I am the only person that thinks that vandalising millions of customers PS3's is worse (Other OS feature removal).

Fine!! It's criminal fraud, nothing civil about it, people should go to prison*

*for a short period in a non-pound-em-in-the-ass prison, US has too many people in prison, you all need to calm down with that.

So, what if we had a new law: No AI with IQ over 100* allowed.

This would allow robot servants but make our overthrow unlikely.

*or 80 etc, or IQ depending on purpose.

If everything is encrypted mass surveillance becomes much harder and more expensive.

So the outcome is more spies and higher taxes then! And more energy used - not environmentally friendly. Why encrypt comments if they're going to be displayed publicly?

I'm guessing the correct thing to do is to subpena MS for the information because the client and business are both US based, but I'm not a lawyer.

Oh, but it's not really nuclear powered because uranium is made in suns, so it's a solar powered car (sarc).

Actually my uniqueness has changed most times that I've visited Panopticon because the information underlying the fingerprint changes regularly, limiting it's usefulness.

Yeah I'm a dopey fkker, I forgot to click to desktop!

Nope, just closed the browser and that was it. Win7 64bit.

What matters to me is that many fonts look crap on a 1080p screen at normal viewing distance. Smoothing doesn't fix this, 4k would.

That is it. The chart is wrong by a long shot.

Moot point, they know what they're doing, it's not up to the sound engineers, they'd lose their job if they refused to up the loudness.

I don't assume that modern vinyl is immune to the effect, but they don't bastardise vinyl masters like they do CD masters.

And neither is there a good reason why the loudness of digital media couldn't be reduced.

When music is broken by the loudness techniques used there is often clipping, that can't be fixed - data is irretrievably lost.

It doesn't matter how much you spend, Media conglomerates have ruined CDs, see the Loudness war

With the advent of the Compact Disc (CD), music is encoded to a digital format with a clearly defined maximum peak amplitude. Once the maximum amplitude of a CD is reached, loudness can be increased still further through signal processing techniques such as dynamic range compression and equalization. Engineers can apply an increasingly high ratio of compression to a recording until it more frequently peaks at the maximum amplitude. In extreme cases, efforts to increase loudness can result in clipping and other audible distortion

10 years ago if you'd have said vinyl sounds better than CD, I'd have said you're nuts or that you simply can't stand high pitched frequencies, but because of this butchered mastering of CDs, vinyl versions may sound better.

The extremely expensive plants you mean? The ones that cost double what new renewables cost? Do they deliver dispatchable power or do they deliver continuous power that can't be altered much hour to hour?

What happens when a country with a 'safer plant' gets hit by bombs because the country it's in has gone to war?

Can u guarantee the safe waste won't end up in terrorists/mafia hands? Is all nuclear waste in the world right now accounted for?

"No user-serviceable parts inside"

"warranty void if seal broken"

Bad analogy, this is more like a Sony DVD player that only plays Sony brand DVDs.