I hope they also dispel the impression that it’s OK to camp on the left lane as long as you're doing the speed limit. You should ALWAYS yield the left lane to someone who wants to pass you, no matter how fast you are driving.

Well, anyone who trusts a download site to be “virus-free” is being foolish, but that said, technically speaking the Transmission attack was a trojan horse, not a virus.

It’s a bit self-derivative, but not bad. I liked it until I saw the tach with the 6000 RPM redline. Please tell me that’s just because the engine is cold...

Wolf Children is a great anime. A few cautions though: it has a bittersweet ending that, which great for adults, may tend to confuse or frustrate small children. It also has a “bambi’s mom” moment.

Shake & Bake!

Well, I spent this past weekend racing this thing around COTA:

That’s a bit harsh. The GT-R is getting kinda long in the tooth now, but when it came out it was pretty much unbeatable from a price-performance perspective, on or off the track. And yes, you probably want to make some modifications if you plan to track your GT-R on a regular basis, but that’s true of pretty much…

Needs a few more clicks of front wing.

I’m ok with the idea of LCS design as a cutter. I’m just questioning why we really needed both classes of ships.

Hmmm. It's a reasonable argument but I'm not sure I entirely buy it. For one, anti-piracy and drug interdiction sound like a good job for a Coast Guard cutter, like one of the new ships developed for the Coast Guard IDS program. Not sure why the navy needed another design (not to mention two!).

I’ve wondered for a while now how much of this program was driven by a top-heavy organizational need to have more hulls in the water, and more captain’s chairs to go with them.

It really depends how smart the back end of the system is. A well-designed 2FA implementation will plug a bunch of data into a risk model (for example, are you using a computer you have used previously) and use the resulting risk score to decide whether or not to hassle you with a second factor. A quick-and-dirty…

So you’re telling me that free-market fundamentalism doesn’t always work quite as promised? Color me shocked...

Whenever law enforcement is convolved with revenue generation, you end up with incredibly perverse behavior. This is just one more example.

Given the potential for tragic misuse it’s pretty obvious why we’d be reluctant to slip a few MANPADS (covertly, of course) to the anti-Assad forces currently under Russian air attack. However, it makes me wonder whether it would be possible to develop a MANPADS system that would be electronically “locked” to a…

I guess I’m getting old. I consider university students kids :). They have the rights and responsibilities of an true adult, but lack the perspective.

Sure. But in this case I’ll let someone else spend the $50+ to try things out and wait for the reviews :). And BTW, I wasn’t trying to dampen your enthusiasm - we all enjoy different things when it comes to games. I was just trying to explain some of the negative attitudes you’ve been seeing in the comments.

Oh geez. They’re kids! We’re all narcissistic as kids - the ubiquity of cameras and photo sharing these days just makes it more obvious. Sometimes we eventually grow out of it. Sometimes.

Nick Ha beat me to it. My concern is also with the “finding new things” aspect of NMS. A procedurally-generated universe is theoretically capable of generating infinite variety. In practice, a universe like NMS that is based on creating variations from a finite menu of variables and archetypes, will probably have a…

One minor correction: counterfeit fraud that is not the responsibility of the merchant under the new system is covered by the issuing financial institution (the issuing bank, in the case of Mastercard and Visa), not the network.