Very true words, especially with respect to the entertainment industry, and with positive and negative aspects.

The engine has been licensed as non-GPL for Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, these are very closed platforms and the game had no chance of reaching them under GPL, publishers would not touch it.

IllFonic actively promotes the GPL Nexuiz for all operating systems.

The console game code is being started fresh now that GDC is over, no GPL claims can apply to it.

Note: Nexuiz 1.0 was to be a commercial game in the first place, but was GPLed for the enjoyment of everyone, this deal pertains to the name and concept, not the community enhancements that occurred after the original release.

I wasn't expecting that...

Honestly, were I writing malware, the first thing I'd do after something like that came out was try and figure out how to disable it. You can't trust anything on a compromised computer.

Sure, it might catch a few. Most likely the user will just ignore the warning, hoping it'll go away; then once the malware has an update that disables the warning, it will go away. Problem solved.

About the only thing that will fix the current spyware/malware problem would be smarter computer use and privilege separation. But in my experience users will click on anything just to get their shiny pointers.

There is a good meta-analysis on Nuclear EROEI here: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3877.

The problem is nuclear is super energy intensive in the fuel production stage. Coal has a better EROEI.

I totally agree; I too was left very concerned after reading his thoughtful and thorough analysis. And I'm really disappointed that (practically) no one on Slashdot took a look at it. Especially after reading his analysis of confirmation bias and so on, the knee-jerk responses on this thread are particularly disheartening.

Trademark != copyright, dude.

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That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

"War on Terror" is largely a US/UK initiative. Other Western countries (and GP talked about "the West", not "US") don't have much to do with that as a whole - only the more meaningful parts, such as trying to stabilize Afghanistan.

Yet, if you turn to the guys on the other side of the barricades - what are they saying?

Bomb, bomb Denmark!
Bomb, bomb Germany!
Bomb, bomb France!
Bomb, bomb Spain!
Allahu Akbar! ...
Nuke, nuke Denmark!

If you can explain how U.S., or invasions of Arab countries in general, have anything whatsoever to do with opinions expressed by Muslims in the video linked above, I'm all ears.

So, you going to port liberty over? ;) So we don't have to try and run it in Classic. And yeah, I remember you as another regular from the old PalmOS mailing list about 10 years ago

Liberty was written in 68k assembler :) we ported it to MIPS for a contract job. but no; gameboy emulation; plenty of other options available out there.. but i do intend to bring some of my other palm os games up-to-date :P

I'm not saying they did a good job of it. Just that the concept is good.

I'm hoping that there is fallout from this not only for Best Buy, but for the manufacturers who are preloading all this cruft.

No, I'm not missing that. I'm just saying that most of us don't need to engage in the careful art of real "system tuning".

IMHO, if Best Buy were charging people $40 to reinstall the OS and drivers from scratch, install all of the applications the customer wanted (and none that they didn't want), and do some basic post-install configuration (set up user accounts, click "OK" on all the EULAs, install all updates, etc.), then I would think that wasn't a bad value. In fact, if that was a service that they would do for any computer you brought in, assuming they did a good job at it, then I might advise computer novices to take their computer in for that service every year or two.

I'm guessing that's not exactly what they're doing, though.

Sounds like someone's been a victim of one too many Rickrolls....

But you just named things that don't affect the flight itself. Nor do they affect the reporter/congressmen/businessman's work if they are not allowed to have toothpaste in their carryon. Comparing the backlash of not being able to clip your fingernails to that of not being able to use a laptop is silly.

I agree with this in principle, but, in practice, it doesn't seem to come up as often as one might think. I frequently use NCSA's Lincoln cluster with 384 Teslas. Early on, I discovered some "hard" memory errors (repeatable bad bits or rows). These were very early boards, which apparently hadn't been fully tested. This prompted the admins at NCSA to write the GPU equivalent of memtest86, which they ran for about a month if I recall. After removing the boards with bad memory (about 3-4, if I recall), they didn't encounter any "soft" errors (i.e. random bit flips). NVIDIA's Fermi will have ECC, which is reassuring, but I have found the present generation, without ECC, to be quite reliable. I should also note that the hard errors I found always resulted in NANs/INFs, etc., which are very obvious. I'd be more concerned with "silent" errors that subtly change the results.