Comment Re:Microsoft has outdone themselves (Score 1) 286
The idea of the game was to imitate what happened on screen I believe.
Not much better, but yeah.
Comment Re:Feh (Score 1) 698
"Since when following Geneva conventions is considered anything but normal?"
Hitler said "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." Likewise, the US will never be asked whether they followed the Geneva convention, and the disciplining of the source of this video is likely the only thing that's going to come out of this mess.
Comment This will never fly (Score 5, Insightful) 340
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
If the EU doesn't uphold this, it's members will.
Comment Re:Simple resolution (Score 3, Insightful) 618
Blowing up innocent people, that'll teach those damn terrorists!
Submission + - China's Youth Meet Microsoft - In A Sweatshop (nlcnet.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The "National Labor Committee offers an indepth look into working conditions in Chinese sweatshops producing hardware (mice, etc.) for Microsoft, complete with pictures. Apparently, so called "work study students", 16 and 17 years of age, work 15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week, for around 65 cents per hour. Microsoft said it is taking the claims seriously and has "commenced an investigation." (further statements from Microsoft can be found here).
Comment Weird (Score 5, Insightful) 120
Self-serving schemers? What, Kotick was afraid of some competition?
Comment Look at that (Score 4, Insightful) 572
Larry mentions his own, new, quote "more responsible" encyclopedia project in the first paragraph. How convenient.
Comment Re:The (d)evolution of humanity? (Score 1) 47
It will have the same effect cars did on walking a dog
Comment Re:Simply put you don't shoot wounded and unarmed (Score 5, Informative) 1671
At 8 minutes 30 seconds you can hear the guy in the Apache, crosshair hovering over a gravely wounded individual that is clearly struggling to even get anywhere saying and I quote "Come on buddy all you gotta do is pick up a weapon".
Comment Re:How are we supposed to understand this? (Score 5, Insightful) 1671
I see civilians being shot, I hear officials on comms laughing about the truck driving in there to attempt to save those shot running over a corpse and I see us being told that Iraqi insurgents were responsible. How the fuck is this open to interpretation?
Submission + - Junctionless transistor ready for the big time (eetimes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Professor Jean-Pierre Colinge has said that a novel electronic device the junctionless transistor, or gated resistor, could compete right now with conventional transistors, which have junctions and complex impurity profiles. However, Professor Coling, from Tyndall National Institute, told EE Times it could take a while for commercial semiconductor companies to switch to the new, simpler transistor. But they could be using it by the 20-nm node, he said.
Comment Sure it does (Score 1) 232
"The company said piracy affected [...] the price of video games"
Amusingly enough, "the company" didn't mention whether or not this effect was positive or negative, or for whom.
Comment Re:Repeat (Score 1) 461
Because they go out of their way to make everyone believe piracy is a heinous, unforgivable crime on par with rape and murder. The avarage consumer has come to believe they have no choice but to either not play the game or pay to be taken advantage of.
I fear what the gaming industry would become without piracy as a constant competitor.
Submission + - Virginia Tech building battlefield robots (vt.edu)
smackay writes: The roving, walking robotic soldiers of the "Terminator" films are becoming less sci-fi, and more certain future every day. Now, a team of robotics researchers from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering will build a team of fully autonomous cooperative battle-ready robots as part of a 2010 international war games challenge that could spur real-life battle bots for the Pentagon.
Comment Re:Counterexample (Score 1) 188
and some Jack Thompson hate.
