I mean this is a cool idea and all, but it seems like any quest that could be considered a rip-off of a comic book plot could be another invitation for Marvel to sue. And with 60 years or so of comic books it's not likely that any story, even one that is an *entirely* original creation, will have great similarity to something, somewhere, in that massive pile.

open-source development project ... during which a federal official said "that open source was anti-capitalist."

OSS is anti-capitalist if when you say 'capitalist' you really mean 'Plutocracy'.

It amuses me that the average hater of "American Cultural Imperialism" knows more about those shows than I do.

This isn't the most influential games list, it's a favs list from someone born in 1990.

True enough, but it's a console list - plenty of the games you list had no or shitty console ports.

Their main customer base is going to be the people upset that WoW pvp isn't hardcore enough, so I think you can replace "generally" with "always" in this case.

I think the assumption that being gay is the defining aspect of a person's life is much more offensive than declaring that discussion of sexuality may not be appropriate in all settings.

Have you ever put YHBT YHL HTH HAND in an authorize header? Are you, or have you ever been, a regular at the scary devil monastery?

I thought 'QQ' was "round eyes filled with tears".

Many years ago I used telnet (and then an except script I hacked into mutt) to access hotmail via raw imap commands. Calendar and folder commands where accessible via (mostly) standard protocol.

Maybe they explicitly removed support for standards since then, but that's kind of aggressive foolishness seems unlikely. But I've always been surprised by the lengths people will go to in pursuit of fucking idiocy.

I don't care that console games are retreads. It does irritate me that mediocre games, Halo for example, are hailed as wonderful games. I hate dual-development brain damage in UIs. I hate seeing marketing tie-ins lead to technology decisions to use shitty systems like games for windows live.

Anecdotal evidence sucks.

Yes, but the user experience is what counts. All it takes is one video game to pitch a fit that it doesn't have admin privileges and hundreds of thousands of users have learned the lesson "just run as admin, it's less bother". The last couple months Fallout3 has been the popular game of the moment teaching users that security is painful to use.

It gives your customers something to chuckle over during traceroutes too. Why settle for letting them discover they traversed v11s0p1.dal01.blahblahblah.net, when you could let them know that they went through thebeast.bbb.net or ratbastard.wehateourjobs.com?

You've never dealt with a down system till you've been forced to learn 'ed' because you can't even get even get vt100 emulation working. It's a moment of sphincter clenching terror.

Darn kids with their hair and their termcap...

Putting on my tinfoil hat, might the 360 approved sticker require Bethesda to give Live an exclusive lead time on providing the DLC. So retail disks or Steam might be a possibility in 6 months or so.

I think the copyright issue is that they licensed the right to make a specific type of derivative work from the copyright holder. Whether they purchased that right outright or only for a specific film that was never made is unclear.