Northern Illinois University banned NERF guns after the school shooting on Valentines day last year, much to the dismay of our local Zombies vs Humans crowd.

Everyone ended up having to just throw socks if I remember right from their protest flyers.

Jury Nullification.

As everyone says, opting out of spam mails just shows the spammer that your email is still active, and that you bother to look at the spam beyond deleting it.

The only opt out links worth following are ones you know the source of; i.e. something you once opted in to, or did not opt out of when you bought something.
e.g. Bought something at newegg and did not uncheck the box about mailing you about specials and deals.

Essentially, opting out only works for non-spam mailing lists. Spammers don't care and just use it to acknowledge a good target.

Rather than standard cat6, get Denon's super high fidelity cable. http://www.usa.denon.com/productdetails/3429.asp

"AK-DL1

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If it's good enough for high fidelity audio reproduction, it should be good enough for our crappy data only needs. /smirk

Nah, for including generic but basically functional device drivers, without an obvious prompt to visit the hardware manufacturer's website to obtain their drivers instead.

Robin Hood games :) I seem to remember one based on Prince of Thieves, but I don't recall if it was SNES or NES. Fun though, and a similar idea of freedom fighting against oppression. I'd play a more modern game like that.

I've only had them push the gutted copies on me three times, and they've never refused to let me look at the disc first and then decide. It's still pretty bogus that they sell it as new, but you can always choose to wait for a wrapped copy if you don't like it.

All in all, like you said, it really isn't that big a deal as long as people are willing to ask to look at it first and refuse if necessary.

Last I checked, SNES emulation on DS had about 0 fully working titles, and about the same number of basically playable titles. When did that change?

My thinking is that most civilian craft employ only passive sonar, whereas military is much more likely to use both passive and active sonar. Active pings being what causes the damage.

Or maybe all craft have both active and passive capability, but the civvy crafts are less likely to need active for anything, and certainly military craft are more likely to test their active sonar more often.

They really should consider just making sure their Silent Hill PSX code runs right via PSN classic distribution, and then sell that for $5 or $10.

It might even be cost effective, since the only cost would be Sony's tube tax, and a few guys to test it out and make some changes if necessary.

Compared to a whole rewrite, including mob placements and plot adjustments, it should be dirt cheap.

My problems with pulseaudio isn't a bug, but a design flaw. Until they create an option in the PA sound server to let you set DTS/DD streams to passthrough, bypassing the sound mixing, PA is fail to me.

PA seems like a great system for people who don't want to use an external dolby decoder for surround sound and are fine with everything either stereo or decoded by software. But for my needs, it currently fails to plain ALSA. Toss me a way to do proper passthrough and I'd sign up with PA again. It's not like I need or want sound mixing when I'm watching something with surround sound anyway.

If a thief were really after your data, it'd be pretty trivial to remove the hard drive from the laptop, and just have to worry about encryption.

This feature won't help protect your data really, just make laptop itself a paperweight.

Move out of America, and magically the same model phones won't drop calls. It's not their fault, it's the huge size of the continental US combined with the overall ineptitude of the major mobile carriers here (AT&T/Cingular, I'm looking at you)

Some people maybe have to back up rather large sets of data. Piles of CAD drawings, raw video edits, renders... Some stuff is too large or numerous to fit on just a laptop, USB key, or online storage.

Just my guess. I can't imagine how much it would suck to try to do an online backup of 500GB.

It effectively makes it likely that retailers will completely stop advertising or using ESRB ratings, since it is the least costly way to ensure they never run afoul of the new legislation.

Then the people ragging against video games can point out that retailers don't even follow the ESRB ratings, and claim that the self-regulation clearly is not working, and try to get even more harsh, government backed regulations in place to fully replace the ESRB.

As far as the bills official intent, it seems pretty fail. But it has potential to encourage, and perhaps even achieve, the bills proponents' eventual goals.