That's pretty awesome. I'm suddenly very interested in hearing your music. What kind of music is it? Could you link me to your website, or a source for your tracks?

Going anywhere NEAR the mag-safe connector needs so many rubber-stamp approvals from Apple. They'd either never allow it, or you wouldn't live long enough to see your idea come to fruition. Case & point: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/09/apples-magsafe-lawsuit-tests-limits-of-first-sale-doctrine/

How about the headline "Can all newspaper headlines ending in a question mark, be answered with 'No'?" Ha, Mr. Ian Betteridge, I was wise to your little game, and I beat you!

I couldn't have said it better myself. The real problem is... why does Microsoft insist on forcing it onto desktop users?

Probably true.

If the console is "digital download focused", it's likely the game on the disk will be a hard-copy of the downloadable files, with a code to unlock the game. You insert the disk, enter the code, authenticate with your account, wait for the files to install, and then promptly throw all physical media away, because it's useless to anyone else now.

For households with no internet, you'll have to do phone activation.

... I'm sad now. We live in a horrible world.

The main problem is indeed the policies. While I (mostly) agree with the main statements TFA makes, I have my own note to add:

My bank's website enforces a MAXIMUM length. I'd love to have a password like "c0rr3c7 h0r53 b4773ry st4p13", but I can't use more than 6 characters.
Yes, you read that right. 6 characters. Maximum.

I fear for my online bank info constantly .
Why would there ever be a reason to enforce such a small maximum length? I don't get it.

Come on! Now you're just grasping at straws...

I'd take having to buy a new set of Torx drivers over having to pry open something that's been glued together. At least the guy before you was kind enough to use screws in the first place.

Yes. Anyone with more information has been asked to e-mail robbery@vpd.ca. Videos can be uploaded PRIVATELY to YouTube, and shared with robbery@vpd.ca.

I can see it now: You're watching the video feed, and you see that your TV is missing (it was stolen! OH NO!). Moments later, the space where your TV was is filled with the ghostly image of a Samsung® 60" LED TV with Quatron® Technology using augmented reality. Clicking the image charges the TV to your Comcast account (along with a Comcast convenience fee), and instructs the installers where to hook it up. It also orders you a Comcast cable box, and monthly service to go with it.

AFAIK IsoHunt isn't a tracker... that's how they've avoided takedowns by the CRIA and similar for so long. They simply index the content of other trackers, acting like a search engine.

All I can find is the Comedy Central censored version!

Brewing beer isn't free. Unless you already own the equipment and ingredients, buying them can run you over $150 per batch. Then you have to count the time-consuming process of sanitizing the equipment, actually brewing beer, bottling it (hope you saved those bottles too!), and then drinking it before it expires (unless you can find some way to pasteurize it). However, if you do decide to do it, it is a very rewarding experience. Not free... but rewarding.

I just had this incredible vision of Steve Ballmer in zero-g whipping a chair hard enough that it falls into a stable orbit. One of those plastic, foldable brown ones... maybe with the word "Microsoft" embossed on the back.

I know someone who would always shake their iPhone immediately after rotating between landscape and portrait, just so "it knows I rotated".

I never had a problem with the accelerometer recognizing I've done something. Except when I use Rotation Inhibitor.