On the bright side, that's millions of available South Korean women.

I agree consoles are a great way to get a bunch of people in the same room involved, but unfortunately almost everything released lately has no offline multiplayer. At best it has some sort of 2 player mode if we're lucky. The rest of us have to sit around and wait for their turn. My friends and I still play Red Faction 2 and Bomberman just because of that. All this pay to play DLC just annoys me to no end and keeps me from considering purchasing my own console. They're effectively just fleecing the consumers. Unfortunately, I don't see this revenue stream drying up since many console players are so diehard that they won't even consider a PC beyond a game of Solitaire. (At least my friends won't.) Is there no other option for people with consoles? Isn't there somewhere else they could just download the desired content for free and still play it? I know the PS3 has a browser, so I'm sure there's got to be somewhere they could go to get the same content.

While ditching the current console systems' trends in using joysticks, using a trackball would be an utter nightmare. Think of how much dirt and crap will get in there if your friends are half as messy as mine. Cleaning out your controller just to play would be a nuisance. Opening up the controller just to clean it would inevitably lead to warranty issues. I'll deal with the current setup. It's not too bad.

While they have expressly forbidden the exchange of virtual currency/services for real cash, it does not forbid the exchange of their time (services) for a player's cash. This does not prevent them from offering powerlevelling, honor farming, or item grinding. (Change the term for whatever your MMO of choice terms these services.) These services are normally quoted as a function of time. Anyone who uses a bit of creative wording/pricing can still continue to sell virtual currency. So long as they refer to it as a service, then in theory they should be able to skirt this new ban. Quite a few sites list a time frame in which they can get gold to you. Up to 2 days for larger orders. Let's say someone wants to buy 10,000g. With a 2 day turn around time, that's about ~210g per hour. (Most players with a bit of a clue can easily bang out that much if not more per hour.) Thus, they have sold the player their playing time for a specific goal. I honestly don't think this solves anything. It'll either create an underground market, or sites will start to use more creative wording.

For some reason, I keep seeing Fry step on that footstep and leaving the Nike symbol behind. (Futurama ref.)

The summary has left out a key point in that the device can be turned off by the driver. So we're back to square one. Another thing is that they've selected a horrible sample of individuals to test the device on. "TfLâ(TM)s trial will include a London bus, a licensed taxi and 20 cars driven by road engineers, traffic managers and highway inspectors." All of whom have a vested interest in sticking to the speed limit beyond avoiding being involved in accidents. They should have selected habitual speeders, people who are close to having 12pts in three years as well. Can't really say if a device is working as intended when you don't let the intended user test it.

In the past my former employers have only given my reference directly to my prospective employer, or at least given me a sealed envelope to deliver.

Perhaps it's natural curiousity, but I'd like to know what they have said about me. As is, I can't agree with or dispute any negative comments.

Do we have a right to see what was said about us?

Lucy Liu Bots anyone?

I'm sure they knew. It's just that with all of these superhero movies doing so well lately, why spend millions to make one when you can let someone else mistakenly think they have the distribution rights and invest their own money into it?

They won't move to stop the movie. They'll hold it up long enough for WB to cave and give them what they think is a reasonable cut.

Essentially free money.