China most defiantly has the resources, it just needs to put them in good use, instead of trying to block freedom of speech. Start putting pressure on ISPs that allow their networks to be abused. The spam might move between countries, but I assume the spammers themselves must be located somewhere.

Follow the money trail and start closing bank accounts.

Most of us don't work in datacenters.

I think this could easily become a huge issue. We are lucky that most phishing emails are of a very low standard and it's easy to spot the fakes.

I'm guessing that these developing countries don't take cyber crime to seriously at the moment, perhaps instead of governments pushing SOPA and and ACTA they could come up with agreements which will encourage BRIC nations to start cracking down on spammers before the problem gets out of hand.

I started using ad blocker when ads became very annoying, distracting and in some cases NSFW. I've found that good sites now that have ads relevant to what they show and have begun to turn ad blocker off for those sites. I still have no script turned on which usually stops the ads from moving etc.

I think Destructoid should inform users of the problem. Ask to be white listed by users or offer an add free subscription version of the site.

Judging by the buttons 1,2,3,4 I'd say this is a generic pc gamepad not a playstation controller.

The only reason I started using Ad-Block was because I was sick of pop up ads whilst watching videos, especially ones which do not apply to my country. I've actually started white listing sites with reasonable adverts now as I realise how much I value certain sites, and the adverts can be quite relevant.

That price probably includes our 20% sales tax (VAT) making it £208 or $334.

There was an unofficial iplayer app for android which did not require flash, unfortunately it got banned. From what I heard flash is used because of DRM.

Dropping iGoogle support is probably one of their worst decisions ever why else would I even make google my home page?

It probably doesn't directly make them money but if that's their reason for dropping it I might have to abandon gMail before that gets killed off.

Javascript links in quite nicely and it runs in browser so no IDE needed. I know Internet Explorer and Chrome have a debugger built in so you should be able to get something together pretty quick.

Only one school in my area out of six taught A-level computing (not ICT) I think only about 10 of us actually completed the A2. Unless there is a massive increase in demand for the subject, 100 teachers could cover a big area.

Yes "The pirate bay seems to be down" is what you get when you visit that link.

The article mentions:
Bulk credit cards 6.5BTC
Credit card reader/writer 76.60350 BTC
M9 Tactical handgun with an illegal silencer for 225.00000 BTC

I guess according to the description on Wikipedia "The term "video game console" is used to distinguish a machine designed for people to buy and use primarily for playing video games on a TV" - this device would be classed as a console.

What's interesting is this device allegedly runs off the shelf PC hardware, can play any PC game, allows for rival services and has no dev kit or licensing. I'm going to assume this device will have to run Windows to meet those goals. Therefore all valve have done is create a standardised PC.

I can only see this taking off if they can sell enough to keep the price down. Valve could become some serious competition to media PCs and standard games consoles.

(I've never driven an automatic) I'd argue having a manual forces you to pay more attention to the road as you have to anticipate gear changes, especially when approaching junctions. With an automatic your more likely to believe you can do something else whilst driving like holding a mobile, as you only need one hand.