the RIAA are busy preparing the conditions for a big bang of a new universe with DRM built in at the subatomic level.Unfortunately, I predict that the encryption key will get leaked and they will either be forced to recall the entire universe, or just admit that they can't EVER stop you from doing whatever the heck you want with the content you purchased.

I guess I'm not cool enough to understand what your point is? My link still works.

yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Rule #1: Make it easy to pronounce so people aren't afraid to look stupid saying the name wrong. You think you are going to get critical mass with Ubuntu? Think again.

didn't they say the same thing about ie 8 (that it wouldn't be available for xp?)... My place of business still has XP desktops, and I'm sure its not alone. I'm betting they will cave and produce IE9 for xp.

Fringe? It's still 60% of the browser usage:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0

umm, ok, how about this? We had an officer who won a national "hero" award for jumping in a creek and saving a kids life (rightly so, it was raging with flood waters), who was later fired because he stopped a random woman, fell in love with her and began stalking her.

We had another two officers fired when they stopped a vehicle, found a bunch of pot in the trunk. Let the guy go and they sold the pot. They eventually got caught when the druggie in question got busted about a year later and gave them up in a plea deal.

I could go on and on. There are great, honest policeman. But for the most part, at least the cops I hung around, weren't too far removed personality wise, from "criminals". Also, so I don't sound so biased, I'll say this: The job wears on you. Being a cop sucks. You are put in danger, get paid crap and as one 20-year officer told me "everyone lies to you. Everyone."

In summary, if you think cops don't take bribes, steal, etc (and get away with it much of the time), you are hopelessly naive and frankly, know not of what you speak).

oh please. I was a police reporter in a 100K city for several years and got to know cops. I once sat around in the station and heard these guys trading stories about getting sexual favors from females to get out of speeding tickets (they didn't know I was in the next room, obviously). I guarantee you, policemen are bribed every day around the country with no repercussions.

funny, I did the exact same thing. It's absolutely ridiculous they pay that much for bandwidth. If they put up instructions and why they are doing it, and how by seeding torrents you can contribute for free, it would be very sucessful.

1: Buy game.
2: Update game with patch.
3: Get no-DVD patch from gamecopyworld.com

I do this with every game I buy. It would be a little annoying if I was buying brand new games and had lots of patches coming out, but I buy older games that aren't as expensive. They are new to me :)

Wow. Learn what a theory is. Everything in science that you would consider "facts" are theories. A theory is an explanation to a set of facts that predicts other facts correctly. It does not imply that anything about it is "unproven" (that would be a hypothesis).

Actually, most, if not all, college athletic depts. lose money. See "Beer and Circus" or any of the other books on the subject. They use some real creative accounting to hide this.

at a newspaper. I loved it. Worked wed-sat and had sunday, monday and tuesday off. 10 hour shifts.

It was the only really good thing about that job. :)