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This seems like a plum violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Employers and potential employers must offer alternative means to submit a job application. Differerntly-abled individuals with visual and motor impairments could make an excellent case. ADA guidelines and California rules and interpretations of the law are already having significant impact on my employer. Web developers who don't consider accessibility might want to consider alternative employment as your employer may soon be sued.

Still one of the best rides there, in fact...

Indeed. John Allen Paulos has a very good explanation, available here of why a dragnet system, even with incredible accuracy, will still return a staggering number of false positives. Watch out for some pretty strong political opinions mixed in with sound mathematical reasoning.

The basic idea is that so few people are actually terrorists that any dragnet search will necessarily return more false positives than real leads.

And, just to make their job harder: Gonzales nuclear assasinate device

Is Ric Romero taking notes on this article?

Check out the press release. They're using Flash 8 encoding to prevent it from being downloaded. Available Windows & Mac.

Episodes will be available at two resolutions, the better being 700x394 pixels at 700 kbps. I might have to start watching one of these shows just to support the effort.

The pirate-themed casino in Las Vegas is Treasure Island. Pirates of the Caribbean is a ride at Disneyland/Disney World, which has also had a movie (or two) based off of it. The ceremony in pirate-talk would have sealed the deal for me, Vegas or not.

The pirate-themed casino in Las Vegas is Treasure Island. Pirates of the Caribbean is a ride at Disneyland/Disney World, which has also had a movie (or two) based off of it. The ceremony in pirate-talk would have sealed the deal for me, Vegas or not.

Look how fat America is. We're not a people who naturally cut back on anything.

It's not the nation's $18,000/year citizens who are buying H2's. They're driving pickups and old cars with shitty gas mileage

I can't blame a skeptical nation for being hesitant to abandon their lifestyle because a bunch of government scientists think the temperature is going to go up 2 degrees in 200 years, long after we're all dead, and that it might cause a famine.

Also on Wednesday, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Civil Society Institute released a survey that found 83 percent of Americans wanted more leadership from the federal government to reduce the pollution linked to global warming.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1729 344&page=2

...people who see global warming as an urgent problem requiring immediate government action (41 percent)...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id= 1174220&page=2

However, in an ABCNEWS.com poll conducted a week ahead of Earth Day, 61 percent said the United States should join the [Koyoto] treaty, while just 26 percent opposed it.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/poll01 0417.html

Look how fat America is. We're not a people who naturally cut back on anything.

It's not the nation's $18,000/year citizens who are buying H2's. They're driving pickups and old cars with shitty gas mileage

I can't blame a skeptical nation for being hesitant to abandon their lifestyle because a bunch of government scientists think the temperature is going to go up 2 degrees in 200 years, long after we're all dead, and that it might cause a famine.

Also on Wednesday, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Civil Society Institute released a survey that found 83 percent of Americans wanted more leadership from the federal government to reduce the pollution linked to global warming.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1729 344&page=2

...people who see global warming as an urgent problem requiring immediate government action (41 percent)...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id= 1174220&page=2

However, in an ABCNEWS.com poll conducted a week ahead of Earth Day, 61 percent said the United States should join the [Koyoto] treaty, while just 26 percent opposed it.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/poll01 0417.html

Look how fat America is. We're not a people who naturally cut back on anything.

It's not the nation's $18,000/year citizens who are buying H2's. They're driving pickups and old cars with shitty gas mileage

I can't blame a skeptical nation for being hesitant to abandon their lifestyle because a bunch of government scientists think the temperature is going to go up 2 degrees in 200 years, long after we're all dead, and that it might cause a famine.

Also on Wednesday, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Civil Society Institute released a survey that found 83 percent of Americans wanted more leadership from the federal government to reduce the pollution linked to global warming.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1729 344&page=2

...people who see global warming as an urgent problem requiring immediate government action (41 percent)...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id= 1174220&page=2

However, in an ABCNEWS.com poll conducted a week ahead of Earth Day, 61 percent said the United States should join the [Koyoto] treaty, while just 26 percent opposed it.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/poll01 0417.html

There was a "serious" one from ABC news, which is what the grand parent post was likely referring to. It is (as per American media norms) sensationalist as hell, and IIRC did make it to Slashdot as well.

