DRM didn't drive me to pirate games, it drove me to give up gaming entirely.
Even on a console, the hassles were just too much.
Game publishers think they're in the game business. They're in the fun business. If they figure out how to sell hassle-free fun on any of my several mainstream computing platforms, I will give them money. But the longer they fail, the less likely they are to ever interest me again.
For professionals traveling with very expensive equipment, handguns in the Pelican cases are insurance. Heck, just the cases cost more than the pistols used to gain lock-ability.
Wouldn't call it a "loophole," though. I don't think there's been any intent to block otherwise legal firearms from *checked* baggage.
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1666.shtm
Not buying into the nerdfroth on this one.
I have a drawer full of tools that weren't supposed to be sold. If I want to open an iphone, I'll either have the tool within a day or figure out an alternative.
The embedded references could just as easily have been planted by someone unaffiliated with Israel, who also knew that Israel would be the prime suspect, and wanted to lead some trail to them.
This leads me *away* from thinking it was Israel, because presuming the "clues" are deliberate, any number of parties besides the Israeli government have motivation for planting evidence pointing to Israel.
Granted, that line of reasoning can get circular real quick, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Israeli government was indeed the source. Still, without further info, this circumstantial evidence provides more questions than answers. And I'm not buying that it was necessarily a state action.
Whoever created this attack had the ability to effectively frame someone. They could've made it look like anyone – Israel, the US, Poland, Cuba, CBS News.
That doesn't mean they did frame someone, but it does mean we're naive if we don't consider it. The only thing this "proves," if anything, is that someone wanted Israel or its sympathizers to receive credit/blame. Maybe they wanted exactly what we have now – a strong suspicion without hard proof.
The warp core has been Slashdotted. Quick, someone repolarize the ion flux crystals!
Blindness and apathy were very popular traits of the day.
Were?
From Sharp minds come... pointed heads. -- Bryan Sparrowhawk