And here I was just thinking of The Colour Out of Space...

Sure, and a protection racket could do a much better job keeping things safe by performing regular inspections, replacing smoke detector batteries, etc.

Katana, maybe?

Just don't expect long term (5+ year) success out of it.

It seems that he doesn't expect that long term success can be had anymore, for a single game. In a much more detailed report of another talk by Hilleman, the reporter says (I assume paraphrasing Hilleman):

Piracy and sales of used games have taken their toll. The latter means that game sales have no long tail; most sales happen in the first three to six weeks; thereafter, used game sales where publishers get no percentage of the cut take over. Burnout Paradise has twice as many users as it has games sold, a fact that is explained by the sales of used games and by game piracy.

There are ways, though! Shortly thereafter was a rather sickening line:

There are new categories like Webkinz, where you buy a plush toy and get a code where you can log in online to play games. For kids, "those games are like crack," Hilleman said. "Don't you wish you invented that?"

I assume that I should have read the article first, bah.

I assume the first two ;s are supposed to be ,

Gah, I was just able to overcome the Lovecraft-induced nightmares and get some sleep again, thanks a lot.

Well conveniently enough murder is illegal...
How about unscrupulous individuals with the publishing rights conspire to keep the brain dead husk of the author alive"? Or vanish him when near death to keep his expiration date unknown?

Er, yes? Do you expect those with the most advertising to not be the most widely known?

Just very, very improbable.

Aw, missed a chance for "aloud"

Fair enough, that example relies on pointer dereferencing. As you say references must refer to a valid object, and for the most part this is enforced by requiring them to be initialized.
While it's circuitous to have a never valid reference, it isn't particularly unlikely:

struct A {
        int& ir1;
        int& ir2;
        A(int& i) : ir1(ir2), ir2(i) {}
};

With enough warnings enabled g++ warns about this, but I don't think it's the "don't compile this" kind of illegal but rather the "certain failure at runtime" kind, like any uninitialized variable. Likewise the simple:

int& f() {
        int i;
        return i;
}

Undefined, but no more forbidden than taking the address and returning it.

Your point that it causes "undefined behaviour" is exactly my point, were references properly constrained by the language this would be outright illegal, not merely undefined. Of course I haven't read the standard or Stroustrup closely enough to be able to cite anything so fire at will.

int* ip = 0;
int& ir = *ip;

I was at one of Stallman's talks on copyright, where he was preaching for change (among other things no copyright on "knowledge works" like software), and indeed exactly this question came up. When asked how the GPL would stand without copyright, he suggested that there would need to be new laws specifically addressing the issues of software freedom.

While you're dreaming up your personal utopia, why not?

Hey, if we're listing... my family's home machines have been named after fictional computers or artificial intelligences:
hactar, neuromancer, wintermute, brainiac, Windows boxes included Deep Thought, The Earth, The Oracle, and The Architect, routers were ennesby and jane, NAS is max (Headroom, that is).
I had a series of external hard drives named Kingdom, Power, Glory, and Forever.
My university's CS department named the computers in the labs after cereals, pasta, and soups (which identified what room they were in). When I was working there I started setting up some Final Fantasy themed ones (gurgu, corneria) but didn't get very far.