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Comment Re: japan is a fascist nation that was spared (Score 1) 159

I don't know if it's Hollywood revisionism. I don't know of any films that portray the war as if the US won the war single handed. Since as you mentioned, most were created for american audiences, that is portion they showed. People wanted to see what their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers went through. For D-Day the forces were largely divided by which part of the Normandy beach they attacked. This means for the most part the Canadians, Americans and British would not come in contact with each other on the battlefield. The majority seem to focus on Omaha Beach was was slated for US troops. Many (especially modern movies, miniseries and documentaries) do in fact include British troops and the parts they played. I know of no veterans who ever downplayed the British military in WWII.

I am very proud of the part the US played in the war, and I do believe we were a very important part of winning (though it is easy to argue a large portion of that was due to our ability to manufacture an insane amount of war machines and materials). I am also proud of the Canadian and British forces. Together, we all made a good showing of ourselves.

Comment Re:Really?!? (Score 1) 1448

Comment Re:I go to a fair amount of movies (Score 1) 924

I've seen it several times. Once it was someone who answered a phone call and continued talking for at least two or three minutes without getting up to leave the theater. Another was someone who kept getting phone calls with a loud ringer and refused to turn it off or turn off the ringer. Twice was at two separate viewings. Teenagers who insist they must take pictures of themselves at the theater to show all of their friends they're seeing a movie.

Comment Re:AT&T ONLY IF.... (Score 1) 131

That actually may be due to a caching service of their own rather than AT&T itself. Try surfing with a different DNS server, like Google or OpenDNS. Verizon had this problem too on FiOS and the only solution was to use a different DNS server. They finally upgraded their aging Youtube caching servers though.

Comment Re:It really annoys the hell out of me... (Score 1) 955

There could be many reasons he dropped out of high school. There could be many reasons why he advanced in the NSA. While I don't believe that having high school and college diplomas make you an intelligent or skilled person, I also don't believe _not_ having them makes you automatically unqualified. I am compensated well and have a position of great responsibility at my current company. I have also never sat through a day of college. Clearly others see more value in what I have done and can demonstrate rather than how I learned it.

I do sometimes wish I'd gone to college, but only because I feel I missed out on a lot of social benefits I might have received.

Comment Re:Nintendo's Right, but being Jerks about it... (Score 1) 297

Notch did tweet about it, saying he almost did it. I think if he had it would have been suicide for his company because everyone I know, myself included, found Minecraft through the LP videos. It would have been a lot of revenue though. For the folks who base their Youtube businesses off of the Minecraft success, they would have seen their income drop to nothing or near to it.

Comment Re:Not going to help them (Score 1) 297

Some of these LP makers earn a very good living. Look at the two Yogscast guys. They now have a multi-million dollar business based out of their videos they make on youtube. I personally know several who have closed businesses or quit day jobs to do nothing but make these videos. They do love the games they play, and are passionate about it, but it is also their livelihood. They take it seriously. They play games viewers are interested in, edit and make their own music for their videos, and they will sometimes even spend hours working an idea out before recording it for a video (like a minecraft machine they want to demonstrate). Nintendo taking the ad revenue from them could potentially ruin their ability to make money depending on what games they favor on their channels.

Comment Re:for the love of god (Score 1) 322

I know that they had detonations, but I also remember reading that they weren't picking up enough radiation to prove that it was a nuclear explosion and not just large stockpiles of traditional TNT. The explosions were small for a nuclear blast as well, well within the range of what a mass of traditional explosives could do.

This definitely does not prove they _don't_ have nuclear arms, but doesn't it at least cast a bit of doubt?
Science

Submission + - Researchers Build Fibre Cables Capable of Near Light Speed Communication (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: Researchers have managed to build a fibre optic cable that is capable of transferring data between end points at near light speed. The team of researchers over at the University of Southampton in England have constructed a fibre that is hollow with special inner walls that will prevent light from refracting. Fibre optic cables transfer data using light beams and even though theoretically the cables can carry data at near light speed, the actual data throughput is reduced by 31 per cent — thanks to the refraction of light as it passes through silica glass. Refraction of light is less in air as compared to glass and to get around the above problem, researchers have been looking at options through which the core of the fiber can be replaced by air. Another hurdle was the question of how to get light beams to move through cables that bend and around curvatures. This is where the ingenuity of the research comes into play. The researchers have built fibre cables with a hollow core that allows for movement of light across bends while minimizing loss of light due to refraction. The researchers credit this achievement to what they have dubbed "ultra-thin photonic-bandgap rim" that not only minimizes data loss but also reduces latency while providing for wider bandwidth.
Android

Submission + - Researchers Uncover Targeted Attack Campaign Using Android Malware (threatpost.com)

Trailrunner7 writes: Android attacks have become all the rage in the last year or two, and targeted attacks against political activists in Tibet, Iran and other countries also have been bubbling up to the surface more and more often lately. Now those two trends have converged with the discovery of a targeted attack campaign that's going after Tibetan and Uyghur activists with a spear-phishing message containing a malicious APK file. Researchers say the attack appears to be coming from Chinese sources.

The new campaign began a few days ago when unknown attackers were able to compromise the email account of a well-known Tibetan activist. The attackers then used that account to begin sending a series of spear-phishing messages to other activists in the victim's contact list. One of the messages referred to a human rights conference in Geneva in March, using the recipients' legitimate interest in the conference as bait to get them to open the attachment. The malicious attachment in the emails is named "WUC's Conference.apk".

Patents

Submission + - You Don't "Own" Your Own Genes (cornell.edu)

olePigeon (Wik) writes: Cornell University's New York based Weill Cornell Medical College issued a press release today regarding an unsettling trend in the U.S. patent system: Humans don't "own" their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are and what diseases for which they might be at risk. Through more than 40,000 patents on DNA molecules, companies have essentially claimed the entire human genome for profit, report Dr. Christopher E. Mason of Weill Cornell Medical College, and the study's co-author, Dr. Jeffrey Rosenfeld, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey and a member of the High Performance and Research Computing Group, who analyzed the patents on human DNA. Their study, published March 25 in the journal Genome Medicine, raises an alarm about the loss of individual "genomic liberty."

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