...they were running McAfee at the time!

Its Christmas Eve and I am really busy, so I only had time to skim the summary, but thats horrible that some kid got killed for his Nikes!!! Especially during this season its important we honor those killed so needlessly - even tho I am very busy, I am taking the time out to tweet in his honor, and post on Facebook my outrage at this kind of senseless violence! You all should do it too.

It remains the size of one of those animated "under construction" gifs.

Agreed. This place has really gone downhill since Roblimo left.

Its an MMO which should last a long time.

You play for 2 years for example. You pay $60 + (23 * $15) = $405.

You think you should be paying 24 * $15 = $360.

Thats less than $2 per month over the life of the game, which could probably be made up with advance purchasing.

I don't see what you are complaining about.

+ doesn't work with google any more. The worlds gone to hell in a handcart.

I didn't RTFA but if google is known for hiring some very smart, technical people, perhaps when they run into a problem, its not purely a technical issue. Probably the individual workers know their field pretty good (and are capable of simply googling for answers if they need a technical answer). I would think they need a manager for the other stuff that isn't just finding the best algorithm for a given problem.

I think the problem is that if someone needs work on a $20,000 car, they can justify going to a "pro" and paying someone for 5 hours at $100 per. Or if they have a house worth $300,000 - then paying a plumber or electrician $1000 for a day is justifiable. But if you have a problem with your 4 year old computer that you paid $500 for, everyone knows its worth less than $100 now - how can anyone justify paying a "pro" to spend a couple of hours troubleshooting it. Its better to just go buy a new computer... unless you can con your friend "who knows about these things" to fix it for free.

I do something similar to this. Redundancy is the key.

Disk space is cheap & online storage for photos is cheap. I never delete a single photo.

1) 1 copy on my own PC. I may have gigs and gigs of photos, but I also have gigs and gigs of free space on my local system.
2) 1 local copy on a NAS that automatically syncs over every night.
3) 1 online copy using mozy - its like $5 / month. Again - the syncing happens automatically within hours of the original photos being placed on my home PC.
4) 1 copy on DVD in a safety deposit box. This is the only non-automated portion of my backup routine. Every couple of months I backup up all my photos, bring them to my bank where I have a safety deposit box and swap out the old copies. I was paying for a box anyways (although I needed to upgrade to a slightly larger one to hold the DVDs).

Ultimately, photos rank up there among the most important things in my life. I would be devastated to loose some of them. Redundancy is your friend. I may spend a few dollars a month doing this, but I am pretty sure that unless my house burns down on the same day that there is a worldwide financial crisis causing mozy and my bank to shut their doors, I should be ok.

No, this part: "Hotz has a history of passively keeping his hand out when releasing exploits, in one case writing 'If you want to contribute to me, the person who discovered these exploits and wrote this tool...' upon releasing an iPhone software unlock."

That being said - when I originally read the article, I overlooked the part that it was said in relation to a different tool. So yes, my original post may be unfair.

According to this article his anti-piracy postings may be canceled out by the fact that he was apparently soliciting for donations on his website. So he was actually trying to profit from his work.

If (somehow) we managed to find our way to another planet and came across creatures comparable to dolphins - would we turn them into sashimi, or would we say: "holy crap - they are almost as smart as us - and may actually be smarter!" One day we may communicate – we’d better treat them as equals!"

Apple, Microsoft & Google have got to be getting sick of this - they need to open up their wallets and toss some serious money towards lobbyists to get the patent system changed.

And if they are not getting sick of this: shame on them!

Just sayin...