Posts by stevel

Smart? Don't ThinQ so! Hacked robo-vacuum could spy on your home

Yars. Obligatory comic reference....and not even XKCD!

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/06/19/security-too-expensive-try-a-hack/

Assange thanks USA for forcing him to invest in booming Bitcoin

Just saying...

That would be JP "no ulterior motive" Morgan (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10510933/JPMorgan-files-patent-for-bitcoin-killer-currency.html") and The Daily "totally unbiased" Telegraph (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/19/telegraph-250m-loan-hsbc-editorial-changes-yodel) would it?

Not that The Grauniad has better credentials, just the first link that came up.

Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid

Re: Miser

Yes. That.

And besides, "science isn't about why? It's about why not!"

...and biscuits, of course.

Women devs – want your pull requests accepted? Just don't tell anyone you're a girl

Not equal

Meritocratic <> meritorious.

Doesn't mean it's any truer, though.

Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors

Frankly shocking, but not really surprising I spose, given recent interest and money going there.

Bletchley certainly seems to get the lion's share of the media coverage, with TNMOC often portrayed as a bit of a sideshow.

I also went there a couple of years ago, and saw the *whole* thing with a fantastic guide who had lots of insights into both Bletchley's history *AND* the history of computing. For me, the two things are so closely related it's just sad to see this sort of division happening.

+1 for Michael H.F. Wilkinson's comment about banging heads together.

FAIL - the most incompetent IT pros

Re: Government. Giant Consulting Company. What could go wrong.

Honestly? In half a million lines of code, *that one line*?

;>

My personal favourite, in C++ written by someone who "preferred" Java, the last statement in a function that returned a reference:

return *new Thing(...);

Slideshow: A History of First-person Shooters in 20 Games

Re: Wot? No Deus-Ex?

That's a hard question...

RPG doesn't quite catch it for me. I really enjoyed Neverwinter Nights for that kind of thing.

I quite like the new (to me) term "sneak-em-up". Implies a few things about a game. I'm currently playing Dishonored (reviewed here: http://www.reghardware.com/2012/10/16/review_game_dishonored/), a great example of it.

Anyway, I accept your rationale for leaving DE out of this list! :-) Some wonderful nostalgia moments here.

Wot? No Deus-Ex?

Ok Ok, I spose it wasn't a "shooter" in the traditional sense. Still reckon it was a ground breaker in the genre though. Maybe it's a conspiracy.... :)