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Comment Re:Some scientific pursuits we should refrain from (Score 1) 435

by gyaku_zuki (#34499114) Attached to: Scientists Create Mice From 2 Fathers
Why the hell did you bring Assange into this? Lol. You are paranoid if you think the world cares that you have 2 male/female/whatever parents. I like to think that in a future where we have FUCKING ARTIFICIAL WOMBS we have got past the stage of caring who people's parents are. I'd rather have two parents who were loving enough to go to all that trouble to make me than someone who got knocked up on a drunken night out, or couldn't be bothered wearing a condom that night etc...

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 1020

by gyaku_zuki (#34403612) Attached to: Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange

For instance, if someone is so blindingly drunk that they can't stand on their own, it becomes fairly obvious to onlookers. And even if they say yes, when they're that drunk, they're too drunk to give consent.

In that case, how do you measure how drunk someone is? Fact is, if a girl was drunk but consents - if that's rape.... then the jails would be full! It's OT but you can't expect someone to breathalyse all their prospective suitors before getting down - if the girl is getting that drunk she should be going home (or not getting that drunk) rather than saying yes and then accusing someone of rape.

Comment Re:Europe? (Score 1) 116

by gyaku_zuki (#33647288) Attached to: Europe Proposes International Internet Treaty
You forget that the people are in control of their own country's leadership, in effect a form of control over 'Europe' leadership. It's not perfect, but as a citizen of the UK, I enjoy being part of the European Union, because 'elbowing the US big boy out of the way', as you put it, is often dearly needed. Gay rights, human rights (can anyone say torture and Guantanamo?), anti-trust companies, religious-political interference, commercial-political interference, special interests, need I go on? Yeah, Europe is not perfect; at times it has the same flaws as the US. But in my opinion it works, suffers these things less than the US, and I like it. A bunch of independent, culturally different countries coming together and hammering out deals, agreements, systems, laws that work to try and make things better for them all.
Iphone

Submission + - Could iPhone 4G be delayed by Foxconn boycott? (phonesreview.co.uk)

Submitted by gyaku_zuki
gyaku_zuki writes: Foxconn, the company doing the legwork for Apple in terms of manufacturing the iPhone, hasn't had a great time lately. Many suicides are making people very worried about what exactly is going on there. Everybody knows how protective Apple is over their products, and it is likely they impose harsh security and contractual conditions on their partners to avoid leaks. Just look at the recent leaks by Gizmodo, and the police action and questionable search warrants that followed. If you run a company, and Apple are your big customer, what if Apple were to demand you safeguard their invention; "If this product gets leaked by your staff, we will never work with you again.". What lengths would you reach to protect your contract?

It has lead to much speculation about the nature of the working conditions that Foxconn impose on their staff. Perhaps these fears will soon be put to rest, or at least remedied, with calls for investigation. However, amid calls for boycotts of the iPhone by a group of Hong Kong activists, phonesreview.co.uk asks if investigations, strike threats and boycotts will cause a delay to the new iPhone 4G. What makes this interesting is what Jobs will say in his keynote speech at the WWDC in just about two weeks.
Science

Submission + - Ball Lightning Caused By Magnetic Hallucinations (technologyreview.com) 3

Submitted by KentuckyFC
KentuckyFC writes: Transcranial magnetic stimulation involves placing a human in a rapidly changing magnetic field that is powerful enough to induce eddy currents in the brain. Focus the field in the visual cortex, for example, and the induced eddys cause the subject to 'see' lights that appear as discs and lines. Move the the field within the cortex and the subject sees the lights move too. But if this happens in the lab, then why not in the real world too, say physicists who have calculated that the fields associated with certain kinds of multiple lightning strikes are powerful enough to induce the same kind of visual hallucinations in anybody unlucky enough to be within 200 metres or so. These fields ought to induce hallucinations similar to those experienced in the lab. These would take the form of luminous lines and balls that float in front of the subject's eyes, an effect that would explain observations otherwise classed as ball lightning, say the scientists.

Comment Re:proprietary and apple (Score 1) 944

by gyaku_zuki (#32042380) Attached to: Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash"
We'll stop whining about iPhone when all the fanboys stop shoving it in our faces, or claiming how 'revolutionary' it is when it finally adds things such as cut and paste or multitasking... If you are free to talk it up at every opportunity - "MY iPhone can do this, and this, and this" - then we are free to say what it CAN'T do. Stop bragging over nothing and we'll stop bashing over nothing. Deal?
Operating Systems

"Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 739

Posted by timothy from the security-huh dept.
Hann1bal writes "The next system software update for the PlayStation 3 system will be released on April 1, 2010 (JST), and will disable the 'Install Other OS' feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models, launched in September 2009. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update." Updated 3:49 GMT by timothy: An anonymous reader writes "This comes as something of a surprise. Particularly because only a month ago Sony Computer Entertainment management seemed committed to the continued support of the Other OS option on the PS3."
Media

BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content 282

Posted by timothy from the approved-channels dept.
oik writes "The BBC has quietly added DRM to its iPlayer content. This breaks support for things like the XBMC plugin as well as other non-approved third-party players. The get-iplayer download page has a good summary of what happened, including links to The Reg articles and the BBC's response to users' complaints."

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