I agree 100% and will add a bit more:
If I were to develop a game, it would require logging into a central server to play. Plain and simple it's (currently) the ONLY way to cut down on warez/pirates in today's age. To develop a single-player "style" game, I'd still include online components to make a game that is dynamic and changes each time you play it. Spore did this to a degree that I would take even further. Use entropy pools of data from other online players to change the way the AI reacts in certain scenarios in the game, for example. Perhaps let players play the "boss" against other "single-players" after beating the game in hard mode (against other players playing the bosses, devs initially).
There are definately ways to do it. There are definately ways to hijack other people's accounts too, which is something you'd have to have active measures against; but again, forcing players to login for content is the only current way to combat game piracy.

As a longtime NX user, this will be very well received. I feel like I'm one of a couple dozen NX users, however, meaning that I think this will go largely unnoticed by mainstream users. The non-proprietary NX-server packages are very non-trivial to install and all attempts thus far at a completed server setup have remained inadequate and completely fly-by-night/unmaintained. I hope people start to use this more and thus perhaps even push the technology farther.

Once again I think this is an area where Guild Wars does well. There is a lvl20 cap on all players. The game mechanics become very important, it's all basically rock, paper, scissors. Everything has a counter. It makes for a much "tighter" pvp game if that makes any sense. Basically all you have is what's on your bar, and it's only eight skills max, and in pvp you want one of those skills to be resurrection signet. It becomes a game of how much power you can pack into those by "chaining" them together. There's no changing armor in pvp, no potions or elixers to boost your health; those have to be fit into your skillbar as well. I think it's a fine balance that takes so much of the grind out of the game, at that point it's all up to how you like to play, and GW gives you tons of options there through different ways to pvp, pve, and in some circumstances pva(all).

I've always had issues with the armor not looking right in wine, I switched from ATI to the 9500 for that reason alone. Now the armor shows correctly, but it's still too slow to be playable. Obviously, this machine is a few years old and not comparable to more "modern" hardware, but it's what I have. Plus, I mostly just go to Random Arenas... it's always crowded there :)

Maybe we can finally game in a VM? Try it. I get about 12fps in Guild Wars on a 3.4G p4 with 2GB ram and a 512MB nvidia 9500. Yeah 15 frames per second. Guild Wars runs perfect on half this hardware on Windows. Unfortunately Wine has quite a performance hit on this machine as well, so I'm still stuck with Windows for GW.

Here I was just wondering what kind of a job I'd need to have in order to need one of these: http://dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8758 $33 for a GPS blocker/jammer seems like it'd be a lot cheaper than paying tolls.

There are 5 replies above my threshold. All of them are ripping this apart as fancy. He's a 15-year old kid who took a lot of interesting technologies and thought of a way to chain them together to achieve a net benefit. What did you guys do? You're assholes.

Rupert Murdoch has apparently been watching the Kindle closely and has been planning on coming-out with his own version to give away to subscribers of his newspapers. Perhaps Bezos really did have the timing right with the Kindle and it just MAY unseat a large portion of the print periodical industry. Should be interesting to watch, no matter how it works itself out.

No, I think he's refering to side games. Think of perhaps games of chance(card games, anything to "gamble") that allow you to make money for a MMORPG or to buy better guns or even earn points towards downloadable maps/content for FPS or RTS, delivered through flash to your phone, and hooked into your game account.

Blatantly stolen from: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/03/fast-charging-electric-cars-off-peak-grid.html#more

Now if you extrapolate that further to 10 seconds it becomes something more like 930,000 watts, just for ONE car! Imagine what kind of peak power output we'll need our THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of power plants to produce when we plug 200,000 cars into the grid at the same time!

Yo Dawg, I heard you like spoilers...

Here ya go!

Chris Cornell uses this for the end of "I Am The Highway" (i think that's the name). That's what their talking about when referring to using it in unusual, unanticipated ways.