I don't understand some of the hate here for Steam, sure I use it and may be a little bias but it is the least most disruptive DRM, you can take your games to a different PC if you want (all you need is a login) and is so easy to join in games with friends if they are already in a game.

They should call this facility REPCONN Aerospace

I'm right handed and live in the UK so all those things are on my left hand, does that mean the UK's being discriminating against use righties!? Being serious, I don't think I could use the gearstick/radio with my right hand now.

Through Steam that is >.

Borderlands was a whole £10 though a week or two ago, now it's gone back up to £30

No Sony would never degrade the free online multiplayer as it's a huge selling point just like the other OS option is a huge selling point, oh wait...

Presuming this is it http://media.photobucket.com/image/Squirrel%20Jihad%20photo/amhiggins1891/SquirrelJihad.jpg

half way between the Earth and the Moon!? ha I'm wondering what would happen if the cable somehow snapped when the elavator was in space?

Did you RTFA from Google? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-google-maps-navigation-for.html I'm sure there will be some bugs but it looks like it ticks most of your boxes. Also better pricing? the software itself is FREE, the only down side is carrier charges to access it.

That's so crazy it may just work, I think we need to look to the French for inspiration for this one though

Make friends with people around the world to get around this, simply get them to buy you L4D2 as a gift through Steam and because your buddy bought it in a 'unmodded' country, you'll get all the gore! BTW - this does work, a friend buys a German guy all his stuff so he has the gore and then PayPal's him back the cash

You what!? Banks install software on a machine? Whats to stop the fraudsters from doing this and having access to the whole machine *shudders*

The harder thing ISP's need to do is set up some sort of reporting to show how much you have used up so far. Nobodies going to believe what the ISP tells them if there's no way to check themselves. Also I'd welcome something like this as long as it's per GB not something daft like per hour (and fairly cheap, aka £1 per GB max)

Someone tell the UN about Vault-Tec in case there's a nuclear war

Remember that's $50 million a year, plus 9£% of all revenue from their own sites for JUST search, plus they free up 400 peoples wages. Also Yahoo have still got Flickr, Delicious, Yahoo Mail and others to rely on. There's also a number of get-out clauses too so Yahoo can just walk away, Microsoft have come out on top of this deal but Yahoo it's not all bad for Yahoo