Yeah, and electric motors won't be waking me up at 3am when some jackass decides to express his "soul" down my street. I'm sure going to miss that.

Yeah, it's at /index.html.

The regulators were tasked to check that the companies followed the procedures for checking their own operations.

This, incidentally, is exactly how SoX compliance functions. And what makes it entirely worthless.

Interesting. I wonder if the creators of Frantic Freddie paid the proper licensing fee to Queen for using their music in much of the game. Not many software creators back then did, so I highly doubt it.

"Pirate" Queen's music, people "pirate" your game. Seems fitting.

Yes.

Now they have to go through channels to get the kid removed from the NFL.

Tell him to try dog fighting.

I'll require you meet my needs as well as him, though I'll think of something more creative than moron to call you if you don't. Also, I won't tell you my needs unless you fail to meet them. ;)

Hey guys! I finally found a woman on Slashdot!!

In Canada you can't be held to a contract unless your of legal age. Since the majority of the target audience of console games is under 20 most of the people agreeing to the EULAs can't be held accountable, at least in Canada.

Small quibble, but the age of majority (in terms of contracts, anyway) in Canada is 18.

Doesn't detract from the rest of your thoughtful point though.

Risk is potential for harm.

Well then, if the potential for harm is how we judge morality, then EVERYTHING is immoral.

I can't think of a single thing a human being can do that could not in some conceivable way have a risk.

I can't think of anything that's morally wrong that doesn't cause harm.

Back to your earlier point - quite frankly, adultery, if the other party never finds out. No one's harmed here.

This is not the droid you're looking for.

In Alberta - it's illegal to have a billboard on a Highway. Based solely on the idea that it causes more accidents because billboards are distracting. This isn't a direct attack on the speed limit, a major factor, or Alchohol, another major factor. Because attempting to control those other 2 factors would cause a huge upset.

Everyone once in a while people post things that are 100% incorrect.

Alberta highways are full of billboards. No such law exists. From advertising the local ski resorts (of which we have many), to "keep Ottawa out of Alberta" (ie: Alberta separatists), we have plenty of billboards.

And those are only 2 examples out of the hundreds I saw last time I went on the road.

There are rules to limit them, but they are most certainly not illegal. If they are, it's certainly a law that's not being enforced very well.

There are guidelines, but no ban..

I bet Stack didn't even have his water bottle confiscated at security. No wonder he was able to crash a plane!

Well, let's face it - Stack was a white American, so you can't drum up the "damn Islamic foreigners" angle.

Plus, he's demonstrated quite nicely just how pointless most airport security is these days. I'm pretty sure he didn't have to go through a full-body scanner, and yet once again a terrorist has managed to crash a plane into an office building.

Some random Arab kid screws up even *trying* to crash a plane, and it's news for weeks, with subsequent major overhauls of government practices and even the President getting involved. Some random white American SUCCESSFULLY crashes a plane, into a civilian target, and we get a brief mention one night. Double standards, what are those?

I was also disappointed that Slashdot didn't post anything at the time (at least, this is the first story I've seen). Guy was a computer programmer, so there's the nerd angle. Plus, this site has been obsessed with any story hinting of this since 9/11.

How would you like to be incapacitated but aware and thrown onto a pyre... Yay! my last moments are insane amounts of agony as I am burned to death.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

(Actually, in Anakin's case it was fitting punishment for the acting atrocities committed a generation earlier)