Neither do the police/DHS, idiot, they used unarmed drones.

Wrong again, idiot. The day before, a sheriff had been marched off the property at gunpoint. When other police arrived the suspects were spotted by a drone (on it's way back from another mission) and they were carrying rifles and concealing themselves behind barricades, i.e. preparing for either a siege or an ambush on the police. Because the police wanted to avoid a gunfight and bloodshed, they withdrew. The drone was used again the following morning to avoid confrontation and ensure that no-one was harmed; they "swooped in" when the suspects were unarmed. Oh and these cattle-rustlers(!), far from being without even basic firearms, had four rifles and two shotguns on the property.

Would you have preferred that the police had a good old fashioned gunfight with the rustlers resulting in loss of life?

Except my less-than-a-year-old brother colour laser isn't supported by the official brother android app. Now what? (Also, as far as I can tell, it only prints jpgs and pdfs.)

Hang on, let's play "spot the difference" shall we?
- sending a special-forces team onto a private vessel in dock in an allied nation to scuttle it with explosive charges.
- shooting TRESPASSERS infiltrating a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT on FRENCH SOIL.

"Inviting" them back before shooting them is the only PR problem I see in the GP's plan.

It appears that the only reason they weren't shot this time is because Greenpeace called in and said "don't shoot, they're only hanging banners". Quite why they didn't shoot, regardless, is beyond me. Even if Greenpeace have their own secret codeword for claiming responsibility like a terrorist organisation would, they've been infiltrated so many times that such a codeword could well be in the hands of even more dangerously stupid people.

Ironically it seems the French government's/security forces' fear of bad PR is what prevented the protestors being shot down which would have solved the security "problem" before they could hang their banners. Still this is good news for Algerian separatists, foreign spies etc, all they need do is take a banner with them and claim to be with Greenpeace whenever they try to infiltrate a French nuclear power plant.

Thank you for making me chuckle. +5 Funny.

FYI, the "PS1", or "Playstation" as we called it, did prevent burned games from working.

You seem to labour under the impression that he was sitting on his hands and then decided that he'd create a super dangerous killer virus to massage his ego. As I understand it, the reasoning behind engineering a super-virulent strain like this is that such a mutation could conceivably happen "in the wild", and that if, or when, it does, it would be a Good Thing if we knew how to deal with it.

Not sure I understand their reasoning. They're "outing" collaborators of the Zetas. Surely the Zetas know who their informants are. If Anonymous "outs" some innocent schmuck, why would the Zetas need to kill them as a "weak link"? It makes no sense. If the non-corrupt cops bring one of the innocent, mistakenly "outed" collaborators in for questioning, what are they going to divulge? They know nothing.

I answered 3, but was only counting "PC"s
- Desktop (wired)
- Mame cabinet (wired)
- Wife's laptop (wireless)
- Nintendo DS (wireless)
- Nintendo Wii (wireless)
- Droid (wireless)
- Laser printer (wired)
- Digital Photo Frame (hacked laptop/wired)
- NAS (wired)

So...9.

African or European?

Like that would ever stop anyone :). Here's two ad-hoc laptops. What about a laptop dock in the toilet? Or what looks like a more permanent laptop set-up? I suppose if all you want to do is play games, you could just set up a console in there.

That's because in America, you take "u" out of "humour" ;)

By 1960, 55% of all photographs ever taken were of babies; recording the lives of one's children is not a new endeavour. I have precisely 0 interest in seeing a picture of a random child, but I genuinely do like seeing pictures of my friend's children as they grow up. Automatically uploading pictures to Facebook/Flickr/G+ isn't some strange dark new magic, it's standard tech. I can take my 'phone, hold down the "camera" button, *click* and share it instantly yet you talk like the people doing this are taking huge amounts of time out of their day...

By the by, if you want to rant about people filming music concerts, why don't you just wait for the next story about illegal filming at a music concert? Your comment seems a tad contrived in this context.

"If car-makers can put in the added effort to make a product that is safer for all parties in collisions, before the turn of the century, I'm sure Hummer could make Humvees a little better."
"A Humvee is way more complicated than a MODEL T FORD!!!"

Hang on, off the top of my head, that applies to any game playable on the NES, Gameboy, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2, Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, Atari Lynx etc. If you need older examples of games that are more complex than notepad.exe, there are many more: Final Fantasy IV, Metroid, Castlevania, Terminator 2: Judgement Day

I specifically used the GTA series, up to Vice City, because they were a series of Playstation and PS2 games and fit the original criterion ("reasonably bug free (...) before consoles could update the software") while being significantly more complex than Space Invaders on the Atari 2600, which was an extremely obtuse, cherry-picked example. The GP picked one of the simplest examples of a console game: Space Invaders, so I returned the absurd favour...

I missed that Office was brought up earlier, but since trolly mcgee cherry-picked the simplest video game he could think of, I'm not inclined to retract my indignation.

ORLY?. (Though admittedly, it sucks for typing)