Comment F21 (Score 4, Informative) 106
I got it installed on my laptop a few hours ago, and so far no dramas. Nice work everyone.
Comment Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages (Score 2) 191
Asus Router Owners Suffering Massive Smugness
Comment Weather (Score 1) 190
This would never work in the UK.
Comment Re:Provide a tin foil hat instead (Score 4, Insightful) 294
It's not the kids fault, why make them suffer for their parents stupidity?
Comment About bloody time (Score 5, Interesting) 333
The 1920x1080 / 1366x768 resolution curse has been the worst thing to happen to laptops in a long time. That and glossy screens.
Comment Error in headline (Score 1) 67
a series of images centered straight overhead starting shortly after sunset
It's not rising, it's already overhead.
Comment Re:Was it really only 65 years ago? (Score 5, Funny) 103
The surveillance industry.
Comment Linux Format (Score 2) 363
It reminds me a lot of the old Amiga magazines, and indeed has more than a few of the same writers. Though the cover disk is not as important these days it still comes in useful now and then.
Comment FBI (Score 4, Insightful) 339
It's a bit sad that I'm surprised the FBI response wasn't to shut down LiveATC.net.
Comment Ms. Bitters was right (Score 1) 421
I believe this covers the important aspects of this story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjNBzyLqDPM
Comment Impractical (Score 1) 67
I find this whole idea hard to swallow.
Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 561
The newer MS keyboards are pretty awful, but their mice are not too bad still.
Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents 167
Dupple writes with news carried by the BBC of a gigantic tech-patent case that (seemingly for once) doesn't involve Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, or Google:
"'U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology faces having to pay one of the biggest ever patent damage awards. A jury in Pittsburgh found the firm guilty of infringing two hard disk innovations owned by local university Carnegie Mellon.' Though the company claims that the CMU patents weren't valid because the university hadn't invented anything new, saying a Seagate patent of 14 months earlier described everything that the CMU patents do, the jury found that Marvell's chips infringed claim 4 of Patent No. 6,201,839 and claim 2 of Patent No. 6,438,180. "method and apparatus for correlation-sensitive adaptive sequence detection" and "soft and hard sequence detection in ISI memory channels.' 'It said Marvell should pay $1.17bn (£723m) in compensation — however that sum could be multiplied up to three times by the judge because the jury had also said the act had been "wilful." Marvell's shares fell more than 10%.'"
Comment Reverse the charges (Score 4, Insightful) 148
Right, so the real people responsible will be charged now? The ones who left seriously insecure military computers connected to the internet? </naive>
Comment Lunokhod? (Score 1) 32
Hasn't this already happened?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
