So from the headline, Digital Rights Management is made obsolete by a system that digitally manages the rights for playing the game?

this is just more evidence that anti-virus/malware products need to be on bootable read-only CDs that can connect to the internet, obtain current definition files, and scan and clean a computer before actually installing any realtime protection software.

This is almost exactly what I need for a little project I have in mind, except that it also needs to have a VGA video output port.

If they can't even read there own handwriting, how can you expect them to write a program to do it? You can not write code for something that you don't know how to do yourself!

Google shouldn't police the internet, but just like a good tour guide in an unfamiliar country I would expect them to at least warn me that it may not be safe for me to be in a certain neighborhood after dark. And that's just what Google seems to be doing.

Open the case cover and use compressed air (while the system is off and unplugged) to clean it out internally. Then turn it on and examine all of the system's cooling fans to make sure they operate. If a system is overheating, it will slow down (if it doesn't completely fail) until it cools down at which point it will speed up again. As these physical check are quite easy to do, why not start with them?

Where's the option for 'change his underwear' ?

Yep. It's been slashdoted

You can't really reduce or eliminate interference very well without a lot of effort (like special wall materials that block wireless signals), but you can work around the interference well enough by using a wireless spectrum analyser to determine where the interference is the weakest. Me, I use a very cheap (and limited) spectrum analyser like device called 'Wi-Spy'. This is basically a wireless reciever tuned to the same frequency range used by 802.11g wireless networks, combined with software that graphically illustrates the wireless signal strength throughout that spectrum. Using the data gathered with this tool I was able to configure my wireless router to use a channel which had the least ammount of outside interference in my area. This has worked great for me.

I tried to watch it but got a message stating that the video was removed due to copyright claims from Lucasfilm Ltd.

I don't know where you got your definition of "source code", but what was disclosed was definitely not the source, but something else entirely. I mean really, the first line isn't C, C++, C#, java, command scrips, Pascal, or any other source code language I have ever seen. Seriosly, what language is this: "QlpoOTFBWSZTWZCbNyYBVlN/"?

I love the part that says "due by Christmas". So does that mean that it's currently at least 3 weeks late, or does someone have a really aggressive marketing department that likes to announce things waaaay too early?

Yes, please please please develop more in-depth games for the Wii.

Here are two current games that I want, but have not purchased only because they are not available on the Wii, and I have not purchased any other console:

- Grand Theft Auto IV (I loved GTA III on the PC)
- F.E.A.R. II

And there are many others that I have passed up, the only reason being that they were not available on my console of choice (or more specifically, my controller of choice).

The population of the state of Kentucky is approximately 4 million people. Assuming a ridiculously high unemployment rate of 50% that would be 2 million people. Now, assuming that they all tried to file UI applications online at exactly the same time that would generate 2 million submissions. According to Wikipedia, the Intel Core2 CPU (which is less powerful than current server CPUs) can handle well over 20,000 MIPS (that's millions of instructions per second).

So, am I to understand that the software running on the government's UI application submission servers are so inefficient that they consume over 10 Billion processor instructions (20,000 MIPS divided by 2 million submissions) in order to accept and file the data for one single UI application? If so, then the programmers need to be quartered and hung!

I nominate the following as prime annoyances with Ubuntu (and most linux ditros):

- An inability to run the latest PC game that has 'Direct-X 10' in it's requirements list.

- Way too much funkiness (and reliance) on the command line. After all, when I see the following on a support forum I just get confused and turn the damn thing off.
# find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI | xargs -0 rm -f

- Man pages! Are you kidding me, even Windows has a much more usable help file sturcture.

- Support resources (forums, man pages, etc) that assume that you want to spend a few weeks learning a whole new language just to be able to do something that should be simple like access a file on your Windows' C: drive.

Maybe I'll have a look at this book and see if it helps...