This is particularly good news for me, because I can only eat foods that have been etched with a laser. Goodbye scurvy!

No, I believe Vista's EULA limits magnification to 3000X.

That's why you should browse at > 0 unless you're moderating.

I recently discovered absinthe and tonic - it's bloody delicious. It's even better if you happen to be drinking it near a UV light source because the quinine in the tonic fluoresces a lovely icy cyan colour.

Ah, the future: where robots play games and humans translate instructions.

So why is it bent on blocking pornography, which (as far as I can see) is only dangerous in a religious context? Isn't sex just one of many everyday biological functions to an atheist?

That was brilliant. Thankyou.

I apologise if my comment was overly obvious. It's only recently become apparent to me.

I don't understand these alleged Christians' obsession with force and control. Forcing your own will upon someone else is the very antithesis of Christianity.

When I was a kid, my parents had a 'red button' called a leather belt. It was much harder to hack.

Harder to hack, my arse! When this happened to me, I used to modify the client (my bottom) by increasing the resistance (extra underpants) and return a spoofed result to the server.

At least you can keep those patches. I cached the patch the Bioshock installer downloaded and tried everything I could think of to force the installer to use it instead of redownloading it, but it wouldn't have it.

BTW, ten megabytes is NOT trivial when downloaded at 6KB/s, which is what happens to a lot of Australian ADSL customers' connections when the monthly quota is exceeded.

Until recently I viewed the vitriol spewed by anti-DRM zealots with mild suprise. I'd never really felt it was all that bad. Then I bought and installed Bioshock. CD keys and mild disc protection I can live with, but those PLUS activation PLUS forcing a 10MB patch download every single time the game is installed took my breath away. After a few hours trying to install it under Wine I was ready to put my foot through my screen.

THAT ruined Bioshock for me. Spoilers I don't really mind.

XFCE is nice, but I think Fluxbox is nicer still, especially when used with XFCE apps. It loads in less than a second but still manages to look rather nice with transparency and stuff. The best bit though, aside from its fleety-nimbleness, is that it allows user-definable, chained keyboard shortcuts (I have {Alt+x, Alt+z} mapped to 'screen -Rd', for example). It's freaking awesome.

I apologise for evangelizing, but I just love it so damn much.

I thought the slogan was was "Nobody doesn't like molten boron", not "Nobody does it like molten boron".

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For the lulls (in actual news).