Comment Re:Science has come so far. (Score 1) 93
Even worse, how are they to say their memories are improving? It may be just as likely that they are actually impaired by the effects and don't remember to try to breathe...
Comment Re:Oh god.. (Score 1) 659
But the relevant question is whether audiences in the 40s and 50s would have laughed also. One hears stories of people running from the cinema crying and even vomiting upon seeing footage of the Hindenburg disaster screened.
You must understand the major flaw in this argument is the fact that documentary or news footage certainly has no similarity or comparison to a "gag" in a film. If we laughed at this scene its because a) we see little in the way of graphic detail; b) it looked typically surreal and finally, as again stated in the next reply, c) we reasonably understand that it is not real. I'm not sure if you're trying to insult the intelligence of our grandparents, but I'm pretty sure they could tell the difference. I'm almost certain I have seen just as many graphic encounters, though differently executed, in some of the classic war films as well as gangster flicks of the Golden Age of Film. Older generations were by no means "innocent and clean-cut" despite how we may depict them nowadays...
Comment Re:Not _quite_ (Score 1) 283
I really don't understand why they just couldn't reclassify the word or number in the language. It's not like it would be impossible for them to just change the word, letter, spelling or pronunciation. I tend to think that it would be technically more beneficial to not ruin their math...
New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder 73
Anarki2004 writes "Sony recently debuted its latest in OLED technology: a 4.1-inch screen that's only 80 microns thick. The super-flexible display can roll up into a cylinder just 4mm in diameter while still showing moving images at 432×240 resolution. Instead of brittle integrated circuit chips, the screen has an on-panel gate-driven circuit — a world first, according to Sony. That innovation would allow everything but the power supply to roll and flex in applications."
Clickjacking Worm Exploits Facebook "Like" Feature 124
An anonymous reader writes "For the last 24 hours, a series of attacks have exploited Facebook's 'Like' feature through a clickjacking vulnerability. Using subjects such as 'This Girl Has An Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana, Check It Out!' hackers have spread an attack that links to web pages that use invisible iFrames to trick users into saying they like the content. Users are presented with a innocent-seeming web page that says 'Click here to continue,' but clicking at any point on the page publishes the same message to their own Facebook page. Security blogger Graham Cluley says that hundreds of thousands of Facebook users have been hit, and offers advice on how to clean up affected Facebook profiles.
Comment Re:We already had a word for this (Score 1) 892
And we shall call it...WIIN! =D
Comment Re:Most people... (Score 1) 892
Leaders and followers, the wise and the foolish...Education is never more desirable than when the sum of all fools is overwhelming. Get enough people in one place and you might have an angry mob to deal with, or a party if you can keep them entertained. I tend to wonder if this thing we call Earth isn't just some massively controlled study by forces unknown?
Comment Re:Failed in Mexico already (Score 2, Funny) 615
Wouldn't that actually prove that all this is going on with El Presidente's consent? He's buying the phones, they work for him! Honestly, the man has the largest network...wow! The richest man in the world is Mexican and runs a wireless company...coincidence? Texas better watch out!
Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones 615
Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) have introduced legislation that would require buyers to present identification when purchasing a prepaid cellphone and require phone companies to keep the information on file, as they do with users of landline phones and subscription-based cellphones. 'This proposal is overdue because for years, terrorists, drug kingpins, and gang members have stayed one step ahead of the law by using prepaid phones that are hard to trace,' says Schumer. Civil liberties advocates have concerns about the proposal, saying there must be a role for anonymous communications in a free society, adding that the space for such anonymous or pseudonymous communications has been narrowed since pay phones, for example, have largely disappeared."
Submission + - Dynamic Open Source Languages Head to the Cloud (developer.com)
gkunene writes: The cloud isn't just for network administrators looking for scale, it's also a key development area for developers building applications with open source dynamic languages.
Submission + - Are We Ready for a True Data Disaster? (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions how long we can go before a truly catastrophic data disaster strikes. 'The lure of potential profits in the information economy, combined with the apparent ease with which data can be gathered and a lack of regulation, creates a climate of recklessness in which a "data spill" of the scale of the Deepwater Horizon incident seems not just likely, but inevitable.' Witness Google mistakenly emailing potentially sensitive business data to customers of its Local Business Center service, or the 1.5 million Facebook accounts and passwords recently offered up on an underground hacking forum. 'These incidents seem relatively minor, but as companies gather ever more individually identifiable data and cross-reference these databases in new and more innovative ways, the potential for a major catastrophe grows.' Worse, the recent casual indifference of Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg regarding the personal privacy is reminiscent of the robber barons of old. 'Last week, a characteristically glib Eric Schmidt told attendees of Google's annual Zeitgeist Forum in Europe that "what really matters is actual harm," not the potential for harm. 'The question is, who gets to define what is harmful and what is legitimate business practice? So far, government has declined to take on that role.'"
Comment Re:Commander Shepherd WON'T BE IN THE MOVIE (Score 1) 142
Of course, but I really hate it when I see something that I really don't feel is that closely related to what the hell is going on in these games. Is no one ever interested in their friend's game, for instance? Everyone is always so damned selfish! I mean seriously? Are gamers anti-social? Then again, it *was* a single player "RPG"... :\
Comment Re:Characters and Actors (Score 1) 142
As in a 'Fargate' movie? Uh, I mean, 'Starscape'? No wait... Starfly... Firegate... hm. Mass FarFirestarflygatescape...uh,cube Effect! *whew* Maybe they should just make a mini-series?
Comment Redundant Revelations... (Score 1) 156
I really don't believe this at all, despite what you all say, as I read in comments from the actual article...it just seems fishy and speculation also seems to confirm that this report might just be a red herring. I had speculated myself that it was probably gonna be around $120, but pleasantly surprised to hear a figure of around $80. Another thing it seems pretty funny to me that no one comprehends when they read "bundled with the Xbox 360 Arcade console for $299." My philosophy is, unless I know first-hand of something's failing points I keep mum, but there is certainly no mistaking a critic's ignorance...Final point, all the preparation and professional research in the world is nothing compared unleashing something into the hands of a few thousand evolved chimps! Time for this damned, dirty ape's lunch...
Comment Re:Not shipping with the system from the start = f (Score 1) 156
It didn't come with the system originally and many aren't going to be willing to pay $100 or $150 to add it...You shouldn't be able to buy one without Natal/Move. Then at least all new buyers would have it. As it is, they might as well give up now.
As if to say, "no one is going to buy another hard drive with more space" When it originally came out, without/only a 20GB drive, did it really stop anybody from getting a 60GB, 120GB or even 250GB now? I don't understand your sales/marketing logic...
