Your posts are a rare moment of intelligent empathy in a thoroughly depressing set of ./ comments. Some posts really do bring out the worst aspects of this community.

By lumping 50% of the entire population into one group and blanket accusing them of the same thing, it's rather difficult to take anything you write seriously at all. It just comes over as angry backlash, and no better than the cliched "all men are bastards" call of the recently dumped.

I salute your flexibility in bending over backwards to blame the victim. Most people would know the difference between a private recording made between two people and the intentional broadcasting of that material with the intention to harm.

PS - Witcher3 is said to have 200+ hours of content. Short attention span? huh?

So you don't have any games like Bioshock (1, 2, infinite), Mass Effect (1, 2, 3), Dragon Age (origins, 2, inquisition), Witcher (1, 2, upcoming 3), etc? For games like those, it would be like saying you own a few movies, and you think they're just fine to watch over and over. In a RPG like Mass Effect, where it's like being an interactive movie that plays for 24-36hrs. No matter how great such games are, there's a limit to the number of times one can play it - mostly *because* they're so engaging. A simple game like simcity or such, of which you don't become a part? Sure, play it daily for a decade. Not all of us like the same type game as you, perhaps.

Given you've never designed or had to use a wheelchair, your assertion is not very convincing. Making a wheelchair that can go up steep gradients is going to have lots of knock-on effects to the design like weight, size, cost, and since you can't push yourself up such gradients with your arms for any length of time it would be a waste anyway.

Let's assume for a second that you really are that nice (hard to do based on other things you have said, but OK). Do you think it is important for a person to be able to live with dignity? What dignity could there be in a life where you have to ask someone to *carry* you every time you go into a shop... multiple times per day. You would have to find a fine nice person like you to go out of their way *every* time an obstacle is encountered, which in your world would be pretty often.

Isn't that revenue though? Loss of revenue doesn't really count since if you're not making the programme anymore then you won't be spending it, so profit is the thing they will lose.

Good point about screwing with the delivery, though I would assume that the BBC is big enough and has a solid enough reputation that this would be a 'blip' rather than a noticable loss of confidence.

You're "pretty sure" are you? You know these sort of mindless random thoughts stated as fact is pretty fucking harmful.

Top Gear worth per year, about £50million
Licence fee collected last year, £3726million

Get a grip.

Well won't that would be fun when the hackers focus their attention on their new remote-control planes.

for a moment there, my brain processed the headline as "Michael Stonebraker passes Turing Test." Given how forgetful my wife claims I am, I then wondered if perhaps I had forgotten a couple of decades, and we were in some sort of future where we couldn't tell the difference between androids and humans anymore.

Then I took my second sip of coffee. I think today might be less productive, yet more entertaining, than I had predicted.

"This isn't being forced on anyone" - because it's in pilot phase, and they haven't yet had their lawyers and PR folks work out how to slip it past people without them knowing/caring. They're also trying to float the idea of it being a "feature" temporarily, to try to come up with a way to convince people it's a value-add (much easier than hiding it). Eventually though - maybe in as little as 6 months - it will be forced on everyone. Of that, you should be certain.

Well off the top of my head I could add 'stock tends to be more reliable' and 'it's faff / risk of bricking your phone to replace the firmware'...

It's rather splitting hairs to quibble whether the intelligence agencies or higher up the government chain made the threat...

You're really reaching for an explanation that absolves the US there...

Do you *need* beer? Do you *need* steak vrs a bowl of red beans and rice? A nice bed in a comfortable house, instead of some straw on the floor of a cave? 99.99% of your life is "luxury." That said, I have had the Samsung Gear Fit since last fall (my previous phone was stolen just days after the S5 Active came out, so I got it and the Gear Fit). I've found the watch to be extremely helpful in many ways, and have even regained my very lost habit of occassionally checking my watch (I went what, almost 15 years without one) to actually know what time it is. Then there's the sleep patterns, exercise tracking, etc...