So Russia again?
Posts by Ben Rosenthal
404 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Dec 2008
Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors
Reach out and touch fake: Hand tracking in VR? How about your own, personal, haptics?
Wine? No, posh noshery in high spirits despite giving away £4,500 bottle of Bordeaux
Virtue singing – Spotify to pull hateful songs and artists
AlphaBay and Hansa: About those dark web marketplaces takedowns
Get an Apple Watch or die warns Tim Cook
Android gaming platform Ouya is down to its last life
What kind of generation doesn't stick it to the Man, but to Taylor Swift instead?
Twitter displays our 'Favorites'. That is, like, PRIVATE, huff naive users
Japanese artist cuffed for disseminating 3D ladyparts files
If BlackBerry killed off its social gaming platform, would anybody notice?
'Apple is terrified of women’s bodies and women’s pleasure' – fresh tech sex storm
FLYING SAUCER 'designed for Mars atmosphere' in Pacific US military base
Marc Andreessen: Edward Snowden is a 'textbook traitor'
Android is a BURNING 'hellstew' of malware, cackles Apple's Cook
Glassholes beware: This guy's got your number
Google's self-driving car breakthrough: Stop sign no longer a problem
Danes debut Bluetooth-connected 'made for iPhone' hearing aids
Brit game devs WILL get tax relief for, er, EastEnders Game and Legend of Slough
Amazon sets FIRE to your living room in bid to shake up TV streaming
Puking! protester! forces! Yahoo! 'techie! scum!' to! ride! vile! bile! barf! bus! to! work!
Hot, young under-25s: Lonely slab strokers who shun TV
TV sales PLUMMET. But no one's prepared to say what we all know
MtGox finds 200,000 Bitcoin in old wallets
Re: ::shakes head:: @Ben
It's not my job to educate you, if you are genuinely interesting in why you are wrong then do the research.
Like I say earlier, Gox was not a bank, I'm not sure what you think your point is.
You also seem quite upset that I didn't reply to a post you made, it's nothing personal I only generally come on here once or twice a day. Sorry if I left you madly pressing f5 awaiting my return.
Xenon: Bitmap Brothers' (mega)blast from the past
Had Xenon on the ol' speccy (128k +2, not for the purists, but that's the one I grew up with and it was MINE rather than a family machine or hand-me-down).
Xenon 2 on the Amiga 500 after I finally managed to deliver enough papers (IRL, not the arcade :) ) to afford one.
I'd have trouble thinking of a more impressive port on the old speccy, apart from the lack of colour it was perfection, and that hardly ever happened for speccy ports. I reckon Xenon 2 was probably the first time I didn't have to feel a bit embarrassed about my love of computer game music...a love that died with the birth of the .mp3 soundtrack.
I feel really very sorry for the gamers of today, where are their Bitmap Brother/Bullfrog/Psygnosis? Not that the Bitmaps went anywhere, they just mysteriously stopped, I've always wondered what the story was there.
Show more Canadian made porn, insists Canadian government
Blimey! ANOTHER Bitcoin bleed brouhaha
Dell charges £16 TO INSTALL FIREFOX on PCs – Mozilla is miffed
Woman claims she was assaulted in Google Glass 'HATE CRIME'
Nokia launches Android range: X marks the growing low-cost spot
Wurm turns! DDoSed online game universe offers €10,000 bounty for the hacker's head
Silk Road admins: Sorry for the hack, we're sorting out refunds
While this is all very amusing, I can't help but point out that the last alleged DPR was sitting on about $28 meeelion without stealing from anyone. This was apart from what the Feds took from Silk Road itself.
If it is a Ponzi scheme, why on earth would they cash out so early with so little compared to what this market is worth? Didn't the pot sellers of Colorado make more than the stolen amount in the first week? And Silk Road as I'm sure you are aware, sells a lot more than pot to people all over the world.
They fucked up and lost a shitload of other peoples drug money, isn't that a juicy enough story already?
Facebook adds 50+ gender options: Stalking your 'Friends' just got more LGBT-friendly
Broker accuses FAST of scaring users off secondhand software
Larry Ellison: Technology has 'negatively impacted' children
Jean Michel Jarre: Je voudrais un MUSIC TAX sur VOTRE MOBE
Jean, if music was free then you might have a point...but it's not, so you don't.
I would quite happily pay a reasonable monthly fee for all you can eat media, maybe one day the industry will stop trying to gouge us both.
yet again, the problem there is whether the money I put in, will get anywhere near the artists I would like to support...you not being one of those artists for me.
I'll stick with bandcamp or the old ways for now thanks.