Comment Re:Not true (Score 1) 569
If only the game reviewing industry would help out with this. I'm trying to comprehend out how the metacritic metascore is at 91, and the user score is at 2.7.
Comment Re:Wrong (Score 2, Insightful) 286
Which one is legally binding, the privacy link, or the position link?
Comment Since there's new Star Trek Movies (Score 4, Funny) 138
In keeping with the new Star Trek movies, they should be called "Lens" and "Flare".
Comment Re:Here's a benchmark (Score 1) 380
Comment Re:The goal of this bill (Score 1) 605
They'll just hire the out of work middle to fight for them, gladiator style.
Comment Re:Wait a second... (Score 2) 735
That was actually done in an earlier Next Generation episode.
Personally, I'm still hung up on having a brewery for an engine room.
Comment Re:That must hurt (Score 2) 101
Ok, so I've read that article twice, and I don't see where it disproves the 'myth' that the original QWERTY keyboard was laid out in a way to prevent the keys from sticking on the 1st gen typewriters. It talks about disproving that Dvorak keyboard layout is better, but didn't see anything about the jamming keys myth busted.
I'm nursing a coffee from a night of no sleep, so maybe its just me, but if you could point me to the relevant text that its been proven to be a myth?
Comment Re:Batteries (Score 5, Funny) 301
They'd be mother-fucking OEM snakes on the mother-fucking OEM plane.
Submission + - Nature Enhances Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills
An anonymous reader writes: A new study finds that being in the great outdoors may do more than improve your physical health: it can also boost your creativity.
Submission + - Japan police offers first-ever reward for wanted hacker (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: Japanese police are looking for an individual who can code in C#, uses a "Syberian Post Office" to make anonymous posts online, and knows how to surf the web without leaving any digital tracks — and they're willing to pay. It is the first time that Japan's National Police Agency has offered a monetary reward for a wanted hacker, or put so much technical detail into one of its wanted postings. The NPA will pay up to $36,000, the maximum allowed under its reward system. The case is an embarrassing one for the police, in which earlier this year 4 individuals were wrongly arrested after their PCs were hacked and used to post messages on public bulletin boards. The messages included warnings of plans for mass killings at an elementary school posted to a city website.
Submission + - Microsoft Investigating IE Mouse Tracking Flaw, Says Users Not Affected Yet
An anonymous reader writes: News broke on Wednesday of a new Internet Explorer vulnerability that allows an attacker to track your mouse cursor anywhere on the screen, even if the browser isn’t being actively used. On Thursday, Microsoft confirmed it is looking into the issue and denied reports that the flaw is already being exploited. “We are currently investigating this issue, but to date there are no reports of active exploits or customers that have been adversely affected,” a Microsoft spokesperson told TNW. “We will provide additional information as it becomes available and will take the appropriate action to protect our customers.”
Submission + - Humans Have Been Eating Cheese for at Least 7,500 Years
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have found conclusive evidence for the first time that humans have been making cheese since the 6th millennium BC.
Submission + - Apple iPhone Infringes On Sony, Nokia Patents (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: A federal jury in Delaware has found Apple's iPhone infringes on three patents held by MobileMedia, a patent-holding company formed by Sony, Nokia and MPEG LA, InfoWorld reports. The jury found that the iPhone directly infringed U.S. patent 6,070,068, which was issued to Sony and covers a method for controlling the connecting state of a call, U.S. patent 6,253,075, which covers call rejection, and U.S. patent 6,427,078, which covers a data processing device. MobileMedia has garnered the unflattering descriptor "patent troll" from some observers. The company, which was formed in 2010, holds some 300 patents in all.
Submission + - Iron Dome: Behind the hoopla, a familiar story of missile-defense hype (thebulletin.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Many journalists believed the hype because they saw fireballs in the sky. The 2nd to the last paragraph of this article explains why the fireballs don't necessarily mean success: "In a recent conversation, MIT professor and missile defense expert Ted Postol suggested one approach for such investigation: the examination of video footage of Iron Dome intercepts. The Iron Dome's interceptor employs a blast fragmentation warhead. During an intercept attempt, the shrapnel from the explosion of the interceptor is supposed to hit the threat rocket and blow up its warhead. Each of these explosions creates a spherical fireball that is visible in a video shot. The fireballs could be seen as elongated, rather than spherical or in some cases as two distinct spheres; they could also overlap, distorting their spherical shapes. But, Postol says, if the video showed a single fireball sphere, it would most likely be an indication of a failed intercept." Jury seems to be still out on this.
Submission + - Google Loses Santa to Bing (technet.com)
Sebolains writes: Unlike previous years, NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) has decided to use Bing maps to track Santa's journey as he goes around the world delivering presents. Starting Christmas eve, one will be able to go to the official NORAD Santa tracking site (http://www.noradsanta.org/) and use Bing maps to see where Santa is delivering presents at that time. In previous years, NORAD has always gone for Google maps to track Saint Nick. The reason for this switch were not disclosed, but since nearly 25 million people are expected to use this tool come this Christmas, this will definitely benefit Bing in the ongoing competition for online map applications.
