Do staff lawyers' salaries count towards that figure? It seems like they wouldn't.

This is something I never understood. How exactly does Blizzard "require" completely independent parties to do anything?

The theory IS simple. P!=NP. Easy.

Proofs, though...proofs can be complicated.

Through the power of their monopoly. Are you really not familiar with this idea? There's a reason that there are antitrust laws.

*Reads list of filtering options*

So does it just hide the whole comment section, or show it as being empty?

Well, the problem with the Microsoft analogy is that Windows is not a finite resource. I'm not saying that the oil is definitely almost gone, but it will run out at some point in the future. If the oil companies have not moved away from oil by then, they're pretty much done.

So how long after a spouse dies is the surviving spouse exempt from service fees for their own services?

I feel sorry about her loss, and I believe that this isn't about the money. Also, I know that when a death is involved, most companies are going to make exceptions to rules. But the (tragic) death is only tangentially related here.

The reason that she is canceling is NOT because her husband died. It is because she is moving. That part is a choice.

Lower res textures are probably fine, though, given the lower resolution of the actual display,

Yeah, I would agree. My initial guess was that the administrators saw a morale problem with the techs, and this was their idea to fix it. In fact, if you limit the view to to the techs' perspective, the idea makes sense, and I think that's probably the mistake that they made. Or, perhaps, being administrators and therefore perhaps being more used to dealing with stupid bureaucratic requirements, it never occurred to them that the doctors have more important things to worry about...

To somebody that truly believes something, teaching that something doesn't sound like indoctrination.

I would guess that reporting to their advertisers is just as important to them as securing the content.

Both are things that they absolutely have to do in order to exist in the form that they do.

Er, I use middle click all the time, but why does it matter if you don't use it for anything else? I mean, I never hit the F8 key apart from accessing alternate Windows startup modes, but that does not constitute some kind of usability problem.

If some kind of convenient input is going mostly unused, and you have something your application needs to do often, then that unused input is a great candidate.

Blizzard doesn't shut down fansites. Shutting down cheating software and software that can be used for piracy is really not even close to the same thing.

I'd never really considered this before, but I can't imagine going through that type of training and still actually wanting to do that kind of job. Obviously, that's just me,

In order to really work well, something like that would also have to have head tracking in order to draw in the right place, and ideally the positioning system and the map itself would be extremely accurate (more accurate than they currently are). Not at all impossible, but I'm not sure it would work well enough to be worth doing quite yet.