Since those mutation are random, and spread over the whole text, you can just buy or take 6 or 10 text, then compare them all. The difference will be local. Return to the average and you can build a version which is safe.

Example:
The red poney, the traitor all, is dead !
The red poney; the traitor all, is dead ?
The red poney, The traitor all, is dead !
The red poney, the traitor All, is dead !
The red poney, the traitor All, is dead !

You look at all the changes and find out :

(The red poney)*5 ,*4;*1 t*4T*1 (he traitor )*5 a*3A*2 (ll, is dead )*5 !*4?*1

You then compare all the frequency and take the highest. And you get :

(The red poney)*5 ,*4 t*4 (he traitor )*5 a*3 (ll, is dead )*5 !*4

In other word all mutation are stripped.

At least in germany valve would get a beating unless they would add a patch to remove the DRM shortly before shutting down the server. First sale and stuff.

Quote: Must connect to the internet once a day or locks you out, extreme limitations on lending or buying used games, etc. An excellent reason to play Steam games under Linux overall.

Normally I'd snark this, but I got nothing. I mean, I'm just bone dry here. It's so stupidifying that I think it may have temporarily caused my brain to seize up like an old VW bug. /Quote


it appears to be paradoxical, unless you realize that a lot of us do not have wifi, and jsut *one* internet cable. In my case for example the basic DSL modem I have got has a cat 5 cable linked to my PC. I literally cannot connect a console unless I physically either add a wifi router, or physically remove the connection from the PC and put it in the console.

Therefore I can connect to steam but cannot connect to anything on my console. It isn't a rare situation either, although now the trend by ISP is to provide for free a wifi DSL modem router, it was not the case years ago.

"Let me see it I got that right: Sonny p0wing your computer is just stupid, but MS making an always online console is weapons grade stupid? I got that right?"

Yes because most consumer , are not geek, don't even know what a rootkit is, and probably would not care to be rooted. On the other hand many people I discuss at work knows very very well what Xbone restriction entails, some are shocked to be forced to log in every day they want to play (and don't have internet linked to their console today) some are shocked that they won't be able to bring a disk to a friend and play. Bottom line is all are dumb founded at Xbone, but none of them knows about the "other" OS story, and most of them except one ever heard of the rootkit thingy. Sure it is anecdotal, but try asking around yourself to normal people, not the type reading slashdot, but still the type liking to game on console and keeping up to date with gaming news.

Step 1 : check an image from TV, say every 15 minutes or so.

Step 2 : if no image can be detected (and even in the complete darkness with only the TV light tehre will be an image with contrast light/darkness) announce "no person detected" , then show an automatic shutdown in a few minutes message.

Step 3 : announce this feature in the manual as a power saving measure.

I mean, look auto convention :

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/01/sexism-fashion-models-start-returning-to-us-auto-shows/1

Sexism at comic book convention :

http://everythingstheworst.wordpress.com/tag/sexism-at-comic-book-conventions/

And tehre are similar stuff for gun convention (one of the weapomn show had sexy fashion model on their tank), I even saw it at downright other normal book convention.

I am not saying it is good, It annoy me too, but game convention are not the only one it happens. but domain which are seen by publisher as populated by men, they misuse sex appeal as advertising. And before you says me "but but there is 50% women in gaming!", check it up : triple AAA is still sadly the province of the young man/male teenager where they dwell in majority.

Please explain us how they can do that, without bricking the PS4 for people without entwork for it, in country where consumer protection exists, without getting an huge backlash from the law and consumer protection agencies. Please do it. This is not like PS2 emulation loss or other OS , it is downright bricking the machine for its MAIN usage. Note that I am not speaking of multiplayer game or buying digital which would mean anyway you have a connection, I am speaking of single palyer game, people like me, which do not have their PS3 (and almost certainly PS4) connected at all. PS: I am not an exception, in fact from all people I know with various dining room TV console, only 2 have it connected.

As consumerization of IT and self-service trends becomes part and parcel of everyone's work in the enterprise

This is stated as if it's an axiom. I'm not going to opine on whether it's true or not, since I'm not sure what the blinking heck it's supposed to mean.

But the whole article falls flat on its arse if its major premise turns out to be a load of old bollocks, don't you think?

Such mustaches were quite popular in the 1930s. My grandfather had one, and kept it all the way through WW2. Woe betide anyone who asked him why he had a Hitler mustache; he claimed he had it first, and therefore it was Hitler who had a my-grandad mustache, and without so much as a by-your-leave. Strong words would be in order when the British army got to Berlin...

One thing's sure, he certainly had it last.

You mean the one which were recentely slapped on the finger , because the judge were not fooled by a "perpetual" licence and consider it a first sale ?

"On the upside, anyone using your console will be able to play your games, and you can share your games with up to 10 members of your family for free."

I can play my console with my family (more than 10+ persons at family reunion) for free right now. Pardon my language but this shit is not an upside it is a limitation.

HA Syrria, Irak, or any other country with a dictatorial military just proved that : that the military will never get the power and opress its people or shoot at them.
And I also like unicorn.

"GM doesn't cause allergies or any other known negative reactions in people."

should be fixed to "GM is tested to catch eventuel allergy to people. Which is why GM soy with nut growth protein was stopped and never marketed : it was actually provocating allergy reaction in nut-allergic people". See Wiki on GM soy for reference.

Otehrwise , I fully agree with you : GM are "generally" safe. I don't care if my wheat is GM or not.

A fully automated drone , you can always wash your hand if it systematically do something wrong , like bombs all school of a country instead of all bridge. A non automated robot you can't because in the end human press the button and chance you will be accused of crime against humanity.

It isn#t about being kind, it is about being able to accuse and judge somebody if something goes horribly wrong.

I said 95+% . Which is an acceptable short hand for "more than 95%". I dislike PETA for various reason, their killings of Pets, their hypocrisy for a long time on their leader using animal produced insuline, and various other factors. But PETA kills only a few en thousand pets, whereas animal shelter kills millions. So de fact PETA kill in absolute number less, but in proportion animal shelters give far far more to adoption, then the few hundred which somehow PETA did not kill (maybe they escaped ;)).