Comment voluntary DDOS botnet... (Score 2) 715
DDOS caused by a voluntary botnet... Is it just me or could that also describe having the MasterCard website linked in a Slashdot article?
Comment Out of Beta (Score 4, Interesting) 326
Like others have already said, this is most likely a marketing stunt for getting out of beta. Yes, they have been in beta for the last 2 years and like the message in the site says, "we've decided that GOG.com simply cannot remain in its current form". At no point do they really say that GoG is gone. They mention change and that you will be able to re-download the games you have bought. They also had a promo running and this "announcement" happened on Sunday, which would be highly unlikely if this was a real site closing situation. A real closing announcement wouldn't come suddenly out of the blue without any previous indications of internal or external problems that caused it, nor would they do it on Sunday when most of the workers (and boss staff) are not working.
Comment But.. (Score 0) 57
Won't someone think of the children?
Wikimedia Confusion Swirls In Wake of Porn Charges 267
Contridictory stories are circulating after Fox News's pursuing of Wikimedia Foundation for hosting pornography reportedly resulted in Jimmy Wales personally removing some pornographic material from its servers, then giving up his special editing privileges under pressure. Fox News reported that Wikimedia is "in chaos"; this report was picked up by VentureBeat and others. Wales denies that there is any chaos (any more than usual, that is) at Wikimedia. The Fox News report apparently relied on a single unnamed source, and Wales said, "They don't even bother to contact me before publishing nonsense." The background: on April 27 Fox News published an exclusive report about porn on Wikimedia servers, then followed up by contacting organizations that had donated to Wikimedia to ask them what they thought about it. In the aftermath, Wales took a position in support of purging porn from Wikimedia Commons. This all started when estranged Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger contacted the FBI with an allegation of child porn on Wikipedia.
Comment Re:The article (Score 1) 261
In what appears to be a setback for Hollywood and the recording industry, the government said that it sees problems with the methodology used in studies those sectors have long relied on to support claims that piracy was destructive to their businesses. The accountability office even noted the existence of data that shows piracy may benefit consumers in some cases.
Yes, it seems that it does indeed mention media industry for more than a name in the graphs in the full report. That and bootleg footwear. Glad to see that they questioned the studies about the damage to economy caused by piracy at least considered the potential beneficial effects of piracy and.
Comment The article (Score 2, Insightful) 261
Correct if I'm wrong, but doesn't the report mostly concern forged counterweight products and forged products that are sold as genuine? Sure, this also includes the good old pirate dvds that are sold, but it doesn't seem to give much attention to p2p pirating and such. It's mostly about pharmaceutical products.
Comment And thus the scientists... (Score 5, Funny) 94
had invented a printer which had provided them with a plastic cup filled with a blob of cells that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a human vein.
Comment hmm (Score 3, Funny) 133
Time to slashdot some diplomat's webpage? "We have taken your homepage hostage. Surrender your ACTA and come out of your meeting room hands up."
Comment Cynism (Score 1) 1142
Cynism
Comment Let's start digging then... (Score 1) 175
Somehow I have a bad feeling that while allowing the rover to remain operational for a bit longer, it will also ironically become stuck in the hole it dug.
Comment Scary (Score 1) 553
So soon, if this trend keeps gaining wind under its wings, WoW will be flooded with millions of fatass female elfs and midgets... Well, they get whats coming to them.
Comment Re:A missile that hypnotizes you (Score 1) 236
...Or nuke you. Just think about it. The entire nation frozen staring and pointing at the sky (swirly thing alert), while the Russians do what they want.
Comment Re:Swirly Thing Alert! (Score 1) 418
Cat: Forget Red — let's go all the way up to Brown Alert!
Kryten: There's no such thing as a Brown Alert, sir.
Cat: You won't be saying that in a minute! And don't say I didn't alert you!
Comment IQ (Score 1) 808
IQ tests measure only certain predetermined parts of human brain capacity. The problem with IQ tests are that it is hard to create an universal definition of "intelligent", and thus, what to measure. There are also many things that affect the results of those tests like current emotions, how well your brain has experience in such tasks and level awareness. Anyway, Stern, who created the bases to modern IQ tests never meant those tests to be used to compare people and their level of intelligent. People have to remember that intelligent behavior, mathematic power, short term task memory, wisdom, experience, knowledge, social intelligent and many others are all different things. It is pretty much impossible to measure humans mental capacities in a way that they would be comparable to other people.
Comment Re:Eh Sonny? (Score 4, Funny) 560
Commander, tear this ship apart until you have found those torrents, and bring me the seeders! I want them alive!
