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  1. ID Software on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books · · Score: 0

    ID software used to do this to it's games, so they would run without the CD in and with a patch. They are very smart guys ...

  2. Disavow! Disavow! on Asteroid the 'Size of a Minivan' Exploded Over California · · Score: 0

    Disavow! Disavow! :o)

  3. Funny on Millions of Brits Lose Ceefax News Service · · Score: 0

    Mine is still on, the news is updated in real time, not like the stupid html one that does not work properly. :0)

  4. Blu ray on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 0

    Blu Ray uses this as part of it's firmware. It will be interesting to see what happens if the licence conditions change and it has to be removed with an update that installs automatically from a new blu ray disk. Many other devices are this precarious too! As are many other US developed software environments. In general, we could all break because bad licences exist in the united states that were not legislated against.

  5. It's worthwhile remembering on The Three Flavors of Windows 8 · · Score: -1

    Many of the "mobile device" type PC Peripherals (phones, pads etc.) use a cut down intel CPU and will have to use the main intel versions of the OS. A very comprehensive MP3 player is therefore possible, with an NVIDIA mobility chipset for the display. I wonder what games that will allow? Hmmm...

  6. It leads to better DOCTOR outcomes, like they get a bigger car ... :0)

  7. Duplication of effort on Engineers Working On Swarm Of Laser Wielding Satellites To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: -1

    We've already done one! We use self detonating attack robot overlords. Would you trust a Glaswegian university to control weapons of mass destruction like that anyway? Maybe they need psychological testing because they are advocating space born light speed projected nuclear strength beam energy weapons, to be put in the most deadly, crazy and strange people imaginable. Scottish academics. :0)

  8. The Orb on Dysfunction In Modern Science? · · Score: -1

    They were even implying that alcohol, tobacco and LSD were harmful. Exactly the opposite of what we now know to be true.

  9. They built all the phones on Chinese Firm Helps Iran Spy On Citizens · · Score: -1

    They built all the phones, an easy job to pull off over the last 10 years or so! :0)

  10. Funny on NHTSA Suggestion Would Cripple In-Car GPS Displays · · Score: -1

    There comes a point when you have to designate a driver as unfit to drive a vehicle. What are they going to try next? Clutter reject the road by insisting all the fire hydrants and road markings are removed?

  11. All that dough! on Ask MIT Researchers About Fusion Power · · Score: -1

    If I don't see a glowing doughnut filled with plasma pumping out exawatts of juice by next Tuesday, there'll be heck to pay! :0)

  12. Mystic Mercury on Mystery Rising Within Mercury · · Score: -1

    So it has come to this.

  13. The irony of inland espionage on NSA Chief Denies Claims of Domestic Spying · · Score: 0

    There's this standard irony in security related work. In setting up a system that can be spied upon (i.e. a hacked system) you will hire commercials to produce the hack who will also pass these little gems of knowledge on to other organisations that they (outside of work) do spying for (religions, countries etc.). Eventually in looking for people who are a threat to security you will generate holes in your national infrastructure that will leave your country wide open to espionage and destructive hacking. It also means that we have mobile phones and laptops that can be crashed with jammers as well, which damages everybody. Remember to stay paranoid! :0)

  14. Tell People that they still make PCs on HP To Combine PC, Printer Divisions · · Score: 1

    HP REALLY need to tell people that they still intend to make PCs via a publicity campaign and it was a mistake. And they need to patch their errant 8M GPU models BIOS (or what ever) so they are not radio crash-able which was the only item that was dud and caught bad press ...

  15. How do we know on Detecting Chess Cheats Taxes Computers · · Score: 0

    How do we know that this program is not a cheat to allow stupid friends to win with a cut of the millions of USD prize money? Who can trust this?

  16. Heard it before on Satellites Expose 8,000 Years of Civilization · · Score: 0

    Presumably they will come to the ultimate frantic crazy conclusion that it was cavemen until 0BC then all christian with no margin for error... :0)

  17. You can make them with robots like Nissan do with cars, I would suggest that this is the best way forward anyway.

  18. Vat about a Gimp? on SpaceX Gets Astronauts To Try Out Its Dragon Crew Cabin · · Score: 0

    Do they get full control of the ship, or have US astronauts been reduced to “Spam In The Can?” :0)

  19. AHA!!! on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: -1

    Rabbi Falstein are you laying NAZI traps again? Shame on you! :0)

  20. Who are SWIFT? on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 0

    Who are SWIFT? I've never heard of them before ...

  21. Hmmmm on Scientists Work Towards Naturally Caffeine-Free Coffee · · Score: 0

    Coffee that does not work eh? Is this some kind of stupid metaphor?

  22. A desire for training as litmus on Companies More Likely To Outsource Than Train IT Employees · · Score: 0

    Most computing related jobs are learned by reading large manuals, training courses can only impart a very low volume of information in comparison. If people are repetitively asking for training, it just might be the case that the wrong people have been hired. It takes an expert in any given field to hire and supervise any given type of expert, I wonder if it is time to look at the skill set of the people hiring and controlling jobs.

  23. Re:Heathenii on Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser · · Score: 0

    Then you don't know what it is either, so you and your pals make one up. What if they had a similar section called "Jews"?

  24. Re:Heathenii on Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser · · Score: 0

    Type "Heathen" into the search, you get some sort of nasty foreign gibberish. They need to check some other ones two, try the British "Wicca", you get something nasty and foreign too. I think they should be jailed for trying it on with two very proud religious traditions ...

  25. Heathenii on Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser · · Score: 0

    His site has a paranoid psychotic definition of the ancient Norwegian heathen religion. Despite complaints, this hate assault persists.