The Wii U's biggest competitor is the Wii. I have the Wii, and I really don't see the point in getting a Wii U. The Wii is kind of special, at least I use it to play games together with others, in the living room.

As I understand it, the U makes it possible to continue playing if somebody wants to use the TV... Eh. But if we're playing together, why would one of us suddenly demand to sit down and watch TV? (also, the only "TV" we watch nowadays is Netflix, on the Wii or the PS3).

> Germany were sometimes tactically frozen is their rigid command system

Huh? Ever heard of kampfgruppe? Germany probably had the least rigid command system of all WW2 participants, unless you count various partisan groups.

Or did you mean Japan and the Soviets?

> Someone just discovered Battlestar Galactica I see

If that's true, I envy them. I'm currently watching BSG (the remake series, sorry puritans) for the 5th time.

It's the responsible thing to do. This is not a video game or some retarded "never back down" action movie for teenagers. If a change of plans might help avoiding a war (or avoid adding to the fuel), good.

A few of the April 1st-jokes on slashdot has been kind of half-amusing. But this? What kind of audience is it written for? It is written by somebody who obviously doesn't have any interest in computers, and doesn't care about computers other than as tools. I know there are plenty of people like that out in the real world, but on slashdot?

"Huh huh computers were so primitive in the 80's and now we have faster computars that are better so old computers are funny, huh huh"

A joke like this would perhaps make sense in some fashion magazine, but not on Slashdot.

Still no port of Elite? Preferably done by Braben himself.

As Cusco said, NO.

I worked with CCTV for a security company for a few years, and I really really really wanted to replace the sony/geovision/axis/aimetis-crap with some open source solution, but I just wasted time trying to get it (something with comparable features) working. Zoneminder is (unfortunately) very primitive, outdated and not compatible with many modern network cameras.

The proprietary junk is much better, at least for now.

> However, in my opinion, Preston's non-fiction, documentary accounts in The Hot Zone
> and in The Demon in the Freezer are way, way, way scarier. Highly recommended.

Agreed. I actually started reading the Hot Zone two days ago. It's a struggle getting past the first chapters (just reached the introduction of the army veterinarian) since it's so disgusting.

But that's what I was looking for. Seems like a good book.

How was 5MHz slow in 1983? I had a C64 clocked at 0.985MHz (PAL) around that time and it was more than enough + better (in every way) than any Apple.

I came up with this idea about 3 years ago, when working with network cameras. Should have patented something right away.

Here in Sweden, the tradition is to watch Dinner For One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1v4BYV-YvA/ (on TV every year since 1976), get very drunk and then watch fireworks (or set them off yourself and get your fingers blown off if you're drunk enough).

This year I had actually planned to play World of Tanks at midnight since my girlfriend is sick and sleeping.... but of course a colleague showed up and I had to go to a pub run by Russian criminals and drink lots of things. Now I just hope I get sick too so I can stay home and sleep for a week.

Then it's around 4,5TB (including TV-series, movies, porn, games etc)

If it's the important stuff: 780MB (backup of mails since 2001 + textfiles + 3 spreadsheets)

There should be a list of ISP's/hosts that doesn't do anything about it. We (my hosting company) usually get DDoSed by turkish IP's from Turk Telecom a couple of times a month, because of random Kurdish websites their customers don't like. I report them all to to the turktelecom abuse address, but it doesn't seem to help much. (the blocked IP's keep trying)

Last couple of weeks some of our customers (using outdated Joomla-installations with security holes) were used for a DDoS against Bank of America. I shut them down as soon as I got the abusemails. And I don't think we should be punished since we can't be held responsible for customers who thinks it's a good idea to use Joomla-installations with wide-open security holes if we do something about it as soon as we get the abuse reports.

I *think* AOL are one of the good guys in this case, I can't remember seeing any DDoS or spamcampaign from their network going on for a long period of time.

At least you didn't say it in a pub in Dublin... that wouldn't have ended well :-)