Posts by Chris Myers

Amazon flash mob mauls Spore DRM

Easy as cake

"...then swab lighting on the tray.

Step 4: Place the tray in your EA B10S3CURE Owner Validity Device (Amazon.com - $69.95) and close.

Note: Remove gloves before using keyboard or mouse again.

Step 5: Agree to the ULA and wait for your data to be transmitted. Click here to see how EA protects your precious DNA information!

Step 6: You're almost ready to install your game. Place the tray..."

The future is so bright I'm putting my own eyes out now.

Coat because my heart keeps the office 5 degrees colder than the rest of the apartment.

1,076 developers, 15 years, one open-source Wine

Past?

Like hell it has. As an It manager for a small business who is just starting to roll out Ubuntu Linux machines in his environment, Wine has allowed me to use some outdated but necessary Windows applications. We're saving money on OSs and maintaining application homogeneity. What more could I ask for? Wait, the next version of Wine would be nice. Nuff said.

People say Google will buy Skype and Expedia and, and, and, and

Not so bad...

I've been pretty happy with the Google projects I've seen get picked up rather than built from scratch. I can't even get into how great it would be to roll Google Talk and Skype into one. Chocolate in my peanut butter territory.

Dismantling a Religion: The EFF's Faith-Based Internet

Who paid for this?

I've been coming to this site for years and this is the first time I've seem such a load of dung dressed up as real news. Normally El Reg presents dung clearly as such.

DOCSIS is broken, it's the cable companies fault. Fraud is fraud, and calling it that is a public service. I have Comcast cable service, I've been hit by this and it pisses me off. Not as much as the other underhanded practices they perpetrate, which allow them to be the only broadband option in my town.

I wanna see the bastards pay, I want service options and want to use the bandwidth they advertise and I purchase for whatever the hell I want, when I want.