Comment I haven't enjoyed an EA game since... (Score 1) 194
They published Archon II: Adept.
Comment It's Wednesday! (Score 1) 110
So it must be time for another "Mouse Killer" story...
Comment Making the Same Bad Assumptions, Over and Over (Score 5, Insightful) 308
Looks like TorrentFreak is making the same bad assumption that most US citizens continue to make. That is, assuming that "constitutional" matters one whit anymore to the US government or the people who run it.
Comment In other news.... (Score 4, Interesting) 334
The classic Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is getting a sequel, a prequel and a reboot...
"We feel there's a lot of left to explore in the world of 'Mona Lisa,'" said a greedy scum-sucking banker-type who wouldn't know art if it slapped him upside his swollen ego with a jugged fish,.
Comment COICA (Score 2) 181
COICA should really be called the Combating Legal, Open Access for Corporate Aggrandizement... or... CLOACA. A perfect fit for Dodd, well-known corporate-whore.
Comment What else did you expect... (Score 0) 395
From the anti-science, pro-theocracy party?
Submission + - Georgetown App Helps Doctors Stop the Bleeding (computeinmotion.com)
Scupernong writes: Dr. Craig Kessler, Director of the Coagulation Laboratory at Georgetown University Hospital was behind an application released today to help doctors with emergency room diagnostics
Submission + - Scientists Suggest Protocol For Contacting Aliens (ibtimes.com) 1
RedEaredSlider writes: If people on Earth want to talk to aliens, we may have to change our tune — or at least the way we broadcast it. And we may need a crowd to help figure out what to do.
A team of three scientists recently wrote a paper suggesting that humans need to change protocols in order to have a message to possible aliens understood. Previous attempts at contacting aliens, known as messaging extra-terrestrial intelligence (METI), might be heard someday, but there is little hope that aliens will be able to decipher what the message is about (though they might see that it is artificial).
A team of three scientists recently wrote a paper suggesting that humans need to change protocols in order to have a message to possible aliens understood. Previous attempts at contacting aliens, known as messaging extra-terrestrial intelligence (METI), might be heard someday, but there is little hope that aliens will be able to decipher what the message is about (though they might see that it is artificial).
Submission + - Assange's Swedish crimes file is leaked online (rawstory.com)
tropicdog writes: Leaked documents on the document leaker.
Assange and Wikileaks is such a popular topic here, surprised this hasn't hit /. front page yet.
Assange and Wikileaks is such a popular topic here, surprised this hasn't hit
Submission + - File-sharing lawyers shut up shop ahead of court (pcpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: Controversial legal firm ACS Law and its sole file-sharing client Media CAT have shut down their businesses, days before a ruling is due in a case they brought to the UK Patent Court. ACS Law is infamous for sending out letters to alleged illegal file sharers, demanding payment and threatening law suits. Now that ACS has a case before a judge, it's trying to drop the cases, and has now completely closed its doors. The defendants lawyers are trying to keep the case going, in order to be able to claim back costs.
Submission + - Giffords' Husband Will Fly Shuttle Mission (ibtimes.com)
RedEaredSlider writes: NASA astronaut Mark Kelly will resume training for a space mission a month after his wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was critically injured by an attempted assassin.
Kelly, who was is the commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission, contemplated taking a permanent leave after his wife was shot in Tuscon, Ariz. on Jan. 8. Giffords was shot in the head by Jared Lee Loughner. She is beginning rehabilitation in the wake of her injuries.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/109047/20110204/nasa-mark-kelly-gabrielle-giffords-space-astronaut-mark-kelly.htm#ixzz1D0sF3d5O
Kelly, who was is the commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission, contemplated taking a permanent leave after his wife was shot in Tuscon, Ariz. on Jan. 8. Giffords was shot in the head by Jared Lee Loughner. She is beginning rehabilitation in the wake of her injuries.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/109047/20110204/nasa-mark-kelly-gabrielle-giffords-space-astronaut-mark-kelly.htm#ixzz1D0sF3d5O
Submission + - If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again. (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: It’s official. The IANA(Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) this week allocated the last IP address blocks from the global IPv4 central address pool.
While the last IPv4 addresses have been allocated, it’s expected to take several months for regional registries to consume all their remaining regional IPv4 address pool.
The IPv6 Forum, a group with the mission to educate and promote the new protocol, says that enabling IPv6 in all ICT environment is not the end game, but is now a critical requirement for continuity in all Internet business and services going forward.
Experts believe that the move to IPv6 should be a board-level risk management concern, equivalent to the Y2K problem or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. During the late 1990s, technology companies worldwide scoured their source code for places where critical algorithms assumed a two-digit date. This seemingly trivial software development issue was of global concern, so many companies made Y2K compliance a strategic initiative. The transition to IPv6 is of similar importance.
If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again.
While the last IPv4 addresses have been allocated, it’s expected to take several months for regional registries to consume all their remaining regional IPv4 address pool.
The IPv6 Forum, a group with the mission to educate and promote the new protocol, says that enabling IPv6 in all ICT environment is not the end game, but is now a critical requirement for continuity in all Internet business and services going forward.
Experts believe that the move to IPv6 should be a board-level risk management concern, equivalent to the Y2K problem or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. During the late 1990s, technology companies worldwide scoured their source code for places where critical algorithms assumed a two-digit date. This seemingly trivial software development issue was of global concern, so many companies made Y2K compliance a strategic initiative. The transition to IPv6 is of similar importance.
If you think you can ignore IPv6, think again.
Submission + - Is Japan launching a giant fishing net into space? (sciencemag.org) 2
sciencehabit writes: --"'Fishing net' to collect space debris," blared a headline in Wednesday's edition of London's The Telegraph newspaper. The article described how the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and a Japanese fishing net maker had teamed up to make "a giant net several kilometers in size" that would sweep up abandoned satellites and drag them into the atmosphere to burn up. The Telegraph quoted Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a space scientist, as praising the plan but soberly urging care, "because we wouldn't want a real satellite getting caught up in the net." This satellite fishing system could be completed "within 2 years," the paper claimed.
Submission + - Mac App Store - Good or Bad? Developers React (theregister.co.uk)
KindMind writes: The Register writes about developer reactions to the Mac App Store. One says: "The hardest thing ... is not creating software. It's selling it," he said. "In order to sell things, you need exposure.", and that "the Mac App Store provides that exposure". But another says, "There are other costs to doing business in the App Store ...you lose control over the relationship with the customer. We don't know who our App Store customers are."
Submission + - Have We Reached a 'Climate Tipping Point' (guardian.co.uk)
Unka Willbur writes: Billions of tree-deaths in the Amazon last year injected as much carbon into the atmosphere as a full year's output from China, promoting fears that we will now see atmospheric carbon grow out of control.
