Comment Lettuce? (Score 1) 168
Surely of all the vegetables, lettuce is one we could do without?
Comment What if this wasn't a child porn case... (Score 1) 417
What if the defendant was a journalist accused of some sort of snooping/hacking offence. The police have evidence suggesting that proof of guilt may reside on the laptop, but the journalist refuses to unlock it because it contains other secrets that may or may not be even related to this case: - Their list of sources, for example, or evidence to do with other stories that have yet to be published.
When you remove the child porn aspect, it seems pretty unreasonable to force the defendant to unlock the data.
Comment Can't remember? (Score 3, Interesting) 417
In cases like these, what's to stop the defendant from saying they don't know the password, or can't remember?
Comment Meh... old phones are better. (Score 1) 349
I still use a Nokia 6310 most of the time. Sure, it doesn't have any internet connectivity, but it's a better phone than anything being sold today, the battery lasts for a week, I can drop it without it breaking, and no one's going to steal it.
There's certainly no shame involved. Quite the opposite in fact. When people are boasting about their new phones and I pull my old Nokia out the reaction is: "Wow! I used to have one of those. Now that was a good phone!"
Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling 963
Layzej writes "The New York Times reports: 'For decades, a small group of scientific dissenters has been trying to shoot holes in the prevailing science of climate change, offering one reason after another why the outlook simply must be wrong.' Initially they claimed that weather stations exaggerated the warming trend. This was disproven by satellite data which shows a similar warming trend. Next, solar activity was blamed for much of the warming. This looked like a promising theory until the '80s, when solar output started to diverge from global temperatures. Now, climate contrarians are convinced that changes in cloud cover will largely mitigate the warming caused by increased CO2. The New York Times examines how even this last bastion for dissenters is crumbling. Over the past few years, Several papers have shown that rather than being a mitigating factor, changes in cloud cover due to warming may actually enhance further warming."
Comment What about 9x era games? (Score 1) 585
Has anyone managed to get Red Alert multiplayer working under emulation?
It needs Win95/98 with IPX networking.
Comment No Freescape??? (Score 1) 117
Surely this article should have started with Freescape. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescape/
Comment My favourite (Score 1) 623
"Emergency. Emergency. There's an emergency going on."
Holly, from Red Dwarf.
