And if Guitar Hero = Radio/Television/Movies/etc

It does not. HTH.

They do not get paid everytime someone pays rock band or guitar hero, because they licensed it, this is not a difficult concept. Guitar Hero!=Radio/Television/Movies etc.

They were payed royalty fees when they licensed the music to the game. ASCAP its just trying to manipulate the meaning of public performance for more money.

You googled ASCAP and failed to find anything? Try looking at anything but the first result maybe? Hell even the third pointing to wikipedia gives it away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Composers,_Authors_and_Publishers#Criticism

Google ASCAP, its just another organisation that operates like the RIAA. So yes, they do apply. I mean, they wanted people to pay for public performances of there work if your ringtone was a song that went off in public.

in order to keep a team large enough to make new free content like maps and other game features we need to increase the amount of BF that people buy

So people have to buy stuff from you to get free content?

Run that by me again?

About 10 years ago (MegaDrive/Genesis Era) I recall games getting 1,2 even a 0 out of 10. These days you give FIFA 2010 4 out of 10 for simply updating the graphics from the previous year and not touching anything else and EA will never send you a prerelease version of any game they have, or will ever have influence over again. Give it a 9/10 with a brief "Could have done more on gameplay" hidden in the review and your best of friends!

My NDS mostly gets used as an ebook reader these days, its far from perfect, but given its an mp3 player, web browser, movie player and gaming machine (last and but not least), its quite handy to have around. For those interested see http://www.ds-xtra.com/ReadMore.

It never took off? I've only ever used firewire for networking once, and that was for the sheer novelty of seeing if it could be done.

Really? ID cards are unpopular, they want to be elected, and oddly, they oppose it, funny that.

I've seen enough elections to know whilst they oppose it now, they'll love it if they get into power, lest the plebs think they matter.

Your assuming they aren't just using to let them access US Gov approved news, as opposed to the China/Iran Gov approved news they have now.

Any safe can be broken into, especially if its the police doing it, because no ones going to arrest them half way through the attempt. So key or no key, there getting what they want, though they may have something of a dim view of you come sentancing if you didn't give them the key and whatever illegal activity was in the safe. If there was nothing in said safe, and the key really had been lost, the police more or less wasted there time and your not guilty of anything, after all they never found that key either.

However, with encryption it could well take the span of several peoples life times to crack a key needed to unlock the data, hence the law brought in. However if you have genuinely lost the key, or its destroyed, and you have nothing illegal encrypted, say bank details and the like, your going to prison anyway.

These are likely times when the server maintainers would be asleep.