1. Homebrew will update, and anyone that was smart enough to load it onto a their wii the first time will GUESS WHAT? Continue to be smart enough to load it again.

2. Now that they've brought attention to it, more people will hear about homebrew, think hmmm... sounds interesting and free, why not? Thus expanding their piracy problem.

First, a disclaimer.

I happen to live on planet Earth. I am, therefore, somewhat biased to protect it. This bias may affect my perception of decisions, such as drilling oil wells that could have "immeasurable effects" on the ecology of the drilling site if done wrong.

Now, this article summary, and the statement from the judge, shows clearly in my opinion why we should never use the word immeasurable as a way to justify one action or another. It seems the opposition quite quickly was able to measure the impact, and the impact is about 1%. The first oil company willing to pledge enough cash to completely recover from a second disaster like the BP one, I'd say happy drilling. Until then, we need to suspend drilling holes at depths where we aren't technologically far enough along to fix things if they go wrong.

It does surprise me, that we've found the technology to destroy this planet hundreds of times over with nuclear energy, but we can't plug a hole a mile underwater. Kinda leads you to which way this planet's headed.

I'd make an example of BP the way we made an example of Philip Morris with cigarettes. Take a portion of BP and all other oil companies profits, and from that drive for renewable energy sources like solar/wind. Make the oil companies fund anti-oil commercials like tobacco revenue funds anti-smoking ads, have them research/subsidize into solar, etc. And make all technologies developed from any think tank funded by these revenues be forever patent free.

I came to this thread expecting a story about 41 billion dollars worth of DS games being taken at gunpoint on the high seas.

Here's the easy debunking question for the gaming industry: if 41 billion dollars was truely lost, where did it go? What did those crazy kids spend it on, if not your video games?

This is of course, a ludicrous question, because the downloaders never had the 41 billion dollars to spend. This isn't a loss, it isn't even an opportunity. It's the gaming industry burying it's head in the sand to the true reason sales are down: a lack of innovation and sequel after sequel that the next generation is getting tired of.

If TV were more like the internet, you could just choose the content right for you without a fucking committee..

Oh, wait.

I haven't subbed cable since I moved out 7 years ago. As far as cable internet goes, it varies from place to place. In Virginia I had Comcast, even during my time their they changed a lot going from down once a month to maybe one outage/year. I've had roadrunner up here with similar quality. That's good, as I work from home and an unreliable internet is as much jeopardy as an unreliable car: too many absences is poor for anyone's future career.

I have no interest in cable television/land line phones. I see it as an overpriced model to begin with, and completely overdone with advertisements. Spending 1/3 of your view time in commercials unless you also get TIVO, whereby you fast forward by commercials, is a pretty bad practice IMO. Similarly getting a landline that's then bombarded with robocalls till you sign on a DNC list, and even then gets bombed around election time because for some audacious reason they think they are above your election to not be called by a robot @ dinner time... yea. No thanks. You couldn't give me that service for free.

No, that's simply what the media giants would like you to believe. In fact, there is plenty of freely made and distributed content in the entertainment and practical world: youtube sees more uploaded every six months than the major networks have ever created, and I'd even claim some of that content beats out the best stuff the NBCs and FOXs can put out.

If something like an automobile replicator existed, it would simply mean that it was time for our economic model to evolve: we wouldn't need billions of dollars tied up in automotive design and research. Those with a hobby/passion for it could still do it, others would have to find a new line of more useful work. But considering the alternatives here are free cars for everyone, vs maintaining the outdated model for the sake of "some poor designer", I'd forever advocate the improved standard of living across the board.

The day is coming when companies will realise it's more resource intensive and costly to protect their IP against the wave of increasing technology that spreads it, and will instead embrace viral marketing and mass-distribution of their IP instead, seeking other ways to monetize it. Look at the top innovators of this century: Apple, Google and Facebook. Apple is the only one charging it's users for a service, and then only because it costs significant bucks per unit to crank out iphones and ipads and ipotatoes. If we ever reached a stage where physical objects could be replicated as readily as virtual ones, you would see a company out in the market lead embracing the most impractical marketing strategy of all: free. Because free gives you market share, market share gives you audience, and audience gives you the one thing we will never replicate: time.

Uh, people talk about ubuntu all the time.

I think they have something like this. There's also an imbedded app to simulate the die throw (you glide your finger to "roll" the d20): as rolling physical dice on an LCD screen would probably not end well.

The joke is, what you're talking about would probably be cheaper.

I'm surprised they haven't tried one of those hardware key generating systems. One physical key-generator per software, enter a 6 digit code every time you start the game. Would work very well across platforms, very easy to resell your used software, would put a hold on digital distribution though.

But then, that could be a consumer choice: digital distribution -> digital DRM, physical distribution -> physical DRM. ...

I guess that would get really old though if you had like 20-30 games like that.

While I appreciate the advice, I've cracked open the innards of the laptop and do clean it regularly. It is indeed set up as you describe with the heat sink pipe leading to a single fan/exhaust system. Maybe the fan on that's just choking independent of driver issues.

Ah well, it runs significantly cooler underclocked - should carry me till I'm ready to replace the system I think.

I wonder if this is what was happening to me then?! I run a 9800M GS (laptop version of the 9800). Been overheating for months now, finally resorted to using ntune to underclock the processors by 25%. Fixed the crashing with minimal impact to WOW (hurray for modern GPUs on a 5 year old game).

I always hated these, because to me it makes no sense to read but not do steps 1-4, and then to read and execute step 5 or 6. Therefore after reading them, you SHOULD go back and start executing the steps in order, 2-4 occur before they are negated, the 5 tells you to stop, and then you finish.

Of course, I get the point of the test. But it's like some guy on the internet playing teacher correcting your spelling while making god awful grammatical errors.

In conclusion, pedantic lessons suck.

Article is horribly misrepresenting the Korean supreme court ruling.

It claimed such an exchange was not criminal.
It did not:
-Create any kind of exchange between virtual/real currencies.
-Create any kind of obligation on gaming companies to be accountable to player's virtual bank accounts.
-Negate the EULAs of the majority of games which state RMT is a violation of your use of their services and will result in your account being banned from their servers.

In other words, Bliz can continue to cancel your WOW account, they just can't arrest you. In Korea.

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Offer two kinds of flights.

1. Passengers are babied all to hell: no sharp objects, no guns, nothing remotely close to looking like an explosive. Stick an air marshall or two on board to keep the peace or prevent some kung fu Al Qeada guy from stealing the plane.

2. F-all: let the passengers carry on board their guns, toothpaste, and laptops. Inform them ahead of time that the airplane will be equiped with a fail safe that can be remote detonated if the plane becomes hijacked and on board personel are unable to regain control.

2+: Get 20 Al Qeada cells to simultaneously hijack the same plane, and be sure to youtube it before detonating the device in 2.