When I was in university, we had to submit a paper for one of our accounting classes. Naturally, many students didn't reference a few of their citations since they had met the minium required. (Myself included.) At the end of the following class, the professor informed us that he KNEW who had plagiarised portions of their papers. If we didn't turn ourselves in, we would be reported to the dean. Naturally, the entire class turned themselves in. He wasn't thrilled when the entire class lined up outside of his office to point out which minor excerpts we had taken as our own without proper referencing. Turned out only 2-3 people had plagiarised their entire papers. I wish he had done a better job wording his announcement. Would've saved everyone a lot of time.

While I'm sure several students did cheat, everyone who so much as glanced around or thinks they may be suspected of cheating will turn themselves in to avoid worse consequences.

The article states that he "forgot". (In quotes.) There's no clarification that he had paid prior years on time or if he had been "forgetting" for several years. If anyone had been injured as a result of them not showing up over a $75 annual fee, then there would be a lot more shit hitting the fan.

Since his insurance is paying part of the loss, I'm assuming their stance on this will be very important. If they hold the homeowner to a higher standard because of his failure to pay, then he's lost everything and won't receive much compensation. If the insurance takes the view that this was a preventable loss and that the fire department should've shown up regardless, then this could be interesting.

The fire department should've shown up in either case. Worst case, he honestly forgot to pay this year and they'll get $75 out of showing up. If he's "forgotten" to pay the past few years, then they'll have grounds for a lien on this property until he can reimburse them for their costs.

If the neighbour's sustained any damage, I wonder who they'll go after. The broke guy who just lost everything, or the fire department?

Even if there is/was/will be a first contact, chances are, it would not be public knowledge. I thought this quote from Men In Black would be appropriate:

Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

Did you forget what modern journalism is about? (Formerly known as tabloids.)

Wouldn't at the picture vaguely resemble the person? It's at least a better start than the fuzzy picture they may have gotten from a security camera.

How sad, that someone is so stuck on an old book they pretend it's a religion.
Its not discriminating against religion, because much like all others, its made up!

See what I did there? Just because you don't agree with the origin of a religion, doesn't make it any less valid than yours.

Seems like so many people share the same advice regarding firstname.lastname, and I'm beginning to wonder if you all have such unique names that you can be assured that you won't have any issues getting your desired address with virtually any provider.

The achievements you've listed are considered to be Feats of Strength. As such, they aren't part of the current 986 achievements in the game.

While most people won't mind paying a little extra to support their favourite studios, there is potential for the studios to really tear the ass out of it with DLC. I imagine someone will have the nerve to release crap DLC and eventually release some amazing DLC which requires all of the crap to already be installed.

The people most likely to throw away a case are those who don't build their own computers. Not everyone has the know how or desire to do so. It's much easier to just order already made.

With more and more retailers trying to pitch their products as a necessity for a good education, I take this time of the year to go shopping for "school" supplies. I bought my fiancée's laptop during this back to school rush. Sports equipment is usually a steal around this time of the year too. Maybe I'm just cheap...

I doubt their premiums will go up very much next year. Any business of that size will have their own captive. With no significant losses in the prior years (at least that I know of publicly), there's no reason to jack their rates beyond inflation.

The article doesn't clearly state what the differences between the two games are. Is the non-violent version more challenging in which I need to pay more attention to the road in order to meet the objective? Is the violent version easier where they've placed the pedestrians right in the middle of the road and I don't really need to try to hit them? I'm sure if they actually made it so that both versions had the pedestrian/checkpoint in the exact same position, then we'd see a difference. Even if they're in the same position, which did the players play first? I'm sure we can all remember back to how the first time we played any Need For Speed title, how we didn't really notice the background and were more intent on the other cars and the road. Once we played it enough, we'd start to notice the background and potential shortcuts. What if I missed an ad in a particular area because I happened to do a poor job navigating a corner and wind up facing away from the ad? Too may variables exist between each person. There doesn't appear to be a good control to balance it out. (Sorry for the formatting.)

On the bright side, that's millions of available South Korean women.

I agree consoles are a great way to get a bunch of people in the same room involved, but unfortunately almost everything released lately has no offline multiplayer. At best it has some sort of 2 player mode if we're lucky. The rest of us have to sit around and wait for their turn. My friends and I still play Red Faction 2 and Bomberman just because of that. All this pay to play DLC just annoys me to no end and keeps me from considering purchasing my own console. They're effectively just fleecing the consumers. Unfortunately, I don't see this revenue stream drying up since many console players are so diehard that they won't even consider a PC beyond a game of Solitaire. (At least my friends won't.) Is there no other option for people with consoles? Isn't there somewhere else they could just download the desired content for free and still play it? I know the PS3 has a browser, so I'm sure there's got to be somewhere they could go to get the same content.