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Comment Re:Missing option? (Score 1) 517

by pejyel (#25930515) Attached to: On Black Friday I...
Missing option : There's no Black Friday in my country, 'cause we're civilized over here...

I don't mean to be trolling, but as a newspaper article put it, on Black Friday in America, they manage to create a feeling of dire necessity where there is opulence.

That people are getting hurt because of this sounds stupid. That someone DIED because of this sounds completely surrealistic.

Comment Re:Missing option? (Score 1) 517

by pejyel (#25930511) Attached to: On Black Friday I...
Missing option : There's no Black Friday in my country, 'cause we're civilized over here... I don't mean to be trolling, but as a newspaper article put it, on Black Friday in America, they manage to create a feeling of dire necessity where there is opulence. That people are getting hurt because of this sounds stupid. That someone DIED because of this sounds completely surrealistic.
Image

Rocketman Crosses Colorado Gorge Screenshot-sm 71

Posted by samzenpus from the up-up-and-away dept.
nandemoari writes "Remember the 1991 film, 'The Rocketeer,' where a young pilot uses a jetpack prototype to become a masked vigilante and win the heart of Jennifer Connelly? That scenario isn't as far-fetched as it once was, given that an American stuntman recently used a jetpack to soar over Colorado's Royal Gorge. The stuntman in question is one Eric Scott, who recently appeared on CBS' Early Show and a variety of local cable channels after making his daring leap. Scott has been testing jetpack devices for 16 years, and was confident that he wouldn't plummet to his untimely death when he straddled the Gorge above the Arkansas River earlier this week. Despite an enormous gulf between the two sides — 1,500 feet across and 1,000 feet down — Scott made the trip safely."
Education

National Geographic Getting Into Video Games 35

Posted by Soulskill from the turning-yellow-borders-into-fun-for-the-family dept.
penguin_dance writes "The AP is reporting that National Geographic is getting into video games. National Geographic Games, a subset of the parent company, will 'work with game publishers to turn its material into games for PCs, consoles and handheld devices.' The first title is out for the PC and iPhone. It's a hidden-objects game called Herod's Lost Tomb, and is built around their program on King Herod and an article in the magazine. They also plan to publish and distribute games for the console market, including PS3 and Wii, and the handheld market as well. 'The games will be drawn from a broad range of content and themes across National Geographic's properties.' National Geographic: Africa will be out next month, from Sony. Other upcoming titles include Rain Forests and Greencity. Also available this month will be National Geographic: Panda for the Nintendo DS."
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Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet 81

Posted by timothy from the unsearchterms dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Since 2006, Internet users in Argentina have been blocked from searching for information about some of the country's most notable individuals. Over 100 people have successfully secured temporary restraining orders that direct Google and Yahoo! Argentina to scrub the results of search queries. The list of censorship-seeking celebrities includes judges, public officials, models and actors, as well as the world-cup soccer star and national team head coach Diego Maradona. Try it yourself — compare the results for a Yahoo! Argentina search for Diego Maradona (0 results) to a search at Yahoo! Mexico and Google Argentina (both with millions of results)."

Comment Re:SMB? (Score 1) 203

by pejyel (#25738021) Attached to: Microsoft's "Dead Cow" Patch Was 7 Years In the Making

No need to be a windows server admin.

SMB is the the protocol used by windows for networking (files, printers, etc... sharing).

It might be a bit more famous through the story of its Linux implementation Samba, and the trials Microsoft lost for refusing to open the specifications needed for interoperability.

Comment Re:European Parliament (Score 5, Informative) 219

by pejyel (#25726013) Attached to: EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts

When has the European Parliament and the public interest ever coincided?

Hum let me think ...
When it voted against the 3-strikes law for downloaders?
When it voted against software patents?
When it voted for restrictions on the use of radioactive weapons?
The EU Parliament can really hardly be criticized, except for the fact that it doesn't have that much power, which in my opinion is a real pity. Go troll elsewhere.

Comment europa, europa (Score 1) 219

by pejyel (#25725735) Attached to: EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts
just pointing out :

the Council acts moreless like the House of Representatives, however it is not elected (the EU Parliament is) - it is sometimes called the Council of Ministers, as it is only composed by ministers ("secretary of states" if you want) of each 27 countries of the EU.

On a more general note, this is a bit a lot of fuss about not much. The EU Council does sometimes act in strange ways, but this is not enough for me to lose the trust I have in the other two big EU institution (the Commission and the Parliament)

For those curious people among you, here's the Parliament page of Marco CAPPATO
I particularly appreciate reading the "Parliamentary activities" of my MEPs (check the bottom of the page).
Games

Professor, ECA Dispute Video Game Aggression Study 78

Posted by Soulskill from the correlation-is-not-something-something dept.
Earlier this week, we discussed research which linked aggression in children with video games. The Entertainment Consumer Association responded with a statement criticizing the research, as did Christopher Ferguson, a professor at Texas A&M. PCWorld sat down with Ferguson for a more in-depth discussion of the flaws with the study. In addition to bringing up the correlation vs. causation fallacy, he notes: "Even if you took it at face value, which I don't, video game violence overlaps somewhere between, based on their own statistics, a half a percent to two percent, with a variance in aggression. If you woke up tomorrow and you were half a percent more aggressive than you were today, would you notice that? It's just not much of an effect. If the author said look, there's a little effect here, maybe video games increase aggression a tiny bit, but it's not going to make anyone into a serial murderer, yeah, alright, we may argue a little bit over the methodology, though I'd still say they should've controlled for other stuff. "
Politics

Who Do Warcraft Players Want As President? 82

Posted by samzenpus from the give-the-orcs-a-voice dept.
I'm not sure how many electoral votes Azeroth has, but it could be a key battleground state.

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