Thanks to this open format known as HTML, it's not too hard to build a screen-scraper and get your data back out.
Ah, but you're forgetting that doing so is generally against their terms of service and can lead to your account being suspended or banned.
Most 2-D platformers were abstract, you didn't think "Oh, Mario's mustache isn't moving realistically", you concentrated on the game.
When games started moving into 3-D and realistic 3-D, things started to get more realistic. They moved out of the abstract. You noticed that Mario was really blocky, round visuals were rendered as squarish, etc. They felt limited.
Maybe it's just that games have hit the uncanny valley and it's turned out to be more of a gaping chasm?
What legal right exactly does schools have to do a search to begin with?
I believe schools (at least in the UK) are in loco parentis, or "in the place of the parent" during school time. This gives them parental rights and responsibilities over the child. So if a parent has the right to search their child, then the school technically does as well.
Next up, Microsoft Linux!
... is wide and blurry these days which, incidentally, is part of the reason why we have binary blogs for wireless drivers in the Linux kernel
To keep us updated on their experiences, and the traffic they're receiving? A disturbing thought...
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (7) Well, it's an excellent idea, but it would make the compilers too hard to write.
