"Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash."

Amtrak tells Fed: Show me the money!

"So it's ok if Blizztard sells you cheats, but not so if a Chinese entrepreneur does the same thing."

You got it! Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Prada, Rolex etc have the same policy.

"I threw a McDonald's cup out of my car of my today. My fingerprints are in the system."

Let me guess: for littering?

So freebooters, marauders, raiders, privateers and corsairs will be OK?

Long John Silver, Blackbeard and Henry Morgan will have to give away some of their treasure then.

Couldn't they use more power for the dominant eye while reducing it for the non-dominant one to get a better overall result?

"They show off the platform running Quake. Doom is mentioned in the article, but who read that far?"

They also mention floppy disks.

It's written in Assembler, they started this project in 1983, it used up all their time and so didn't have time to follow the technical evolution.

Nothing. My home entry door unlocks itself when it detects my key card in my wallet coming close, my car does the same and my workplace has a doorman.

"While it is very unlikely commercial space can ever get free of strong federal regulation,..."

Says who? Cuba is as good a site as cape Canaveral.

Because he will crush you or buy you.

I don't want to see dead people, all the time, not in real life nor in the digital one.

So the Godfather Tony in Prison doesn't have the copyright on the kill orders he sends from prison?

So when can we expect mercury harddisks?

'Good relations' with management go quickly downhill once you reel in the money and they don't get a major cut.

Don't tell anybody, do it on your own machine and sell anything under a nom de plume.

"Also, what the heck is the tech connection here?"

People can use their computer to find out in which city to live, instead of getting shot.

Where I live, (Luxembourg, 0.8 murders per 100.000) there's usually only between 4 and 10 wives a year who get killed at home by their husbands, very seldom by gun. Some years it's the other way round.

Heck, somebody tried to kill Gaston Glock here, the guy who manufactures the 'plastic' pistols and appropriately the moron used a plastic mallet to hit him in the head 7 times to no avail.

IOW even if you want to kill a 70 year old, don't send a 67 year old hitman.

PS. He'll get out next year at age 84, so if you want to kill a 87 year old ...

From WP
"In July 1999, Charles Ewert, a business associate of Glock, hired a French ex-mercenary to murder Glock with a mallet in a garage in Luxembourg in an apparent attempt to cover up embezzlement of millions from the Glock company.[2]

Although Glock's injuries included seven head wounds and the loss of about a litre of blood, Glock was able to fend off the attack by striking the hitman twice. The hired killer, 67-year-old Jacques Pêcheur, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the attack. Charles Ewert was sentenced to 20 years as a result of Pêcheur's testimony.[7]"