Comment Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo (Score 1) 507
Funny the number of people who still confuse homeopathy with phytotherapy...
Hand Written Clock 86
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Pirates as a Marketplace 214
John Riccitiello, the CEO of Electronic Arts, made some revealing comments in an interview with Kotaku about how the company's attitudes are shifting with regard to software piracy. Quoting:
"Some of the people buying this DLC are not people who bought the game in a new shrink-wrapped box. That could be seen as a dark cloud, a mass of gamers who play a game without contributing a penny to EA. But around that cloud Riccitiello identified a silver lining: 'There's a sizable pirate market and a sizable second sale market and we want to try to generate revenue in that marketplace,' he said, pointing to DLC as a way to do it. The EA boss would prefer people bought their games, of course. 'I don't think anybody should pirate anything,' he said. 'I believe in the artistry of the people who build [the games industry.] I profoundly believe that. And when you steal from us, you steal from them. Having said that, there's a lot of people who do.' So encourage those pirates to pay for something, he figures. Riccitiello explained that EA's download services aren't perfect at distinguishing between used copies of games and pirated copies. As a result, he suggested, EA sells DLC to both communities of gamers. And that's how a pirate can turn into a paying customer."
Comment Re:Do they fingerprint everyone?! (Score 1) 323
- Didn't know they asked fingerprint for everyone. Thought there were special agreements for tourists coming by airplane between most countries. Who the f*ck would give away biometric data (an go trough the hassle of getting them) to do a bloody "pleasure" trip !?
- When i think i wanted to visit the yellowstone park, great canyon and the likes. Hell, i even considered working there after finishing my engineering physics studies. How naive i was. *Bars USA from list of countries to visit and sighs*
- By the way, South Americans residing in Europe avoid going trough USA to visit family. My mother does that. Instead of 900 she paid 1700 to go to Chile without crossing any USA border. There are special tickets for that. At the travel agency in Brussels, the clerk said that "all" South American do that.
Comment Re:Herschel (Score 1) 121
That's probably why they spelled "arian" in place of "Ariadne" (or "Ariane" in French). To compensate i guess. Although the good spelling would have been Aryan.
More seriously, great news. ;-)
Comment Re:Once your banned (Score 1) 343
You are banned for a year. And in the original version of the law you have to pay your isp for your non access during that year. I don't know if that part has been lifted.
