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Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 821

I've seen a couple of these scans. It would be difficult for me to enjoy one. BUT, considering that when I was in high school, I used to get excited by watching Cinemax that was half-static(my parents didn't have Cinemax), I'm sure that plenty of pedophiles would enjoy a child's scan. Some of them are probably as desperate for their porn as I was for mine in high school.

On the other side of the argument, no security measure is perfect. That doesn't mean you shouldn't make it harder.

Comment ASCII child porn (Score 0, Troll) 673

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That's a 10 year old's penis and an 11 year old's vagina, having sex. If you separate them, and turn them into flip art, it even becomes animation.

Congratulations, you've all just downloaded child porn. A police officer is on his way to your house.

Comment Re:How about we use existing rules of etiquitte? (Score 1) 585

Yeah, but the problem with using existing rules of etiquette is that people don't always know how the rules apply in these new cases. Or, that the rules even apply. In the 1950's, apparently, many people didn't know that driving while drunk made you a worse driver. We passed laws about it, and now it's considered extremely rude. Using cell phones is shifting toward that, too.

Talking loudly in a public place(not even mentioning a cell phone) is apparently not known by many Americans to be rude. That's one major reason that people in other countries consider us rude. It's one thing I like about living in Taiwan.

Comment Re:Did you enjoy it? (Score 1) 188

Yeah, but that's partly because new games cost about the same. Well, back in the day, Neo-Geo games were $200/game, if I recall correctly. That was the price of a SNES/Genesis. Sure, they had good games, but I don't think I'd have thought it worth the price. Now, I could afford a cost increase like that, even though it might be a little tough. But, in high school, it would have meant playing a LOT less games.

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Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise 254

superapecommando writes "Too many hours spent playing videogames indoors is contributing to a rise in rickets, according to a new study by doctors. Professor Simon Pearce and Dr Tim Cheetham of Newcastle University have written a paper in the British Medical Journal which warns of the rickets uptake – a disease which sufferers get when deficient in Vitamin D. The study boils down to the fact that as more people play videogames indoors they don't get enough sunlight and this has meant the hospitals are now having to combat a disease that was last in the papers around the time Queen Victoria was on the throne." At least the kids are eating enough snacks with iodized salt that we don't have to worry about goiters.
Networking

Game Developers Note Net Neutrality Concerns To FCC 74

eldavojohn writes "A list of notes from game developers (PDF) was sent in a letter to the FCC which represented a net neutrality discussion between the developers and FCC representatives. Game Politics sums it up nicely, but the surprise is that developers are concerned with latency, not bandwidth, unlike the members of many other net neutrality discussions. One concern is that each and every game developer will need to negotiate with each and every ISP to ensure their traffic achieves acceptable levels of latency for users. 'Mr. Dyl of Turbine stated that ISPs sometimes block traffic from online gaming providers, for reasons that are not clear, but they do not necessarily continue those blocks if they are contacted. He recalled Turbine having to call ISPs that had detected the high UDP traffic from Turbine, and had apparently decided to block the traffic and wait to see who complained.' It seems a lot of the net neutrality discussions have only worried about one part of the problem — Netflix, YouTube and P2P — while an equally important source of concern went unnoticed: latency in online games."

Comment Re:This man is not studying in London (Score 1) 538

Whether they have or not doesn't say whether they know the relative location of the cities. I'd heard of Coventry, but don't know where it is. Other than (now I know) not near London.

Americans don't exactly study the geography of England. How many English people do you think of have heard of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? The metropolitan area is larger than Coventry(wikipedia says 500,000 compared to 300,000 people).

Math

Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes 538

artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"

Comment Re:Modern endings (Score 1) 190

Why play a game if it feels like "grinding"? I recently tried an MMORPG(I don't usually play them). When it started feeling like grinding, I stopped. I play games because they are fun. They make me happy. Sometimes the ending is part of that.

Back when I was a kid, and couldn't afford as many games, had more time to waste, AND games were shorter, I'd almost always finish a game I bought. Things are different now.

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