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Comment Re:What about the cost of NOT having it? (Score 1) 238

Oh, I get you! We should only put locks on specific areas of our house. Leave the front door unlocked, but perhaps have a lock on the bedroom and bathroom. After all, there should be no real reason why the contents of your fridge should be kept secure, and if your local supermarket was allowed send in staff members to people's houses at random (or targeted if they notice you haven't been shopping with them lately) to check where you have been shopping recently and what you have been buying, so they can deliver a better experience to you in future, perhaps send you some targeted advertising at a future date.

Encrypt EfVuEcRkY Thing.

Comment What about the cost of NOT having it? (Score 5, Insightful) 238

What is the cost to the user of having their communications intercepted, banking details stolen etc etc.

That's like saying that putting locks on your doors has an added cost of you requiring more time every day getting in and out because you have to take time to turn a key. It also means that local corporations can't send people by to inject "value added" services into your home without your consent! Are you ready to accept locks on your doors?

Comment Re:"second screen" innovation (Score 1) 101

I know I may sound like sound like a defensive fanboy, but they said "introduced bluray and dvd (were those sony first?), and also brought out innovations such as second screen etc"

That like denying that the iPod was innovative, or the iPhone, just because it wasn't first. Does an innovation require no prior existence of anything similar? Can version 2 be an innovation? Can I be innovative by creating a better more or more efficient coffee machine? It might not be the first ever coffee machine, but it might have improvements that make it more popular than the current ones.

Are you being just a little overzealous in finding something bad about Sony? Why work so hard when there's so many easier failings of theirs to pick from and rehash?

#rootkit #sonyhacking

Comment Re:So it is not an accurate Documentary Film? (Score 1) 289

I remember a recent Episode of Bones, where they totally misquoted Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. This really annoyed me. It's one thing to have your wonder computer zoom and enhance, but there's suspending belief and propagating a complete falsehood.

There have been similar instances in this year's season of Dr Who, where they use a blanket of oxygen to protect the earth from burning up to a massive solar flare, when we all know the exact opposite would happen, or the hatchling from the moon immediately laying a moon sized egg.

Comment I'm confused (Score 1) 293

Is it a car powered by gas under pressure, or is it hydrogen fuel-cell, where the gas is catalysed with Oxygen to produce electricity? How is it so horribly inefficient, given how we already know how horribly inefficient combustion engines are? Is it simply a case that, no matter how compressed you get the gas, you have not compressed it to liquid levels?

Comment Re:Depends on Embargo Lift (Score 1) 474

What they need is a Canary.

You could have a line in your review for games that goes something like this "We have been given full permission to post our review of this game prior to release" for games that have no embargo.

When that statement is missing, you know there is embargo in place.

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