I can chime in here... as I've pirated tons and TONS of iOS apps.

Once you know you can pirate them, the sense of value attached to individual apps is lost (Still, to this day, I do not consider apps to have 'value'... same with movies and CDs...I can't fathom spending money on them)

Then you want to try them all, etc..... I guess the question becomes, why NOT pirate the game, $2 or $4? Money saved is money saved.. and downloading pirated iOS apps is as easy as the regular store once you have everything set up. If there's 20 iOS apps you want to load on your iPod touch, you are probably a bit loathe to drop $40-$80 at once... but it's no problem to que them up in hackul0us (sorry if this is old, been a long time since i've had an iOs device)

Rofl... so they are keeping us safe by scanning our bodies with cancer rays and groping us all over... yet they are afraid to simply examine or use their nifty high tech scanner technology on a goddamn toy horse.... so they blow it up!

stay classy, orlando

Oh come on... I had no idea about this but reading your post.. I promptly looked it up

One of the funniest pranks i've ever seen hahaha

where is everyone's sense of humor?
http://gizmodo.com/343348/confessions-the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-did-at-ces

Tell me about it... try me shift... Saturday and Sunday I work 8am-8pm

Mon/Tue/Wed I work 12midnight-9am.....

So I go straight from regular days on sunday right into a night shift... so I have the choice of either staying up ALL night sunday after working a 12 hour shift, so I can sleep during the day monday (So I can be rested for work)... or I just pass out (what happens all of the time) from exhaustion sunday night, wake up around noon monday and end up staying awake until it's time for work at midnight....

i've been doing this for a year now and i'm used to it.... but it sucks

don't get me wrong, when i'm beat from work i'd love to drive a nice automatic.. but for any serious driving length i'd totally prefer a stick. no snobbery about it... it's just about more fine-tuned control of the vehicle, like the vehicle is an extension of you... plus i find driving an automatic incredibly boring. i feel like i'm at the mercy of the car's decision on when to change gearing ratios, I feel this gives me more control over my vehicle and thus more power to prevent an accident or safely navigate a turn.

This is actually the reason I pirate all of my kindle books. That, and at the rate me and my girlfriend read books, it would be completely not viable economically.. we're talking 3-4 books a day being read, That's much, much more money than any other general hobby (think, WoW is $15/mo.. a new GOOD book ebook/hardcopy is 3-13$)

My system is as follows; If the book is good enough that I'll want to read it again down the line, I'll pick up the paper or hardback copy for my bookshelf.. not only does this provide great asthetics but allows portability, and allows me to loan it to friends.
The kindle has more than paid for itself in a month (We have exhausted the library's supply a good while ago)... I'm sure there's plenty of people who consider what I'm doing 'wrong' and that's fine with me... I just like to read, and I can't afford to spend 100$+ a week on books.

It's weird but I've experienced the opposite...

People who are very illiterate with computers ask me about 'hacking' their device constantly, for free stuff.

Being an audiophile specializing in digital music for over 10 years, I am glad that finally someone from an academic background can verify this "digital dust" phenomenon. However, what the author failed to realize is that, similar to the essence of this "digital dust" issue as opposed to its analogue real world problem (that is, real dust on your desk, CDs, etc), there is a digital way to tackle it, which has been known as "digital vacuuming". It's pretty much like how you clean real dust from your floor. You need to record the sound of a vacuum machine into your computer and save it as audio clips in bitrate matching the audio files you want to clean, and put them in the folders of your audio files. To clean, just play the vacuum sound for a while (1-5min depending on file sizes) and it will clean the audio files in that folder. The key is matching the bitrate of vacuum sound to your audio files. It works like a charm! And I would suggest implementing this procedure on a regular basis to preserve your audio files in perfect status.

I vaguely remember playing a SWAT game for PC that pretty much did this.. kind of..

Well, actually, it used real-life video in place of rendered graphics, the video changing based on which direction you went.

This has totally happened to me.

Totally boned the cisco firewall, email was totally BROKEN, and I was winging it..

I was so green that i didn't even realize we paid for cisco support contracts.... spent hours searching through google and manuals

what you said is exactly right, people don't bitch on forums about problems with enterprise cisco equipment, they call support