What about legal gambling apps?

@my name is jonas: Out of curiosity, how much do credit card verification companies currently take from the overall bite?

About darned time. I thought Microsoft was going to do this in XP, until they cut it. Maybe now this will light a fire under them.

@bohn002: There is an HTC phone running a network aware iOS app over Edge in the 1950's, leading to the shocking revelation that a jazz coverband is covering a song, and your issue is that it wouldn't yet be in Shazaam's online database servers?

"I knew we shouldn't have used Mapquest"

They originals may be down from YouTube, but they're not off the internet. Here are the cartoons in question:

@Kuro: Give your kids the wheel (though not the pedals) to your car in a parking lot when they're five. Have them drive simulators, go-karts, and get behind the real wheel as often as is safe. All with your supervision. Drive with them throughout their permit. When they get their license, only let them drive…

@Pancakes?? FRENCH TOAST!!: Gasoline has a higher concentration of energy than sunlight. A 30% yield of a larger crop is significantly more energy.

I really, really wish I didn't want to spend $100 on Kinect because of the Burger King videogames. They just hit the right combination of "Wrong" and "Obscure" to pull at my collector's heartstrings.

I've been in late-stage playtesting sessions. They always happen, and they generally happen too late to do anything major about the feedback.

@oogabubchub: True, though with Blizzard's game output Battle.net really only applies to one title every two years. That's almost as bad as 1 DRM per title. Battle.net really should, then, be pulled across all of Actiblizzard's titles.

@oogabubchub: Sorry, I didn't mean to muddy the waters. IMHO Blizzard *should* use Steam, or some standardized PC protection suite that is under the control of the user. Per-title DRM systems have an annoying habit of creating instabilities over many years of gaming.

Wow. Suing under copyright infringement because the modifications break the user agreement, thereby revoking the right to the RAM "copy." While I encourage them to protect the integrity of their multiplayer component, this just feels like the wrong precedent to set in court. Basically, it would cement the EULA as…

A one trick pony that is actually actively looking for new tricks. I have to respect that. The one trick ponies that never branch out into other potential funding sources just don't survive.

I'm saddened, but not surprised. Game Room's sales numbers, as pulled in through leaderboard scraping, were roundly small. Over a 3 week study, there were only 2 games launched games that broke 1,000 sales. Even legends like Kaboom didn't break 500, and a few games didn't break 100. This is in an industry where…

How is this convoluted? There is a "hardware kit," which appears to be just a remote control, and the install disk. Obviously, other country's solutions are going to need to install something, somewhere.

And yet in the US, who Justin Bieber is dating is essential to the fantasy. While cultures and cultural interpretations can be very different, I have to feel like proper application of a spinwheel could make things like this a positive.

If you need to have personal stuff on a computer that might go in for repair, put it on a True Crypt encrypted file*. That way the computer person can access your system and try to fix any software problems, but your important personal files remain safely tucked away.

@twilsonx: Microsoft? I could see Nokia producing an excellent hardware design for a Portable Xbox.

A friend of mine and I were comparing Casio watches today. She had that completely generic 80's black-with-blue-line model from 30 years ago, with 2 buttons on each side and the incomprehensible interface. I had just picked up a modern Casio with white-on-black lettering and a vibrating alarm... but it still had…