Hey, muslims may be seen as intollerant, but at least they don't go around killing people who convert from Islam to another religion. Now that would be intollerant!

Well, at least when no one is looking.

Well I do believe the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=us+incarcerati on+rate&btnG=Search&meta=

How about a 17 year old getting 10 years (and put on the sex offender list for the rest of his life) for having oral sex (intercourse would have been okay) with a consenting 15 year old at a crazy party. There was a video, and apparently the jury felt it was a no brainer, but the judge was very definite about the "find guilt or innocence according to the letter of the law" line (to bad they didn't know that that is not actually a requirement if the jury finds the law to be seriously unjust -- see jury nullification).

http://www.wilsonappeal.com/
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/w ilson0111
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/LegalCenter/story? id=1693362&page=1

Or how about the California man who was growing medical marijuana for critically ill patients under a California law and the DEA busting him (claiming federal jurisdiction) and rigged the jury (very selective picking of members and forbidding mention of the fact that what he was doing was legal in California).

http://www.green-aid.com/
http://www.alternet.org/story/14973/
http://www.reason.com/sullum/020703.shtml

Or how about screwing around in pretty much every country under the sun. I have to say, having been through it, that the history learned in schools is quite selective (almost false by selective omission -- no wonder it keeps getting repeated). Checkout out (for instance) how Hawaii was illegally annexed at the request of the sugar barrens.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/history index.htm
http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=28&par=51
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=hawaii+annexed &btnG=Google+Search&meta=

So, yeah, I'd have to say there is a long history of some pretty screw culture in the US. Maybe the whole thing will tip over someday due to the growing accumulation of fat cats and lawyers at the top.

If you like sports I would highly recommend Colin Cowherd's podcast from ESPNRadio, http://insider.espn.go.com/proxy/proxy.dll/insider /radio/archive?name=herd_podcast&action=login&appR edirect=http%3A%2F%2Finsider.espn.go.com%2Fproxy%2 Fproxy.dll%2Finsider%2Fradio%2Farchive%3Fname%3Dhe rd_podcast

He is by far the best sports talk on the internet. He goes beyond sports and discusses life and societal issues as they relate to sports.

It looks like we don't need chips for that:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1738881& page=1

And INTERESTING stuff has come out. For example, ABC News found documents that seem to show that the Russian ambassador gave the US war plans to Iraq.

Individuals are looking too. Here is a link from an Iraq blogger who blogs from Baghdad. This document suggests that members of Al Qaeda met with Iraqi intelligence.

I just find it really cool that enterprising people can go in and look at ORIGINAL documents, and that we don't have to purely rely on what the government says they say. Pro-war, anti-war, historians, anyone can go in and look at what was going on inside Iraq.

Everyone seems to be complaining that the US is falling behind in science. There is an obvious link between technolical superiority and competitiveness, and maintaining and developing strong economies.

"Science is what gives a country the edge. Without scientific progress, there are no new technologies to challenge our people, so there will be no new factories to produce new gizmos, and the best and the brightest will look for work elsewhere.

And according to Baltimore, that's already happening.

"We no longer have a lock on technology," he writes. "Europe is increasingly competitive, and Asia has the potential to blow us out of the water." http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id= 276464&page=1/

So is encouraging the outsourcing of IT/Engineering jobs going to help us curb this so called "knowledge deficet"? I think not. As support for outsourcing begins to ramp up and gain popularity amoung buisness executives a trend rises towards smaller and smaller companies exporting jobs overseas. Where are the IT/Engineering jobs going to be 10 years from now? I'm not convinced that this is going to promote and encourage the youth to pursue science and engineering degrees knowing that their jobs and job oppertunities may very well be outsourced. I dont need to elaborate on the shortcomings of outsourcing to ./er's. But, I need to ask - if the Bush administration is so concerned with the short comings of our science programs why are they encouraging and pushing for the outsourcing of these jobs? Is it really that good for the economy?

Hmmph, editors removed my brief comment.

