I live in a UK village which recently got upgraded to a 21C exchange and I'm getting 1.5 megabytes a second down now. Up/down speed doubled overnight for the same price. They're getting there.

Really great, is that no-one can search what is written on other Oak trees.

Makes mental note to buy www.shareyouroaktree.com domain . Could be a money spinner. Bwahahahah!

I remember an 80's movie called Prime Risk where some girl is working on an ATM hack then realises terrorists are already in the system planning to blow up key data nodes to bring the banking system to its knees. Iliked it because she used an Atari 800/810 disk drive for everything but it was still an OK film from memory.

Which describes every large software project implemented by a non-software company, ever.

We've got the opposite problem, Everything is overengineered, modular, documented to death and scalable but 9/10 times the code base is never touched again for a decade then it's replaced. Might as well of thrown it together and saved 40% of the development costs.

Well I thought it was a good post, especially the GSV reference. if I had mod points you'd get some.

Modded down huh? Looks like the Monsanto shills are out in force today like the Scientologists ones are on here from time to time.

So this guy says we need to make more food? Is this so it can just be thrown away like we do currently? http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/half-of-the-worlds-food-is-just-thrown-away-8445261.html

Maybe if we did a better job of using what we make, this would be a total non problem (not that it is anyway, unless your a Monsanto salesman)

Much as it pains me to say it, being a major non GMO fan, you're not far wrong. It's the business practices, rush to market, lack of controls etc that's the issue but I suspect that's not going to go away any time soon.

Obviously criminals can get them where they're illegal but if the supply isn't there, less guns. If the crims can buy a 3D printer and start making their own, we have a problem. It's not a hard concept.

And does their name begin with M? Also, when does this obsession with profit and short termism start to wane over long term stewardship? As a species, we are getting so fucked up. In history we used to wonder how once great nations could possibly collapse back to nothing, well here it is on a global scale.

What about countries where firearms are illegal or strictly controlled? Great, now our sundry criminals will be able to get guns made to order. Way to go with extreme irresponsibility. Hope you can live with the blood on your hands.

As a long term Xbox user, I can safely say that between the need for an always on connection plus the blocking of 2nd hand games AND the increase of per game costs forecast, I'm not going to be buying their next gen Xbox any time soon if at all. I love the 360 but whatever the 720 gets called is a huge turn off for me because of these issues.

Yep, you're right. I knew there was the pirate name versus the release one but going from memory I was thinking Jedi/Jaggy and totally forgot the whole Fractalus bit.

And James Herbert last month.

For me, they'll always be the firm that produced incredible Atari 800 games, Ballblazer, Behind Jedi Lines and The Eidelon. Fractal games in 1982, Hell yeah!