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  1. Re:Rather see LFG on Ph.D Webcomic Gets Adapted Into Feature Film · · Score: 1

    They were trying to make it in to an feature length animation at one point.

  2. Re:former grad student on Ph.D Webcomic Gets Adapted Into Feature Film · · Score: 1

    You probably need to look up "viva voce" in the context of thesis defence.

  3. Re:So where are the papers? on Alan Turing Papers On Code Breaking Released By GCHQ · · Score: 1

    They aren't, you have to request hard copies from the National Archives. I dare say they'll end up making it available on-line at some point, they're bound to get inundated with requests for hard copies and it will end up being easier for them.

    I've no idea what their general policy with regards to digitizing old papers is - I wouldn't be surprised if there's an on-going project to digitize them, but I suspect some papers have higher priorities than others. It's also 6am and I'm still too asleep to look on the website.

  4. Re:British Governments Crime on Alan Turing Papers On Code Breaking Released By GCHQ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm British and I didn't do anything to him. I repeatedly point out what the British government of the time did to him - I don't care if he technically took his own life, the government killed him after all they did to him.

    It should be noted it wasn't just him they did it to, they did the same thing to lots of homosexual men. People just care/notice more about it with him because he did such high profile war work. I'm sure you can find examples of anonymous homosexual men who received similar treatment and served during the war in more routine capacities.

  5. Re:I think 30 million dead Russians had something on Alan Turing Papers On Code Breaking Released By GCHQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He, along with others, shortened the length of the war. So you had 30 million dead Russian instead of 60, 90, or god knows how many million dead Russians. And dead various other nationalities come to that. I'd say they both mattered, one shortened the war, one ensured it wasn't lost in the mean time.

  6. Re:Not that impressive on Demoscene: 64k Intros At Revision Demoparty · · Score: 1

    Some of the demo coders from years ago went on to start companies that created mass market hardware based 3D rendering. I doubt they'd be mocking at all.

  7. Re:The reason you haven't heard about it on Demoscene: 64k Intros At Revision Demoparty · · Score: 1

    Purple Motion released a CD sometime back, I bought a copy of it for happy fuzzy memories (and because it was good). I think Skaven is kind of still about.

    I think ScreamTracker 3 was FC's last release, if you don't count the compilation they did last year. They fizzled out because a lot of the older members of the group hit national service age (most - if not all - of them were Finish). Futuremark, Bitboys and I think Remedy all had FC members as part of their start-up teams.

  8. Re:Uhm, male Baroness? on UK Bill Again Demands Web Pornography Ban · · Score: 1

    She's fairly old, at 80. She appears to not be a complete fruit case though - she used to be a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission.

  9. Re:Just vote her out next election . . . on UK Bill Again Demands Web Pornography Ban · · Score: 1

    Actually I take that back, she's a Cross Bench Peer. She also got her peerage through being recommended for one by the general public. The chances of her getting her letters patent revoked are, however, still pretty much zero.

  10. Re:Just vote her out next election . . . on UK Bill Again Demands Web Pornography Ban · · Score: 1

    You'd need to get a considerable tide of public opinion to actually get someone's letters patent revoked. Given she's a Conservative peer the chances of that happening are approaching zero; such things only happen at the recommendation of the Privy Council - which is headed up by the incumbent government.

  11. Re:Sweet! on Japanese Tsunami Ghost Ship Spotted Off Canadian Coast · · Score: 1

    I suspect an insurance company probably technically owns it now. I doubt they want it either - its scrap value after paying any salvor's fee probably wouldn't make it worth it.

  12. Re:FOR SALE: Fishing Trawler on Japanese Tsunami Ghost Ship Spotted Off Canadian Coast · · Score: 1

    You're correct, as far as I know. One of the requirements for being part of an RNLI crew is that you relinquish salvage rights to vessels you aid.

  13. Re:Way to promote cultural stereotypes on Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle · · Score: 2

    No it's not, it's a corruption of a Low German word that meant someone who shared your table/food with you. As slang for a friend it's used by the British, Australians, New Zealanders, and probably others. It's also merchant naval rank (and was a Royal Navy one, briefly).

  14. Summary is crap and the actual news is a bit meh on British Government To Grant Warrantless Trawl of Communications Data · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell all this law does is enable GCHQ to compel network providers to give them real time access to data, when supplied with a warrant. I'm pretty sure GCHQ was allowed to intercept and decrypt data as required anyway - it's why they exist.

  15. Re:Now think in American. on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall Tolkien was quite explicit that The Shire was rural England. Rivendell is approximately Oxford, iirc. Gondor ends up somewhere in Northern Italy, I think, which might explain the style of the armour being predominately Gothic Plate (that's kind of the southern extent of the Holy Roman Empire).

  16. Re:Now think in American. on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    Given they're from the Shires, you could pick ones of the Shires. Although that does cover about half of England.

  17. Re:Now think in American. on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    That depends which version of the Robin Hood story you're reading. In some versions he's the Earl of Huntingdon, although that didn't seem to start happening until the C16th or C17th, when he started becoming the noble Saxon standing up against the Norman French.

  18. Re:Now think in American. on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    Only Roman Legionaries were Roman citizens, the Auxiliaries were all from different parts of the Roman Empire, so they should have a wide range of national and regional accents. In fact The Eagle was set in the mid 2nd Century CE, at which point the balance between Legionaries and Auxiliaries was about equal.

  19. Re:Now think in American. on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    Erm, I had to study Chaucer in Middle English when I did English Literature at A-Level. Middle English is understandable if you want to, Old English would require you to learn a new language entirely.

  20. Re:Tape never died or lost its supremacy on After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself · · Score: 2

    LTO tapes have between 15 to 30 years of life if you're using them for archival purposes (i.e. writing once and storing). Even if you're using them for daily backups in a weekly or two-weekly rotation you're probably going to get 5 to 10 years of life out of a tape.

    I've had both RAID1 and RAID5 systems crash and burn ("proper" RAID, not cheapo-RAID) and have to be restored from the tape back up. I've also had tapes fail (although being LTO, they were picked up by the built-in write-verify procedure). But that's kind of why you don't rely on one thing to protect your data if you really care about it.

  21. Re:For those of us who don't know... on 16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft · · Score: 2

    You're thinking of NAND gates (or NOR gates, which have the same property).

  22. Re:If I were to find one... on 'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones · · Score: 1

    In the UK you get a receipt from them, afaicr. Which a) proves you gave it to them and b) proves they had it.

  23. Re:Obvious omissions on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    "Codename: ICEMAN" was easily my least favourite Sierra game. It had some game elements that made it highly frustrating, like parts of the story progression relying entirely on random chance.

  24. Re:...and if you look closely... He's Native. on Leaked Assassin's Creed 3 Screenshots Show American Revolution · · Score: 1

    French, they're based in Montreuil (it's part of Paris). Unless you're thinking of Ubisoft Montreal, which is their NA based studio.

  25. Re:Is this Apple or MS? on Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store · · Score: 1

    I suspect most iPhone owners charge their phone from a USB port, not a power point. I know I do: it just gets dropped in to the cradle when I get home at night.