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Comment Glossy sets and magic tech? Just say "no". (Score 1) 228

I enjoyed 6 well enough, but 7 and 8 lost me completely. Bringing back the annoying, superior Kochansky and losing the gritty, mining-ship feel of the sets and costumes did not go down well with me. Moreover, I liked the limited cast of the original seasons, so bringing back the crew didn't work for me either.

I'm also going to say that the nanobots were some of the most annoying dei ex machinae I've come across as well. Magic tech is fine, but only as long as it doesn't become godlike.

And that's without going into the writing. As others have pointed out, Grant/Naylor made a great team. Either one on his own, not so much.

Maybe I'm wrong, and they could succeed in rebooting the series, but I very much doubt it.

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Experiment Shows Not Washing Jeans for 15 Months is Disgusting But Safe 258

dbune writes "Young people who argue with their parents over wearing the same pair of smelly jeans can now cite the work of a 20-year old University of Alberta student who wore the same jeans for 15 months straight. From the article: 'Josh Le wore the same pair of jeans to break in the raw denim, so it would wrap the contours of his body, leaving distinct wear lines. He had his textile professor test the jeans for bacteria before washing them for the first time. The results showed high counts of five different kinds of bacteria, but nothing in the range of being considered a health hazard."

Comment Re:ADMIRED??? (Score 1) 470

JP II was just another hidebound arsehat who blocked progress in all bust the least important directions. Condoms were off the table, and pedo-priests were at least as well shielded as they are today.

JP I, now, was showing some promise, which is probably why he had to go.

Comment Re:Keep up or shut up (Score 1) 785

Bingo. I'm an old fart, but I always (well, mostly <g>) enjoy learning new tech.

I will add that it's not surprising that young hotshots get paid for the new tech that they know, if it's a scarcity economy. If the tech becomes pervasive, they can expect to suffer a significant haircut in future contracts. Consider the new guys as something akin to iPads. Give 'em a year, and they'll be old hat, and people won't be willing to pay quite so much.

That said, if you get left behind even further, you'll be worth about as much as a 486 running Windows 95. Try to keep up, OK?

Comment Accessibility, much? (Score 1) 329

I have a blind friend with an iPhone. Apparently, they're surprisingly popular with the "blindies" (his word), partly due to their superior, built-in screen-reading capabilities. I can't wait to hear what he thinks of THIS stupidity.
Steve: Give us more buttons, not fewer. But no, we know that ain't gonna happen.

Comment Lousy content (Score 1) 222

For me, the biggest problem with the market lies in the content. Google have gone to the opposite extreme of Apple, and let just any scammer put up their crappy apps, pretending to be other apps and rendering it virtually impossible to find the decent stuff. They need to exercise a little more control, or at least charge on a per-app basis at a rate that might discourage all the crud.

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IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347

aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."

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