Does anyone think American Inventor fits better instead of American Idol for this story? It seems like this story is about inventing.

Tron was so cutting edge that a lot of people did not like it. I have always liked the film and I really wish Disney would reshoot the film using the CGI of today. Maybe a Tron version II.

If you're into gaming you might want to check out Tron 2.0. It can be found at pretty much any used game store for 10 or 15 bucks nowdays. It's an FPS and not really ... not normal, you get upgraded to a point release with experience, and with each release you get to upgrade yourself, upgrade weapons, all kinds of stuff, while traveling throughout the network fighting viruses and malware in PCs, PDAs, mainframes, etc etc.. That's part of the reason I enjoyed it so much was the creativity, which more than makes up for the awkwardness of the control, either way, for 15 bucks it's a good deal IMO.

It came out a couple of years ago. It's probably one of the most under-rated games of all time.

http://buenavistagames.go.com/product/tronXBOX.htm l

It was a game:
http://buenavistagames.go.com/product/tronPC.html

As games go, it was actually pretty good. Some of the original cast did voice work for it, and the graphics are really well done. But they didn't market it at all - hardly anyone knows it existed.

Nephs

He's talking about the game they did a couple years back. Should be cheap, I just saw it for $6 at the local Big Lots. Amusing, and it really does look very much like the movie - sobering to think we can do those kinds of graphics in real-time now.

Music available here.

If the publishers and content produces for MMO's are going to stick advertising in games, then I have no problem continuing to pay my monthly fee so long as the revenue from said advertising is used to improve the game im playing. Less downtime should be a top priority for both sides because downtime = less advert money. More content in general would also be nice. More places for that advertising to go i figure. You have to remember that disneyland is like the real life equivelent for an MMO, and in addition to your entrance fee, many of the E Ticket rides have corporate sponsors, which is totaly cool because it means the ride is better than it otherwise would have been. As long as the big wigs at the publishing companies arent just fattening their wallets, im cool with in-game advertising.

Wireless networking baffles some customers
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1715 912
Cost to configure a $28.00 router $180.00.
Cisco speaks consumer ease, priceless.

There is no Israel

He meant frosting with your MEAT.

Interestingly, some CS'ers claim that Einstein did some hanging around CS reading rooms later in his life. I have to think that if this is true, the inability to describe matter as anything other than energy-equivalent in increasingly shrinking component pieces played into an interest in the CS theory that matter is an illusion (hence the occasional wack job offing their kid with a bedroom seance instead of antibiotics). http://www.christianscience.org/Einstein.htm

As a side note, Jill Carroll, whose abduction in Iraq has caused a bit of a ruckus for a few weeks now, was a freelance write for the CS Monitor. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1666314&page=1

I think it was on purpose to avoid this kind of crap.

Doubtful they'd expand it.

-1 Flaimbait mod:

I was referring to the article a while back where the ABC news suggested that the wireless setup on Nintendo DS was a haven for pedophiles.

Did you miss the [/sarcasm] 'tag'?

The recently uncovered Saddam tapes (while far from a smoking gun), do lend support to the idea that a crapload of weapons and related tech were squirreled away to Syria and/or buried in the desert during the ramp-up to the war.

A spokeswoman for John Negroponte, director of national intelligence, said information contained in the transcriptions of the tapes was already known to intelligence officials.

"Intelligence community analysts from the CIA, and the DIA reviewed the translations and found that, while fascinating, from a historical perspective the tapes do not reveal anything that changes their post-war analysis of Iraq's weapons programs nor do they change the findings contained in the comprehensive Iraq Survey group report," she said in a statement.

