I don't believe the game disks are individually tracked. I... I mean a friend of mine... used to pirate games all the time, I can't imagine this would work if I... he... needed to have a unique ID on the disk to play the game. The idea of one redemption sounds ok to me (friends do stupid things, people make mistakes on both ends). He should have his achievements from that one game wiped. A second infraction should cause a total ban of the user. Two bans on the same console should ban the machine.

Funny, I came up with a similar plot line after the actual movies disappointed me. I figured that Smith was the first real attempt by the Oracle to make an AI with the powers of "The One". He is much more emotional than the other agents in the Matrix and calls the Oracle mother, but is obviously a failure. Anyhow, after failing in the pure AI rout, they make Neo. He is of course a success, but they need to bring him in before they can take advantage of his powers.

Oh well, that was all before he got sith lightning. Then it is just nonsense.

So true, it's almost criminal the way they have blown this one. I bought Fallout New Vegas, and instantly installed a mod so more options could be on the screen at once. The default scheme was obviously made for 640x480. After a while it was clear the menus were meant to be navigated with a controller. Simple things like navigating the inventory wouldn't work correctly with arrow keys.

What saved me was that my Xbox broke and so I had 2 controllers I wanted to make use of for games like Assassin's creed and Batman which are just better with a controller. I got the usb adapter and picked up Fallout again. Like night and day. The only thing is that there is no button for quicksave, and while the Xbox controller is on, the keyboard has no effect on the game. I swear on Lucifer I will pirate the fuck out of Oblivion for charging me full price on this.

I've been dieing to use this little bit a knowledge, so I hope you'll humor me:

Iran is in between Afghanistan and Iraq.

Iran is right to fear the US. The US army has Iran in position for a pincer attack. Add to that the history between the countries, the second highest opium addition rate in the world (caused by it's border with Afghanistan which the US is supposed to be managing), and that the last war we started was founded on total bullshit, Iran would be a fool not to be prepared.

It takes 3 or 4 engineers to clone what Facebook has. It takes 1000 to develop all the functionality it and leave enough flexibility for future changes. To quote the best line from the social network: "we don't know what it is yet."

They should update the product every year. You don't have to buy it and you can wait until the feature Delta is large enough for you. For example, my phone is now getting too slow for me, but the new batch of phones aren't quite fast enough. I will wait, but every iteration before I buy makes my next phone better, and cheaper.

Anyone have an explanation why they don't just convert the voice to data on the fly? The iPhone phone app could work more like Skype than traditional phone calls, and work around this limitation.

I want to be in an uproar about this, but I think I've spent 10 minutes on the phone the last 60 days, whereas I use the 3g all the time. For 99.9% of my use, I would get better performance with no loss.

Both Steam and Apple offer great experiences at the exchange of freedom. As right as you are that DRM is bad, the fact I can go to any computer windows or OSX PC and pick up right where I left of on Plants Vs Zombies is worth it. It's my money and the trade off is worth it.

It's not necessary, but when you p0wn one of the largest computer/entertainment companies in the world, you can talk about it however you want. They earned it and if you had the skills I'm sure you'd have declared that Sony's encryption was verily compromised. For sooth.

Alternatives could be more expensive. Organic solutions usually still involve using other, more expensive, less effective products. They may still be worthwhile, but those effects are not covered in the grandparent post.

There's more to pesticides than crop yields, specifically cost. Pesticides make food cheaper, which in many parts of the world is the actual limiting factor in getting food.

Where are the comments on how DDOS could defended against? I come to Slashdot for technical insight, I already have Reddit if I want the armchair commentary on the political/social situation.

That is not the usagecase for Chrome OS. Although Chrome OS will allow you to work off-line, it expects you to do that only as a last resort. If you don't plan to spend the vast majority of your time on-line, then don't use Chrome OS.

If you are buying internet just for your Chrome OS computer, it will be more expensive than local storage, but more likely you already have the connection, so it is not an additional cost of the OS.

I think they could save a lot on hardware, for example local storage needs would be next to nil, so a 8gb flash drive could replace the hard drive. The system overhead should be much lower, so you could use a cheaper processor. All that would take some load off the battery, so you could trim that as well. In the end you could have a system which is just as fast as windows, but significantly cheaper.

But all that is speculation, there is a lot that remains to be seen, Chrome OS may have severe issues, especially at the beginning.