That reminds me of one of my favourite old 8-bit games, Alternate Reality by Datasoft. Instead of the usual dungeon creatures you'd face, a backup copy would pit you against an FBI agent who attacked you with "The Long Arm of the Law". A lot less subtle, but fun to try and beat with your high level characters.

It's called Epic Citadel, and yes it's free. Screenshots look cool. Downloading it now! :)

2nd paragraph in TFA: The plan, known as usage-based billing, will apply to people who buy their internet connection from Bell, or from smaller service providers that rent lines from the company, such as Teksavvy or Acanac. Sounds like it applies to Bell's own customers too.

Absolutely true! I am currently restricting my calories, but occasionally, I can spare enough to get a happy meal. Without the toy, I might be more tempted to get a full "adult" meal. :(

The thing is that Sony shouldn't get to decide what I do with my hardware. Yeah I'm sure this relates to the linux thing too, but they're telling me "We know we told you you could do it, but now we've changed our minds and if you want to continue using your PS3, you never will be able to install linux in the future." What's next? BluRay movies get disabled? I bet more people would care then, or would we just hear "So what? It's a games machine, not a video player."

In addition to withholding OnStar, the car just won't drive on any new roads.

This argument always seems short-sighted to me. Eventually this generation of consoles will become irrelevant. So instead of having an old PS3 that only plays old PS3 games (or even older PS2 and PS1 games) sitting in a corner gathering dust, why not install linux on it and give it a new purpose? Maybe as a media center? MythTV front-end? MAME box? Shouldn't I be able to decide what to do with the hardware? Maybe I don't want linux on it NOW, but in the future it would keep it useful. Sony is trying to limit my options, and since there's no way to downgrade, it's a permanent limitation.

That is a good solution, except, my hosts file got so huge it slowed down all internet access like I was dialup again.

How do you provide a source for something that was never said?

You and the traffic officer who hands me my tickets seem to disagree.

There's "supposed" to be two more Stargate movies (one for SG-1 and one for Atlantis). http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Stargate_movies

Au contraire.. they've been trying to hack their way into the PS3 for years and STILL can't run custom firmware.

Slashdot is News for Nerds... not News for Nerds Who Obey All Questionable EULAs. :) I for one am grateful for this article, otherwise I may have foolishly upgraded my Dell Mini 9. (When Apple sells a netbook, I'll retire my mini... )