I find the summary to be borderline trollish flaimbait. It seems to draw the conclusion that the U.S. committee that approved the ports deal supports Arabs but when it comes to Israelis, it rejects the deal. Many have already clearly pointed out in the comments that the security of our ports still must conform to U.S. standards and is open to surprise spotchecks whenever they are necessary. Our ports, our soil but the profits go to a foreign company--in this case the UAE--instead of a local American firm. Ports in Oakland, California are owned by the Danes as are many other such operations. The Arabs in the UAE have a vested interest in making sure that the port succeeds to the sake of profits. Another little cited but obvious fact is that when a foreign company puts money into a tangible asset such as a port or bonds, etc. then the United States can sieze that money if it suspects terrorism. To draw a Arab versus Israeli bias at this point is ludicrious. I'm actually surprised the summary didn't go as far as to call the U.S. committee anti-Semitic as so often happens when something doesn't go Israel's way. The problem is that an executive on Sourcefire's board happens to be the author of Snort. Snort is used to protect many computer systems within the government and military. Knowing how slow these beaurocracies move means that if the Israeli company were to find holes in snort, they could spy on U.S. systems. Would Israel spy on the United States? Yes, it has happened before. Links are available here and here (An Israeli mainstream paper!) and here and here (disappeared, linkrot? google cache of article.

When Arial Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, openly bragged on October 3rd that, "We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it", why should I not find this statement objectionable, and anti-American? I whole-heartedly support this inquiry because the Israelis cannot be trusted with our (American) interests.

there is plenty of oversight. Red Cross visits

And they have documented "inumane treatment" of prisoners.

"Proven" torture at Gitmo? You mean allegations of torture by people who've been released from Gitmo.

Umm, the government has admitted to using torture at Gitmo.

And I like how torture has been watered down to being anything that might discomfort anyone at any point in time, compared to say, the torture that Americans at Hanoi Hilton received

And I love how the Bush administration has redefined torture so narrowly as to only cover injury serious enough to cause death or organ failure. You are sticking your head in the sand if you think that none of the techniques we use on prisoners qualify as torture.

Listen to bedwetters like you whine incessantly is torture in and of itself.

Why does questioning the use of force by the state make you a pussy? I never understood that. If anything, apologetics for those in power always seemed a lot more cowardly to me.

And I guarantee listening to people whine about our government abusing its power is not nearly as bad as being waterboarded.

Here is the mailto: for Sandi Gibbons, The L.A. County D.A.'s spokesperson with the obnoxious opinion in this piece.

She can probably be deluged with your complaints, and general opinion on her political future, and that of sitting D.A., Steve Cooley. He's tried to frame himself as holder of a non-partisan office, but this makes his acknowledged party affiliation pretty obvious. He previously insulted jurors and responsible in the failure to prosecute the attackers of Donovan Jackson.

A more civil feedback form is available at http://da.co.la.ca.us/feedback.htm. I think Ms. Gibbon's own e-mail might garner more attention.

If such a buyout was possible, it would provide several benefits.

Disney owns ABC and ESPN. This is a full set of tv stations and radio stations. They are ABC, Family Channel, Disney Channel, and ESPN. Disney also owns couple movie companies (Miramax, Touchstone) too. This would provide alot of media content for iTunes.

Disney also owns large stakes in Lifetime Entertainment Services, A&E Television Networks and E! Networks.

You people assume that such a buyout would merge the two companies. That is not true. Apple could buy Disney and make it subsidary of Apple Computer, Inc. Apple does own other companies like Filemaker, Inc is one such company.

This type of buyout would not stir up an antitrust suit with any President in office. Apple Computer does not bully or strong arm other companies. They tend to care more about it's customers then Microsoft cares about it's customers.

On the other hand, a buyout such as this is highly unlikly but not out of the question.

Sources:
Disney Corporation
Filemaker, Inc.

You must have watched a different game, or you're from PA. That 'bending over backwards' cost Seattle 2 TDs and 161 yards. The game I saw Pittsburgh was outplayed in every category except officiating. Less yards, less first downs, less time of possesion, more turnovers. The great Stealer defense gave up almost 400 yards. The officiating kept the Steelers in the game, dispite them being outplayed. Lucky for them they had a 12th man wearing stripes every time they were defending in the red zone. Even that pinhead Madden pointed this out. The only thing they had going for them was officiating

Officiating in the NFL is either terrible or tainted. My personal opinion was that ths game was thrown. Maybe they wanted to give Bettis (who wasn't even a factor in the game) the ring, who knows. And the Steeler fans that are apologists now, were screaming blody murder in the Indy game (and with good reason).

