If you want to use trainers put the game in offline mode (Play as Guest from the login screen). If you want to cheat by unlocking achievements on your Battle.net account in singleplayer-but-still-online mode you can rot in hell.

Blizzard don't ban people for cheating in singleplayer (they also have their own cheats built in ). They ban people for cheating to unlock achievements on their multiplayer Battle.net account while playing singleplayer. Even with a banned Battle.net account you can still play singleplayer in offline mode ("Play as Guest" from the login screen).

You can resell the game. The person who you sell it to can play singleplayer in offline mode. They don't get a multiplayer account with it because Blizzard gives that to their customers, not your customer and not Gamestop's customers.

They aren't robbing him of anything. He payed for the game and Blizzard gave him a free multiplayer account along with it. If you cheat using that multiplayer account (eg. by using a trainer to unlock achievements) they ban your multiplayer account. You can still play singleplayer in offline with a banned multiplayer account.

Computers can be repaired, what has been seen cannot be unseen.

You can play SC2 in offline mode you ignorant moron. Click "Play as Guest" instead of logging into Battle.net.

It was nonsense published by a website that sold hacks and cheats, and reported on other gaming news sites. When you play in singleplayer you are logged into Battlenet for achievements, therefore by using third-party cheats in singleplayer you are unlocking achievements on your multiplayer account. Starcraft 2 HAS AN OFFLINE MODE, you click "Play as Guest" from the login screen, instead of logging into Battlenet. Blizzard are simply banning Battlenet accounts, which are they perfectly entitled to do, NOT stopping people from playing singleplayer. Starcraft 2 also has cheat codes, which disable achievements, such as godmode, unlimited minerals, instant build etc.

You do not need an internet connection to play SC2 in singleplayer you ignorant, gullible moron. You click "Play as Guest" from the Battle.net login screen and you are in offline mode. They are banning Battle.net accounts for cheating in online, SP mode. Having a banned Battle.net account still means you can play in offline mode. Get a clue before you spout crap like this.

Mod parent sad but true ...

You mean the update notifier popping over what you're doing rather with an icon notification? Or with (as of Karmic) IPV6 settings that break a lot of commonly used routers? Or (starting with 10.04) using a program that destroys image exif data as their default image-viewer? Ubuntu has done a lot for Linux and lately seems to be doing a lot against it too :-(

Distros that don't include Gnome by default and use the defaults when it is installed or built. I assume Gentoo, Arch, *BSD et al. Might be wrong though.

The GPL is great for standalone applications but if you want to allow developers to make addons you really have to rethink it. Yes, it ensures that any addon made for the application will be free software however you have to consider the tradeoff; GPL it: everything is GLP'd, some companies/people won't develop or release addons; Other license: non-freesoftware addons may be developed, companies/people will have no reason now to release their software but it may not be open.

So it depends on what you value more; having the software but maybe not the freedom, or not having the software.

Obviously Stallman would rather the software was never created if it wasn't open, so the GPL wins for him there.

Personally I prefer the Artistic License 2.0; all the freedom and protection of the GPL without the virality.

Before you decided to be a smug prick on the internet did you consider the fact that Blackberry's Internet services were down for 8 hours but are now fixed? That perhaps when the story was submitted, the service was down but due to the delay in the story reaching the front-page the service is now restored? Did you think about that?

Of course you didn't.

Apparently the Armageddon is still a few days off.