""At this critical moment for maintaining social stability in Huangnan prefecture ... (we must) strengthen measures and fully fight the special battle against self-immolations,"" -- It's simple guys ... Get the Fuck out of Tibet and the immolation will likely cease.
Posts by Miek
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Tibetan monks lose their TVs as China's censors raid monasteries
Outlook 2013 spurns your old Word and Excel documents
Windows Vista woes killed MS Pinball
Valve hauls down The War Z, offers refunds
Apparently WarZ was in development before DayZ, depending on who you choose to believe. DayZ was created by an enthusiast, albeit, an enthusiastic Arma II developer.
For me WarZ is a just another pay-to-win game like Blacklight Retribution.
The Hacking in DayZ was ridiculous, so many 12 year olds getting their parents to buy hacking engines and crap, what is the point of playing a game if you are going to cheat?
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Baby got .BAT: Old-school malware terrifies Iran with del *.*
Re: @Miek
"Presumably because the list of software produced by their friends is even shorter than the list of friends?" -- well, there is that, but, if they are capable of developing nuclear power and (alleged) a nuclear weapons program; surely they can knock up an OS of their own.
"The supposed security advantages of Linux probably won't help much if you've got the Israelis and the Yanks working together on it." -- Absolutely, but, at least it would be more secure than the current system where a 12 year old skiddie can get access, as is the case with Windows.
"The supposed security advantages of Linux" -- supposed?
Microsoft 'surprised' by Google Gmail 'winter cleaning'
Ten... tech stocking stuffers
New Year's resolution: Don't use Instagram, it'll sell YOUR photos
Pentagon hacker McKinnon will NOT be prosecuted in the UK
Schmidt 'very proud' of Google's tiny tax bill: 'It's called capitalism'
Microsoft licence cops kick in TWICE as many customers' doors as rivals
Re: database software.
"You're thinking of Access, not Excel" -- The same could be said of Access, but, I see Excel used where a database solution would be ideal too often. Just look at the complex shit NoNomNom is doing with server side and client side spreadsheets, I mean WTF? One web interface, one database behind it; Job Done.
Earthworm Jim
Patrick Moore: Lived with cats, accompanied Einstein on the piano
Stallman: Ubuntu spyware makes it JUST AS BAD as Windows
Re: Is the Amazon search feature now been disabled by default?
"Is it because I have switched to the Gnome desktop that this functionality is missing?" -- Yes, I believe the Amazon search thing runs under the Unity shell. When you search in the shell it also passes those searches over to amazon to do a product search at the same time.
The best tablets for Christmas
I've got the 'fastest growing THINGY ever', boasts Google+ chief
Iran draws veil over lolcats, launches local YouTube knock-off
Australian Police say don't use Apple's iOS 6 Maps
"Our investigation of Apple's directions lead us to believe that following them would almost certainly involve leaving a sealed main road likely to offer several signposts for Mildura and instead follow unsealed roads bearing no indication they lead to the town. " -- They probably zoned out mindlessly following the satnav. I mean, road signs are for the poor people with no iPhone right?
Apple-HTC patent deal doesn't include designs, 'cloned' iDevices
Microsoft's anti-Android Twitter campaign draws ire, irony
Moon riven by colossal cracks
Re: looks like an elevation map
"This looks so much like an elevation map that it would be interesting to see this data subtracted from elevation data. " -- It basically is an elevation map. I see it as blue bits are further away from the sensor and exert less gravitational force on the sensor than the red bits which are closer and exert more gravitational force on the sensor.
MySQL founders launch MariaDB Foundation at Oracle
Pioneering spidernaut snuffs it after short Smithsonian stay
NASA: THE TRUTH about the END OF THE WORLD on 21 Dec
Re: Apparently there's a 'safe place' somewhere in France...
"Then the government comes and taxes you." -- Maybe you could try to claim that whilst your sausage and cheese selling arm of your business is based in France; Your profits are actually accrued in another country and that their tax laws are not applicable to you.
Smear campaign
"But these are not your everyday smears and streaks removed with a lens cloth: I need a windscreen ice scraper to shift this gunge. The man responsible (for it could only be a man) must be doing motorcycle maintenance or serving kebabs while sitting at my desk." -- Solution, try smearing Vaseline over your screen at the end of the day to say a big thank you to the guy working nights.
The Lord of the Rings saga lies hidden deep in your Mac
NASA: 'Those life-on-Mars rumors? Chill, dudes and dudettes'
Dell launches Sputnik Linux Ultrabook
Microsoft STALKS YOU even more than supermarkets do, says dev
If it's anything to go by ... I installed Windows 8 on my laptop so that my Colleague could have at it (and so I could laugh at him trying to work out how to find anything)
I had to turn off several intrusive features that either wanted to send every URL you visited to $MS or any file/application you ran to be sent to them. Other features, such as, report application usage, could not be disabled. $MS wants to catalogue your every activity under the guise of "Maintaining Your Security"
Ten Linux apps you must install
Far Cry 3 game review
Re: Surely you should be reviewing the PC version?
Yawn, I have both a Games PC and a console, the console is better for FPS mostly due to the lack of a keyboard. Yes I have a PS3 type gamepad for my PC.
I played FC1 and FC2 on the PC and the graphics were 'as good' as the console version as far as I could see. The same goes for Just Cause 2.
"Because lots of people like single player mode and don't use co-op or multiplayer?" -- I too like a good single player campaign, but, once completed on the most difficult setting, why would I continue to play the game? The uncharted series suffered because of this, as did Just Cause 2 (which has a community MP mod being currently developed). Frankly, I am totally bored of shooting at dumb AI controlled Bots and prefer going up against real players with cunning tactics, it improves my gameplay rather than forcing me to play the "take cover, pop up, shoot, take cover, pop up, shoot" method over and over again until the campaign is complete.
FPS games that offer diverse MP modes, tend to have more lasting appeal, even if they are just pumping out a rehash of last years game.
One of the most promising games that I have seen recently was Battlefield 3. The campaign was awful, with poor actors and a terrible plot, the interrogation scenario as a story telling device felt like a copy of Black Ops. On the upside, the Multiplayer mode was clearly the focus of DICEs resources. It pushed the boundaries in terms of map size and having all manner of user controlled vehicles, whilst still allowing regular combat on foot. BF3 was really let down (for me) by the crippling input lag :(
Troll sues Apple for daring to plug headphones into iPhone
Chinese state media accuses Cisco and other US giants of spying
Android users: More of them than fanbois, but they don't use the web
Re: Buy cheap, buy twice?
"I'm sure there are plenty of fandroids who buy multiple handsets especially when they find out that their current handset won't be getting the latest version of android." -- Probably more a case of "My mobile contract runs out soon, what flashy new devices are there? Oooohhh that's nice, so long old phone"