This is my concern. Why is the Federal Government singling out Huawei and not subjecting everyone to this scrutiny?

I have a simple idea. Why not make it a condition of purchase that all software/firmware/hardware design be fully and publicly disclosed by all potential vendors and crowd source the security checks? (Hey I know it will never happen but I'm allowed to have my Utopian dream on a Thursday morning)

The premise here is that working with crappy legacy code is somehow not fulfilling. I have worked in jobs with reasonably efficient and well commented legacy code that was boring to maintain because it mostly involved brain-dead incremental changes. I've also worked with complete shit storms that were incredibly satisfying to re-factor and clean up (ex VB "developer" that wrote an entire java application in one method with 10,000 lines of "if then" nesting, I'm looking at you).

Sometimes the worst sample code is an indicator of a fun job so the next question should probably be, "Are you open to me re-factoring this to make it more manageable?". Of course each to their own and YMMV...

I had video chat on my Nokia N900 in 2010. Worked great too, integrated seamlessly into the OS. Even without skype there have been video conferencing standards around for a long time and implementing them on a mobile phone is obvious and hardly innovation.

So both you kids shut up before I bang your heads together.

I played all the way through the tutorial and found the default controls functional with a mouse and keyboard (dammit, where did I hide that joystick???? All that bashing the mouse around sucks). The part where you have to align with the drone was the most annoying because the keypresses need to be really short.

Banking by default is assigned to numpad 7 and 9. Works for me.

Well I spent a few hours last night playing the actual game and I was impressed with the flight dynamics. At one point my viper got stuck in "glide" mode and I was thankful that I didn't have to come in hot for a landing. I hade to come in slowly and use the full 360 degrees of vertical and horizontal axis thrusters to land safely on to the deck. It took a lot of care. Very newtonian. The only thing missing is gravity.

I'm not sure if getting stuck in glide mode was a bug or the result of damage but it's nice to know that you can switch to a pure "float around and manually squirt thrusters" mode. It makes the possibilities in combat really interesting.

FYI, in case you didn't get it from the above, glide mode is effectively turning off the computer assistance in the viper.

WRT the range for engagement, it is all within hundreds of metres by the look of it, but then if that part was realistic it would kind of suck as a FPS.

So why haven't they interviewed him in the UK? Assange didn't leave Sweden to escape charges, he just left. The Swedish authorities want to question him and he has said they can question him in the UK. Even though they have interviewed people in other countries before, for some reason they insist that he go to Sweden to be questioned and they have used extradition proceedings when charges haven't even been laid.

There is so much that is unusual about this case that if I were him I would be very nervous. Personally I think Assange is a bit of a wanker, but the way events have unfolded I think he has every reason to be scared.

"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."

If you're using windows and need scripting, learn powershell.

--- before you all chime in calling me a schill, I'm typing this on a linux machine which is my favourite tweaked goodness. I'm only reading up on this story because I want more games to play here. Win7 doesn't suck if you bother to learn it (although I still prefer bash+awk+sed+grep). I buy MS products for games because MS software is a toy.

The media creators will still have their toys, but this is all about the media consumers. Big money hates that every joe can create content and IP without them getting a cut, so they're pushing for a (licenced) media delivery only internet and killing the tools end users have for being creative.

Persactly. I worked in big arse joe (main stream media), now I'm indie and I'm loving cheap media tools, subscribing and loving. Will I still get them? Can I still use the linux toolchain I have built for my work? Or am I f**king screwed to use adon'tbe? (%$^^ing %$^^)

I know, stupid me, I never thought of not being able to buy parts.... I just thought I could put the PC in a cupboard and still access it. (High end sound, graphics processing, etc...)

What becomes of media creators? Do we have to buy more and more dedicated gadgets?

I'd imagine you're from the USA... If ever there was a fat bunch of useless weight on the rest rest of the world with no respect for the rule of law (plenty of fox "news") and stupid respect for a non constitutional authority (Dept. of homeland security), it would be the stupid Americans.