The first month is included, so it would be fairer to say that it's $45 for the game and then $15 per month. There are slightly cheaper 3 and 6 month plans available if you're planning on sticking around.

However, I'd still rather have just bought KoTOR III through X.

There isn't enough incentive to get ordinary users on board. Without recipients' use of PGP/GnuPG, I have no public keys to use and cannot encrypt my e-mails. I sign 99.9% of my e-mails, but nobody ever checks the signatures. Sometimes people ask me what the headers are about, and I'm happy to explain it to them. They usually don't end up caring. Again, to be more blunt, ordinary users see no incentive to get on board.

Well, if that isn't the start of Gattaca-esque trait selection, I don't know what is. Just don't let anyone select candidates for sports on the basis of the gene, okay? Give people with or without the gene a chance of doing what they like best, regardless of the statistics.

Seriously. Most people aren't willing to put in the effort to determine just how bad things would be if they had to resort to their (often inadequate) backups, and therefore they aren't willing to pay the time and capital to get adequate backups.

If you want your company to get better backups, run a simulation of what would happen if something failed. What's the best recovery you could do? What business would you lose? Then calculate the probability of that failure occurring, and be generous.

But it's not increasing the attack surface at all. If it's pure javascript, the interpreter is already there anyway. Any attack on PDF.js would exist in the interpreter independently of PDF.js. In fact, this reduces the attack surface by requiring one less program to accept arbitrary data from the network.

Try depending strictly on yourself and entirely corporate-provided goods for a month. Ignoring the fact that you're able to breathe the air without taking in a lethal dose of toxic fumes, I think you'll find it very expensive to get goods shipped to you without using government-built and maintained transportation services. You death would be swift too. Make no mistake.

Yes. But more seriously, capsaicin is what makes spicy food spicy, or rather all capsaicinoids are what make spicy food spicy.

Maybe on a wired connection you'd be right. I'm inclined to think that wireless, doing something to detect tampering could be possible. You probably wouldn't be able to guarantee that you can create a connection at all, but it might be an improvement for some to be able to connect only if tampering can be ruled out with some probability.

That's patently false for 2.5" HDDs. I can't remember a time when I haven't had the choice of a faster 7200 RPM drive or a higher capacity 5400 RPM drive when notebook shopping.

And the patents (from http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/itc-judge-finds-htc-in-infringement-of.html) are:

I think I violated these patents just reading this article.

If artificial intelligence and automation reach their ultimate conclusion, options #1 and #2 are pretty much it. If we've designed our agents correctly, they won't let us pick option #1. ;-) Jokes aside, academia and research will be the only "jobs", ultimately, if all goes well.

I'm inclined to believe that iPads are overpriced, but not to the extent that stealing one should qualify as grand theft. Did the owner have the "I Am Rich" app installed, or what am I missing?

It would be nice to be able to activate the PC version included with my PS3 copy of Portal 2. You're in a somewhat unique position to improve matters, given that you were planning to make the PC version available to us anyway.

Seeing as you can't download XNA 4.0 without downloading the developer tools for WP7, I'm not surprised. Bundling is a trick. That particular number says nothing about the number of people developing for WP7.