Fast-Food Ice Dirtier Than Toilet Water
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=1641825

Since when are email transcribes (http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1635684) easily readable from top to bottom??

On another note, as email is easily forged, how easy would it be to victimise someone you disliked and get away with it before the victim could prove his right? With some luck a forged email would spread like most hoaxes and may be picked up by the media.

My point was very simple and easy to comprehend - except for you, apparently. It's quite possible to obtain explosives suitable for IEDs and military quality hardware in the US.

And if you don't know that, YOU'RE talking out your ass. Do a Google for armory thefts and the government reports thereon in the last twenty years.

Try this quote from the first page of a Google search:

According to the Washington Post, the 500-member Kansas Militia claims to have recruited a number of members from the Ft. Riley area. The degree of involvement by reservists or active-duty GIs in the burgeoning militia movement is unknown at present. There is evidence that militia members or sympathizers have legally and illegally obtained weapons and explosives from military facilities and learned how to use them courtesy of the taxpayers. Stolen explosives and weapons, according to testimony of a Los Angeles police detective at a 1993 hearing of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, were allowing extremist groups to become better armed than law enforcement agents. At the same hearing, a Michigan National Guardsman admitted that for five years he had been stealing small arms parts and selling them to an Illinois gun dealer whose customers included David Koresh's Branch Davidian religious sect near Waco, Texas.

In early 1987, five Ku Klux Klan members were charged by a federal grand jury in Raleigh, N.C., with conspiring to steal U.S. military weapons, explosives and rockets to equip a white supremacist paramilitary unit. In 1988, an associate of former Green Beret Lt. Col. and current Idaho-based militia leader James (Bo) Gritz, pleaded guilty to shipping 200 military plastic explosives by commercial airline for use in the Nevada desert to train Afghan rebels. In July 1994, members of the Blue Ridge Hunt Club, a militia in Virginia, were charged with plotting to plunder a National Guard armory for weapons and ammunition.

For five years, Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) has been investigating the widespread theft of military equipment and weapons from various U.S. installations. He commented that while the military has improved control over sensitive weapons and supplies, you can't guarantee that TNT or blasting caps are immune from theft. Glenn's office released a General Accounting Office report on corrective actions taken by the Army to cure inventory and physical security weaknesses. It also noted that in July 1994, the Army's Criminal Investigation Command began an on-going vulnerability assessment for small arms, ammunition, and explosives.

In addition to those obtained through theft, many weapons obtained by militias were bought openly from the military. Since 1993, 3.7 million pounds of outdated explosives have been sold by the Defense Department to citizens and companies with government licenses. A Pentagon official admitted that no checks are made to ensure that the lethal items are used for legal purposes.

Try this ABC report from last month for stolen explosives:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1439535

"Stolen were 150 pounds of C-4, 250 pounds of sheet explosives, 20,000 feet of detonator cord and 2,500 blasting caps."

Fortunately the bozos who stole them were apparently clueless as to how to use them, and presumably stole them just to have them or sell them. But they got them from a company storage depot. Any terrorist with access to Google could find such locations all over the country.

So what's YOUR point? That we're all safe as daisies because Bush is in charge?

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1635472

picture here since i'm sure you all were wondering this trust fund baby looks like

Her finances are going to be just fine. Did you see her picture? That's professionally done promotional photo, not a candid by some hack ABC photog. I'd lay money she'll get a few dozen job offers, and probably a few marriage proposals out of the deal. She could probably even start up an email-etiquette advice column in some legal rag.

This was such a non-story on a slow news day. "bla bla bla"? So what? I've seen much worse.

I'd swear Action News off, if it weren't for Cecily Tynan and Dorothy Krysiuk (spelling?). They make news in the morning worthwhile.

Here we go again, Good thing Yahoo doesn't have embassies to torch. :)

Well, that won't really help. You know, since unhappiness over cartoons from Denmark somehow translated into burning down a KFC in Pakistan. You know, that famous Danish outfit, "Kentucky Fried Chicken."

This must have something to do with Michael Jackson spending a lot of time in the Gulf... http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=entertai nment&id=3819248 Coincidence? I think not.

but to demand investigations in order to discover the identity of the leaker(s).

