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Comment For the record (Score 1) 95

As far as local news go, he is just the author of virus and had no other relation to botnet. He sold the virus to various folks for around 500-1500 and mariposa guys were just one of many buyers. so the only thing he can be tried for is production of malicious software. Also, he was already bailed out after preliminary hearing.
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Submission + - HBO greenlits Game of Thrones (thrfeed.com)

Spovednik writes: The Hollywood Reporter and many others report, that HBO officially picked up George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones for a ten-episode series. Fans rejoicing all over the world. Pilot cast includes Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey and Richard Addy, among others.

Comment Re:Turn the tables (Score -1, Troll) 1364

The point is marriage is not a right, it's a license. The limited purpose of marriage is procreation (although it is not a requirement). Gays cannot procreate. We also limit marriage so you can't marry mulitple spouses, the same gender, immediate family, animals or objects.

Since the dawn of time, the family, consisting of a husband, wife, and their children, has been the fundamental unit of society. Now, gays want to legitimize their recreational lifestyle by demanding marriage. You can do whatever you want in the privacy of your bedroom, but we are not going to alter the whole structure of our civilization for your sexual preference.

Comment Re:Won't it ... ? (Score 1) 313

Bull. Shit. Counter-Strike Source had 93,500 people playing it when I checked last sunday. CS1.6 had another 69,000 people playing. TF2'd got 19,400 and l4d was in fourth place with 16,600 players.

All told valve had ~200,000 people playing just their top four games at 10:00AM on a freakin sunday. Call of Duty 4 regularly has less players than a HL2 mod (insurgency specifically) and barely beats it by a dozen or so players other times.

PC gamers are not utterly worthless, they are not a nonexistant or marginal market, and they are not a dying breed. IW/Activision and companies like them are just trying desperately to convince the world that the egg of poor-PC sales laid the chicken of shitty ports and consolization and not the other way around.

Comment Re:The Moon (Score 1) 703

Which is about up there with figuring out how to make 2 + 2 = 4.

Everything currently points to it being flat out impossible. Not improbable, not a a tough problem to figure out (ie, usable fusion generators or something that is just a hard problem), but not physically possible.

Assuming that all insolvable problems will magically become not so given enough time and technology isn't a wise bet.

Comment Re:Not too smart (Score 2, Informative) 86

It's acting more like a diode, really, than just a wire, but yeah, you're basically on target.

It is also plastic: i.e. the neurons are free to associate with whatever electrodes they are most attracted to, just like in a biological brain. That means that the electrodes that are most active will receive the most connections, and thus the "wires" are self constructing according to "need" (or frequency of stimulation in a molecular biology sense).

Submission + - IMMDb Turns 19 (techcrunch.com)

emeraldd writes: I'd say this is a birthday worth remembering:
"If you load up the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) today, you'll see a new logo commemorating its 19th birthday. Yes, that's really old for the Internet. Google, by comparison, is 11. Meanwhile, Yahoo is 14. IMDb is so old in fact, that is pre-dates the first web browsers."

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