He did not waiver from it... except when he did, as in this story.

I *really* hate gamepads for these kinds of games, but Skyrim is the first one where I made the switch. It's still aggravating sometimes, but for the most part -- especially walking around and watching the scenery, which I seem to do a lot of --, it's fine. Combat is more difficult and shooting arrows in particular is MUCH more difficult, I'm sure it's "costing" me an entire difficulty level at least. It's sometimes frustrating when you die and it feels like the controls are part of the reason. But I try to take that as part of the challenge; archery is still very useful, for example. OTOH, some parts just plainly work better, e.g. the menu system is braindead for keyboard/mouse, but it's *fantastic* for gamepad (huge inventory lists can be a problem). It's also nice to have analogue controls for walking, the one thing that's more precise with a gamepad.

And it does mean I get to play the game sitting on a couch and displayed on a projector, which made this easily the most immersive gaming experience I have had in a long time.

It also gets easier as you get used to it. At first it reminded me of when I switched to controlling FPS games with wasd+mouse instead of purely the keyboard (guess I'm dating myself here). Still don't know how anyone can stand playing an FPS with a gamepad, though.

The manual (or maybe the Nokia 5800XM manual which I also looked at) actually has a parapraph saying "don't use your local emergency number or 911 or 112 in your PIN", or something to that end.

That seems unlikely. I think pretty much all GSM devices have the capability (apparently it's in the spec, "112" should work globally). The N900 just doesn't advertise the feature. It's mentioned in the manual, though: http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/support/product/nokia-n900/userguide/?action=onlineuserguidepagechange&pFile=GUID-67F9E8D2-51A2-4A60-B635-69F60530E852-139_FILE001.html

As long as a lawyer has not been beheaded/disbarred it will keep finding ways to troll.

My vote is for "beheaded" in this case.

Apparently it as produced with LibreOffice (metadata, if you can't spot it). Is the source odt file for the journal available? It's fairly clear that designing the journal was not a priority, and I think that's fine, but in terms of sane defaults, Latex would have produced a much better looking document. E.g. the odd positioning of "Software:" on page 19 just wouldn't happen, left aligned instead of justified is very strange, no hyphenation.

If you're worried about the increased work load (without cause, in my experience), you could crowdsource the effort, same goes for still accepting submissions in HTML, ODT or MS formats to avoid scaring off people who aren't used to Latex.

You people have way too much stuff.

I've got to hand it to you two, that's almost textbook material for petty internet bickering. :)

Someone else mentioned installing it at the border -- yet another reason for completely wiping the system before and after a border check. There are two known cases where this happened. In another case, they broke into someone's home and installed the software on two computers. None of these cases involved terrorism, or child abuse, for that matter.

Source (German, obviously): http://taz.de/Staatstrojaner-gegen-Drogendealer/!79701/

And again, you get 8/10 for snark, but not a whole lot of points for thinking along. The modern kind of mall always was a largely private thing (though often generously subsidised, no doubt), but instead of walking around in a private mall to visit stores, you could also walk around on public streets to visit stores. I guess it's fair to put modern malls in one line with market places (eminently public places) and market halls (e.g. this, don't know if those were typically publicly owned). Another example for public places that are now sort of private are all kinds of public transportation, e.g. the FFM airport case I referred to or the MTA Photo Ban thing which was discussed on Slashdot on numerous occasions.

What freedom exactly is being undone by not allowing pictures to be taken on private property (like a mall)?

Okay, let me spell it out for you: As malls get increasingly popular, people spend more and more time on private property. While people used to be able to walk around their town and take photos, they are increasingly unable to do so. And obviously, malls aren't the only places that used to be public but now aren't and taking photographs is only the least of the things people lose. Being searched on entry or exit? Wow. I'm assuming political speech is out too, but of course people like you are going to jump up and down screaming "it's not censorship because it's not the government doing so".

The ideal solution would be to raze the fucking malls and reassert public ownership of things like public transport, but in case that clashes with ideology, you can walk a middle ground of extending some civic rights to these places. This isn't particularly insane, last year a German court ruled that Frankfurt airport (a corporation where the public is a major stock holder) could not abolish the freedom of assembly on their premises.

Seriously, I have to ask: Which part of "Love your neighbor as yourself" was unclear?

Yes, the U.S. Constitution says you're allowed to do your picketing. However, it doesn't require me to listen to you, or see you as anything other than a bunch of sad, deluded, hate-filled little nut-bars.

It's pining for the fjords!

And here I thought it was pining for the fnords...

How much competition is there? I thought China Mobila is dominating the market, and according to Wikipedia, there are just three mobile phone operators, all of them state-owned.