"The consumer benefits because they are now getting exactly what they paid for."

Go to Ikea and get one of those white glass tables for like $140 (or however much they cost). Ta-da! Dry-erase table.

"Really astounds me that a game which is the better part of a decade old is quite that good looking!"

Eek. The social indoctrination. It's frightening to think that was serious in its time.

"They'd have to hire a whole team of people to watch every app that comes in to really catch everything."

"One guy I knew actually left the air conditioner on (admittedly, low) all day while he was out."

I never turn my computer off.

It's 12:01am PDT in the Americas. Which is 2:01am in EST (afaik).

That's not entirely true. While the police don't need a warrant to search a car, they do need probable cause (as cases have proven). The problem has been deciding what constitutes probable cause, and decisions like that usually err in favor of the officer.

He said World of Warcraft, but the image had Lineage II character models, skill icons and other assets. But I know that's not Lineage II...

That's funny given Adobe has almost the most easily foiled DRM solution in the industry. Some people believe they do that on purpose to get more people using their software, but I digress.

I know the jailbreak community has an emulator or two that support Bluetooth gamepads, but nothing comes to my mind otherwise.

"Faction-Based Player Versus Player Combat"

Ding! Your Easy Bake muffins are done!

This is supposed to take place in the same timeline as Alien. Just long, long, long before the events of Alien. So it's not a true "prequel."

I think Firefox is the only browser that supports the blink tag anymore.

If you read the article, you would have noticed that it mentions D-Box (or at least D-Box type motion seats):

ATI hasn't been a brand in almost two years now.

After you've been the game (or don't care about spoilers), I suggest you read though this: [docs.google.com]

I second this.