Comment Re:Whelp. (Score 2) 139
What about the Haast's eagle that preyed on the moa? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
For a more colorful description see http://www.badassoftheweek.com...
Comment Re:Until artificial limits are removed... (Score 1) 538
The bank I'm with makes lower and uppercase the same. I can leave caps lock on when I'm typing in my password and it doesn't make any difference.
Comment Re:Dont need to reduce overall traffic (Score 1) 84
uTorrent does have a scheduler that can choose from full speed, limited, seeding only and off based on time and day of the week.
Comment Re:pay per use: 50 cents per document save (Score 1) 241
The whole concept here is like a terminator crop from monsanto where you do all the work raising the seed but it won't grow unless you pay Monsanto for the magic chemical it has been engineered to need.
Didn't they try something similar in Jurassic Park.
Comment Re:no surprise there (Score 1) 264
Or late game in Sins of a Solar Empire where my GPU is sometimes almost idling because the one CPU core its using is at 100%. I would have thought running hundreds of AI subroutines would be easy to multithread. Makes me want to get a i5 to replace my AMD Athlon II that was mid-low end when I brought it 3 years ago
Comment Re:Copy Sony again? (Score 3, Informative) 201
Or the Asus Transformer http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/
Comment Re:Online banking uses outdated crypto (Score 1) 245
I noticed recently that my bank doesn't differentiate between lower and uppercase in both the username and password fields. Found out when I decided to change some of the letters in my password to uppercase and it complained that the old and new passwords were the same.
Comment Re:Elevators in Minecraft first (Score 2) 117
Comment Re:$60 games? Luxury! (Score 1) 435
Comment Re:Students & Faculty Attack Agreement (Score 1) 165
Just do what I do and set up your university email to forward everything to a different address so you don't miss anything.
Comment Re:Thank god we still have Radio Shack (Score 3, Informative) 491
Isn't 1/5 a bit generous. I went into one last year and the only electronics stuff they had was a soldering iron. I think at the time I was looking for some solder which they didn't have. Jaycar is the place to go for electronics stuff in Aus/NZ
Comment Re:Yes, it should be published (Score 1) 754
11) Black hats have it, we do release it. Maybe good.
It can't be good. Just less bad.
Comment One Question (Score 4, Funny) 116
Is the water tessellated?
Comment Re:They were played (Score 1) 176
Its because things were too simple so the companies decided to complicate things.
Comment Re:China? (Score 1) 403
The main difference, of course, as that the UK PM is discussing the action before just plain doing it without informing the public.
Yes, it's always so much better when the rapist let's you know he's going to rape you before he does it.
Rape, when it's discussed and agreed upon beforehand, is called consensual sex.
Or gang rape.
