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Craigslist swaps "erotic" for "adult", society's ills magically cured
If you're shaking your moneymaker (quite literally) via Craigslist, you've only got 7 more days before your advertisements meet with closer scrutiny. In -- yet another -- agreement with a state Attorney General (this time, Connecticut) Craigslist will remove the Erotic Services category. Replacing "Erotic" will be a services section simply called "Adult".
Craigslist says they'll employ staff to manually screen postings to the Adult section, going a step further than the last erotic countermeansure they employed, attaching identity to the Erotic Services postings by charging a small fee via credit card.
Will re-branding "Erotic Services" as simply "Adult" take the e-prostitution lightning rod away from Craigslist? Our very official scientific survey -- I shook the magic eight ball on my desk -- says "Don't count on it."
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Chess has been a classic computer science problem for generations, but now Checkers has managed to become totally invincible for the mere mortal as well. 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
