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Comment: Re:Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters (Score 1) 682

by zebs on Tuesday August 09 2011, @01:05PM (#37035222) Attached to: Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters

The disturbing part is that the police and more importantly the politicians are focusing on the tactics being used rather than the underlying causes of social unrest. How about figuring out why you have disaffected youth rather than how they are effective at being disruptive.

Because it takes effort? Because it raises uneasy questions for a conservative government?

Comment: Re:Once you have discovered (Score 1) 674

by zebs on Thursday July 28 2011, @12:56PM (#36910966) Attached to: Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours

Not only that , but how can a lack of R&D be to blame for a decline in sound quality?

Because the underlying tech has changed since then? The R&D focus has been on the added extras and not the sound quality (at a guess!!!)

Knew I was keeping my Dads home-made speakers dating from 1972 for a reason...

Comment: Re:If this was in the US... (Score 2) 64

by zebs on Tuesday July 19 2011, @04:38AM (#36809180) Attached to: BBC Crowdsources 3G Coverage Map

Hacking a dead girls voicemail and giving false hope to here parents isn't quite the same as someone tracking you walking past the local porn shop

Comment: Re:Can't they tie them down? (Score 5, Funny) 236

by zebs on Monday June 13 2011, @02:47PM (#36428174) Attached to: Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers

There are no cell towers in the ocean, as far as I know.

Apart from the ones that fell off the ship.

Comment: Re:Yep, (Score 3, Interesting) 298

by zebs on Thursday May 19 2011, @05:10PM (#36185340) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots?

Hmmm, on the systems I help look after we occasionally see large number of RDP sessions with invalid logons. On some rare occasions we've been able to RDP to the source IP (get to the logon screen). Gives me the impression that its a bot.

Comment: Re:Obligatory Far Side (Score 1) 179

by zebs on Wednesday May 11 2011, @03:21PM (#36098666) Attached to: Translator Puts Us Closer To Dolphin Communication

Never did get that particular Far Side.

Comment: Re:mcafee corporate is better then the home ver (Score 1) 377

by zebs on Thursday August 19 2010, @10:04AM (#33301972) Attached to: Intel Buys McAfee

mcafee corporate is better then the home ver and has less bolt in it.

Yep, and going rapidly downhill. Soon they will be the same

Comment: Re:US abuse (Score 1) 966

by zebs on Monday July 26 2010, @05:31AM (#33027666) Attached to: WikiLeaks Publishes Afghan War Secrets

The Romans killed one third of all Frenchmen

All?? Well except for one small village...

Comment: Re:But it's Apple! (Score 1) 789

by zebs on Saturday April 10 2010, @05:08PM (#31802202) Attached to: Adobe Evangelist Lashes Out Over Apple's "Original Language" Policy

Always thought big brother looked a little Steve Jobsish

An Early Look At Civilization V 286

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday March 11 2010, @06:02AM
from the new-and-shiny dept.

c0mpliant writes "IGN and Gamespot have each released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the articles go on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new 'flavors' to world leaders, and a potentially game-changing, one-unit-per-tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your city's doorsteps. Some features which will not be returning are religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan-related forums."