The HDCP master key is now publicly-known, so you can generate a new one.

The article says it's basically a module that absorbs light and converts it to heat, but if you had some kind of opto-electronic stuff in there, I guess it might end up being a useful receiver for fibre-optic communications?

If they're so profitable, then where's my linux client, damnit!?

Damn creationists...

If you want extremely light, you don't want a prototyping board with big easy board-to-board pin headers. From the very link you posted, Arduino has the Pro and Pro Mini, which is powered from 3.3V (ie. button cells), and is as minimal a board as you can get without designing one yourself. As for data storage, are you suggesting there's a microcontroller in the same class as the Arduino's Atmel chips that have much more memory? I think you'd be limited to off-MCU storage no matter what platform you're using.

Yeah, the point is, regardless of the complex issues on what media a society can and does accept into itself, Australia has a "restricted to 18+" category for everything except games, as if sane, mature adults don't play them. This is the reason some very good games had to be artistically neutered for the Australian market (to water it down to the MA15+ category), and why there is a pressure to shoehorn games (like DNF) that are fit for an 18+ categorisation into the MA15+ bin.

What about all these 15-18 year old kids who'll think it's okay to throw pipe bombs at a mutant pig cop!?

BTW, everyone on the internet should remember this (an example of a game that's very hard to pirate due to proprietary hardware) the next time a big media corporation wails on about piracy killing them.

From what I can tell, the marketing team did in fact implement the security in the PS3...

Not if you just dive into it - the Rage rail shooter has got a full high-tech 3D engine behind it, and must have cost substantially more to make, but only cost a few dollars as well. Maybe it's a loss leader, but I reckon they've made their money back.

It's not "research" if the leeched data appears on your production site automatically and without review...

To answer that seriously: it's because high-speed routing is done by ASICs (custom-designed chips) that can't easily cope with an extensible/dynamic system. You could have something similar to the Unicode system where you can have an infinite-sized address, but you can't process that in one clock cycle of a backbone router, so we have to compromise and set a very large but static size for the address. Several decades ago it was significantly more expensive to build a router that routed IPv6-sized addresses, so the compromise was much bigger than it is today.

Also, many security vulnerabilities/bugs in software are due to logical errors in handling dynamically-allocated memory. There would be an additional epic pile of fail in the computing world if internet addresses were like that.

Like the social networking trends of the past few years, I believe the most widely-used leak site will end up being one that limits you to 140-character leaks, called "leets"

It is when you fly it into a foreign country. Sort of like shipping decryption keys in end-user products.

That's exactly what I said. But it'd be the manufacturer that issues the cheque if the license has already been sold.

The original round of people that got a refund on their Windows licenses as allowed by the EULA in the past decade got more than $10, but less than the OEM price. That's the result of the kind of exclusive deal I was talking about.