The problem with using only passwords to log in is that you then have to prevent users from having the same password. This can lead to serious security implications as discussed in this article.

Actually, you could, as long as the Pirate Bay download is a link to the data or rules to recreate it and not just a binary blob that contains all of TPB including itself. For example, quines can contain the information necessary to reconstruct themselves.

I'd say you lose nerd points not just for not bothering to look it up, but for failing to recognise that the "English" term you mention is, essentially, Latin, and therefore very likely to occur in languages related to Latin.

Getting slightly more on-topic, I've found that being multi-lingual means you end up thinking about things in the language you normally use to communicate about them in. So, for example, I end up thinking about university administration in Finnish, the upcoming presidential election in Swedish and computer science in English. In part, this is simply to avoid making the effort to translate (for example, the admin staff at our university is predominantly Finnish-speaking), but also because some of the terminology may be unfamiliar in some languages (the more esoteric a subject is, the more likely it is that everything I read about it is in English) or simply not standardised.

DNA has always been a competitor to Elisa with its own network. However, DNA recently acquired Welho.

The Spanish word is "defenestrar". I suspect a better example would be something specific to a certain culture, e.g. "vihta" in Finnish.

Aalto University Internet access is through Funet, the Finnish University and Research Network. The block does not apply to Funet at all. However, my Saunalahti residential ADSL is provided by Elisa and has both DNS and IP traffic blocks active; traceroute shows packets failing to make the jump from the last elisa.net node to eunetip.net. In other words, Elisa seems to be filtering inbound and/or outbound traffic by IP.

2 out of 5, I'd say. Adding lots of configuration menus and control options is extra work, but I'd say DRM and useless network services are things that would be less work if they were never introduced in the first place. Also, wouldn't it be easier to develop the game on PC first, then port to console?

Also, many of the settings mentioned, such as aspect ratio and sound/music volume, should be in the console version already.

Have you tried moving the monitor closer? I use a 24" at 1920x1080, placed about 50-60 cm from my eyes. This is at the lower end of what OSHA suggests, but looks much the same as a 32" display at 70-80 cm. The only difference is whether your eyes can comfortably focus at that distance. I'm myopic enough to need glasses to see anything beyond 30 cm properly, so the decreased viewing distance is not a problem, but if you have even mild hyperopia, I'd advise against this.

You're missing the point. cat is not supposed to distinguish between file types nor behave differently based on the file type; the only change to its behaviour is to propagate the MIME type information (which, unfortunately, is guessed from the file's extension rather than a proper MIME type field in the filesystem). The terminal is the one that does all the interpreting, and, as I mentioned, this already happens, albeit to a lesser extent.

In practically any sane terminal emulator, you're not seeing the bytes, you're seeing a picture generated from these bytes by interpreting it as text with embedded control codes. This is merely an extension of that concept; instead of just "clear the screen" and "switch text colour to red" you also have "display the following PNG". Considering that there are tons of different sets of escape sequences in use, one more would hardly be a problem. Since the author suggests that the metadata identifying the data type (MIME-style) would be separate from the actual data, legacy programs would presumably just ignore the additional information and behave like they used to.