Tim-Boss

The greek FAQ isn't crystal clear when translated, and "seekers" is only making me think of quiddich, but definitely seems like a way to turn finding a parking space in a busy/heavily populated dense city into a game, not sure it would work anywhere else though!

I couldn't get past "Phil Hawksworth is a Technical Director at R/GA and enjoys talking about himself in the third person." without cringing!

Then people would double check their spelling before committing a post ;)

So I guess everyone has given up on the paper-free office ideal now?

It seems like only yesterday I had to sit through a two hour meeting to convince us that printing things is a needless expense now we're all supposed to be using laptops and iPads! Wait a second....it was only yesterday!

Has anyone considered that maybe a police/intelligence agency may have had a hand in this? I'd hope they would need a warrant of some kind, but uh....

I haven't quite yet recovered from a weekend of sleep deprivation, and was entirely disappointed to learn that the link was for an "editable game", not an "edible game"...

Each and every time I read about the American health care system and the troubles it gives you guys I cant help but cringe! How in the name of all that's right haven't you guys got a national healthcare system yet? You spend so much money (out of your premiums) just lining the pockets of insurance companies and all the bloat that they come with.... you realise in a NHS system 100% of that would go to paying for your treatment, so it actually works out cheaper overall! And that's not even taking into account conditions like cancer or something requiring regular expensive treatments and medicines that are all covered by the NHS over here

(For the uneducated: In the UK ALL hospital/doctors treatments are covered by the NHS, in Wales all medicines and prescriptions are covered by the NHS and in England you pay a maximum of £6.50 (~$10) for any/all medicinal prescriptions regardless of actual cost/value)

Seriously: "America" the only country left in the western world without a national healthcare system....

Your link is dead....

If this isn't satire I have no idea how this would work! An honesty system for countries about to press the button? I doubt it's hooked up to the nuke-sensors on GPS satellites and the like!

I'm not entirely sure if I'm being too libertarian on this issue, but I strongly believe I should be able to "scan" and then "reproduce" anything I like for my own personal use, but that then reproducing it to sell or make money off might be crossing a line....

Either way DRM will not go down well with the tech scene if/when "3d replicators" really start to take off!

Does anyone know if (in the UK at least) HMRC require companies to submit the actual receipts (physical bits of paper) or do scanned images suffice?

I'm not saying people shouldn't be rewarded for creating/producing/developing, but anyone spending 40 hours a week for a year (or so) of your life on ONE product should not expect millions in their bank (or at least to receive royalties off it FOREVER!).

I closed this webpage as soon as a stupid minute long video advert for "airwick" started playing and I found the buttons to pause or mute didn't work!

Overzealous intrusive adverts really turn me off...

(Yes I know should be using adblock plus etc., on friends computer right now!)

Look, these studios/developers had the choice between retaining the copyrights themselves (thereby securing royalties for the life of sales of that particular product) leaving distribution and sales up to themselves, or selling the copyrights to a distributor for a fist full of cash...guess which option they chose! (protip: its the latter!)

Almost every developer I know who works for a large studio is paid by the hour for the work they do, not paid in stock, promises of shares of future royalties or in magic beans!

I'm not sure I want to live in a world where people help make one single (semi-popular) product and expect to live off it for the rest of their lives...

^ Absolutely this. You'll entirely risk losing your professional reputation, how much work do you think you'll continue to get if people realise that you're not only building in a vulnerability but also willing to use it if the situation isn't 100% to you're liking!

Once you get the impression your invoice will go unpaid either take legal action like most 'civilised' people, or just take it on the chin and walk away (warning other developers off if you like...)!

I can't believe that america is extraditing this poor guy for alleged "copyright infringement", doesn't he have any defence as a "service provider"? Never mind the fact that if anything his crimes were committed in the UK!

...shame on you Obama and every other politicunt being paid handsomely to push the MPAA/RIAA's agenda!

Did the font used on the blog look weird to anyone else? Slightly pixelated?

I can't see Sky's lawyers taking very long to settle out of court, £1500 is a miserly sum compared to what the lawyers will cost them in the first place! Sky took his copyrighted video and broadcast it to the world et al., everyone could have recorded it and might be watching it back repeatedly at their leisure, removing any chance of Mr Eden ever monetizing it (at least that's what his lawyers should say!).

Interesting note: would this be a single copyright breach, or would it have been breached for every person who 'illegally' received (their terminolgy: stole) it?

Agreed; a sensationalist title adds nothing to an otherwise accurate article!

That's nothing! 6922251 * 8 on a calculator spells my ex's nickname....

(Un)Fortunately this issue has been fixed as of 1400GMT today, cool hack though!

Rupert Murdoch loved MySpace and had no problem whatsoever with it's own piracy ('unauthorised' music on profiles, music videos constantly ripped etc)...until it failed!

I giggled at #foundersexchange too...

...but it is Monday morning, so I haven't woken up properly yet!

Isn't this more "blackmale" than "bribery" (quotes intentional...)

Unfortunately, either way, I don't think anything serious will come of this!

Like many of you I'm sure, Skymap was the first app I downloaded when I got my first android (thanks to one of my friends previously showing off his new android using it!) and it really opened my mind to what the future would hold for smart-phones and sort-of-augmented-reality software in general.

Many an hour has been spent sat outside, usually round a camp fire, with friends locating planets and other points of interest, walking round pointing my phone at the sky looking like a loon to the uninitiated! I find it very VERY encouraging that this product wasn't just left alone to die a graceful death of old age, but that it will be dissected in front of all, enabling the knowledge and skill imbued in its programming to live on in educating the next generation of programmers. .. I hope it inspires them as much as it inspired me!

Thanks Google!

"The internet is a series of tubes..."

This article feels like the author is pushing a "megaupload was bad" agenda...

They were paying for their bandwidth, along with all their users (legitimate or otherwise!), so what's the issue?

30,000,000 hits 360,000 resulting emails

= 1.2% conversion, if my sleep deprived brain is still working!

Was anyone expecting more?

It's an American colloquialism:

shuttered is a form of: shut·ter verb /ˈSHətər/  shuttered, past participle; shuttered, past tense; shuttering, present participle; shutters, 3rd person singular present

Close the shutters of (a window or building) - the windows were shuttered against the afternoon heat - barred and shuttered stores

Close (a business) - the city was gripped by economic forces that were squeezing its tax base and shuttering its factories

I'm not sure that this is 100% accurate!

While it does have more of a sedative effect than alcohol, I don't think you can count is as healthier unless you're eating it or vaporising it!

Also in my (entirely subjective) experience I find it harder to wake up in the morning, given the same amount of sleep as sober days. No 'hangover' as such, but definitely feel more groggy for the first hour or so after waking!