I read 'Big Dog" and "much bigger" and was INSTANTLY in AT-AT land.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

Actually, you can do exactly that. Most wouldn't bother fully concealing the muzzle flash, but a flash suppressor does the meaningful percentages of that job.

Let me show you the future:

You go to the store, you buy a "game". You go home and open the green plastic box, and take out your little slips of paper. You slowly and laboriously enter a long alphanumeric code. Your console blinks some LEDs and talks to MS. Your console puts a light show on your TV and tells you about the ABSOLUTELY BADASS game you just "bought". An hour or two later, it's done downloading and you can play.

There is no used game market, and don't buy games grey market, or you'll get all your games revoked!

Holy shit. As soon as you look, it's immediately apparent. The creek above the plant is white where there's turbulence, and green where there isn't. At the plant, it becomes maroon. Down where that creek flows into a larger one, you can see a clear tail of the maroon water flowing into the larger green creek.

So even if they had to slap the "UAV" guy on the wrist and throw out the info, anyone looking at Google could have made an 'anonymous' complaint afterwards.

Sent to Robert P. Casey, JR, Senator (D) from Pennsylvania:

"Big media may pay your bills, but your constituents elect you, sir. SOPA/PIPA does EVERYTHING for them and NOTHING for us. You should be ashamed of yourself for co-sponsoring PIPA. Please withdraw your support, immediately, and publicly."

YASU is for bypassing SecuROM's blacklisting of virtual drive software. Not a correct solution, unless you meant to point out how the DRM doesn't slow down the pirates.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/9860/

I did misremember the copy protection, though. It's Tages, not SecuROM.

The Steam page states that you get three activations, and after 30 days, they regenerate. This is completely incorrect, you get three activations period, for life, no exceptions.

Quote: "I've never tried to crack a game on Steam, because once it's installed and has had it's activation, I've never been annoyed by any Steam game. "

Be careful. Being on Steam only guarantees it has the light layer of Steam DRM, it DOES NOT prevent the publisher from requiring other, more obnoxious forms of DRM as well. I bought that Pitch Black game on Steam (super sale, looked entertaining), but have never been able to play it because it packs in a non-64bit compatible version of SecuROM as well.

Nobody (except you, apparently) is talking about mandatory training to become a programmer. This is more like a familiarization course, so that they at least know what a programmer IS and what that job entails. An astounding percentage of people seem to consider "programmer" on par with "wizard" in terms of comprehension.

Wake me when we get to 7.1. At this rate it ought to be sometime this fall.