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It's totally real, and you can read the relevant chapter here.

I have never encountered ransomware, but I did recently read the first few chapters of Charlie Stross' near-future sci-fi novel Rule 34, in which a scrounging Scotsman's backyard 3D-printer matter-fabricator is infected in the course of printing a juvenile sex doll for a local paedophile by...

Just to note, Dreams From My Father is an often self-critical memoir about a boy who grows up in a deeply divided time and in a very troubled position who only eventually learns to negotiate a position and ~*find his path*~ . Taking quotes about how he used to think when he was young, written...

I'm not familiar with the situation on loopholes etc in the USA - but I know that in the UK more money is lost to tax evasion each year than will be saved by the entirety of the suite of cuts our Conservative party are attempting to introduce over the next twenty. So I don't find it implausible.

In what sense is calling people equivalent to racists (as per Gore) equivalent to, say, actually being a racist (as per Beck)? They can. Lack of scientific consensus is a myth. One and two. There may be some disagreement over how much warming is due to human activity, but there is very little...

But this is called 'being an arsehole on a date' and is unconnected in essence to darts or any other passtime.

You know, one doesn't want to be alarmist, but sometimes it really seems like we're in a fix where relatively mainstream people - or at least crazies who get mainstream attention - are using natural disasters as omens and indications of divine will. That's some dark ages shit right there.

Sorry I haven't been on in ages! My only standing buildings are the cottage on the little island near the castle, the big grey house outside the front of the castle, and the Elizabethan-style wool-and-wood gatehouse that's just outside one of the entrances to the original main city. Of these...

You can actually back up your Uplink saved games and thus 'save your game' without it corrupting when you make a mistake.

!! Can you give me the specs on/model of your netbook? I am still trying to ascertain whether it's worth trying to play this game on my PC (presuming I can get it to work at the capacity it used to).

The new season is really interesting though. It's steadily become a show in which A) the plot is really important between episodes and B) there are about eighty plot revolutions per minute. In retrospect Moffat's first season was clearly him going cautiously and sounding out what could work...

Yeah, I definitely can't afford it myself. Moreover, I'm not sure my computer can run it. I have to reformat and find out. Which occasions two questions: is there a demo available, and might it in the end be better to get it on my housemate's PS3 when we move in?

Reading the actual article, as I have only just done, I think Mr. Slavin, whoever he is, is the victim of selective quoting and the failure of text to convey tone. Judging by my knowledge of TED talks I suspect that in the flesh he was a lot more loose and humorous in speaking what sound, when...

Oh my god, Samwise is suggesting that the rich should be taxed in proportion to their wealth and Frodo's all like BFFHFAGRHSKSKDA Cutting spending alone won't solve the problem. Don't believe me? It's all in the numbers. Did you know that while federal spending has increased since 2001 by...

Yeah, this is basically the best show ever. Absolutely incredulous that this appears to be the first thread we've had on it. After watching a season of The Wire I always find myself jarred and shocked when I return to other TV shows and realise how manipulative their use of music and...

This. I absolutely feel it - of course I do - if any of you have ever read Joe Sacco's story War Junkie, it's basically that. I apologise for this post being one of the least penetrating and interesting in the thread.

I see what you mean actually. "This town's fillin' up with damned ollies, prings and bugaboos!" *SPIT*

Good lord. Clearly someone on the US East Coast has seriously offended almighty God this week. Which one of you was it?

Where are you getting this from? We're talking about a rebel movement that has continuously appealed to and spoken of western ideals of freedom and that has no obvious connection to religious fundamentalism. Also, when actual Muslims use the words 'sharia law', it can denote a pretty wide array...

Bizzarely written as if algorithms are actually intelligent, but I don't think the concerns are unjustified. dfc05, you say it's ludicrous to suggest people are "slaves to some algorithm", but people are slaves to all kinds of things that aren't human - ideas, infrastructure, bureaucratic...