One thing that comes to mind would be back in the old "Battlefield 1942" days, the "Desert Combat" mod was kick-ass, and the devs who made it put in a lot of work to make it happen. Similarly, things like DOTA actually derive from mods to Starcraft/Warcraft etc.

Some of the mods to Doom also replaced almost everything except the engine.

It would be great if such things are free, but allowing professional modders to gain a little coin isn't. One thing that's sad is the lack of mod-support in many popular games (partly because - I believe - the publisher wants to re-use the engine for sequels will little change, and doesn't want competition).

Does flying a drone over someone's property constitute criminal trespass (in Kentucky)?

It's kind of the same reaction that Glass wearers got. People object to being filmed in certain places like bars or beaches. If I went round the beach taking pictures of random people, I would be expecting some strongly worded objections as well. And even if the family was clearly flying the drone for fun, those people would still object to the footage being posted to YouTube as "Our outing at Baker beach".

Personally, I don't want to be filmed either... but I don't think it's necessary to be an a-hole about it.

If the the burglar is in your home already, then it's safe to say that several of those requirements for the Castle Doctrine have been met. Blast away...

It's not explicitly mentioned but falls under harassment and privacy laws. There is plenty of case law in various countries that do explicitly mention outing an employee as an actionable offense.

And what do the rest of the Koreans use?

Anyway, MS still reigns supreme on desktops and laptops. The only significant change to that is the fact that tablets and larger smart phones have been eating into the PC market.

Worse: face recognition software is getting better all the time, and it's only a matter of time before search engines and social media start tagging images. Once something or someone puts your name to your likeness online, all (or at least a good many) images with you in it can be found by typing your name into Google.

What legislators can do is to make it very clear that private life stuff should stay out of the workplace, and not affect job applications or performance reviews. Put it on the same level as discrimination, outing a homosexual against their will, etc, for which such laws already exist. These laws have not eradicated discrimination and homophobia from the workplace, and neither will they put an end to employers misusing info gleaned from social media sites, but they have helped.

Maybe they should have, I don't know, worked on making their "recruitment business" less of a steaming pile of sub-mediocrity? It's been a joke since before they started shitting all over slashdot and chased most of the users who might have been valuable enough to "leverage."

And Sourceforge? Christ, even that NAME is a liability now.

As usual, I prefer to blame the victims (us).

On a desktop personal computer, it would never occur to you to think "Oh, I just assume I'll get software maintenance from my ISP," and if anyone ever actually said that then you would point your finger at them and laugh and their over-the-top stupidity.

But change the form factor of the personal computer to handheld and suddenly we don't do the pointing and laughing. On the very face of it, it's JUST AS STUPID. So WTF?

Users are not exercising their common sense. They simply aren't. You can make excuses for not using common sense and explain why we did this very obviously stupid thing, but don't pretend it's not happening. Every morning you're getting up and putting a "kick me" sign on your back. You know that you're doing it and you know what consequences will invariably flow from it.

"I don't have any other signs to put on my back! All the signs on the market say 'kick me!'"

"Just because I wear a 'kick me' sign that doesn't mean anyone really has license to kick me! They shouldn't be doing that to me!"

Ok, go on and say those things. You even have some valid points, and the things you're saying might even be technically correct. But that doesn't mean you don't sound stupid, because you don't have not getting kicked in your requirements! WTF, people?!

Stop thinking of handhelds as some weird special case where ALL your experiences with software maintenance magically don't apply! THAT'S STUPID! So yeah, I'm a victim-blamer. You know when you buy your PC from your ISP or from a manufacturer who has a history of preventing maintenance, what's going to happen. And when people pretend they don't know the invariable consequences of buying PCs from ISPs, the stupidity takes on a flavor of dishonesty. Mmmm, yum!

Cheap ones, yes. They are especially vulnerable to tampering, just like cheap keyed locks and cheap electronic locks. Sometimes these locks can simply be opened by bouncing or hitting the safe just the right way. The more expensive locks can be defeated but it takes more time, patience and skill. You get what you pay for, and high security dial locks go from $100 to over $1000 (just for the lock).

It really depends on what you are keeping in there. Mechanical spin locks take time to open and have an extremely low Wife Acceptance Factor. Good for cash and valuables but not so good for jewelry or shared stuff, or for guns you keep for home security. Keyed locks have the disadvantage of requiring you to carry the key, and like spin locks they are not so good for stuff you may have to get out of there in a hurry, but good for cash, jewels and documents. Electronic locks are great if you need your safe open in a hurry, or where you want convenience: good for guns & car keys you want to keep safe from your kids or an amateur burglar.

Considering their QA and build quality, it's an easy mistake to make.

The only Razer product I ever bought that didn't shit out on me a week after warranty (max) was up was a mouse pad.

It's a radio transmitter feeding a closed waveguide. One has to ask: why haven't we seen evidence of radio transmission providing thrust before, when it's been feeding an open waveguide?

Extreme claims require extreme evidence. People who have made extreme claims before without much evidence at all are rightly categorized with the boy who cried wolf.

A common base password but a variation that you understand on a per-site basis?