Great idea, and I can't wait for it to surface. But, don't get your hopes up. Brian Krebs reported on this back in February (http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/02/blade-hacking-away-at-drive-by-downloads/) and it's been vaporware the entire time. Demo videos look great, but there has been absolutely no public movement on the project since this spring.

When it gets released, THEN post something to /.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Physical media will always be far superior to digital.

1) Can buy the game used. Instead of paying $60 for a game, you can wait a few weeks and get it for $35-40. Within a few months, it's available for $20-30 while Steam still sells it for $60.

2) It can be resold. After you spend 10 hours finishing that game, you can turn it around and resell it for 80% of its buying price. You can then apply that money towards #1 and buy another game for cheap.

3) You're not stuck with it. How many games, honestly, do you still play after a year? Maybe one or two. Why be permanently stuck with a game that you'll never play again? And why be stuck with a game that sucks? How about those poor saps that paid $60 for Terminator Salvation, discovered the game could be beaten in 5 hours, and had absolutely no replay value?

4) You can trade games. The ultimate barter. Tired of a game and need a break? Trade with a friend for a month. Want to see if a game is really fun? Borrow it from a friend. Downloadable demos do not compare.

5) A visual reminder. Having a physical boxed item is a visual reminder that you have a game that you can play. I compare this to the Humble Games bundle I bought a few weeks back. I honestly keep forgetting that I have these games to play, since they're just icons on my desktop along with dozens of others. It's different than being bored and walking to a bookcase to view through a physical collection.

I've never seen a single episode of Lost, ever. But, I want to. I generally wait for shows to release on DVD and watch them over a few weekends.

With Lost closing up, is that still recommended? Everything I hear is about the bad story arcs and plot lines that go nowhere. If it worth watching from beginning to end? Are there rehash episodes that would make more sense to watch?

I stand corrected :)

Purely a setup. Notice how the presence of a black bar insinuates that it's covering something offensive? If you look at the picture, there's all fully clothed, the straps to their tops are visible, including the top themselves under and above the bar.

He's wrong for viewing pictures of girls in bikinis while on government time... but there is no porn here.

"Graphics" != "latest hardware". Graphics are important, but to a limited extent. The graphics created on five-year old tech pleases the vast majority of the market. The common gamer does not see a need to move to DX11 when games produced on DX9 are "good enough". I never said that graphics were unimportant, just suggested that continually pushing the graphical envelope is a fruitless journey.

That all sounds completely backwards. Console game developers don't have ballooning budgets and team requirements because they're on a console. Those are attributed to the blockbuster games, on PC and console alike. Additionally, developers shouldn't be learning whole new systems on a continual basis. This is what makes bad games and delays advancement. Once a developer has the code for a system perfected, they can turn their attention to focusing on the gameplay itself. Console games allow developers to opportunity to devote more of their development time towards game play and less on building/reworking game engines and device support.

PC gaming is its own worst enemy with non-standard device drivers and APIs and designing games for wide varieties of end performance. The development community knows this and found the answer in designing games for the console so that they can advance their art.

Why are modern games being judged based on their technological prowess? How is this holding back PC games? Games produced for five year old tech still run on modern machines. So what if games are targeted towards years-old technology? Are they fun? Are people buying them? There's more to a game that shading effects and the hundreds of hours that dedicated teams put into making realistic water ripples.

Games are sold based upon gameplay and fun. In this current market, those are more easily found in the console market. I don't see that changing. //PC Gamer since 1986 ///Now happily a 100% console gamer ////Though I love to play Cave Story

WTF is wrong with you submitter? This is negligent homicide by the family. They left a loaded, cocked, pistol on a table where a three year old can get it. A three year old does not have a concept of life and death, and does not commit suicide. By throwing around the S-word you're taking the blame off the people it truly belongs to: the parents. People who cannot treat firearms with the respect they deserve should not have them.

Already the news is making an issue out of the fact that it's a Wii-related death. It's not. It's a loaded gun left out in the open. It doesn't matter if the Wii gun "looked" real, it wasn't. You can have a real, pink, Hello Kitty revolver there. It doesn't matter. A loaded and cocked gun was left where a curious child can get it.

You miss the concept of core work hours. :) Work schedules are likely 6-3, 7-4, 8-5, 9-6. Look at the overlap and the core hours where nearly everyone is at work is 9-3.

Yes, physical security, you're away from your home. So are a vast majority of people from between the hours of 9AM to 3PM every day. There's been a lot of backlash over this site, including Twitter suspending their account, which is just silly. It's the same level of surveillance that someone can do by just parking in front of your home. It's just that now they can see you over FourSquare (speaking of silly...). It's the same as posting on Twitter that you're stuck in traffic, or sending an email from a work-only address. Just another in a very, very long list of ways to see where you're currently at.

Criminals will still just sit out in front of your house and wait for the cars the leave.

SageTV on XP is what I use and love. I've been using it for about two years now and it has a pretty high WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). My 5-yr old also uses it with ease to watch all his shows.

I spent an entire three months fighting with MythTV to get it to operate cleanly, and it was extremely stressful. A friend turned me onto SageTV. After one evening it was setup and I never had to touch it ever again. It just works.

This entire discussion, and no mention of Syngress? Syngress is an awesome little shop that has published hundreds of technology books. A lot of their books are security related, but also cover certifications and even fiction-tech.