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Comment Re:I'll miss them (Score 1) 390

by pjp6259 (#33716616) Attached to: Blockbuster Files For Bankruptcy

Netflix will let you add movies that are in theaters to your netflix queue (no third party anything required). Just search for the movie and click on the 'save' button. They end up in a 'waiting' section below your normal queue.

Comment Re:Nothing to see here.... (Score 1) 303

by pjp6259 (#31374856) Attached to: The Arctic Is Leaking Methane

Actually, "US Manufacturing is alive and well. The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity. "

"Since 1960, the index of industrial production has risen from a little below 30 to its current level of about 100. And the increase is continual -- meaning the number didn't just hover around 30 for most of that time only to spike up in one big move. The index has continually risen over that entire period."

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-is-not-dead.html
Classic Games (Games)

M.U.L.E. Is Back 110

Posted by Soulskill from the not-for-the-red-wings dept.
jmp_nyc writes "The developers at Turborilla have remade the 1983 classic game M.U.L.E. The game is free, and has slightly updated graphics, but more or less the same gameplay as the original version. As with the original game, up to four players can play against each other (or fewer than four with AI players taking the other spots). Unlike the original version, the four players can play against each other online. For those of you not familiar with M.U.L.E., it was one of the earliest economic simulation games, revolving around the colonization of the fictitious planet Irata (Atari spelled backwards). I have fond memories of spending what seemed like days at a time playing the game, as it's quite addictive, with the gameplay seeming simpler than it turns out to be. I'm sure I'm not the only Slashdotter who had a nasty M.U.L.E. addiction back in the day and would like a dose of nostalgia every now and then."
The Almighty Buck

Virtual Money For Real Lobbying 85

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the sheeple-happy-to-be-paid-shills dept.
ogaraf writes "Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that health-insurance industry group 'Get Health Reform Right' paid Facebook users with virtual currency to be used in Facebook games in exchange for lobbying their Congressional Rep. 'Instead of asking the gamers to try a product the way Netflix would, "Get Health Reform Right" requires gamers to take a survey, which, upon completion, automatically sends the following email to their Congressional Rep: "I am concerned a new government plan could cause me to lose the employer coverage I have today. More government bureaucracy will only create more problems, not solve the ones we have."'" Relatedly, Trailrunner7 illustrates growing concern over realistic spammer profiles in social networking sites and their potential to wreak havoc, especially if these two methods were combined. "Many spammers now have large staffs of people working on nothing but building out completely fake personas for non-existent users on social networking sites and blog networks. The spammers use these personas to create accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Blogspot and other sites that have high levels of user interaction."

Comment Re:Open source (Score 1) 1747

by pjp6259 (#30391008) Attached to: The Science Credibility Bubble

Sorry shit does happen. I work at a scientific institute (not climate, but weather), and we produce lots and lots of data. Petabytes of it. Sometimes we have 10 different copies of data all slightly different (this one had QC1 run on it, this one had derived field X calculated, this one is just the data that correlates with the field program in 2000, etc.) Sometimes this data is on 10 different machines. These machines get old, get replaced, etc. If no one is currently working on that data set, sometimes it gets wiped because everyone figures, "oh there's another copy somewhere". Sometimes there is not another copy somewhere. Or it's on some format we can't read anymore. Or the DVDs went bad. Or the disk crashed.... Shit most certainly does happen. Not often, but sometimes.
Emulation (Games)

Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

Posted by Soulskill from the super-mario-takedown dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"

Comment A local paper does something similar (Score 1) 339

by pjp6259 (#28515869) Attached to: Of Catty Rants and Copyrights

The Colorado Daily publishes (on their front page, everyday) facebook status updates of people who have 'friended' this paper on facebook. I recently talked to someone who had their status update published on the front page, and she had no idea this could even happen. I wonder if they could be sued in this case, or does the fact that you have to 'friend' them give them an implicit right to republish your status?

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