The novel by the great, late Michael Crichton, explains all of this in enjoyable detail....

Nah, I think the coders/devs/IT depts will see a world of money in upgrading all these old apps (think of it as the Millennium Bug Lite)

Plus, think of all the machine upgrades they can get away with in the name of system requirements and so on, its going to be a right old cake fest

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/coming-windows-7-update-heralds-death-of-ie6-finally-009013.php

Facebook isn't in the privacy business, its in the business business and until told to stop it, in court, via a socking great fine, it will carry on regardless.

I, for one, welcome the upcoming iPhone game; "Badger Grave Fury"

Nope, that was a cross between a Sega Megadrive and a Nokia 1998-era phone. Things have moved on since then.

Jeez! So, according to the collective "wisdom" of Slashdot:

No company should release anything, ever.
Nor should they try anything new, ever.
Nor should they be allowed to learn from their mistakes.
Nor should they spot a weakness in their DNA and get another company on-board to help address it.

Oh, and everything, every company has ever done has also been shit!

Cheers commenters one and all (apologies to anyone who made a positive contribution here). My PSP has provided years of fun on trains, planes and those odd snippets of downtime and I'd like something with deeper-than-five-minute games on a phone, so why not. No one is forcing people to buy it?

Glad we've got that cleared up, I'll head off to my cave with my Colecovision now.

Don't worry, the way I read it, they shut down the 800 people too - harsh!

I bet they forgot to tick the "don't let our government gift more of our cool sh!t to America" box at the bottom either. One day you're going to find our Queen left in a cardboard box on the steps of the Whitehouse with a note saying "sorry, we can't afford her any more, please take care of her - one lump of suger in her tea, etc."

Its because we can't afford a decent police service, or at least enough bobbies on the beat (boots on the ground, whatever). So they (councils, government, private firms) just shove in more cameras hoping to deter criminals. This doesn't work (thanks to the invention of "the hoodie"), but it doesn't seem to stop the rise in cameras and ignores the fact we don't have enough people monitoring them. All a bit of a waste of time really. Of course, if someone eventually comes up with a decent "suspicious activity" algorithm, then things will work out fine in the end as we bow to our digital overlords (with no right of appeal)

Indeed, Airplanes are generally found at, um, airports! Once terrorists realize this and an American government memo tells them that "the lower and slower they fly the easier they are to hit," all hell won't break loose. If they could, I'm pretty sure every terrorist (of any religious or ethnic background) would have been doing this for years.

IP Bounty Hunters - the more villainous and scummy the better

What did you think was going to happen...