Shouting louder isn't a legitimate way to win an argument.

Cheers,
Ian

" I have no idea how they got or are getting my password."

They may not be doing, this could be a simple Joe Job case. They scrape your email address from somewhere, then send out a ton of mail using your address as the Reply To. They don't need any password to do this - check your 'sent' folder, did you really send those messages or is it just claiming you did in the Reply To?

There's very little you can do about this. Personally I set up SPF to specify that only certain domains were allowed to send mail. If the receiving mailserver has a brain, it will check these records and disallow any joe-job spam. My own mailserver also recognises bounces claiming to be from me but which haven't originated from those domains.

Not perfect, but it's one possible step.

Cheers,
Ian

The point:

"These shape memory materials have many applications," said Raymundo Arroyave, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Texas A&M. "Despite being heavily studied for the past twenty to thirty years, most of these materials are limited to work at relatively low temperatures."

In other words, yes - the materials have existed for ages and people know that (anyone ever worn memory-flex glasses, for instance?), but there is now work underway to make the substances more useful in more difficult conditions - TFA mentions aerospace and automotive.

Cheers,
Ian

"If one has a very high standard of living,one sometimes has to do a very low standard of movie" - Michael Caine, but I think relevant there as well. Shatner, like Caine, describes himself as a working actor not a precious artist.

Cheers,
Ian

Wasn't Pinball Fantasies but its predecessor, Pinball Dreams that got me into pinball. That and a table at university - Fire! by Williams. Just about a couple of decades then go by without me playing, and then Pinball Dreams comes out on the iPhone. I liked playing so much that I bought a real table, Gottlieb's Surf'n'Safari, for the home.

It's a massive hit - my wife likes it, my kids like it, I like it...it's great. Pinball Dreams is where it started for me though - the Nightmare table is massively playable and the music great.

Cheers,
Ian

"Then click on the gameplay images bottom-left."

That would be bottom-right of course. I knew that. Honest.

Cheers,
Ian

Anyone remember the 8-bit game 'Game Over'? Now that was misleading, even though they mimicked the box 'art' in the title screen. Gained notoriety for being the first box art needing to be withdrawn and redone (well, in the UK at least - not sure about anywhere else).

Here's the game in question. Look at it, then click the title image. Yep, that's what you think it is. Then click on the gameplay images bottom-left. Err....hmm.

Cheers,
Ian

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Deathtrap Dungeon are out in the iPhone now. I believe Citadel of Chaos is too, not entirely sure.

I have the Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and the second Creature of Havoc comes out I'll be buying that one too.

Cheers,
Ian

No, and I noticed a number of replies thought that was what I meant. I'm not saying all films should be geared to the under tens, I'm saying that audiences growing up now will expect 3D as a given: it's the new baseline.

In the same way that there's not many black and white silents being made today, so I'm expecting in the future that not too many 2D films will be made, audiences will have grown up with 3D and will expect it as a base.

Cheers, Ian

A lot of stars never made the transition from silent to talkies either.

Face it: a new era is here and the kids love it. -I- love it. My kids, all under ten, all expect to see 3D when they go to the cinema now. I'm rather older than that, and I like seeing 3D too. It's just the new given, not a novelty any more.

I don't turn my nose up at 2D, abut then I don't turn my nose up at black and White or silent either. There are. thkse that would, and as time goes on I expect there will be those that feel the same about 2D bs 3D, at least at the cinema. Cheers, Ian

The cutsie word 'jailbreak' seems to be catching on, but if this were any other os I think the phrase 'gaping remote code execution security hole' might be more appropriate.

I use an iPhone and I thank people who do these exploits for bringing them to attention. If the means of jailbreak is "connect via USB then faff" I can live with it. If it's "go to this website and get an instant remote execution exploit from people you don't know" then I become rather more concerned.

It's an exploit, same as any other. It should be patched as fast as possible and such an action wouldn't be evil, it would be the correct response to a remote execution hole.

Cheers,
Ian