Total War series has been using four cores for a number of years and I'm sure it's not the only game developed for the PC that does so.

I should add, violence in Australia and to a lesser extent, the UK is more cultural than driven by poverty. The levels of poverty seen in the US are very rare in Australia and the UK. You're unlikely to be mugged or robbed here, more likely get in a fight drinking.

Fair points, and it's similar in Australia, certain areas are more violent than others. Conservative regional areas, some indigenous communities (where alcohol is allowed) , outer suburbs and anywhere alcohol is served can be dangerous. Though with alcohol, the same can be said of most countries. However US gun violence is not limited to gangs in the inner city, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10256057/US-teenagers-shot-Australian-baseball-player-because-they-were-bored.html

However the US has almost 5 times the homicide rate of the UK and Australia. Most people would rather take a punch than a bullet.

I do, actually using mutlpile 3TB FusionIO cards for a database migration project. Beats having to stuff around with slow SANs, shared (slow) storage and SAN admins. If you take into account performance, rack space, power consumption and cooling, it's cheaper than SAN storage. Just say no to spinning rust.

A quicker path to fascism is to outlaw something that people enjoy. Then you can use tax payers money to fund a vast empire that executes or puts people in prisons for either supplying demand or trying to enjoy themselves. Prohibition is the fascist weapon of choice. On the Ron Paul/tax drugs, you might have a point, tax enforcement will just replace prohibition but hopefully on much lower scale.

That's a little harsh. At the time of slammer, I was feeling superior as I had rolled that patch out when it was released. It was then that I discovered the horror of MSDE installed, unpatched on user PCs and various application servers.

It could also be away to get around the protectionist pricing policies of Apple. It would be cheaper for some people outside of the US to purchase the phone in the US and ship it over, but this is not allowed by Apple and is possibly the motivation for the store managers reaction. Outright, a 16GB iPhone 5 costs 649.00 USD at apple.com, at apple.com.au it's listed for 799 AUD which is a whooping 843.82 USD (using google for conversion), even if you can minus 10% for Australian sales tax, there is a 110 USD difference.

"make copyright a flat 18 years for individuals and 5 years for corporations, with not extensions and a one year loss in term for each transferral of copyright (be it selling the copyright or merging/wholly owning the company)", that is the most sensible copyright suggestion I have ever seen. If I could mod up I would.

I agree, broken the golden rule and read the article... This is insidious, Meir should not be able to force copyright on a beer recipe, protect the trademark, yes, but claiming copyright on a beer recipe is going too far.

Beer recipes are generally not that secret, visit a brewery and you're generally shown the full process and ingredients. It's true that most don't give the recipe away, but if you know your brewing it's not hard to reproduce. If you get talking to a brewer and show some interest they'll point you in the right direction. I might be ignorant, but I've never heard of a brewer suing another brewer over a recipe or beer making process. Most brewers are happy to share. Yeast is another matter, many breweries closely guard their yeast, but others give it away.