And what exactly is your problem with this? You can't honestly say that there should be no such thing as classified information, unless you'd like every poor SOB who's trying to keep on eye on various actually bad guys to be strung up and shot. The classification of intel methods and collected information exists specifically to allow it do what it has to do. If you tell Kim Jong Il what time of day the next high-altitude drone will be overhead which of his slave camps, or CC the lunatic president of Iran on the intel you're sharing with EU security people about his nuclear program... you're pretty much asking for the consequences, including the unpleasant deaths of the people living in those countries and working, with our spooks, to counter the influence/acts of the mullahs or the so-honorable KJI.

Assuming you don't actually refute the need for classified and covert activities on a number of fronts, then how can you complain about tracking down the people who deliberately leak such specific operational information? It sounds like you're more in the "classified is OK, but only on the stuff I think should be classified, and then definitely the administration should be investigating the people who leak it" camp. But that's not what you're saying, and should be. At which point, you should be more clearly spelling out what you think should, and should not be classified when it comes to intercepting a phone call from a known Al Queda-type contact in, say, Lahore, Pakistan to a used-only-once-ever cell phone that was in a batch of fifty or so bought with cash. You know, a cell phone that is untraceable to a person, will never be used again, and can never be part of a FISA warrant scenario by its very nature. Is reminding the guys using those phones that we know when the person in Lahore is dialing a number from that batch of disposable phones something you think should be leaked? Is that constructive, from your perspective?

My hope is this: the avalanche of Republican scandals and screw-ups will result in democratic majorities in both the House and Senate. Then we'll have a real investigation, with subpoena power too. Bush will fight the investigation and it'll probably all wind up in the Supreme Court's lap. That'll be interesting.

I'm sticking to my Nintendo DS.

Once again, your article at http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=special_ coverage&id=3905371 (about the "dangers" of the Nintendo DS) is a pack of lies. None of the claims it makes are true. There are not sexual predators out looking for children with Nintendo DSes. It's simply not possible.

For your own sake I hope you realize you should remove this article from your web site, or you may face a libel suit from Nintendo.

This article is a mockery of the journalistic process and does nothing but expose your station for the sham that it is.

Next time you want to do a program about how video games are "dangerous" for kids, don't call in a paid shill as an expert. The guy you called "internet safety expert Keith Dunn" is selling a program that lets you spy on your children. Let me explain something to you: He wants you to scare parents into buying it so he can make a buck off of their ignorance. Sentences like "Nintendo confirms what happened to Emily is possible but the company claims that person must also be using another DS system and be within 65 feet" are playing into his hands. It's possible for a child predator to go out in public and hold up a big poster with his name on it, too, but I don't see you going after people who make posterboard and saying that they "claim" they don't intend for it to happen. The Nintendo DS' chat function can only operate within a local area of 65-100 feet. This isn't a "claim," it's a scientific fact. The wireless card in the DS cannot reach any further than that. Period.

For a child to be in danger from sexual predators, their parents would have to leave them unattended and walk over 100 feet away from them for an extended period of time. It would be very simple for them to pick out possible child predators, too - just look for people holding a Nintendo DS who aren't your child. Simple as that.

Fearmongering, scare tactics, and an "expert" who is essentially using you to huck a product. Yes, it certainly sounds like you're doing a fantastic job of crapping all over journalistic integrity. Keep up the fantastic work.

ScuttleMonkey messed up my submission! I submitted as:

This three page ABC News story asks millions of people worldwide spend enormous amounts of time online, but are they addicted? Video games and the Internet have been subject to suspicion since the computer became a household fixture. One complaint: People get sucked into spending enormous amounts of time on the computer, to the detriment of other parts of their life.

But are they addicted? The answer depends on what you mean by "addicted." Most experts say computers are not addictive in the same sense that drugs are, but they could be on the same level as gambling...

Seen on Blue's News.

"I just read your article about how internet predators can use the Nintendo DS to chat with children over the internet.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=special_ coverage&id=3905371 ...That article was satire, right? Do you have any idea how the Nintendo DS works?"

Complaint sent.