Comment As a resident of Devon (Score 1) 88
I can verify the coverage is awful, but then not receiving any sort of reception at all is common. Making a phone call from some of the more rural locations is impossible.
Comment *sigh* (Score 1) 197
Comment And it goes further, 7/7 victims families (Score 0) 251
allegedly targeted too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/families-7-7-targets-phone-hacking
Comment Re:May have a solution... (Score 0) 162
Comment Re:Official word from Sony finally (Score 0) 404
Yeah, and it seems those that do don't even read it correctly...
From the 2nd line
"We are currently working to send a similar message to the one below via email to all of our registered account holders regarding a compromise of personal information as a result of an illegal intrusion on our systems."
Comment all in good time... (Score 0) 128
..wait until they have a few of their cronies are UK games industry leaders and I'm sure we'll see tax breaks.
Comment Re:Bad idea to buy an N8 (Score 0) 234
Probably looking at having it for a few years. I think I may just have to go for it anyway, and with a bit of luck the price will come down.
Comment Bad idea to buy an N8 (Score 0) 234
Well, I was about to get an N8 in the next few days- it was a choice between the N8 and Desire HD, but the N8 did it for me due to the camera and battery life.
Would it be wise to avoid this now?
Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time 563
Stoobalou writes "Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes that have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection."
Foldit Player May Have Created a Useful Protein 144
An anonymous reader writes "The organizers of the game Foldit, where you fold proteins for scientific research, announced that a user has found a protein that may be able to bind influenza viruses. Researchers plan to test the protein in a lab over the next few weeks to see if it might be medically useful."
Comment PC-only MMO? (Score 0) 121
"Famed developer David Perry has posted an image on his blog of an employee playing the PC-only MMO World of Warcraft on the Apple iPad."
..it runs on both PC and Mac.
Comment No Chome? (Score 0) 258
Why Safari and not Chrome?
California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere 155
MichaelSmith writes "Scientists think that there might be arsenic-based life in Mono Lake, California. If it's shown to exist, such life could have evolved independently from our own, or it could have forked from ours at a very early stage."
Comment Can't help myself (Score 1) 170
Bunch of Fapa's.
Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files 126
Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."
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