Ah yes, but a lot of people who call themselves "gamers", are often more than that. By rights you could call them game "collectors"..

Well, perhaps the article could also say "how bad summaries can ruin articles" , because the submission say nothing about "Bad" useer interfaces - quote: "Submission: UI Fail: How Our User interfaces Help to Ruin Lives" but at the top of the page "How Bad User Interfaces Can Ruin Lives".

I don't see anyone asking the obvious question.. Why? Now "vandals" might knock over a mailbox or cut the cable from the telephone pole to the house, but to use special cutting tools, dressing up as workers and using spy vs spy tactics isn't vandals anymore. SOMEBODY is pissed at these companies for going fiberoptic.. Maybe a suddenly out of work standard cable installer?

Truly leading the pack...In undergarment searches, cameras in the loo, on every street corner in the entire country, plus over every doorway and in every hotel room.. all properly fitted with the newest facial recognition software. And microphones! Where ever the cameras are, with high tech audio filtering. And yes, even aimed at residential windows where they can even hear through walls. . So, my oh my, it must have stung then to hear about the American data collection of all posts and emails , when the UK simply didn't have anything nearly as invasive. Well, they've fixed that NOW.. with "no safe space". Now they can safely hear private communications about junior's pooping in his diaper over and over, or what a twit the local mayor is, or, y'knoiw, whatever.Frankly,. I doubt they'll catch anyone planning harm or fear and loathing to society via email or the phone, but I bet they're dyiing to "accidentally" overhear someone planning to harvest their grow-op.. Once they (didn't) hear that, they now know to pull their car over for a full search on suspicion of speeding. George Orwell would be so proud of what his mother country has become. :satire:

Naw.. I absolutely despise Vista, but I got a a legit builders disk for $30 so I jumped on it. -unfortunately it's 64 bit only, which would be fine but there's lotsa compability issues with it. I'm on a really tight disability pension so just can't afford one and a half C notes for "7". That's what it is here, STILL, in Canada. I've got a lot (a smokin' whole lot) of digital Pinball games that just run on PC formats i.e. Dos, or Windows

... Just glad there's nothing about ME in it...

I don't know that I've enjoyed reading such a witty thread since, oh, I don't know.. '95?

Well, I don't give a rats ass which browser is Hip or supported or what the fook. If it loads all my web pages quickly and doesn't crash, like Chrome used to do, then that's fine. Unfortunately, since I don't know how to turn off automatic updates on chrome, I've been stuck with the crashy, increasingly incompatible builds, with that horrible bookmark manager that I luckily managed to revert back, for the moment, untiil they block that option too.. I DREAD the day that I am going to have to switch back to Safari on my Mac. At least I still have Torchbrowser (Chrome, really), which never gets updated anymore so no new buggy builds ...

I mean , hey, it's not like freedom of expression, or speech, or print, is a constitutional right, or anything, right? I mean, if the price of using a product means pull down your trousers and bend over, that's just good business. It's obvious that our founding fathers just *couldn't* see the bigger picture, after spending all that wasted time on such a "flawed document".. The Banksters had the right idea.. I mean, America is REALLY great, because of Walmarts and KFC and megacorps and baubles and trinkets, but mostly because of it's astonishing ability to sucker all these other large countries into buying all our debt from us. We've got a wonderful bunch of helpfull troops to make the process so much simpler too!.. No, we're not great because of silly things like "Freedoms" sand "Rights". these are only things we accuse other countries of violating during trade talks. So we can pat ourselves on the back and say "look at us, how 'free' we are" .. With free pxrn, plus almost everybody's got a mortgage, and credit card debt, *WE* don't stop people out of the blue and ask for their papers, or arrest people witrhout due cause, or disappear people into 'Secret CIA-Style Detention Centers' like to one that "doesn't exist" in Chicago. We don't send people to Siberia for suspicion of un-American activities.. instead we send them to a nice warm summer camp in Cuba, right on the water in guantanamo bay. No, the "Do no Evil" bunch are just good upstanding Followers of the American Way!

My "yuppie" friends are already paying 60% , but their income is so high that it's not really a burden. Rather, high rent is a status symbol.. and they like to boast about who has the highest rent. Pure snobbery! Admittedly, these are gorgeous suites, like the ones overlooking English Bay over on the mainland..

Well, this time he's right, but not for the right reason. The real extinction event is occurring in the pacific ocean, first , and then on land..in 30 years the level of radioactivity from Fukushima, in large sections of the Pacific will match that inside the reactors.. althogh it doesn't need that much to extinguish all but algael and bacterial life. Or us. with huge concentrations of CO2 in the ocean, a strong atmospheric pressure change could cause a Carbon Dioxide release that would suffocate hundreds of millions overnight. And of course there's no fish then either.. possibly only the southern hemisphere near antarctica would be left for fishing.. . Roast penguin, anyone?

Years ago, american retailers discovered a company called Muzak, which delivered. on a super cheap suscription (I believe), insipid retail music that sidestepped any royalties b computer analysis of the tune to make sure no bars of music matched anything currently published, as well as psychologivcally tweaked to create precisely the mood the store wantedf to induce it's patrons. soon after that the stores discovered they could pay a studio to create insipid music for next to nothing, and no writer credits or copyrights ever. Generic audio soup. Welcome to shopper's paradise ... Not! Yet,unbelievably, this style of music now has it's very OWN fan base! Generically called muzak.. I don't know if the company's term ran out, or if they surrendered the name at all, but everywhere you go it's called Muxsk now, and it's immediately identifiable. The very definition of insipid !

THe news agencies decrypted NOTHING. They received them unencrypted,that was how the info was released in the first place. He wouldn't be much use as a whistleblower if he released totally encrypted files. ;-) And if you really think the typical newspaper has the tools to decrypt a CIA cypher, wow.. Wanna buy some swamp for a million bux?

OK, so no proof that he did.. but also no proof that he DIDN'T. "So let's just go right ahead and charge him with having leaked files to China and Russia, since if there's no proof he didn't, he must be guilty".. Screw the constitution" He MUST have leaked secrets to Russia, especially if there's no evidence , let's make it up". Let's be just like the people he tried to expose"... That attitude all that is wrong with the country today, where people feel that violating constitutional liberties is OK to catch someone exposing violators of constitutional rights.. Sheesh... In rebuttal you agree he likely didn't actually intentionally do so, but how is Russia or China sending spooks to access his laptop while he's away, his doing, any more than a foreign agent stealing files from a diplomat's compter when they're away. You don't call the diplomat a traitor because his files were stolen. And I'm sure he's not only capable of noticing the incongruity of a chinese following him everywhere in Russa (!) but surely Snowden has the chops to encrypt his stuff a lot better than "martini sloshed" foreign diplomats..

Actually, it's nice to read a straight up comment about Blackberry.. Not only is it true, but I also developed a keen interest in any company that would purchase QNX and then fully intergrate their OS software in their products.I have subbed to QNX's mailings for over 12 years now, and always have been iompressed with the high level of their software that is used in life critical hospital equipment. I mean, did you ever wonder who makes the OS for that heart lung machine keeping you alive? Or that MMRI machine? Somebody has to.. Want it to be Windows? Or , heaven forbid, Apple .. Like "Oops your heart lung machine 's software is incompatible with the newest OSX upgrade. Mind holding your breath for a few days?"