Comment Correction (Score 1) 275
*there
Comment An article with no sources (Score 1) 275
Why are their no links to sources? I see the article but without links it's just hearsay.
Comment A more complete ending (Score 1) 350
Sounds like they should have waited another two years to make that film...
Comment Re:Some actual facts: (Score 4, Insightful) 500
Having been in regular contact with good friends in Tokyo, it seems the general mood in Tokyo is one of calm, and it's the rest of the world that are panicking.
Submission + - Irish ISP wins court action against record labels
Terranex writes: Irish ISP UPC has won a high court case brought against it by record companies attempting to force it to block illegal downloading. The judge in the case agreed with the record companies' positions but stated Ireland does not have laws in place to allow for the "blocking, diverting or interrupting of internet communications intent on breaching copyright."
Competing ISP Eircom submitted to the record companies demands last year, blocking access to The Pirate Bay and initiating a 'three-strikes' system.
Competing ISP Eircom submitted to the record companies demands last year, blocking access to The Pirate Bay and initiating a 'three-strikes' system.
Comment Algorithms (Score -1) 147
All of this goes so over my head I can't even deploy enough air defense.
Comment At least SOMETHING is good value in Ireland (Score 1) 827
Here in Ireland I'm on a pay-as-you-go plan with Meteor. Spending â20 a month gets me unlimited free calls and unlimited free texts to other Meteor numbers. As the majority of people I call and text are Meteor, I can spend that â20 on 3G browsing etc. I could also change this plan to unlimited free texts to any network if I wanted, sacrificing the free calls. For a non-business customer, it is excellent value.
Comment Great but... (Score 1) 51
As much as I admire an open source approach to portable gaming, I expect within a year this Dingoo A320 shall disappear and we shall never hear from it again.
Comment SMS shapes Life. (Score 1) 437
Only SMS has had a massive impact on my life. Seven years ago, Meteor, my operator, introduced free Meteor-Meteor Calls and Texts. This instigated a period of huge amounts of texting between myself and friends.
Taking a small group of two dozen of my friends and acquaintances, I would estimate that hundreds of thousands of texts have been sent among us over this period. Relationships have been made and broken over SMS, and not one of us would disagree that SMS has been the most influential technology out of this list.
Comment Re:I think this problem was solved years ago... (Score 1) 252
The point I was trying to make is that the onus to succeed should be on the student rather than the institution. If the student fails then it is his/her own doing.
Comment I think this problem was solved years ago... (Score 2, Insightful) 252
... When people started taking exams.
If someone can pass an exam coupled with any assignments they would have been given as part of a module, then I would deem them qualified. Attendance is no measure of academic ability.
Comment Will they price it right this time? (Score 2, Funny) 212
The last time I recall ASUS doing this was with a Dual 7800GT Like this one, and it did not sell very well due to being prohibitively expensive.
Comment Incorrect (Score 3, Interesting) 242
"any software or assembly comprising such apparatus" most likely refers only to equipment and software designed to receive VHF and UHF transmissions on a computer.
Comment It must be true. (Score 1) 518
We all know no one in Germany ever killed anyone before video games became popular.
Comment Ah! (Score 1) 71
It was only a matter of time until the Lesser Spotted Superconductivity was twitched upon.
