Meh, that would require actually getting somebody off their ass, talking with eyewitnesses, dealing with lots of paperwork - the kids would probably get couple of months, even if that much. So not worth it.

Much better to pick up that kid who ended up on 4chan once - 5 years in a slammer guaranteed and all we need is his hard disk!

Nobody is claiming that he drive contains *6500 folders of child porn*. Only that the drive contains circa 6500 folders. Also - lots of files. Some of those files appear to possibly count as child porn. More than one, at least.

You seriously think that if they had 700k child porn images on a drive in 6500 folders they wouldn't say so outright?

Did you just publicly describe how somebody might acquire known illegal material?

You must be a fed.

Your analogy holds up perfectly well - if I refuse to give you the 'key', you are absolutely welcome to break down the doors (and frankly you are going to be in cuffs on the ground regardless of whether you cooperate or not given that LEA has completely lost the plot over last few decades).

The fact that you might not be able to or will not admit that you are - none of my problems. Onus on proving something is on you.

Still missing the point. At the projects of this side the actual software/engineering/architecture deliverables are such an inconsequential minor, even trivial, matter, that it cannot, by relative importance, ever be the cause of failure.

The backstabbing politics at the higher level, the requirements and workflows that need to be understood and analysed, the vested interests of all involved external parties - they all are much much much more important than that silly thing called IT delivery.

And XBox 360 was pretty much a mid-range unit, even at launch. Both consoles did all right, I'd say.

This deserves an upvote.

Consoles are great not because they have good specs (they mostly have shitty ones). They are great because they present developers with a fixed hardware target for a decade or so. Games development on consoles is not too dissimilar from Demo scene, just that all the little tips and tricks get applied to all those games.

Give me a fixed target and I'll optimise the hell out of it. With results.

Riiight... The NVidia scandal just didn't happen.

You forgot that the frontend is driven by RubyOnRails. In a Cloud.

That's all right, I was just joshing in the spirit of the discussion. I'm still taking their figures with a large pinch of salt (alas couldn't find a link to the original report) and find the conflation of devices most odd (does it include iPads then? Kindles?).

That will be $50 to 1GtkK4bLk3N1E6eEZr9m11QGwk5xba7C79 please ;)

So, basically, it's a table of random numbers with no real-life implications? I just cannot comprehend why would they double count Microsoft numbers that way...

I'll take it you meant it as a response to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3738737&cid=43694313 ;)

Thumbs up. Nexus 4 is actually what I use as my primary phone despite occasionally highlighting to people that if it weren't for Apple it would never have happened.

Not an unreasonable point, but, given that nobody is using Windows Phones, the fact that there is no Blackberry presence at all is rather alarming. It _might_ be statistics of device use on Microsoft campus, but I find it hard to imagine any possible slicing and dicing of statistics to come up with this.

I'm willing to bet $50 that the 'statistics' provided are made up from thin air*.

*with ether very selective or very broad interpretation of what a smartphone is + liberal selection of target markets (unspecified as far as I can tell) and perhaps just a sprinkle of straightforward dishonesty.