In Soviet Russia, you watch TV!

These hackers disappear for a few months and then come out with the information they have stolen?

That would teach quite a lot of people that not all problems can just be forgotten after a short while. (Or what it means to have everybody access your mobile number and e-mail address like on social networking sites where complete strangers could find enough information to host a surprise birthday parties at somebody's house.)

Court decision passed in 5... 4... 3...

That's for Australians.

What happened to the world? Didn't every country in the "Western World" praise democracy and freedom of speech as the ultimate goal of the government until now? And now these idiots collectively decided that these can't give them enough power and changed their minds. China has long been famous for being a police state, but now the US of A have started moving - no, racing - in that direction. PATRIOT Act? TSA? WikiLeaks?

I wonder that the majority of the world has let them act like this until now. I honestly expected people would see their mistakes when WikiLeaks started publishing all those documents, but the ones in power have proven to be capable of preventing that. I don't know how this will go on, but I'm pretty sure some people will be really screwed in the end. I hope it's not us.

I'm pretty sure in the next few years or decades, things are going to change very quickly. History is repeating itself for the nth time. How long will that continue?

I believe the Ukrainian government might want to say something about the risks of that.

Is there any reason for you to assume that Africans are unintelligent? Or is it maybe that greedy, morally corrupt Europeans and Americans totally ruined their continent a couple of centuries ago?

I don't see how RSS feeds or HTTP are in any way related to security. Unless you mean "SSL and HTTP" together, which would be called HTTPS. MD5 has been proven to be insecure and can even knock out SSL. "Secure" is a word that's overused, and just because it appears in that context doesn't mean that it's justified.

I'm not an expert, but you don't sound like you know much about this topic. Your sources are exactly what you said - glorious marketing literature intending to advertise cloud computing as the best thing since sliced bread.

Certainly, if Wikileaks manage to cause real changes in the USA's government and weaken the corporations behind it, this government may try to actually look at something else than cheap labour or resources when they're visiting China. I bloody hope this happens, though I have my doubts. I certainly would go on the streets if I lived in the USA. But if the vast majority are too lazy or too scared to do anything, then we are out of luck. For a few decades, at least. What we, the western world, think, is important for China and allies, if they like it or not. We have seen what economical communism has done with China back in the 50s, when they didn't give a shit about most countries.

They said the same in China. They didn't follow this motto. Don't listen to what they say, look at what they do before judging them. Venezuela has been quite undemocratic for a long while, in spite of what Chavez et al claimed.

Well, I can't agree with that. But that's dependent on your personal viewpoint.

To some people, they got old. I haven't yet played all mario games (platformers), but the ones I've played have a good replay value. Zelda games aren't as good in that point, but great nevertheless. And there are still people who are new to these franchises who enjoy the games as much as us.

That's right, sales don't make a company good, the foremost example being EA in this article. Still, Nintendo hasn't made its money by producing masses of cheap games sold for three times their worth. They have produced solid games that are worth their money.

You know what? If Nintendo got up and produced a level editor for one Mario game, that's done for me.

Beware, though, FaceLeaks leaks more than it wants to admit.

The point is, a good single-player game can be played over and over - sure, at some point it gets boring, but if the game is decent, you'll have spent weeks in front of your computer trying to figure out different paths etc and it will be more than worth your money. Baldur's Gate (I & II) are examples, as they provide a very detailed world you can explore with many characters. But that's not the real thing - there are countless of RPG-style games with different characters and worlds, but they are far from being as enjoyable as BG after you ve finished them for the first time. The point with these games is just that they are realistic. Realistic in the gaming sense, but that's what makes them fun. In BG, Myst, LBA and so on you can really interact with the game. The latter to had pretty linear storylines and can be completed in far far less than 70 hours, but people love them and still play them. I don't know why that is, I just know that most $60 AAA games will be forgotten in a few months.