Some movies are done well indeed. I'm not sure how necessary it was to re-distribute Titanic in 3D though. Seems like a money grab in my eyes.

As for the Hobbit, I had problems focusing when I watched the Hobbit due to my old contact lenses irritating my eyes (note to self - new lenses before the cinema!) ut from what I could tell the 3D was tasteful, much like in Prometheus, focusing more on depth than scare tactics.

I have not really watched many 3D movies though. Alice in Wonderland is the only one I disliked the 3D effect in, can't put my finger on why.

Dredd 3D however did a good impression on me. The 3D was used more to intensify (?) the death-scenes and the use of the slowmo drug in a somewhart artistical way. To this date I think it's the best use of 3D I have seen.

I would LOVE to see documentaries that utilize 3D, but also more artistic use of it. But as with everything else, taste differs from person to person.

In the end however, 3D is still a new technology and it's not just the audience that has to get used to it, but also the people who make the movies. I say it might be worth while to give them another year or so before getting rid of it - Because if used right, 3D can be a pleasant addition to a movie.

Isn't this what usually happens? And yes, I think that is how they work. The companies holding the patents wait for the rivals to generate revenue and then enters the battleground in order to take a piece of the money through settlement.

I have not looked into it, but it sounds a lot like what happened between Seagate and STEC.

I was about to post a longer post but changed my mind. The conclusion I reached was: No, we don't like this since we can't trust them. As you mentioned they will have to collect data, and they will misuse it. Once they have this data, they will stray away from the original purpose and be used for solving lesser (easier) crimes in order to bring statistics up.

How often is the data they collect actually used to attack and stop the source, rather than the distributors? Cutting a leg off won't do very much.

Doesn't facebook use private messages for chat (at least now)? Although this might indeed be a different issue since some people on the linked articles claims to see posts from 2012 aswell (this is something I can't see). It's just as bad though.

Also, sorry. Forgot to preview, that post looks like something that got ran over.

Wait what, there was news about this back in January in Swedish media, where as Facebook representatives claimed that these were messages written directly to each others walls (I have facebook, and looking back, I would not talk openly about vomiting, personal issues or anything of that sort). I want to recall Facebook later claimed that the chat function from the beginning was not a real chat, but rather "minifeed" posts which were hidden from the wall (so an update of some sort showed these posts, if they started showing with timeline or prior to that, I do not know). Looking back at the articles right now, I don't actually find any references to media abroad, but rather just swedish ones. Anyway, here are the sources I found (all in swedish, sorry). Origin afaik: https://www.flashback.org/t1763964 (requires login) A post that tries to list the facts among other things (a good read) http://www.joinsimon.se/facebook-buggar-och-din-privata-information-hur-star-det-egentligen-till/ Explanation by Facebooks Swedish representative http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.425636 And finally from aftonbladet (sensational articles deluxe) http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article14188881.ab Imo, the top three links are the ones worth having a look at.

Well, it seems to be the Battle.Net 2.0 data that has been leaked whilst you had an account on Battle.Net classic. If it was a long time ago I would assume you are safe. In the earlier days B.Net didn't even have email (until they introduced password recovery) and accounts were removed if inactive for a certain period of time (3 months iirc). Today Bnet classic accounts are not removed after this period of time. The accounts will however be open for re-registration if you have not logged in to your account during these 3 months someone else can register that account and your stored information would effectively be deleted. Unfortunately, I don't know when this introduced.

From http://fd.fabiensanglard.net/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_1999.pdf "The interpreted code has two prime benefits: portability and security." He also discusses the VM in http://fd.fabiensanglard.net/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_1998.pdf "With significant chunks of code now running on the client side, if we stuck with binary dll's then the less popular system would find that they could not connect to the new servers because the mode code hadn't been ported" The documents are interesting, if you get the some time for reading I recommend you check them out.

That made me think of the video "If Quake was done today". Somewhat spot on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU

It did nothing. Figuring out the last octet shouldn't be too difficult.

Were the passwords stored hashed or in clear text? Can't seem to find information regarding that anywhere.