I only use Windows to play games (the ones that can cause some issues under Wine), so it wasn't that big a deal. Anyway, I had avira blocking explorer.exe and cmd.exe from running. Luckily they still ran fine if I logged in as administrator, so I just added them to the list of exceptions, and seems to work properly now. At least good enough for my scope, which is playing games. No big loss, though, Skyrim works perfectly fine in Wine....

Man, in his place I'd probably have said "Well, it's my job"... Unfortunately most people can't seem to recognize sarcasm.

How am I supposed to trust the results of these studies anyway?

If it had been a few years ago it would have been an Aliens III exo-suit. But since the Iron Man movie is more current the concept had to be stretched to fit

Well, you wouldn't want to risk having the robots getting all ethical on you all of a sudden. Humans are ethically more malleable. Also, once your adversary reaches the same technological level the end result is having robots fight other robots. I think that sort of thing makes you go blind or something.

Awful, I know, but I could not hold myself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel

Would you like to have an Italian built and managed nuclear power station in your country? Add to that the fact that there's no zone in Italy that is not a seismically active area.

So, essentially Geohotz can no longer try and read the console's bios, that's it. And even that is disputable, since the terms of an agreement can be trumped by any overriding law. Doesn't look like such a victory for Sony. Err, SCEA.

I wonder if this settlement is in any way related to the ongoing Class Action ( http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110402000830503 ) that Sony (actually SCEA) would really want closed as well. The judge in that case is starting to ask uncomfortable questions, and I suspect they would not want to fight two battles that would result damaging to Sony's reputation, if they have any left after the rootkit case from a few years back. I also suspect that SCEA's views are not Sony's, and perhaps the parent company is asking for them to lower the tones.