Comment In other news (Score -1, Troll) 268
In other news, water is wet, gravity still pulls downward, and no you cannot have Jessica Alba.
Comment Won't pass (Score 1) 416
I can think of no way this isn't equally good for everyone. In light of that, there's a very slim chance this will pass.
Comment Re:Drinking games (Score 1) 239
Better, simpler game: Choose a side. While that side is standing and clapping, chug. Make sure you have 9-1 already in your phone, you'll probably need it.
Comment Re:So much for security theater (Score 4, Funny) 640
still wouldn't stop the first clever terrorist to shove the bomb up his ass.
Since when is shoving anything up your ass considered "clever"?
Comment Re:simple solution: .riaa ghetto (Score 1) 174
There's an easy solution to this. Give them their own
Please let this happen. So many people would block it so fast it would probably make a sonic boom or three.
Comment Re:encryption (Score 1) 700
but won't stop people with supercomputers.
If someone with a supercomputer is trying to break your encryption, I would think you have bigger problems to worry about.
Comment Re:What is more damaging to society? (Score 1) 783
An individual who seeks to minimize his tax obligations or a government that feels that it is ENTITLED to tax everything that moves?
First one. Second one can be seen to come along as a result of the first. I'd like to think if people didn't dodge taxes we wouldn't see so many of them.
Comment Done before (Score 2) 210
Someone's been watching a few too many bank heist movies.
Comment But (Score 0) 69
But does it show who really shot him?
Comment Re:Alpha Protocol (Score 1) 352
Sure their games are glitchy but...
Every single aspect of Alpha Protocol apart from the choices/consequences system is utterly mediocre.
So very true. It wasn't the fact that there was a "win game" button that made me dislike it. Those buttons are not all that rare. It was the fact you could collect SEVERAL "win game" buttons and just not even have a challenge anymore.
Comment Re:Buzz in Times (Score 1) 220
But to a human the 5 seconds or whatever it happens to be (been years since I've watched Jeopardy) isn't much. Watson can go through a lot of possibilities in five seconds, or even just four and give the answers at the last moment.
Comment So what this is saying... (Score 3, Funny) 220
So the AI triumphed, and they're calling it a huge success? I wonder how the programmers feel about this. Pretty satisfied, I'd imagine.
WikiLeaks Gives $15k To Bradley Manning Defense 321
wiredmikey writes "The Web site supporting Bradley Manning, the Army soldier charged with leaking a massive number of US classified information to WikiLeaks, posted an announcement on its site today, saying that WikiLeaks had transferred $15,100 to the legal trust account of Manning's attorney. WikiLeaks has been publicly soliciting donations specifically for the expenses of Manning's legal defense following his arrest in May 2010. The contribution by WikiLeaks brings the total funds raised and transferred to Bradley's civilian legal defense team, led by attorney David Coombs, to over $100,000. Supporters say that a 'vigorous defense' for Manning is estimated to cost $115,000."
Comment Re:Politician Engineer (Score 3, Insightful) 275
Slightly worse, I'd say. You're a single person, so you can just point at a color, whatever it may be, and call it good. They have to pass a resolution to create a committee to appoint a group to review the plans, and then squabble about who gets what in their state.
Comment Re:Retarded (Score 2) 247
It's precisely BECAUSE something could go wrong. A full day on a site like Facebook is more than enough time to see any major issues crop up, yet isn't long enough to deeply impact their service*.
*I know, I know..."Facebook" and "service" in the same sentence. Hurpadurp.
The juvenile side of me wants to make a joke off of "long enough" and "deeply impact", but I'd rather just say this: A full day on facebook is also a lot more likely to cause thousands of grandma's and others to claim the internet is broken if something goes wrong. I hope ISPs are going to be ready for support calls.
