The whole fury over the Pluto-not-a-planet issue really confuses me. As you say, with new information the scientific community has been able to revise an assumption to more accurately reflect the state of our knowledge. Out of this, I'm fairly satisfied since we seem to be making one step closer to "the truth" of life/universe/everything. I suspect that many in the Slashdot crowd would feel something similar. I have trouble seeing the viewpoint of the people who want to hold onto the planet status for Pluto. After all, it's inaccurate. Why keep it for anything other than sentimental reasons? What's interesting to me here (and maybe I'm wrong in thinking this) is that this sentimental attachment to inaccuracies can be extended to other popular understanding of scientific topics - the evolution thing comes to mind. A not-insignificant number of people seem to prefer not to have their existing understanding of things revolutionized (or even slightly changed as in the Pluto example). And we wonder why there are so many pigheaded arguments about scientific issues - turns out that we're the weird ones to insist on an updated version of truth.

So, I've pretty much sworn off PC games thanks to the truly evil copy protection out there lately (Starforce). Also, I'm very skeptical of episodic content. But - it's Sam and Max. I'm tempted. Any word on what and how Telltale is doing the copy protection/activation for these? How likely is it that I'm going to be able to play my game 5 years from now, or after a reinstall?