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Comment Who actually cares about the "good" ratings? (Score 5, Insightful) 217

by Rabbitt on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @06:34PM (#29193837) Attached to: Gaming the App Store

Personally, I find the 0 - 3 star ratings more telling about an app than the 4 or 5 star (fanboy) ratings. In general, when I want to find out about a product, I like to read the negative to moderate reviews because they seem to be more honest about potential problems. What do you guys think/do?

Parrots Can Dance 104

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 01, 2009 @11:46AM from the elephants-too dept.

juuri sends in an NPR article about the consensus created among scientists that some birds actually dance to music. "The results of this study are reported in the journal Current Biology, along with another scientific paper inspired by YouTube videos of dancing animals. Adena Schachner is a graduate student in the psychology department of Harvard University. She says she was familiar with the idea that some people had made videos of birds supposedly dancing. ... She and her colleagues eventually analyzed more than 5,000 videos. 'Imagine watching YouTube eight hours a day for a month,' she says. 'That's pretty much what we did. It was amusing for perhaps the first couple of hours.'" juuri adds, "While this makes them somewhat unique in the animal world, as only three animals are now known to dance by verifiable proofs, what struck me more was that this was the first time YouTube had helped forge a new scientific understanding. Given the explosive growth of uploading videos and people watching them, what other new understandings and popular misconceptions will be proven or disproved due to this emerging media?"

Wikipedia Opts Out Of Phorm 98

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 16, 2009 @06:31PM from the phorm-of-their-objection dept.

ais523 writes "Wikipedia (and other websites run by Wikimedia) have requested to opt-out from Phorm; according to the email they sent, they 'consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' behavior by a third party to be an infringement on their privacy.'" Another reader points to this post on techblog.wikimedia.org which includes a confirmation from Phorm that those sites will be excluded.

Comment Our Economy... (Score 1) 2369

by thrillbert on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @10:59AM (#25555199) Attached to: Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy

I don't know why you guys are making such a big deal about this because "The fundamentals of our economy are strong."

Man Proposes to Girlfriend Through Bejeweled 6

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @01:07PM

Firmly cementing himself as the Don Juan of all nerdom, Bernie Peng reprogrammed his girlfriend's copy of Bejeweled so that a marriage proposal popped up when she reached a certain score. She giggle-snorted, pushed up her broken glasses and said yes.

Comment Re:Mr. Bob Carter - Puppet, or "the Real Thing" ? (Score 1) 1496

by Rabbitt on Thursday June 15, 2006 @09:12PM (#15545588) Attached to: Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming

heh - Read a bit deeper next time as I actually did attack the content ;-) Moral: If the person can't be trusted to give unbiased information, than the information can't be trusted to be unbiased ;-) Cheers!, :-) -- Carl

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) 216

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 20, 2006 @09:05AM from the take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side dept.

anadgouda writes "Mozilla Firefox 2.0 alpha is released. The links for download were not available directly on Mozilla.com website. Being Alpha, all features might not work and most of the plugins might not be compatible." Reading thru the comments, it appears there's some disparity as to whether or not this is actually just a naming scheme that they use; but let me reiterate that there has been no official announcement from Mozilla, so take with a giant grain of salt. Some good screenshots at OSdir.

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