Please mod the parent up to the moon. I've been reading all the comments on the story, and it baffled me that no one caught this simple fact - GPS logs can be easily tampered with, or even forged. I don't know if the ruling on this case was made with this technical knowledge, but it's nevertheless a good thing a bad precedent wasn't set. Nevermind GPS accuracy, GPS logs just aren't a reliable source of evidence in the first place.

Yea, I think it's a bit elitist too. I mean, if they don't want a sequel, don't read it!

Case in point, a classic: The Time Machine, from H.G. Wells. A century later, a sequel was authorized and written by Stephen Baxter: The Time Ships. And I like it so much more than the first book, because it expands so much on the idea, concepts and caracter. Granted, there was a lot to expand from given the late 19th century science, and Stephen Baxter is also an excellent SF writer... So the question really is if Mr. Reichert is up to the task, since he's pretty much unkown. But so was Baxter, back when he wrote the The Time Ships. I guess we'll just have to wait and hope that Mr. Reichert does a good job.

Nice, but your Quake has statically linked libraries, which was (and still is) a simple solution for running binaries across wildly different distributions or linux environments without hassle.

Of course, not everyone does that. The common and default way to compile stuff is using dynamic linking (i.e. using the standard libraries you'd already have installed), and if your version of Quake (compiled 10 years ago) was dinamically linked, you'd be in for a big surprise.

And anyway, while it is a good strategy for backwards compatibility and cross-distribution portability, static linking is not fullproof and has its drawbacks - you could still run in to compatibility problems that are kernel-bound (usually, interfaces that have been changed or obsoleted), in which case static linking won't help you, and statically linked binaries are bloated (thus, taking a lot more memory). You really just got lucky with that version of Quake.

Well, I can't vouch for the GP, but my ISP has a very flaky DNS service. For some reason, every 3 out of 10 queries for a given DNS returns a NX - or (in layman's terms), every 3 (at least) out 10 times I try to access a website (that is, one specific website, 10 times), Firefox says the domain doesn't exist. After the first 3 errors the domain is found and cached, and all is well, but this annoyed me to no end.

There were some days when it was bad, and others days the problem never showed up. After trying to diagnose the problem on my end, I finally concluded the problem were my ISP's servers, so I gave up and switched to OpenDNS. Never had the problem again.