This is the key. My company also rolled out a new intranet and only supports IE6 (in fact, they've issued warnings around the company that Firefox isn't secure as it doesn't received 'regular security updates'. Oh, the fun).

However, the person they roped in to build the intranet included a few comments in the source code, specifically "Internet Explorer 6 is fucking terrible" "I had to hack this code to even get it to work" and an entire subfolder named "IE6sux".

So that's what MS has to deal with, corporations who figure if it ain't broke then there's no reason to fix it. Problem is, they don't actually realise what 'broke' is.

You do know there's a Games section on Slashdot, right? Apart from that, KZ2 has been one of the flagship games for the PS3 (at least until late 2009/early 2010) so presumably is as relevant as the dozen or so MW2 stories posted on here over the last 6 months.

I was looking forward to an interesting article until I read the opening paragraph. /facepalm. This guy is a moron and has nothing of interest to add to the subject.

Can you explain to me how the ability to read cell phones is relevant to the case you adduce?

If you want to argue wipes are good then you need to show us a case where the police abused their ability to read records, where a wipe would have protected the innocent. This case doesn't seem to qualify.

The only real relevance of records in this case would seem to be that the dead police officer didn't keep them.

Given that the police apparently raided someone innocent one could argue that better access to electronic records might have reduced the chance of making this mistake. In which case it's an argument against you, though that's a bit of a stretch.

Americans are more touchy about food safety than most white folks. Teawurst a wonderful german meat spread made from raw pig livers was not available in the USA for many years.

So all we need is technology which can selectively erase memories, like in the movie "Paycheck". Combined with this new memory enhancer, older people can enjoy youthful memories without all the painful ones!

I think you meant "Apple doesn't allow third-party apps to multitask.".

Why not the internet? Like this underground thing, it was designed to withstand nuclear attack, and the data will be accessible to anyone with a browser. Html, jpegs and pdf files aren't going anywhere. Just create an Ubuntu vm and you're sorted.

Are you saying that all of the Mexican restaurants around Los Angeles aren't just there to steal the secrets of the movie making industry? Do you think Robert Rodriguez could have developed El Mariachi without Hollywood secrets of formulaic plot and prosaic dialog?

Sure, there is good reason to defend against state-run hacking. And I'm sure a degree of industrial espionage goes on. But does James Bond set up a chip shop wherever he goes? Do US spies die of hunger if they don't eat at McDonalds every day?

And you can get black / thousand year old eggs in Asian supermarkets here in Boston. I've seen them on menus under various names.

Limited copyright is a good thing. Without it it, a corporation could have just taking JK Rowling works and not paid her a cent.

Should it be looking up for decades? no, but 14 years should do the trick.

And it's not a vast portion. IN fact is a very small portion.

In english only I think.
As I grew up we would make fun of the english because they were so square. We were so used to see good stuff on French Canadian TV but english TV was always censored, still is, it seems to have gone worst.

A few years ago when I lived in a different state I had a Quebec swear word on my licence plates and a lady asked me if I was a preacher. I gave her a smile. If she only knew ...

No it isn't. It's impossible to do it with better than 50% accuracy, which will make the man-in-the-middle very, very detectable. None of the useful information is ever sent using quantum bits, it's only one-time-pad style key. If a man-in-the-middle is detected, the key is not used and no secure information is breached. I mentioned it in an above post, but the best that a "hacker" could ever do is get a few random bits of information out of every hundred, even with this attack. That isn't enough information about the key to extract any information about the message.

Alice and Bob compare measurement results before send the message. There is theoretically no way to intercept and resend bits or eavesdrop without introducing errors.

Sonic booms smashing windows is an event mainly confined to the movies. It is possible for it to happen, but the craft would need to be flying insanely low -- Which is obviously illegal for a number of other reasons.

Our ears are incredibly sensitive instruments -- what seems like an excruciatingly loud noise is actually a rather low energy wave.

How do they handle boxing then? Does it have an explicit exemption? Or is it just a matter of ignoring it because it is more socially acceptable?

If sex offenders are mentally ill, which caused their behavior, and are still ill that way when their sentence is up, then they shouldn't be released. They probably shouldn't be in jail, either. They should be in a psychiatric jail.

The law in the US regarding sickness vs criminality is so screwed up that there's little chance people's rights will be protected when their illness creates either harm or risk to other people.