Local hockey equipment supply shop in my area went out of business probably about 10 years ago. It was awesome as they had a large selection you could actually try on before buying and talk to someone knowledgeable about the inventory. During their going out of business sale we talked to the management and they said they had tons of "customers" that would repeatedly come in to try on all sorts of stuff and leave empty handed only to return to try on tons of the next item and leave empty handed. They assumed (and rightly so I'm sure) that these people were using them as the fitting room for online places with cheaper prices. Now I have to drive about an hour to find a store with a much smaller selection. Yay for making up for your online "savings" in shipping costs to try on items.

Opens the door to a trivial denial of service by just spamming x number of bad logins per y amount of time for all (or some number of) usernames.

Well, sure you can play StarCraft via LAN all you want (which isn't much apparently), but it will be pretty tough to keep the LAN scene alive when all the new games are removing the feature. Blizzard is the primary offender here.

Anyone with broadband?

I have done this numerous times as have many people I know. However, as other posters have noted, quite a few of these instances have reduced my chance of purchase rather than increase it.

The same reason they aren't leaking that you went to work today and performed your duties legally and ethically. It shouldn't be newsworthy when someone does their job correctly.

I know this is /. but you didn't even read the summary. You won't be using it to do those things if you have the issue the article is discussing because the device will be malfunctioning. I doubt that "we already knew this would happen."

Because I'm running the server?

Most of the subscription's justification in MMOs is that the dev/publisher is providing server infrastructure and the rest is content updates. I'd say you have a pretty tough sell to tell me I have to go rent a server off someone and then pay you tax just to use it. And all the content updates are made by some random internet guy for free. Essentially you are trying to get me to license the server software so that I can then provide you an opportunity to sell more copies of the client software (and the $5/yr fees) which I get no cut of. Now if you suggest the dev/publisher get in the market of renting servers, you may have something there.

But... at $5/yr people might be suckered into paying it.

As your parent stated, lateral g-force tests disagree.

It's not? It is a compact car, small by definition.

Oh, we are referring only to one (largely useless) dimension. Carry on.

In regards to your first point. I think you missed where he said simulated kiddy porn. I think any rational person would agree that actual kiddy porn harms an actual child, but a small 18 year old acting as a child doesn't, nor does a 3d rendering or other such simulations.

Well, it might not be that complicated, but only because brute force is the only method. If the key is of sufficient length and random you will likely never find it. Unless someone has actually fully cracked WPA in which case, please link it. I'm under the impression the current best attack is still the short length packet tkip thing. Maybe I missed something, I haven't really been following wifi security closely but I would think this would have been huge news.

I'll pile on another major flaw. If you ran a mob to its leash point and then ran back over the leash point (into range) the mob would turn back to you. At this time you could then run out of range again and it would begin leashing. At this time you could run back into range and it would run back to you. At no point during this would the mob regen health or anything to punish you for doing this. You could basically kill any mob using this tactic and enough time. This alone basically ruined the game for me.

They panic, then act irrationally. Add to it that a large percentage of drivers are barely capable of driving when all the stars align perfectly. Throw a wrench in the system and all bets are off. I get your point on how police are supposed to be highly trained drivers. I don't know what to tell you, but hitting the brakes, shifting to neutral or holding the on/off button for 3s would have saved him.

The article also mentioned that many other manufacturer's on/off buttons are set up so that multiple rapid panic-like presses will turn off the car, not so with toyota, so it is plausible that many people may not be aware of how to turn off their toyota while it is in motion. The supposed reason for requiring a hold is that accidentally hitting the button and it instantly turning the car off would result in dangerous scenarios for most drivers. I personally dislike the whole on/off button in the first place. Additionally, turning the car off should be the last option as you will lose power steering and brake assist.

Car and Driver did multiple tests with the v6 camry (the more powerful engine and one of the ones that was recalled) and it barely changed 70mph-0mph or 100mph-0mph stopping distances between 0% or 100% throttle. At 100% throttle the stopping distance from 70-0 was still less than other comparable models with 0% throttle. They repeated the test with a Roush Stage 3 Mustang with over 500hp (the v6 camry has about 270, the I4 a mere 160) and the brakes on that vehicle still overpowered the engine.

Now you could level to max without ever flagging on PVP. Just get to 15 in a friendly zone and do random dungeons the rest of the time, never leave town. Prior to being able to instantly port to dungeons (available for less than 1/3 of the games history) from anywhere it was impossible to progress past level 25 or so without entering a neutral zone (and thus being auto flagged).