Comment Re:Not true (Score 1) 973
Well they just tweeted about how much money they raised because of this, and then asked for more, so I beg to differ.
Comment Re:Ah, so it is the bias, not the money you object (Score 1) 973
In the run up to the release, they posted some stuff to make it seem like they uncovered a secret plot to target and murder journalists. Instead it was a mistake made in wartime.
Comment Re:Not true (Score 5, Insightful) 973
I'm liberal, it just seems wikileaks is going out of it's way to make the military look bad and then play itself up.
Comment Re:Not true (Score 4, Insightful) 973
The whole "Collateral Murder" website they setup is biased, from the name of the site, to the phrasing they use.
Comment They did it for the money. (Score -1, Flamebait) 973
They have been good in the past, but they seem to be playing this up for donations. They must really need the money.
Comment Yeah, fuck that. (Score 4, Insightful) 631
I know that's a vulgar comment, but that is vulgar DRM.
Submission + - L.H.C. Results start to come in (bbc.co.uk)
des_irl writes: The first round of results from the Large Hadron Collider are being published and the results aren't quite what Scientists expected. The colliding beams produced more particles then current models predict. Which, when you think about it was one of the reasons for the experiment in the first place! Current models not proving everything accurately, and all! Good reading though. Oh and surprisingly, the LHC website doesn't have the news up on it! I guess the scientists have better things to do then write web pages!!
Comment Guess I'll only read 5 news stories a day then. (Score 1) 236
I mean really eff that, first place my mouse goes to on a registration page is the little X in the corner.
Comment Organized troublemakers (Score 5, Insightful) 172
Hmmm, I wonder why a repressive government would have a problem with glorifying organized groups of troublemakers?
Comment Nothing, except (Score -1, Troll) 249
That all the people old enough to play them as kids are now part of the gaming media establishment.
Comment The day... (Score 1) 394
The day Microsoft figures out a way to stop piracy of their OS is the day I switch to Linux.
Comment And now it's up to software (Score 1) 342
To put all those idle resources to good use. There needs to be a new generation of programs and games to put all the hardware to work.
Ubisoft Testing PC Prince of Persia Without DRM 254
Ars Technica reports that the upcoming PC version of Ubisoft's Prince of Persia will not feature any sort of copy protection. (Not including Steam downloads, of course.) After the backlash in recent months over the DRM in games like Spore and GTA IV, Ubisoft is giving gamers the chance to demonstrate that DRM actually increases piracy. One of Ubisoft's community reps had this to say about their decision: "You`re right when you say that when people want to pirate the game they will but DRM is there to make it as difficult as possible for pirates to make copies of our games. A lot of people complain that DRM is what forces people to pirate games but as PoP PC has no DRM we`ll see how truthful people actually are. Not very, I imagine. Console piracy is something else entirely and I`m sure we`ll see more steps in future to try to combat that."
Comment So do they... (Score 5, Interesting) 318
relinquish rights to the stuff that may have been created before the update?
Submission + - NFL Will Force Press To Wear Sponsor Logos
i_like_spam writes: In a story covered by the National Press Photographers Association, photojournalists are protesting a new rule for the upcoming NFL season that will force them to wear red vests emblazoned with the corporate logos of Reebok and Canon during televised games. The chair of the NPPA's Ethics & Standards Committee responds
In a related incident, photographers covering the Fiesta bowl earlier this year were told to wear vests with the Tostitos logo. They retaliated by wearing the vests inside out.
'It totally goes against our Code of Ethics to force photographers to advertise as if they were some sort of NASCAR vehicle. We are independent gatherers of news, storytellers with no agendas. Our integrity comes from objectivity. Do reporters put up with this kind of disrespect from the NFL?'
In a related incident, photographers covering the Fiesta bowl earlier this year were told to wear vests with the Tostitos logo. They retaliated by wearing the vests inside out.
