So did the guy who scanned the pirate copy.

If steam won't, my bet is the pirates will. In fact, they already have versions of steam out there with all the DRM killed.

The Sims series by EA does exactly that. One downfall it ends up causing is that if you have all of the Sims 2 expansions, and get a new computer, it will take over 4 hours to get the game fully installed, with LOTS of disk switching.

Not really. He never mentioned overwriting the tapes, nor destroying them after use. These tapes could have easily been stored, and digitized once that technology became cheap and common. Either way, its NOT ok for theaters to be doing this, and I bet it won't even make a dent in piracy.

Actually, a modchip for the PS3 just came out. http://www.pcworld.com/article/203788/hackers_claim_jailbreak_victory_with_playstation_3_usb_key.html?tk=hp_new

Someone actually did a test like that. Tried a high-end cable, lamp wire, and even soldered coathangers together. Listeners couldn't tell the difference. http://consumerist.com/2008/03/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables.html

Tiger Team, Episode 2. Penetration testers use an RFID skimmer to clone the passcard of the owner of a jewelery company, then use the skimmed data to spoof the card reader to get into his office. From there, they crack the safe, and take a picture of themselves wearing all the jewelery that was in said safe.

Tiger Team was very interesting to watch, I'm sad it got canceled.

Indeed I am. Should have looked it up before posting.

I believe Assange is Austrian, not Austrailian. One is in Europe, the other is southeast of Thailand.

I spent several month searching for something like this. Open-source voice recognition is in really infant stages, and there does not seem to be much interested in improving the few things we have.

Havn't done much testing. Covers my apartment with no worries, but thats not saying too much.

Nowadays it might be better and cheaper to go with 1.3 Ghz phones. Uses the TV bands that were freed up. I have one and have wonderfully interference-free calls.

How, exactly, are they pirates? There was no minimum amount set. If I got a game on sale for $15 instead of the retail $60, does that make me a pirate? Last I checked, I still bought goods at a price they were willing to be sold at.

I got ganked in the loading screen while exiting a station in 0.0, left in a full transport ship, arrived in a destroied escape pod. Shortly after, I stopped playing, because I didn't want to deal with that kinda crap.

This is actually far more scary than the title would lead you to believe.

Scaring online poker players and internet gambling aficionados in Massachusetts is text found on page 123 of the 172-page bill. It reads, “Any person who knowingly transmits or receives a wager of any type by any telecommunication device, including telephone, cellular phone, internet, [or] local area network or knowingly installs or maintains said device or equipment for the transmission or receipt of wagering information shall be punished.” The penalty is a hefty one, up to two years behind bars and a fine of up to $25,000.

Translation: if you are in Mass, and you send an email to a buddy along the lines of "Five bucks says Lumburgh is gonna make me come in on Saturday" can get you put in jail and fined.