True, but you can encrypt everything between the two points.

No less than six other companies had each paid $185,000 to be considered for the valuable dot-hotel registry. They will now walk away empty-handed.

They charge that much just to mull it over?! And people pay it!?

ICANN needs to be dissolved. Their greed for money, despite being a non-profit, it just absurd.

I mean really: what do they do with all that cash?

if there is a law that makes it illegal to purposefully jam a WiFi signal, shouldn't a denial of service attack that takes out the WiFi be similarly illegal?

My thoughts exactly. The technical mechanism they used is only of interest to us readers as a technical curiosity. I don't know that 'jam' and 'DoS' are really exclusive, anyway: it seems reasonable to say that they used DoS as a means of achieving a jam.

No, actually I was implying your opinion is irrelevant because you've never contributed anything of value...

Shameless ad-hom, then. Cute.

The next time I happen to find something of interest at the daily mail, I will submit it like usual.

Regardless of whether there are better sources merely a Google-search away?
Ok, let's turn this around: why do you not want Pipedot stories to avoid linking to tabloids? Tabloids are generally something to avoid on a tech-savvy site like this, no?

The borderline-NSFW nonsense linked from the Daily Mail article should be reason enough. I'd rather get my scientific updates from a site that doesn't try to catch my interest with mostly-naked photos of (presumably) celebrities.

Is there something inaccurate in the linked story at all?

I don't real the Daily Mail. I read the other two sources I linked to instead.

Assuming not, why should I or anyone else be concerned with your particular preference of news souce?

Err, because I'm not necessarily just a blabbering moron. There's a finite possibility that the low opinion of the Daily Mail held by me and others is actually justified, wouldn't you agree?

You appear to be implying that my opinion is irrelevant because it is subjective, but would you lend as much weight to the scientific ideas of a noisy drunk as to an article in Nature? Does a professor, marking her students' essays, prefer to see respectable sources cited in preference to tabloids?

High-quality sources are a practical concern. Linking to bullshit sources like the Daily Mail really is something to avoid.

dailymail.co.uk? Christ.

How about a source that isn't total garbage?

(I'm not normally one to just complain, but seriously.)

Good points, but one more: it creates a paper-trail.

Still, better than the set of problems be changing, than increasing.

No nuclear apocalypse option?

(Ok, Terminator technically counts.)

Errr, no, we're not. IQ is trending upwards. Global literacy rates are improving.

There's an xkcd for everything.

Is there more to your point, or do you just want to feel superior to people with children?

Maybe because he wants to see you again soon.

Maybe your doctor is trying to desensitise you to taking something on a daily basis so that he can progressively addict you to more and more dangerous substances and thus ensure your continued dependence on him and more and more business from you as the side effects of all the things he has you one start to stack up into actual illnesses requiring oh more poisonous chronic medications and more visits to him.

Your points about the pills being a scam seem compelling (though unfortunately uncited), but I see no call for this conspiracy-theory bullshit; ignorance seems far more likely than malevolence.

How much of this early-days graphics stuff was actually nVidia's innovation? Could these patents be struck down on the grounds of Carmack did it first?

Oh, that's not fair. It's just that now the testers pay EA, and they prefer to be called early adopters.

Doubtless EA will release a patch soon.

If I had an electric car, I'd want it charging only at night. Much cheaper that way, at least here in the UK. Is there anything here we didn't already know?

I don't know a lot about power grids, but I presume this is a good thing for them (and presumably environmentally) too; less of a 'daytime spike' in generation this way.

I'm still annoyed they removed the "Load images by default?" tick-box. You have to screw around in about:config now. It was rather useful for tethering, but apparently buttons confuse users.

Mac solution: occasionally dedicate a new release to slimming-down, rather than adding features

Linux solution: lightweight distros (Fluxbuntu, Lubuntu, Puppy, DSL)

Windows solution: ...? I guess you could buy an Xbox One, or a Windows Phone :P