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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki Screenshot-sm 249

Posted by samzenpus from the 9cm-edited dept.
sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"
Science

Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus 205

Posted by timothy from the concealed-carry-in-australian-waters dept.
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from an AP report: "Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal. The scientists filmed the veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, selecting halved coconut shells from the sea floor, emptying them out, carrying them under their bodies up to 65 feet (20 meters), and assembling two shells together to make a spherical hiding spot. ... 'I was gobsmacked,' said Finn, a research biologist at the museum who specializes in cephalopods. 'I mean, I've seen a lot of octopuses hiding in shells, but I've never seen one that grabs it up and jogs across the sea floor. I was trying hard not to laugh.'"
Idle

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus from the type-A-negative-personality dept.
trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."
Programming

Haskell 2010 Announced 173

Posted by kdawson from the eddie-and-the-beav dept.
paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."

Comment Logic (Score -1, Offtopic) 200

by DirtyCanuck (#30083848) Attached to: Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools

How can Microsoft control Open Source? Flood the gates with software to get a foot in the door. They (and google) both have the manpower to really take over what the "standard" open source operating system is. Having control over the masses from the ground up is crucial to success. Just ask.... Microsoft.

Comment Dedicated Servers = Freedom (Score 3, Insightful) 162

by DirtyCanuck (#30013074) Attached to: John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers For <em>Rage</em>

Dedicated servers are the shit.

Remember when gamespy was quakespy? And there was Mplayer?

I used to play q2 tournaments on Mplayer. But all the mods rolled on Quakespy/Gamespy. It gave people from such communities as the Action Quake/Quake 2 group some exposure.

More recently a great example of such a contrast is the early release of Halo 2 and even the lack of multiplayer support in the Original Halo in the beginning.

Before xbox live we had Xbox Connect which allowed me to play online before xbox live was mainstream. Furthermore it allowed for the playing of Halo 2, online, months before it came out.

This includes modified versions of Halo and Halo 2 that would never be realized without dedicated servers.

This culture is not even recognized by the noob gamers that started playing games online through a console portal.

Definitely worth fighting for.
First Person Shooters (Games)

John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers For Rage 162

Posted by Soulskill from the will-you-rage-over-rage dept.
AndrewDBarker writes "Modern Warfare 2 will use a matchmaking setup powered by IWNet for online play (as we've discussed). It's too early to say what Rage will use, but Carmack indicated he believed the servers are something of a remnant of the early days of PC gaming. That said, he realizes the affinity many PC gamers have for them — and is glad Rage won't be leading the charge away from them. 'The great thing is we won't have to be a pioneer on that,' he says. 'We'll see how it works out for everyone else.'"

Comment Re:anonymous (Score 1) 543

by DirtyCanuck (#29900579) Attached to: Leaked <em>Modern Warfare 2</em> Footage Causes Outrage

Yes, but only Carmageddon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon_64#Controversy ) gave you extra points for killing old ladies with walkers

( http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/kotaku/2008/09/carmageddon2_01.jpg )

Even the splatter and gibbage is more over the top than most modern games despite the graphical limitations

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