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Comment Re:The human eye is proof God exists (Score 1) 187

I think he might mean the "made up" part more than any particular example.
Personally i am not averse to having a creator, or life having "meaning" or even an afterlife. But I am not constrained by it, do not view the world in absolutes. As each religion is the one true path to salvation and all others are heresy.

Submission + - World's First 10 Gbps Consumer Fiber Broadband Service

xzeroed writes: Tech Times reports that the world's first 10 Gbps consumer fiber broadband service has rolled out in Minneapolis. Current fiber customers of US Internet can now upgrade from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps for the low cost of $399/month! This article states that they're also working on rolling out 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps service sometime in the future!

Submission + - Should Video Games Be In the Olypmics? (bbc.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC is running a story about e-sports and competitive video game. It's based on comments from Rob Pardo, formerly of Blizzard Entertainment, who says there's a good argument for having e-sports in the Olympics. He says video games are well positioned to be a spectator sport — an opinion supported by Amazon's purchase of Twitch.tv for almost a billion dollars. The main obstacle, says Pardo, is getting people to accept video games as a legitimate sport. "If you want to define sport as something that takes a lot of physical exertion, then it's hard to argue that videogames should be a sport, but at the same time, when I'm looking at things that are already in the Olympics, I start questioning the definition." The article notes, "Take chess, for instance. Supporters of the game have long called for its inclusion the Games, but the IOC has been reluctant, considering it a 'mind sport' and therefore not welcome in the Games." So, should the Games expand to include "mind sports" and video games?

Submission + - North Korean Internet is down (engadget.com) 1

opentunings writes: Engadget reports that North Korea's external Internet access is down. No information yet regrading whether anyone's taking responsibility.

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