*hands gameboy* "Here. Either you get at least 20,000 points on Tetris or you're going to jail, pal."

Rated "5, Informative" was enough for me.

What is more clear about, "To page this person, press five now. At the tone, please record your message. When you are finished, you may hang up, or press one for more options. 'Hi, I'm unable to answer the phone right now, but if you leave a message after the beep, I'll call you as soon as I can.'" than "Hi, I'm unable to answer the phone..."?

Are there millions of people paging other people? (On their cellphones that have caller ID and TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE MISSED CALLS.) And how many people press 1 for more options? Would you say there are more, or less, that press '1', than press the secret key (usually '#') to skip the operator messages?

The messages, while not swindling, are an annoyance to anybody that has operated a phone in the last 20 years.

I say get rid of them. For my sanity, at least.

Fun thing to do with this: convert a raw audio waveform to PNG with his tool, then convert it to JPG (with some modest compression), then back to waveform.

Obviously, it's not going to sound wonderful, anymore, but it's a fun experiment in lossy compression in the audio domain. (Albeit a wholly inefficient and crappy one, but fun!)

***SPOILER ALERT!!!***

This is different than demos/shareware how?

There was some hullabaloo back when Nintendo first announced the Wii's capabilities because Microsoft had been working on a "magic wand" since somewhere around 1997, I believe. I'm totally unable to find any references, but there WAS a project page hosted by Microsoft which featured (besides an ugly color scheme) photos and text talking about the project/experiment.

Anyone else know what I'm talking about?

I don't know what the fuck you just said, but it sounds good to me.

Rather, I mean NO, it's NOT wrong, and it's already being done with services like LoJack.

Yes, it's called LoJack.

On a more serious note, weren't the games made with the Unreal Engine? If so, I believe you'll be pleading indefinitely, because I doubt they have the right to open source that, as well.

I could be wrong.

Don't you want the audio engine, utility code, and logic, too?

Can't it be assumed by virtue of the ads being placed on the site to begin with that the owner wishes they be shown?

Everyone's so caught up debating the possibilities of recovering data from discarded hard drives that nobody seemed to notice this "article" is from the UK's finest tabloid, Daily Mail.

Wake me when we have a legitimate source.

I live in Davidson, NC, and my ONLY choice for broadband internet is through an ISP owned by my county. While there is no competition here, the proposed bill still has implications for the service I receive, and threatens to eliminate it completely.

But the real kicker is: not much more than a year ago, the county purchased the infrastructure from none other than TimeWarner Cable. TWC didn't think it was such a bad idea for government to run an ISP when they pulled out of my region not more than 14 months ago...