You, my good sir, are right. From the DNSSEC FAQ:

You're absolutely right. They follow you during broad daylight.

I was thinking the same thing. Couple the ZFS-enabled system with an eSATA array, and you'd be golden for quite some time. Chenbro has some decent solutions for the array side of things. Only other requirement would be a PCI-e card.

Once you start working with a high volume of disks, things tend to not stay quiet for long, so hidden away is probably the best solution. I keep my hardware in a spare bedroom, with foam bricks underneath the louder(read: 1RU with wasp fans) and It hasn't bothered me or my downstairs neighbours.

The first one that really pops into my mind is Sun(or I suppose now Oracle). These guys definitely make more than 1 million in revenue, or profit. The Verilog for the UltraSPARC T1 and T2(The CoolThread family) was released under the GPL. They don't talk much about it, and apparently nobody else really does either, but they pull in big money, and the general consensus is that the GPL is Open Source.

That's odd. I was one of the Resident Technicians at a Staples in Nova Scotia until the 16th. At least here in Canada, the OEM systems are configured to run the factory restore image on first boot. The user then sets up the Windows update settings, language, etc. May be different where all of our systems are multilingual. As far as looking on the shelf goes, that's just a bad idea. Any yahoo walking past the system can flick over to the windows update settings and change them, or do any other number of things. One of the reasons we do a factory restore on the sale of a demo here. That, and to reset those 30 day trials.

Not making games for the PC to kill piracy isn't an approach to the issue. Case in point.

Pirate Bay Xbox360 Titles

If you look at the bottom, you'll notice that the page count goes all the way to 64(possibly further, but they cut you off at page 50 and tell you to search.)
Piracy isn't reserved to the PC. Its just we're the only ones that take any flak for it.

An SLC Punk reference. Bravo, good sir.

Nubian, eh? We got lots o' dat.

I'd love to see what happened the year after the superbowl went flag...

The biggest problem I have about this is that the complaining now stops after a video game movie is made. I didn't hear any complaining about the Doom movie. I doubt we'll hear anything about the upcoming Silent Hill movie either, even with the unavoidable gore that will end up coming about.

Complaining about things like this would make more sense if they were consistent across the board. When a video game becomes less interactive, if the reasoning is that they are violent to begin with, they should have the same effect.

Luckily, nothing that the government does as far as restrictions are concerned will effect me, simply because I'm already over the ages that the rating system effects.