from that article;

The findings are inconclusive. The impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface was so violent that evidence of damage occurring in the seconds which followed the disintegration was masked. Our final conclusions are:

• the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined;
• the forces to which the crew were exposed during Orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or serious injury; and
• the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following Orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure

can you imagine just how much money companies like Atari, Sega and Nintendo would be if this sort of thing were getting started in video games?
If the publishers (and back then, the console manufacturer was the publisher) all got a cut of the profits each time the game was resold? They'd all be swamped with the income from eBay alone!

Of course, we must also consider the opposite side of the scale - if by law, the publishers always had to have a cut of the money when the game was resold, then I suspect there would have been a lot less places willing to specialise in games, or at least accept used ones. It would become virtually impossible to discover games from previous generations.

I'd like to see a car analogy here, but it needs to involve the car's transmission diff

...combining the worst points of Dick Cheney and Perry Mason...

To this day I am amazed at just how many games the Quake 3 engine ended up powering. When I first saw Q3, I was pretty amazed by it, but I never thought it had what it took to power "full" games. Call of Duty just blew me away, and even more so when I found out it was the Q3 engine.

I'm kind of disappointed they didn't see that level of success with the Doom 3 engine. There was plenty of potential, but nobody seems to have chased up on it.

That's what I'm curious about;

"I think that was us," said one stunned official. Analysis of seismic data proved him correct. The quake measured 3.4 - modest in some parts of the world. But triggered quakes tend to be shallower than natural ones, and residents generally describe them as a single, explosive bang or jolt - often out of proportion to the magnitude - rather than a rumble.

Yup... that's some nice reasoning behind that claim. How about we see this seismic data that's mentioned but not linked to?

I just tried to get the beta and got this message;

Not available in your country or region

You appear to be in a country or region where the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is unavailable.

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People's Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

oh yes, I can just imagine how a Commodore BASIC v2 attack on the iPhone would work...

10 IF iphoneosver=2.x OR 1.x THEN H4X0R ELSE GOTO 20
20 PRINT "pls wait a couple of weeks kthxbai"
30 END

(Apologies for not getting BASIC right - I'm a muso, not a programmer)