that month, and the 8 other women put makeup on it to try to detract from the fact that it is a disgusting abomination. The marketing is to convince people it's a baby instead of an embryo. Then they do the same thing next month.

Will Old Glory Insurance provide a policy for this new menace?

In the meantime, I am putting my medicine under lock and key!

Excuse my ignorance here but: if a bit is 2^1 and a byte is 2^3 then doesn't the whole kilobit kilobytes thing get even more borked up?

Since a kilobit = 2^10 bits while a kilobyte is 2^10 in base 2^3?