I vaguely remember the 360 contest being like "Hey, that 4:18am giveaway has a few less entries than all the others. PUT ALL MY POINTS INTO THAT ONE!!!!1!"

Pop?

What about Soda? Tonic? Cola? Coke? Drinky?

Pop

Drinky?

Drinkie?

Microsoft pledges to move forward with NSA surveillance lawsuit
By Jessica Guynn
August 30, 2013, 12:48 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft, Google and other major U.S. technology companies fighting to reveal more detail about the surveillance demands by U.S. intelligence say negotiations with the government have not reached an agreement “acceptable to all.”
In a blog post Friday, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith said the talks recently broke down and Microsoft planned to move forward with the lawsuit filed this summer.

Technology companies are on the defensive after damaging revelations that they turn over users' data to the National Security Agency's secret Internet surveillance program. They deny they gave the U.S. government special access to their servers or complied with broad requests for users' information and communications.

The companies have exerted public pressure on the Obama administration to shed more light on the number and scope of national security requests these companies get under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. Federal authorities limit how much companies can say about these requests.

Microsoft and Google each sued the government this summer, contending the 1st Amendment gives them the right to disclose more information.

“With the failure of our recent negotiations, we will move forward with litigation in the hope that the courts will uphold our right to speak more freely,” Smith said.

Facebook’s general counsel Colin Stretch said his company has also been urging the government to be “more transparent and open with the public.”

“We are deeply disappointed that despite months of negotiations and the efforts of many companies, the government has not yet permitted our industry to release more detailed and granular information about those requests,” Stretch said in a statement.

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said the government would begin releasing its own reports on NSA surveillance activity.

But the Center for Democracy & Technology said the reports would fall short of the level of detail needed to provide "meaningful transparency."

"The new data that the government plans to publish is not nearly enough to justify the government's continued attempts to gag companies like Google and Microsoft and prevent them from engaging in meaningful transparency reporting of their own," said Kevin Bankston, the CDT's director of free expression. "This level of transparency is too little, too late, and is no replacement for hearing directly from Internet companies about how they and their users have been impacted by the NSA's programs."

In an emailed statement, Google said: “While the government’s decision to publish aggregate information about certain national security requests is a step in the right direction, we believe there is still too much secrecy around these requests and that more openness is needed. That's why we, along with many others, have called on the U.S. government to allow us to publish specific numbers about both FISA and NSL requests."

Here are the official rules for the pop/drinky thingy. Note the bolded line at the bottom of page 7:

http://www.every2minutes.com/pdf/OfficialRules.pdf

I poured so much Dew down the drain while harvesting bottlecaps during that contest back in 06. Didn't win jack. Now my hospital exclusively stocks Coca Cola products, so I'd have to buy that swill myself. Ugh, not worth it.

edit : Doritos too? We get those for free. Will a code be included in the individual sized packages?

It's interesting that the auctions for the contest start on November 5th...

It'll probably just be the normal sized bags of Doritos. When they did it for Halo 4 the code was printed on the bag you could just sit and photo codes all day long off every bag at the store and put them back on the shelf. Pretty shitty way to handle it. I saw someone doing this. Had about 12 bags in his cart, sitting in the back of the store taking a photo of every bag.

I don't know how rampant that was but I wouldn't go in assuming your code will work if they do it that way again.

That being said I poured around 300 codes into winning a 360 controller(one of the smaller prizes) and didn't win dick.

Man, handjobs and winning dick... This Xbox thread is so much hotter than the other console threads.

Not crying about the price, crying about how TP has let me down recently. Ms Splosion was meh-of-the-same, and Comic Jumper was poop.

My post wasn't a dig at you, just that I really wish they would stop increasing the prices... but I guess we are getting much better/bigger games than when they were $5 and $10

Bigger in filesize, maybe. Better? Nah.

I'd argue that this thread is more critical and cynical in nature unlike the Sony thread which, at least in my view, is now a lot of posts stating: "This user is on your Ignore List."

I was talking about the games (see 2 posts above mine), not the thread.

Oh what, you're not entertained by Zoo Tycoon?

Zoo Tycoon is a retail release, the conversation I was referencing was about rising prices on digital/arcade games, and I'm not even sure what we're talking about anymore.

I guess EPIC is revealing something at PAX in about an hour. New Gears maybe, but probably some new IP.

Edit: They apparently are not streaming anything now and instead we get to watch some shitty ps3? ps4? puzzle indie game.

Really in depth article about Kinect, the UI, and more with a lot of good info:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...ans-for-gamers

Are they meaning November of 2014?

No, they'll find a way to hit this November, but I still think it will be late November.

Xbox One release date narrowed to 'late November'

Doritos competition outs launch window.

http://www.videogamer.com/news/xbox_..._november.html