Actually Sony is one of the few companies which have changed their ways. Most of their tech is fairly open and compatible, they've got better since the rootkit fiasco.

Indeed, slashdot seems to be incapable of telling the difference between the UK and England. It leads to confusion until I read the article.

I'm fed up of this "Hitler was a veggie" myth. It isn't true. His doctors attempted to make him switch to an all veg diet to cure his flatulence, but he never did.

Microsoft and Sony's new technologies are just appearing, halfway through the product life cycle. This means they'll be, what, 3 good games using this hardware. Just look at headsets. Sony didn't include one and so many games don't support such a fundamentally important piece of online play. This'll wind up in the dumpster next to the Playstation Eye and other such technologies.

Hopefully we won't have another 8 months wait for this one across the pond after its US release. SE is extraordinarily bad about this.

You may claim flamebait, but it's quite correct. The title is wrong, it isn't for all UK children, just those in England.

Good job, you appear to have identified the pun in the article.

whoosh!