> It is just like the police using bait cars to catch car thieves.

Of course that, "crime provocation", is illegal in some countries. Yes, for the police too.

"Unless this Court enjoins Defendants' unlawful conduct, hackers will succeed in their attempts to ensure that pirated software can be run on the PS3 System, resulting in the destruction of SCEA's business."

"The explanation was broadcast live through multiple video and audio streams on the Internet [...] including in California"

There's also the bit about Californian jurist. because someone used github. It's like if I would claim jurist. on an american because they use IKEA furniture.

That's great for those who want it, but how about those of us who'd rather bang closer to the metal?

I see some nerds switching to http://duckduckgo.com/

No doubt with Berlusconi owning TV stations and setting policy, there are all sorts of gravy flowing from tax payers to TV stations for google to now tap into? Make lemonade! I mean, IF there were something like "tax break if you show more than X hours of educational material in a year", google need just apply RIAA mathematics to show that they show positive infinity hours of educational material in a year.

I'd settle for AES using a pre-shared key.

But that's NOT how publishers see it nowadays. XBox360 is considered the premier FPS/3PS platform, vastly outselling (the important metric to pubs) PCs and getting games that never even hit the PC (such as the latest Halos)

What this shows, assuming the numbers haven't been fudged somehow, is what we all knew; PC players are more mature.

(I'm with the rest of the sane world, FPSes on Consoles make no sense whatsoever as long as they reject the mouse, which they do because they're ASSHOLES)

They "fix" this by linking intent to it. This way they can enforce it completely arbitrary.

Since the only thing I really never want and haven't been able to control using the built-in options, are those annoying ad-things which highlight words, I've been using a user-javascript in Opera with a hook to detect and disable them. Sure, I need to manually update it a couple of times per year, but no big deal. To use, find/set your user javascript directory under "prefs->advanced->content->javascript options" and just drop the file there.

Only took seven years, but now I'm using them and liking them. Would probably prefer them to expand vertically instead of horizontally, and while I realize it's a niche-request and might not work well in practice, I'd still like the ability to automatically redirect pages into groups using regex against title/url/whatever.

The military as a whole would be better off, and you'd be free to explore your insecurities. Win-Win!

7) lower uid than you on slashdot.

I have one rule about C++ complaints; I don't listen to them unless the person behind them indicate that they've actually read "The Design & Evolution".

Too much like listening to high-schoolers discussing "2.999... is 3" or doors with goats behind them otherwise.

We already have many other browsers with the "other" type of interface. Why make Opera an also-run? I use opera because I like the interface. I like having my mail view up in the side panel to the left of my browser windows, with my tabs at the bottom. I don't get what's so odd about the interface.

Just more crying about things being slightly different, just like we hear about Blender and GIMP.

You are right in most of what you wrote, but I must take issue with this:

>At worst, the US would simply null the debt and stop trading with them causing little trouble in the US and ruin in China.

If you think that would cause "little trouble in the US" then I think you're extraordinarly naive. The Economy of the World of built on trust, if the US were to say "screw you, we won't honor our oblications wrt US treasury bonds"... let's just say the ramifications would be extraordinarily bad for the US and the world. But mostly for the US.

Also, given the recent CDO fiasco, I wouldn't dare speak of the US vs China relation in such simplistic terms as "We owe them so much it's their problem".

I guess the next step is writing a novel using a hexeditor?

I get using a simple editor to not get down in layout/font issues, but I don't get using ed over vim (or emacs or any other simple text editor). This story failed to sell me on the concept. Is the idea that because it's hard to navigate in ed, you're not tempted to rewrite during the first pass? Seems a bit weak, you should probably have the mental power to just not do that.