Comment Re:Judges (Score 1) 88
US Circuit Court Judges are appointed by the President and approved by the Senate, not elected by the populace. In theory, this should put qualified people in these positions.
https://www.justice.gov/usao/j...
Comment Headless Horsemen? (Score 1) 71
HEAD_TRUNC - does this mean they're anticipating their drivers to have their heads separated from their bodies? Or are they marketing to Nukekubi/Rokurokubi?
**when HEAD_TRUNC == TRUE, call autodrive**
Comment Re:No. Just ... no (Score 1) 76
We called these "Character Condoms" and passed them out at events at a few conventions
Comment Re:"Goes" Digital? (Score 1) 76
SSI. They were published by SSI on material licensed from TSR (who published the D&D books themselves).
(yes, mildly pedantic)
Comment Re:Why in the news so often lately? (Score 1) 193
The tipping point is the many, many, many devices that probably aren't running other anti-virus (smartphones and tablets).
Comment Re:Brilliant idea (Score 4, Informative) 480
So have the phone de-auth after a certain amount of time without you entering your credentials. You'd still only have to remember credentials to one device, and then *it* does all of the 'heavy lifting' of authenticating everywhere else.
Comment Re:What is the point of gaming consoles? (Score 1) 249
Console game makers are now including first-sale codes that make them *far* less friendly for re-sale and rental. The last Resident Evil game on the DS even had no ability to delete a saved game, effectively making the game one play per sale. I forget which publisher it is (but I think it's EA) is even making their games almost unplayable unless you are either the first-sale customer (and have the in-box code) or you pay darn close to the initial sale price of the game to buy a new code directly from them.
Soon you may *not* be able to re-sell or buy used copies of console games.
Though I agree that there are too many cases where Devs are targeting a console release and only barely port it to the PC.
EA Editor Criticizes Command & Conquer 4 DRM 266
Command & Conquer 4's DRM hasn't garnered Electronic Arts as much bad press and fan outrage as Ubisoft's scheme, despite being very similar. Nevertheless, it's been causing problems and frustrations for some users, including EA.com's own editor-in-chief, Jeff Green. An anonymous reader points this out:
"Green wrote on his Twitter account late last week: 'Booted twice — and progress lost — on my single-player C&C4 game because my DSL connection blinked. DRM fail. We need new solutions.' He continued later, 'Well. I've tried to be open-minded. But my 'net connection is finicky — and the constant disruption of my C&C4 SP game makes this unplayable. The story is fun, the gameplay is interesting and different at least — but if you suffer from shaky/unreliable DSL — you've been warned.'"
Comment Re:You made me a programmer (Score 1) 1485
My first owned PC was also a Sinclair 1000...though I only owned it for about 3 weeks. It was then traded to my Grandfather for his Vic 20, because Commodore was running a deal that gave out a discount on any traded in computer on the then-new Commodore 64. So, he traded my 1000 for the discount and gave me the Vic 20. :)
Win-win all around.
I had already been using TRS-80 and Apple II computers in classes at school (I was in 4th grade when we started, and got the Sinclair for my birthday during either 5th or 6th grade).
Upgraded from the Vic-20 to an IBM PCjr....okay, it was kind-of an upgrade.
Win-win all around.
I had already been using TRS-80 and Apple II computers in classes at school (I was in 4th grade when we started, and got the Sinclair for my birthday during either 5th or 6th grade).
Upgraded from the Vic-20 to an IBM PCjr....okay, it was kind-of an upgrade.
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