The OP has it wrong. Extended warranties last 3 years, during the lowest chance of failure time, electronic devices will generally die in the first few months (manufacturer warranty) or after 3 years (after extended warranty). Add to this that extended warranties have convoluted terms that attempt to stop people getting warranty repairs.

In Australia, extended warranties are useless due to Australian Consumer Law, which protects consumers by making manufacturers repair goods if they fail before a reasonable time. Essentially, if there's an extended warranty available, the item should last as long a the extended warranty.

That's what I mean, so many levels in Eve, from corporate espionage, war zones, pirates, smugglers, & even civilians. Could be a great universe to write a series for, the capacity for some eye watering special effects is boundless. Cap battles, raiding squads destroying transports, even just a busy starbase would be impressive.

Again, all comes down to whether there's a good director & writers for the series.

If the right director is chosen, I dare say Eve could work as a great series. There's some deep stories behind the factions, & if the series explains why they are out there in New Eden, I have high hopes.

I used to play Eve, but got bored of it, I'd be far more interested in a TV series to be honest.

We prefer to drink alone anyway, everyone's just another fucking user.

In all seriousness, I've quit admin jobs due to stress, & would do it again if put in the same position. Luckily, I have a great boss now & a fairly cruisy admin job.

Not true at all.

While humans are the biggest attack surface, they are far from the only one.

My suggestions are Backtrack Linux & a copy of The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick.

Backtrack has some great security auditing tools, however you will still need to understand exploits to test for them. The Art of Deception gives real world examples of social engineering & suggestions on how to plug those gaping holes called humans.

Is the person who did this Ask Slashdot fucking serious?

This part of Slashdot is becoming a joke. Buy some ear plugs & learn to fucking google.

The question is, what's the processing or storage density of a bunch of Mac Minis vs a racked configuration?

I dare say that's where the companies are finding them profitable.

Not only that, you can just keep signing up for free tier every year. I've done it myself, & all I needed to do was transfer configs to my local machine, close down my AWS account, open a new one, upload, off I go again.

It may only be a year, but they don't check names, credit card details, or address, just email address.

It doesn't work like this though. Even if you take the 50% performance increase on face value (not taking into account higher AA/ASF/Shaders) that would mean a game running at 15fps would increase to 23fps. Not exactly much of an increase. Even if you were getting 30fps on the GTX 260, that's an increase of 15fps (which is what the tests essentially saw), hardly worth $300.

Meanwhile, if you spent the money on CPU/MBD/RAM & a mid range graphics card (say a GTX 480 at around $150), you'd see actual performance increases of around 3.5x that of sticking a GTX 660 on a crap motherboard with a crap processor.

Sure, if you had every intention of upgrading the rest of the components, the graphics card is going to be the easiest to swap out, but you're still going to need to upgrade the CPU/MBD/RAM.

The article hides the fact that the increase of a GTX 260 vs GTX 660 card in a modern system would be a ~400% increase in performance. Not sure what they're trying to prove, but to me it proves they know nothing about hardware, gaming or value for money.

Exactly my thoughts. 50% increase in performance? Not really impressive when you look at the graphics card charts out there. GTX 260 has far from 1/2 the performance of a GTX 660.

According to PassMark:

GTX 660: 4038
GTX 260: 1123

So with only a 50% increase in performance, I'd say it's a waste of money. The bottom line is that modern processors, chipsets, & RAM will make a massive difference in performance for modern high end graphics cards. If you're going to upgrade your graphics card, you need to reduce the bottlenecks in the system.

Actually, Counter-Strike originally had all the correct names before it went retail. It was only after it went retail did they change the names to avoid paying the fees.

Aside from this, it's not a "shady world", as gamers, we've known this was the case for years. Not sure why there's a huge beat up, maybe worry more about governments subsidising said manufacturers.

Because the whales being hunted for "research" are not only endangered, but are being fished on a commercial scale.

I'm dubious of this research as it goes against nearly every other peer reviewed paper I've read recently, which all state climate change is observably worse than predicted. I'm not sure where they get the info that temps have leveled off post-2000, but GISS, NOAA, etc, data does not show this.

Lets face it, none of you have even tried any of the girlfriend versions, your still stuck on hand 1.0.

Some of us don't just use Twitter to stalk celebrities. I personally use it for political commentary, getting blog hits (I don't run ads, so no, not for revenue), & getting news before news websites get it.

It's probably the most powerful medium for journalists & bloggers.

That being said, I don't see Vine as adding anything to Twitter, nor do I see it being taken up in a hurry. I'll give it a go, but I don't think I'll rush out & "Vine" everything I see.

Firstly, our gun control laws have prevented massacres, not banning games or movies, secondly the "wowsers" have no influence on the ratings board.

The reason why there was no R18+ before was because an Attorney-General (Michael Atkinson) was being influenced by the wowsers. The lack of an R18+ rating, not the wowsers, is the reason so many games were refused classification or modified for Australian audiences.

If you want to talk stupidity, go no further than your post.