it took a few seconds to hit me.
fabulous.

I am Italian, you insensitive clod!

I hate you.
you described exactly how I feel about Blizzard games.
they just suck, but it's deliciously sweet sucking, and I need it.
I think heroin addiction must feel something like this.

are you telling me you believe singleplayer games are multiplayer games without the other players?
you should play more, I mean different games.

No.
A growing number of independent commercial games are released multiplatform (win,mac,lin) and with no DRM whatsoever.
Frictional Games, Basilisk Games, 2D Boy just to name a few publishers.
I am beginning to make it my policy to avoid DRM entirely.

wasn't the internet conceived to allow the american military to keep communication lines open even in the face of a catastrophic event?
now they want to kill it on purpose?

TFA is misleading as well, but the italian article it refers to actually says that those under investigation are members of the Major Risks Committee itself.
What transpired is that the Committee was pressured by the government to give false reassurance *in spite of* indication of serious danger.
The documentary Draquila gives a good account of these events.

still the grandparent has a valid point.
patenting medical research is a potential impediment to saving lives.

organisms adapt to local diet.
film at 11.

he already took many lessons from him.
I only wish he also learned to duck, 'cause now he's more popular then ever.

I watched an analysis of the last few moments leading to the aggression.
It's surprising how the whole security team spectacularly failed at protecting him.
The aggressor had several seconds to actually take aim from a few feet away.
This is a little beyond incompetent. I'm not sure how far beyond...

The only certainty is that this event did wonders for his falling popularity.
Here in Italy everybody is cheering for him at the moment.

I can tell that you, sir, are not currently living in Italy.
To us Murdock is now a beacon of freedom and independent journalism!
Really!!

I use the same mechanism.
Unfortunately it is somewhat defeated when some crazy rules are forced on your password (i.e. specific length, numbers only).
I found more than one place that did this.

very well put.
the only difference I see from your approach is that I am moving away from physical copies, which are mostly pointless (not many cloth maps of Britannia these days).
unless it's some collector's edition worth its name, there is nothing in a dvd case I cannot download straight from the developer and own forever without any drm or other strings attached.
there are more and more independent developers doing just that.

of course, I lose the resale value, but that's inconsequential to me.
as long as I can try a game out, which I expect to, I always know that whatever I'm buying is worth staying with me.
I just replayed my copy of UFO Enemy Unknown (X-COM) from 15 years ago, and expect to be able to do the same in 15 more years.