@i_weir: The cop had the right to order him off the phone? When he's not related to the crime? The cop has authorization to arrest someone for talking on the phone? If you're talking on the phone, the officer as the right to "ground you?" If you look at the video, there is a pool of blood on the ground and on his…

You can always munge your passwords to include the site name. A gizmodo login might be passwordGIZ, and a facebook password might be passwordFAC. It won't stand up to all that much scrutiny, but it will prevent the bulk of automated cross-attacks that plague our systems.

@BoxOfScraps: The city walls can hold off some pressure, but not that. At a moderate depth, you're looking at 360,000 pounds of pressure on every square foot of those buildings. The slightest imperfection would lead to a catastrophic near-instantaneous collapse... a soda can exploding in reverse. You couldn't get…

@RykinPoe: If it makes you feel any better, Levine also worked on the System Shock series. A lot of the old Looking Glass guys have good feelings around the "Shock" name. BioShock was probably the closest they could get to a non-infringing version of the original name.

@BoxOfScraps: You realize the water pressure of a city under the water would be enough to crush any man almost immediately. There isn't enough of an energy source to make it feasible. Traveling through water, the vibrations put off by the city would literally be heard around the world. They would need insane…

No, Doom 3would have been more enjoyable if it wasn't a draggy, slow, derivative mess. It took an hour of nothing happening before you got to actual shooting, and all you spent the entire game doing was trying to get from one side of a base to the other, then back again. No real part of the game was innovative,…

I'm sure it will hurt HP's board's chances of finding a new CEO if they gain a reputation for shielding their executives and overpaying them on their way out.

@darkboy1200: I'm guessing they're thinking about an update after the next major overhaul of their engine. Which would probably be tied with Half Life 3, which will probably take forever.

Wow. Nobody supports games like this. I love Valve.

@Donuthead: It doesn't seem to destroy the drive, just the encryption key. There is no technical reason why a new key can't be generated, and the drive formatted again. So you could copy to an external, move the old drive over, and copy it back.

@Hvedhrungr: Also, all of the data should probably be in the cloud. Your laptop really ought to be a simple connection to a perforce server with your business life on it. Losing a laptop should be a simple process of grabbing another one and re-connecting to the data you've been working on. Like changing shoes:…

@Californian: Of course, everyone should be on UPS's. That's what the U is for.

@Midnight_Tengen: My understanding is RAM is less volatile than one would expect, though encrypting your RAMdisk should remove that risk.

@ikaiyoo: Also, stolen FBI laptops will no longer compromise the security of citizens. Technicians who leave laptops on trains won't lose millions of people's credit card numbers, etc. I'm guessing these will also be royally expensive and not-at-all targeted at the normal consumer.

@AttackAllAround: It seemed like Scribblenauts gave you phenomenal cosmic power, but very little of it worked as you would think it worked. You could build bridges, which were just big blocks, but you were better off filling holes with walls until you could cross. You could try to appease a rampaging zombie with…

@ataggata: Definitely. Those 3 games were pretty much the only thing the Jaguar had going for it. I can attest that Cybermorph, Checkered Flag, and Trevor McFur are all embarrassingly bad.

My first time playing Doom was on the Jaguar. Explain *that* to your video game psychologist.

Each school is turning out about a hundred game designers each year. There are about 100 schools in the US doing this. That's about 10,000 people each looking for a game design position.

I've always felt there was a degree of designed control difficulty in fighting games that simply serves to separate the lower-end from high-end play. For example, the timing of some of the moves in Street Fighter IV is really, really tight. Hit an attack sequence just right, and do good damage. Hit a fraction of a…

@Aces_Over_Kings: It can help for taking photos at a party, then sending people home with their photos before they leave. It is a little risky, but let's be frank: most of these photos are crap anyway. You're just going to look at them and giggle that your friend Lisa had a rabbit in her shirt. A contrast problem…