Jolijn

It seems like a bit of a Ship of Theseus. Even at this point I wonder how much of what you see of his face can be said to be 'original'. But still people visit, as if Lenin is still there.

In business terms, you could consider giving a cut to the modders a marketing expense (you might sell more because the mods increase the value of your game, perhaps?). But you can also consider it as providing a platform that modders exploit commercially, and you can squeeze them as much as is sensible in any commercial relationship.

I think the number of people buying a game because of a mod is rather small, so business people will see things more from the second viewpoint.

Mercury actually concentrates into little beads on cinnabar ore, and is not very reactive. I can imagine drops of it surviving for a few thousands years.

I'm sorry to say this, but this is extremely fishy and I hope it is all hypothetical. If it's not hypothetical you've just confessed to tax fraud.

Either way, it's bad advice.

Can someone who already watched this comment? Anything particularly great about it?

I like it! I scroll through until I find an interesting picture, then read the part of the text that goes with it. In the end I read most-but-not-all of the article, in a haphazard sequence.

> There's a lot of valid points in Gemalto's report, and it seems dishonest to write it off so pettily.

I agree they have valid points that are worth setting the record straight on. But conveniently for Gemalto they distract from the core issue, which in my opinion is that they have been owned and are in denial of it.

Hopefully it's just PR and they are scrambling internally to keep spies out.

Whew, that was quick wasn't it!

Four to five years after the hacks happened, Gemalto says it was all not so bad, they really really checked this time and they have super duper server logs they grepped twice to be sure.

Technology is not exactly known to be stagnant. What is not practical now could be in just a few years.

For high value targets, all bets are off anyway. Some nation states have virtually unlimited resources they can call on.

Tried it with my own prescription (-3.75 and -3.25 dioptre) and I'd say the result is very exaggerated. Especially considering my actual eyesight is worse than my prescription.

How does it create a single image from two different eyes, anyway?

It all seems rather desperate to me and unimaginative (children will love climbing over it!). This is not a structural way of disposing of these blades, it's a public relations effort.

For me, at least, it's not working.

"AIUI"? What's that now?

Ok, googled it, wait for it... "As I understand it".

Whew!

Riiiiight, well, if you got from my comments that I don't do that, then I guess I'm bad at explaining myself.