Comment Re:You know... (Score 3, Informative) 339
And one of the ISP's, Webshield, is only known because it's business model is based on already offering a "clean-feed" connection.
VIA Nano Bests Intel Atom In Netbook Benchmarks 130
Glib Piglet writes "ZDNet UK has a whole set of benchmarks comparing a 1.8 GHz Nano in VIA's Epia SN motherboard and a 1.6 GHz Atom in Intel's 'Little Falls' D945GCFL mobo. It's not good news for Chipzilla: 'As far as memory performance is concerned, the Nano is clearly superior in every test' and 'The VIA Nano emerges as the better processor for internet tasks. While the Atom needs 132.8 seconds to display simple HTML pages, the Nano does it in 70.1 seconds.' The Nano even outperforms Nehalem on one test. It's not all a win for VIA, though. The benchmark concludes that in some ways all netbooks, underpowered as they are, remain in the IT stone ages."
Amazon Enters Gaming Market 52
eldavojohn writes "Ars brings us news of Amazon's entrance into the casual gaming market after purchasing Reflexive last year. Amazon identifies this sort of gaming as a good start for its demographic of customers and is certainly making competitors in the field nervous. There is a lot of evidence that Amazon is testing the waters to see how these small time games go as a prerequisite to something bigger, although they aren't talking. From Ars, 'For the first week, visitors will even be able to grab three games for free: Jewel Quest 2, Build a Lot, and The Scruffs. That, along with the ability to try every game before you buy, should be enough to entice fans of casual gaming to check out Amazon's offerings. It also looks like this could be Amazon's first step into the world of digital distribution for video games.' Do you think this trial will go well for Amazon?"
Comment Re:haha boil the ocean (Score 3, Informative) 116
What a rubbish post. "Rolling back of benefits"? Er no. Seniors are actually receiving thousands of dollars in cash bonus' on top of their fortnightly stipends and this is to pre-empt the conclusion in the report into pensions due for release in the next few months. As for "families having babies" you're presumably talking about the means test for the baby bonus. Prior to the means test, everyone who had a baby got a cheque for $5000 - a blatant bribe. Now, that cheque is only available for people earning less than $150,000, which frankly, is still way to high.
Comment Contract it out (Score 4, Insightful) 162
They'll probably contract out the development of the next Flight Sim, if they choose to develop it. Firing the dev team helps their balance sheet in the short term and when they choose to develop it they might lease the license or hire an external company to develop the game.
Comment What rubbish (Score -1, Offtopic) 931
Obviously the teacher can't do this. But WTF is happening to Slashdot. Since when is a question posted on an unnamed off-topic forum a reasonable story?
Comment Re:The world had its taste of freedom... (Score -1, Troll) 309
Simple example to show the flaw in your logic. You think viewing numbers for a program like House in now reflect the future production of the show? Of course they do, just like with EVERYTHING ELSE. Child porn is not static, it's continually being made. Of course you're not a pedophile as watching child porn doesn't seem to fit your definition of that.
Comment Re:The world had its taste of freedom... (Score -1, Flamebait) 309
You're an idiot and your circular logic is pathetic. Yes, if no one watched child porn it would continue to be made. Yes, watching something in no way contributes to it's supply. I think only one group of people defend those who watch child porn with such a stupid argument and I bet you know who they are.
Comment Re:The world had its taste of freedom... (Score 0, Troll) 309
He's creating the demand for it... You're whole premise is that if no one watched child porn it would still exist. That's ridiculous.
Comment Re:The world had its taste of freedom... (Score 1) 309
Your post doesn't make any sense.
Yes, the person viewing child porn may not be out molesting, but he's viewing a child being molested... So in the end, you're still getting children being molested and filmed. Unless of course, you think it's reasonable to throw a few kids into the fire to potentially lower child molestation rates in other parts of the world/country, thus taking the burden completely off the paedophile.
Trying To Find White House Missing E-mails 437
Gov IT writes "On Wednesday a federal court ordered all employees working in the Bush White House to surrender media that might contain e-mails sent or received during a two and a half year period in hope of locating missing messages before President-elect Barack Obama takes over next week."
Comment Re:The Indulgence of Global Warming Religion (Score 1) 302
It's depressing you don't realise how rubbish that all is.
Comment Re:The Indulgence of Global Warming Religion (Score 2, Insightful) 302
Right, because "sin" is "all the elements of religion". On that logic you could pretty much call scientists proclaiming the dangers of lung cancer as a religious cult.
Equating decades of scientific research to a story tale about a Jewish carpenter and his drinking buddies is ridiculous.
Comment Re:Sudden Peace? (Score 1) 1067
Er, ok. So Hamas is shooting and missing and you have beef with them. Israel is shooting and hitting thousands of civilians and you ignore them. Interesting.
Comment Re:Sudden Peace? (Score 1) 1067
This "Omg rockets" nonsense has to stop right now. In eight years, 20 Israeli's have been killed by rocket fire from Gaza. 20. Over eight years. In roughly a week, Israel has killed 500 Palestinians. That says enough.
