I'm British and think she's innocent. There's no good evidence linking her to it, and the actual perpetrator was caught. Her "blaming an innocent black man" I understand as arising because she was interrogated for several days, without legal representation or a proper translator, and the police lied to her. Briefly,…

He means, nothing happens to children in the game. Beauty pageants are a separate thing. By all means ban them, because they involve actual children.

If I encrypt something and put it in my DropBox folder, isn't that client-size encryption?

You don't have to mine them. You can just buy them. This is potentially interesting to Farmville users if converting (eg) sterling to bitcoin and thence to farmville buys more stuff than converting sterling to dollars and thence to farmville. In theory, using bitcoins should save money for international and…

You're talking about bitcoin mining, there, not bitcoin itself.

Obligatory XKCD:

If the premise of this wasn't a link between video games and violence, then it would work equally well to ask people to play more first person shooters on this day. A positive act, rather than refraining from acting; rather link asking car drivers to honk their horns to show support.

I suspect the 8th generation will be shorter. The reason is that using more standard components makes backwards compatibility easy. They can do a PS4.5 with an upgraded CPU/GPU, that still runs PS4 games. It will be trivial for developers to take advantage of the improvements; it won't be like learning a new…

The bow doesn't help. I had the same thought.

Or it may mean the supply of PS4s was greater. Which makes sense given that the XBox was released world-wide and the PS4 only in two countries, and that the PS4 (probably) started manufacture earlier.

One reason it matters is that the PS4 comes with limited disk space. If you have a lot of games (eg, more than 10 or so), you won't be able to keep them all installed all the time. I believe the PS4 will delete old games automatically when it needs the space, and then reinstall them automatically when you want to play…

Bitcoins are useful. That gives them value that's as real as any.

Nope. The PS4 cell architecture was a mistake and needed to be dropped. There was no practical way to emulate the cell hardware on the x86 hardware. The best they can do is offer some kind of streaming solution, which they aim to do next year. (And the article should have mentioned it).

Or, maybe the XBox One has a much higher failure rate than the PS4? It sounds like you'd rather believe people lied. As far as I can tell, purely out of prejudice.

Why do you think the XBox One has fewer issues than the PS4? The article writes:

See, for example, http://kotaku.com/ps4-blue-light…

The PS4 will not run PS3 games, so you'd need the new version.

They'd shipped a 1000 or so before launch, which is enough to get a statistical handle on it. Now a million or so are in customer hands. 0.4% would mean 4,000 failures. We know of 400 failures on Amazon, so 0.4% isn't wildly off.

Sony say 1 million units shipped the first day. About 500 broken units are known. I don't see how you get 10% from that. If it's the 3% failure that would be expected from any hardware, there would be 30,000 broken units. It doesn't seem to be anything near that.

Far Cry 2 remains one of my favourite games, and one of my most re-played. Some people dislike how guard posts respawn if you turn your back on them. I see that as a hint from the game that you are supposed to avoid them, not engage them. Quite a lot of the game involves planning routes that minimise encounters. It's…