If I were Sony, I'd put off fixing this exploit for a while and watch PS3 sales go up. Only when sales slow down will I release the fix. I've read that the PS3 logs the ID's of every bit of software it runs, even offline. So if you've used the backup manager, chances are Sony can detect it when you go online. People are working on hacks to change the ID though.

Scientists should start working with statisticians.

His player vs player stat says 165/164, and World Events says 138/139. I assume this is a bug/glitch? I don't know anything about WoW so forgive me if this is a silly question.

I don't know much anything about neuromorphic computing and synthetic aperture radar image formation etc, but wouldn't it be cheaper to use GPU's instead? Is there something about these type of computations that make the Cell a better fit? Or maybe it's that PS3s are easier to attach to the existing infrastructure?
Someone please explain.

http://www.rapdict.org/Word_is_bond

It actually comes from the Latin "dictum meum pactum" meaning "My word is my bond" which is the motto of the London Stock Exchange. It was shortened to "word is bond", which means "I speak the truth". It was also used as a question ("Word is bond?"), usually indicating a feeling of disbelief. Naturally, the phrase got shortened even further to just "word". So a typical conversation went something like:
"I made $12k last week"
"Woah...word?"
"Word"
These days saying "word" in response to a statement means "What you said is true", which implies "I agree".

I think this is a fantastic idea and I hope more companies start doing it (provided they let you opt out, of course). I'm not really interested in the player profile aspect of it as much as the potential for balance/tweaking though.

For fighting games like Street Fighter IV etc, it's great because companies can use the data to help rebalance the characters. For example, if they notice that one character loses disproportionately to another, they can tweak the balance slightly in the next iteration (or even patch).

The ability to upload replays to the XBL/GFWL/PSN networks is also a great idea, because if the replay files are just a bit of metadata with stored inputs, game companies should be able to easily replay these games at high speed (by disabling audio/video) and capturing the resulting data.

At the end of the day, data is still king.

Botnets make this procedure much simpler, and I suspect people buying these phones have access to banking data harvested by botnets. If they have the account details, they can just login themselves. No need to monitor the internet connection etc. Just spoof the number, and the code will get sent to you instead of the account holder. No flags will be raised.

Interestingly enough, Ubuntu started in South Africa but I've never seen it preloaded on a system at any of the computer stores I've been to. In fact, I don't really know anyone who runs Ubuntu as their primary OS.

You shouldn't want their guys to die, you should want their guys to surrender.

Don't forget SUA, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Services_for_UNIX

IMO, this is more of an indication of the narrow-mindedness of the general Xbox-Live demographic than of Microsoft. Microsoft is a business, so it's likely that this person got banned because of a huge number of complaints from their customer base. They don't want to lose business, so they appeased their customers.

If however they didn't receive all that many complaints (comparatively speaking), then I think someone needs to take serious legal action against them if possible. It may sound a bit hypocritical or contradictory to hold them responsible in this case, but this to me sounds like a problem with the mindset of the general population, and Microsoft can't really be held responsible for that.