That's because by the original rules the deer got the rifles every alternate week. Ever since we changed things around I've boycotted the sport.

In fact it is still 'hunting', even if you start using Reaper drones and Hellfire missiles. Your mistake is the romantic, disturbing, and false notion that 'hunting' is meant to be fair to both parties.

Not to defend Microsoft's actions, but this does seem like exceptionally poor judgement on the part of the leaker, on par with robbing a bank and having them put the money in your safe deposit box.

TTL chess might be faster, since no game would last longer than 255 moves.

I'm okay with this, as long as we can call it 'B'.

Hey, three focus groups chose this over "Kludge".

suffer

1. To undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
2. To sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss: One's health suffers from overwork. The business suffers from lack of capital. Pspahn's karma score has suffered since he became a pedantic arse.

They may not be enemies of the US, but they certainly seem to be enemies of freedom of speech and the concept of the Internet in general. I can't say I'd like to see either of them given more power over it.

In Target's defense, FireEye said it would have to restart the computer to remove the threats.

I think geeks are understandably outraged that the US government is spending billions writing checks to individuals instead of robots or a planetary hive-mind.

So you plan to threaten someone's life, and you're still at the funding stage?

*sniffs*

No, that's the distinct odor of things-you'd-think-were-awesome-if-someone-else-was-doing-them.

I have no problem with this technology. It could open up many small rural communities not "worth" reaching by conventional systems, and for that I applaud it.

But even many developing countries have high population density, and a disorganized system running on a narrow frequency band will quickly run into problems of scale.

And the summary's grandiose claims that this technology could "do for mobile networks what TCP/IP and open source did for the Internet...help mobile break free from the confines of telephone providers' locked-down spectrum...democratize telecommunications around the world" are patently ridiculous.

To use the /.-approved Vaguely Relevant Car Analogy(tm):

As someone who used to own a TV with rabbit ears, I claim prior art on the use of strange gestures and body positions to control devices.

Because TFS claims this could revolutionize the world by letting mobile 'break free' from restricted spectrum.

Meanwhile, back in reality, in heavily congested areas you're lucky to get a signal twenty meters using omnidirectional antennas and public spectrum. And it would be even worse if power restrictions didn't keep transmission range short.

I realize Slashdot caters to the Libertarian fringe, but the whole reason we have 'locked-down spectrum' is to avoid the tragedy of the commons scenario that occurs when devices interfere at random and everybody keeps kicking the power higher and higher trying to shout over the crowd until the spectrum is no good to anyone.