Read Manna by Marshall Brain. It's an interesting view of two potential post-labor robot-driven economies. I hope we end up in the robot-driven paradise instead of the everyone-on-welfare dystopia, but I'm not convinced we will. I'm crossing my fingers for a Star Trek economy in my lifetime.

(Of course, given that we're looking perhaps a bit beyond 30 years in the future, it'll probably look very similar to today in a lot of ways with some changes that nobody predicted.)

Apparently the NSA is taking a page from police departments here. (Warning: autoplaying video.)

I would check the DS Lite guides at iFixIt, they're pretty good. You'd probably want to follow their upper LCD replacement guide except you'd just reconnect the one you've already got (hopefully it really is a loose connection and not a dead screen).

You should get a tri-wing screwdriver and reconnect it. They're really not that complicated on the inside. I've replaced the entire top screen of my DS original before due to my younger cousin stepping on it.

Reasonable but evil. I would not do business with this company.

Reasonable and not evil. Understanding the terms of a loan typically means you're going to make at least a good faith effort to fulfill your obligations. I would probably do something like this myself.

Unreasonable, evil, AND the potential to steal money from everyone who has applied for a loan! Is that you, Enron?

Yes, please.

Let me stop you right there.

Shills like you sully the name of Anonymous Coward.

Would I play GoldenEye 007 on an N64 emulator in higher resolution? Yes. Yes I would.

I was just trying to point out that it's not quite as ridiculous as CSI's "enhance".

I was wondering about this, and if they can move their eyes, with eye-tracking software they can do a hell of a lot better than binary Y/N. That said, I'm very sure the people in charge of this know way better than I do.

He has standing to sue if he can prove to a FISA court that he was unfairly targeted. Good luck.

I know it's a joke, but 3D games CAN benefit from higher resolution than that for which they were designed. The textures get blurred a little, but the edges of geometry remain sharp. Think of it in terms of raster vs. vector images: you can upscale a vector image without losing sharpness. The same goes for 3D geometry.

Ah, that means that in addition to not being able to tell people about it, the researcher will now be liable, perhaps even criminally so. Just wait.

I did this back when the Wii was initially released to get one for retail when they were going for twice that on eBay. Scraped the major retailers product pages on a cron and told me when there was stock (which usually lasted a couple of minutes). Worked pretty well.