aardvark

Sex and violence are not the same.

Children have real-world experience of "violence" from toddler-hood and are fully equipped to distinguish between real and fantasy violence. By contrast, before puberty most sexual content is meaningless to them: it can't evoke an emotional response that isn't there. Because of this they just can't make sensible value judgments about what they're seeing.

If we are to see sexual content in games (and in the current economic climate the industry is lobbying for it), I'd like to see a reform of the ratings system so ratings actually mean something. E.g. the current "M" rating for Halo 3 is a joke. The reason Live is full of 8 year olds playing the game isn't that their parents are all bad, it's that the parents have judged that the game is harmless. There's nothing in Halo 3 that an 8 year old can't handle (emotionally). I'd argue that voice-enabled Live itself should be rated M but that's another story.

Pedo Bear?!

My guess is Bethesda - Elder Scrolls V anyone?

If you put the 360 horizontally, it lasts longer. I've had mine for about 1.5 years and it hasn't broken down once.

The Linux clustering software

Miranda Keyes - not!