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Won't play favorites "...in the way people are concerned about." Okay then. Care to explain how Google will play favorites?

Looks like old school stupid fun. Sign me up.

Don't be fooled - it's a man-hack prototype!

I'd be more concerned with police use of this technology.

Surely the DoA girls are older than that by now. But they don't look like they've aged a day since 1996. ;)

Was thinking the same thing. There really is such a thing as too much pr0n. ;)

I felt a great disturbance in the cellular network, as if millions of T-Mobile subscribers suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. (Insert AT&T Deathstar image here.)

My thoughts exactly. Neat tech demo, but foolishly done.

Despite being a rip-off of a Modest Mouse music video, I found it to be quite effective. Still, I think I might be zombied out.

Ah, pop psychology at its audience-pandering worst. Thanks, Dr. Carole!

I think social networking sites are a convenient way to maintain ties with people I'd otherwise A) fall out of contact with or B) don't especially want to see in person all that often. For those people who I can and/or want to see on a regular basis, the sites aren't essential.

I can pretty much guarantee that mental health issues are the root cause here. Poor kids will need therapy for life.

Guh. Why do they remain so hung up on retail sales for PC when the vast majority of PC game sales are digital? What do you mean, too? NDP is rapidly losing relevency. They'd better update their business model or prepare to close shop.

Unless they can port games straight over, I doubt most developers will bother investing in the creation of triple-A titles specifically for the PSP2. Could be a profitable platform for some devs though if they go the digital-only route. We shall see.

This reinforces the importance of being able to perform your own PC maintenance. =)

Spring Break is the stand-out for me. Do that many Facebook users perform drunken beach exploits each Spring?

As long as they're actual e-Ink-based readers and not general computing devices, I don't see how this is any more of a problem than pulp-based books.

I do not think that word means what you think it means. From dictionary.com: Socialism n. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole...

I still buy CDs when there's some special bonus included. It's disheartening though when I rip a CD and am left with digital flutter in the last few tracks. Could be the software...could be a CD manufacturing defect or anti-ripping feature. The download versions never have that trouble, which...

I taught English in Japan in the mid-90s. Each day, we would fill out a hand-written lesson plan in tiny, tiny letters on a single page, in triplicate. At the end of each work day, we would tear out the carbon copies - one to be filed in the manager's office, and one to faxed to the corporate...

Hm. Guess tinyurls aren't kosher here. Here's the article about the retraction, covered on Newsweek.

The Y2K bug was a geniune concern. Thankfully, governments and companies did what was necessary to fix or retire old code. It was a real threat, and we dealt with it. The people who panicked have only themselves to blame. The evidence for Global Warming, aka climate change, is irrefutable...

Headache factory.

By the time they made a netbook with a dual-core proc, the price on ultra-portable laptops with real dual-core CPUs had already dropped lower than that of the netbook. So I bought the laptop. The only downside is battery life, but the battery life on dual-core netbooks isn't that much better...

Estimate is that 80% of US households have at least one personal computer. There are ~140 million households, so that's at least 112,000,000 personal computers in the US. Note that this doesn't include workplace computers. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=380304

This.

Governments spying on one another is nothing new, but governments hacking or spying on accounts of private citizens flies in the face of liberty. I'm looking at you, FBI. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/07/AR2008040702364_pf.html

Average daily screen time for my daughters is 1 to 2 hours. No commercial television. No games yet, though it's something I encourage in moderation. =)

I buy maybe 5% physical media for the PC, 50% physical for console purchases. NPD is a severely lagging indicator.

Le sigh. Someone needs to clue CNET in on this phenomenon known as digital distribution. I bought one media-based release for the PC last year (Dragon Age: Origins CE), and everything else from Direct2Drive, Telltale Games or via Steam. In other words, a 25:1 ratio of digital versus retail sales.

It's news in that it's the first time that a console platform owner released first-party gear to enable this functionality. Consoles are almost always hooked up to living/family room televisions, so this helps entrench the PS3 as an entertainment (versus games-only) device. I imagine the content...

My wife refuses to create a Facebook account. She values her privacy over the networking benefits. She's not entirely comfortable with my frequent status updates, but still asks me if I've heard anything from so-and-so. I'm not on there for long periods, and haven't friended ex-girlfriends, so I...

I was a bit...conflicted when my 4-year-old came out of her room one night asking for water, while I was busy with the final push in L4D's Dark Carnival campaign's 'Stables' chapter. Do I let my character and possibly my entire (live players) crew die in order to protect my daughter's eyes from...

Beats Prozac.

*winner* This is it in a nutshell.

nVidia made a similar decision with regards to their motherboard chipsets when Vista was released. But in their case, they decided to only support the newest two generations. IIRC, nForce 4 & 5 were supported, but nForce 3 was dropped. I ended up having to leave XP on that particular machine...

When it comes to preserving your DNA in its current form, less radiation is always better than more radiation. Now I'm even more grateful that I shielded my Clearwire transceiver.

I've had to block many of these so-called 'followers'. Blarg.

Short answer: More isolated. Once we've purchased a device, we're invested in finding uses for it. Even when it arguably works against our best interests. The most obvious example that is literally staring me in the face all day is email. I use my computer or phone to send electronic messages...

Now THIS is the dictionary definition of a Nanny State.