A prison inmate reports the find and they get strip-searched? Proof that no good deed goes unpunished.

AFAIK Australia doesn't have a space agency!

You have no idea what you're talking about. CTRL-F2 gives keyboard focus to the menubar and you can explore the menubar using the keyboard, targeting specific menu commands by typing the first several letters of the item you're interested in.

This gives one access to the entire menu system via the keyboard, not just the items a programmer decided to provide keyboard shortcuts for.

You shouldn't have to license rights for a story that's over fifty years old and its author dead.

So one person complaining about this and a link to a thread with another person complaining is a disaster? We don't even know how honest the person is being. You expect someone who pirates games to be honest about what they were doing? Of course not, they are going to lie to the end to try to get their box back on life or make MS look bad since they got caught.

Are there potentially some legitimate people who got hit by this? Of course. But calling it a disaster when you have no idea how many false positives there are is stupid. I could come up with some sob story as well...and the whole...I spent $5200 thing...I find highly suspect. Some people have more money than sense, but even if you were unemployed, you couldn't play that many games. Also, if I spent that much I would be freaking out at MS. This guy seems calm...even says things like he will give it a month before he starts buying again. It is very easy to make something like this up.

I think this pretty much sums up our future if this is allowed to happen: http://xkcd.com/129/

Scary thought...

I think establishing a Casino on the moon is more practical.

This seems like another non-issue. I'm not sure why it would even be illegal to enter into a contract that allows the content provider to do this. Is there something to this issue that I'm missing?
Perhaps there is concern that providers will begin to offer content only under these terms, thus eliminating the use of the analog port?

Yet another article about how someone doesn't like what another person is saying and thinks it should be limited. It may be that we don't like the fact that the same channel shows news, analysis, and commentary, or that the lines of those are blurring. If you think it's a phenomenon of modern life, I direct you to the campaign that put Thomas Jefferson in office. The bottom line is that people will say all sorts of things. With the guaranteed First Amendment freedom to be one of those people, we all have the responsibility to be prudent in our consumption of information.

Wouldn't keeping radio signals in also have the unfortunately side effect of keeping radio signals out? While having a neighborhood coffee shop offer free wifi to paying customers while being an of oasis of cellphone-free peace & quiet would be sweet, having no cellphone reception at home because one desperately wants to prevent neighbors from stealing one's wifi seems very inconvenient (especially when setting up even the most basic built-in wireless router security would successfully do the trick in 99.9% of cases).

In Chronotron, you create a time paradox and have to restart the level.

Nicely done! Chronotron was exactly the game I was trying to think of when I read the summary.

I was hooked on that one for a while.

We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play. There are some cases out there, some legitimate-use cases -- that aren't just people that refuse to buy a modem or are crazy and weird and living in a closet.

I believe what you're describing ("all those gamers who live in a rural, dial-up only area") would fall under the "legitimate-use cases" to which he refers, and very clearly dissociates from the "crazy and weird" contingent.

Reading comprehension for the win?

Stupid git.

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