Even if we (legally) do (I doubt it), it is a reprehensible practice. I use an avatar here, but I don't hide my identity, nor should anyone. Hiding behind an electronic curtain while firing live rounds is ridiculous. If you can't say it on a street corner or on television, don't say it. This practice is the genesis of political unrest. We need privacy in some aspects of our lives, political dissent and discourse is NOT one of them. If you can't believe in your views enough to stand by them in public, keep your trap shut.

The manned space program has gained us what, exactly? The strongest argument that the first man on the moon can make is that we might lose our precious bragging rights. I say good riddance to a bad program. Unmanned missions are far less expensive and vastly more useful in obtaining the data we might need. We only need to send men into space to repair the things we sent there, and the fact we sent them there so we wouldn't have to go there is the epitome of irony.

I have absolutely nothing positive to say about Adobe and Flash in particular, any market that excludes it has my support, and my business.

that a company whose products require massive amounts of rare earths and whose manufacturing processes produce noxious effluent would locate in China. Good riddance, but the global effects also need to be taken into consideration.

cloud computing is a very bad idea. The very same things that Ballmer spoke of as being exciting and profitable are the same ones that terrify me for lots of reasons. I'm not paranoid about privacy (that's gone) but it will get worse, and the possibilities for monopolization, piracy, and loss of data integrity increase exponentially. As a small business, it makes no sense for me to embrace the risk, and as a dinosaur in the digital world, I naturally balk at centralization disguised as convenience.

No pun intended, but any shutter-style technique will fail. Too many people suffer ill effects -- headache, nausea, dizziness, etc. The same can happen with polarization techniques but to a far lesser degree.

I'm split on the issue. I love the immersion factor in 3D shooters on PCs, I play them as much for the environment exploration as I do the game play. On the other hand, Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy has such amazing game play that I ignore the platform's graphic shortcomings.

The Internet is at the mercy of current events. When something of global interest happens, the Internet slows to a crawl internationally. The death of Princess Diana or Jerry Garcia, the tsunamis in Indonesia and other events slowed responses to the point that the mainstream media commented on that topic as much as they did the underlying event.

My community operates a Computers For Classrooms program, a recycling effort driven by an all-volunteer force. They're partnered with the Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher program and others, including the IRS (for tax-exempt status). It is a very successful program, providing not only the hardware to schools but it also serves as a revenue stream for the school district by providing a recycling outlet for tech parts. http://www.computersforclassrooms.org/Whatdo.htm I work there a few hours a week, as do many of my peers. I think it is a great model for other communities.

Just in case the /. entry seemed as ambiguous to you as it did to me, the linked article states "Our investigation has shown that it does not affect customers who have installed the update."