You've jested about this in the past, but do you have any thoughts on running for a political seat in the Canadian government? We'd love to have you (but hey, anyone can do better than the current guy in the top seat).

My organization (which publishes OSS) is doing the same thing, and is using a law student to help coalesce the group into a formal entity (of which there are many types each with their own pros and cons). I'm sure there are many organizations in the same condition, and having someone do the (arduous) research to formalize the entity will help in procuring grants and other sources of funding that aren't available to informal entities.

This sounds like BS, but college is about "critical thinking", not learning skills. Even in CS, which is somewhat an applied degree (rather than say philosophy, which I also recommend for anyone no matter what career path you take), what you learn isn't going to apply directly to your career -- but its going to make you better at picking up skills, knowing when to use them, and to allow you to adeptly communicate your intentions. Its been a few years since college, and while I pretty much thought it was useless while I was there, I think I'm a smarter, more well-rounded person because of it (plus, I made all my connections while in school, which resulted in the beginning of my career).

There's been plugins like this forever, e.g. 'Tree Style Tab'. I can't use a browser without it, though a lot can be done to make this plugin and its cousins better.

I'm not sure about the laws in the states (I'm pretty sure that you're statement is correct), but up here in good ol' communist Canada, you can do whatever the hell you want to do to hardware you purchase as long as its not used to hurt people or melt the igloos we all live in.

I paid for that service. I also paid a lot of money for content from that service (game addons, movies, etc). In fact, MS probably makes a lot more money from me from online content than whatever they would get if I spent $60 for each game. I got banned literally 2 weeks after my year-long xbox live account was renewed.

Furthermore, and this is no excuse, I had no idea I could get banned with a modded xbox. I suppose this taught me a lesson (well, not really because I'm moving on to a PS3 now), but to me its a crappy way to treat 1 million *paying* customers.

I was included in this recent ban wave, and though I knew what I was doing was wrong, its not necessarily illegal (at least here in Canada), and I never thought I would get banned off of XBox Live--If I did, I wouldn't have done it. So in a sense, this has taught me a lesson, but not in Microsoft's favor--I'm going to get a PS3 instead of a new XBox, and I think a lot of other people are too.

'It Came From the Desert' and 'The Beast' need to come back. Amiga games were epic.

Am I the only one that thought about baseball as soon as they read this? I don't think I should be allowed on this web site anymore.

**$tarDu$t* also recommends David Bowie's Station to Station for a complete botnet soundtrack.

Ensure your users pick good passwords, by preventing them from entering passwords described here (e.g. their firstname, "password", "qwerty", etc).

Similarly, all of my machines (or drives) are named after great thinkers.. Plato, Nietzsche, DaVinci, etc. It helps to remind me that there is a world of thought outside of computers.