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Comment Re:KOTOR II (Score 1) 84

Strange, I played the unpatched versino of Dragon Age with maybe 2 crashes in the entire 80+ hour game.

And neither of them was game breaking
As for the "KotOR 2 was rushed, pity the Devs", more importantly, pity the people that bought it. The storyline was a mess filled with philosophical Mumbo-Jumbo. Was worse than trying to read Dune:Messiah(Okay, maybe it was a tie)

Comment Re:Remember their motto... (Score 1) 84

KotOR2 better than KotOR1 for story telling?

What version of KotOR2 did you play? The still in progress Comunity Expansion Pack?
KotOR1 took the best bits of the Star Wars Trilogy, and reorganised them to make something just as epic and fun
KotOR2 was more like "How ccan we make the plotline deep and meaningful, without adding anything?
The box art villain had to be killed before he was named
And the whole cutting Jedi off from the force?
KotOR2 suffered from a bad case of post-credits-WTF-happened-Read-Wiki syndrome

Even the box art is wrong(prize to the person who can spot 2 impossible screenshots there...)

Comment Re:wait, what? (Score 1) 446

And what happens when everyone stops printing? Do they turn their paper mill back into rain forest? Unlikely They will build a shopping center there instead. Not printing doesn't save trees, it just decreases the number of working-trees out there(but does increase the number of super-dupulous shopping malls)
Networking

Virgin Promises 100Mbps Connections To UK Homes 247

registerShift writes "Virgin said it will roll out 100 megabit-per-second broadband connections to homes in the UK. The company said users will experience speeds 'very close' to what's advertised as it plans to deploy cable instead of ADSL used by competitors. 'There is nothing we can't do with our fiber optic cable network, and the upcoming launch of our flagship 100mbps service will give our customers the ultimate broadband experience,' Virgin Media's chief executive officer, Neil Berkett, said. This is just days after the FCC announced aims of 100Mbps by 2020, and companies panned it as unrealistic."
Crime

Examining Virtual Crimes 85

GamePolitics has an article about a research paper issued by the AU government's Institute of Criminology titled "Crime Risks of Three-Dimensional Virtual Environments." The paper discusses the legal questions raised by game worlds and avatars, ranging from regulation of in-game currency to a report of virtual rape. "A person controlling an avatar that is unexpectedly raped or assaulted might experience the physical reaction of 'freezing,' or the associated shock, distrust and loss of confidence in using [3D virtual environments]. While civil redress for psychological harm is conceivable, the 'disembodied' character of such an incident would invariably bar liability for any crime against the person. However, Australian federal criminal law imposes a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment for using an internet carriage service to 'menace, harass or cause offence' to another user. Further, US and Australian laws ban simulated or actual depictions of child abuse and pornography. Therefore, any representations of child avatars involved in virtual sexual activity, torture or physical abuse are prohibited, regardless of whether the real-world user is an adult or child."
Cellphones

BlackBerry Bold Tops Radiation Ranking 189

geek4 writes with this excerpt from eWeek Europe: "Data from the Environmental Working Group places the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as the mobile device with the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation among popular smartphones. Research In Motion's BlackBerry Bold 9700 scores the highest among popular smartphones for exposing users to the highest legal levels of cell phone radiation, according to the latest 2010 Environmental Working Group ranking. Following the Bold 9700 are the Motorola Droid, the LG Chocolate and Google's HTC Nexus One. The rankings still put the phones well within federal guidelines and rules."
Censorship

Microsoft Says It Never Meant To Knock Cryptome Offline 176

CWmike writes "Microsoft withdrew on Thursday its demand that Cryptome.org yank the 'Microsoft Global Criminal Spy Guide' document from the site, and said it had never intended for the whistleblower's domain to be knocked off the Web. 'In this case, we did not ask that this site be taken down, only that Microsoft copyrighted content be removed,' said a Microsoft spokeswoman. 'We are requesting to have the site restored and are no longer seeking the document's removal.' The document, a 17-page guide to law enforcement on how to obtain information about users of Microsoft's online services, including its Windows Live Hotmail, the Xbox Live gaming network and its Windows Live SkyDrive storage service, was published by John Young, who runs Cryptome.org, on Feb. 20. Earlier this week, Microsoft demanded that Young remove the document from his site, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. When Young refused, his Internet provider shut down the site, and Network Solutions, the registrar of Young's domain, put a 'legal lock' on the domain name. The last prevented him from transferring the URL to another ISP. Computerworld blogger Preston Gralla dug into the document today in his 'Leaked Microsoft intelligence document: Here's what Microsoft will reveal to police about you' post."

Comment Re:Pro-piracy (Score 1) 287

If "Sharing is caring"

Then is it a also not a crime for the bank to share your banking details? I mean your teller likes to share, and his friends who he shares with are also "sharers" who share their money with him.

And there are important laws about sharing. Eg since i changed ISP i now get a lot of telemarketers(and yes i *always* tick that "You may not share my info no matter what, blah, blah, blah"

Nowdays, if I share an audio CD with someone, I am supposed to feel like a fucking criminal?

sharing the CD is not criminal, posting it online for millions to download is where the police show up looking for the criminal.

We don't have the even most basic of freedoms, and that's the freedom to be left alone.

Well if you don't like the laws then how would you like it if the hospitals just left you alone during your heart attack? Or the garbage collectors left your garbage alone?

[and no, I don't care about this guy sharing some Wii game

[and if you don't care about him sharing, then test the theory, let your cubicle-mate distribute the work you did to someone else and have them submit it. Bet your boss won't be too happy with your non-performance]

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