Not American, so I don't know about the FBI angle. Being a Britbong however, reporting it sounds like the type of caper that would result in *all* of your computing hardware being confiscated by law enforcement until it's so obsolete as to be unsaleable.
Not just the items bought second-hand to prove a point, but everything you use. At least this side of the pond, police have a bit of history in being a bit, shall we say, 'indiscriminate' with regard to what they see as evidence-gathering.
Although I do feel it's proper that companies that seem to indulge in such lackadaisacal data-handling practices be made to tighten up their processes, I'd be of the opinion that anyone calling law enforcement on the basis of such an experiment would be best advised to remove some of their kit before doing so.
Sad but true. There's very little benefit, and a world of hurt, from those who want to do the right thing.
(And since BioShock is such a recent game, exactly what has it had the chance to influence yet?)
Well, you could look at Fallout 3 - there's a fair bit of the style that looks astonishingly similar to Bioshock... just look at the "Please Stand By" TV display for example.
[Cocking a snook at the blatant neophilia of the list]
My ten year-old 21" CRT does at least 1024 x 768 @ 120 Hz. I think it drops down to 100HZ for 1280 x 1024 though, but I'd still be willing to give it a shot.
It's a pity that you can't buy decent CRTs any more, as I've yet to see a TFT that comes close to the performance of my current monitor. I'll be forced to change when it dies, but until then you can pry it out of my cold dead hands.
"It took me nearly half an hour to realize that XP Home doesn't let you change permissions on files."
Really? I though you could get at NTFS permissions using (Explorer) Tools-> Folder options -> uncheck "Use simple file sharing".
If not, you still have CACLS if you're prepared to get your fingers dirty.
As well as that, how about setting the default admin account so you have no sounds, no desktop wallpaper, no animated cursors - none of the flashy crap that users seem intent on encumbering themselves with. You want the bling == run as a limited user.
However this would require limiting the capabilities of the Admin account, and this is something I'm not entirely happy with (as, admin *should* be equivalent to god mode).
I've been installing Foxit on new machines for about nine months now, and have a lot of love for it. It was the retarded reboot-on-upgrade policy of Adobe that particularly ticked me off (load times notwithstanding).
I noticed earlier today that V3 is out, will be giving this a trial run sometime over the next couple of weeks. Only thing I'm hoping for is that they've improved the process for unattended setups, as this is the only thing that bugs me at the moment.
"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11