Back in the Counter-strike heyday, my friend would commonly get banned from a server after a few rounds for cheating. All he had was surround-sound headphones and the fast-twitch accuracy of a Korean but I'd get banned by association. Being labelled a cheater doesn't prove guilt; why wouldn't they use VAC analysis rather than hearsay?

And the 'disable scores' check-box does nothing but fix it.

It's exactly as vague as where all the money went. How strange.

By testing it in a sandbox, of course! Here's a super-nifty free binary analyzer that runs in your browser: http://anubis.iseclab.org/

While we've had plenty of CG characters visually designed from scratch, it's a far cry to say that we're near being able to synthesize their voices. Even our most carefully-crafted synthesized characters (Wall-E, GLaDOS) used augmented human recordings!

For those who want to sign a probably-ineffective petition, http://www.freepress.net/comcast

That experiment was not testing sadism, as the subject was instructed to continue shocking the 'test taker' by an authority figure. The clear result was that people do whatever they're told.

Because things like stock car racing have absolutely no advertising going on? Sponsors don't have to influence the sport in the slightest to make truckloads of money.