Comment Just don't hold the conference that way (Score 2, Funny) 324
Eh, Mr Jobs?
Comment Re:I actually like this trend... (Score 1) 833
Yes, because trolls would never stoop to using fake "real" names.
Well, they'll find it very difficult to do that unless they figure out a way to spoof the same name on their credit card.
You can use the same credit card to create multiple WoW accounts with multiple "real" names... no spoofing is required. No ID check is involved.
Again, the credit card name *does not* need to match the account name.
Comment Re:Cisco Packet Tracer (Score 1) 138
it would be a bit brown noser, if I hadn't graduated seven years ago.
Comment Re:Cisco Packet Tracer (Score 3, Insightful) 138
...written by my Comp-Sci lecturer the incomparable Mr Chris McDonald!
Comment Re:So essentially... (Score 1) 370
antirelic
Or you could go with that retard professor and say its because US foreign agrression.
magsol
I think he means Noam Chomsky... >_______>
Comment it's actually Pocahontas...OF THE FUTURE! (Score 1) 782
That James Cameron shooting script in full: http://imgur.com/JmRmb
Comment Ian M Banks (Score 1) 392
Space opera author Iain M Banks' spaceships (from his various Culture novels) are propelled by "traction fields" which engage with the "energy grid" (sic) underlying the universe. Banks readily admits that this is purest gibberish with no basis in any known science. Perhaps in light of this research he can backtrack and claim to have been describing a form of quantum propulsion all along?
Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Enters Beta Testing 137
schliz writes "Developers of The Pirate Bay have launched their new Virtual Private Network (VPN) service to some 180,000 pre-registered beta testers. An e-mail to beta testers read. 'IPREDator does not store any personal details about its clients. IPREDator does not store any traffic habits you might have. IPREDator is the key to a free internet in the renaissance of censorship!' The new service was launched to protect file sharers in response to the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that went into effect in April."
You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? 635
smurphmeister writes "My wife and I recently moved up to the world of cell phones, after taking our sweet time to make sure this whole newfangled technology was going to stick around. We moved the old landline phone number to her phone, so we're disconnected from the pole. Now the question is, what to do with the copper already in our house? My first thought was an intercom system, but that just seems so old school! So what ideas do you all have for what to do with the 4 little wires running to every room of my house?"
Comment Re:CopTube (Score 1) 238
I'm more interested in a mobile phone YouTube to report misdeeds and abuses by police officers.
I assume you're familiar with this ongoing investigation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Tomlinson
If it wasn't for mobile phone cameras, the completely unprovoked police brutality which led to Ian Tomlinson's death would been neatly covered up with a bogus "natural causes" finding.
