Comment Tasteful Joke (Score 2) 564
What's the difference between Blackberry and Apple?
Well, a Blackberry is a small, bitter fruit.
Comment What's good for the goose... (Score 3, Insightful) 302
Senator Schumer,
You seem to be arguing that drone usage by private companies violates the privacy and/or security of the American public. Many people agree with that. Additionally, many people agree that drone usage by Law Enforcement Agencies and US Federal Agencies also violates the privacy and/or security of the American public.
I find it hypocritical, then, that you would simultaneously support the use of armed drones in the US by Federal Agencies and Law Enforcement while objecting to unarmed drone use by private enterprise. Perhaps I'm not understanding your position clearly. Perhaps, and I believe this to be more likely, I am.
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Your lips are moving.
You seem to be arguing that drone usage by private companies violates the privacy and/or security of the American public. Many people agree with that. Additionally, many people agree that drone usage by Law Enforcement Agencies and US Federal Agencies also violates the privacy and/or security of the American public.
I find it hypocritical, then, that you would simultaneously support the use of armed drones in the US by Federal Agencies and Law Enforcement while objecting to unarmed drone use by private enterprise. Perhaps I'm not understanding your position clearly. Perhaps, and I believe this to be more likely, I am.
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Your lips are moving.
Submission + - New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly' (computerworld.com)
CWmike writes: "Apple's new MacBook Pro shows some build-quality problems that shouldn't be seen in a notebook that costs $1,800, a teardown expert said on Monday. iFixit.com found several signs of substandard assembly while disassembling a 15-in. MacBook Pro. Among them: A stripped screw near the subwoofer enclosure and an unlocked ZIF (zero insertion force) socket for the IR (infrared) sensor. '[These] should not be things found inside a completely unmolested computer with an $1,800 base price,' iFixit said in the teardown description. iFixit also spotted an unusual amount of thermal paste applied to both the CPU and the GPU. 'Holy thermal paste! Time will tell if the gobs of thermal paste applied to the CPU and GPU will cause overheating issues down the road,' iFixit said. The refreshed MacBook Pro models launched last Thursday in what one analyst called a 'ho-hum' upgrade."
Submission + - Light Painting to Show WiFi Network (ispyce.com)
autospa writes: "Everone says i have a WiFi network, but does it existing really? To answer it Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen use a rod of blinking lights to visualize signal strength in their college town."
Submission + - Graf_Chokolo defiant as Sony ups the stakes (tgdaily.com)
Kevin Fishburne writes: "Sony PS3 cracker Graf_Chokolo, whose home was recently raided and computer equipment confiscated by German police, is now facing a 750,000 Euro fine and jail time. In spite of this he remains defiant, claiming "If you want me to stop then you should just kill me because i cannot live without programming, HV and Linux kernel hacking."
Is there a precedent for this kind of corporate terrorism?"
Is there a precedent for this kind of corporate terrorism?"
Submission + - Facebook Linked To One In Five Divorces in U.S. (scienceblog.com)
An anonymous reader writes: yes, in theory if you’re single, Facebook can help you meet that special someone. But for those in even the healthiest of marriages, improper use can quickly devolve into a marital disaster. A recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that Facebook is cited in one in five divorces in the United States. Also, more than 80 percent of divorce lawyers reported a rising number of people are using social media to engage in extramarital affairs.
Comment Screen resolution drives video card performance (Score 3, Interesting) 369
Video cards push pixels and the number of pixels has stalled in the last couple of years. 1920x1080 is the norm, and there appears to be no push to go higher. I read a great rant last year that effective summed it up. You can't blame console games for the fact that PC gamers have screens with the same resolution as their TVs. Blame either the manufacturers for failing to increase pixel density or consumers for failing to demand it. You've got to go to a 30" monitor to get a higher resolution, and the price of those beasts scares most people away. Why pay $800+ for a 30" when a pair of 24" 1080p monitors costs half that?
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Still waiting for my in-retina display.
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Still waiting for my in-retina display.
Comment Anybody got a diff? (Score 5, Insightful) 368
All this hullabaloo and we don't even have a diff of the two versions. Lots of hot air being blown around, but nobody's seen what the real cause of the problem is. Two words got moved, should be a simple thing to diff.
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Who needs proof when they have a hot air balloon?
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Who needs proof when they have a hot air balloon?
Comment This is why bloggers shouldn't do IA (Score 1) 1
It's not that messy, it's just a messy diagram, apparently designed to make the whole things look worse than it is.
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I can see why the mainstream media is worried; bloggers are just as bad at reporting as newspaper and television.
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I can see why the mainstream media is worried; bloggers are just as bad at reporting as newspaper and television.
Comment Re:How many times a day do people check Facebook? (Score 1) 77
I'm wondering if they're counting every one of the automated page update checks as a page view. I'd be really curious to see exactly what they count as a page view.
Comment I'll say it. (Score 3, Insightful) 121
Nice work, anonymous. Thanks.
Comment No Split Screen? (Score 2, Insightful) 218
Too bad they've decided to do away with split screen. I count myself one of the lucky geeks with a wife who loves video games and one of our favorite types has been the split-screen dungeon crawl like Baldur's Gate. We won't be buying another TV and another PS3 to play games on, though, so I guess this is a game we won't be buying.
Dear Game Developers: Please bring back split-screen play as a standard. While Borderlands is great, we won't be playing it forever.
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My wife and I play on the couch; video games, too.
Dear Game Developers: Please bring back split-screen play as a standard. While Borderlands is great, we won't be playing it forever.
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My wife and I play on the couch; video games, too.
Treading the Fuzzy Line Between Game Cloning and Theft 235
eldavojohn writes "Ars analyzes some knockoffs and near-knockoffs in the gaming world that led to problems with the original developers. Jenova Chen, creator of Flower and flOw, discusses how he feels about the clones made of his games. Chen reveals his true feelings about the takedown of Aquatica (a flOw knockoff): 'What bothers me the most is that because of my own overreaction, I might have created a lot of inconvenience to the creator of Aquatica and interrupted his game-making. He is clearly talented, and certainly a fan of flOw. I hope he can continue creating video games, but with his own design.' The article also notes the apparent similarities between Zynga's Cafe World and Playfish's Restaurant City (the two most popular Facebook games). Is that cloning or theft? Should clones be welcomed or abhorred?"
Comment Misleading blogvertising (Score 2, Insightful) 118
That's a terrible quote from a not-so-good blog post. It also appears that the submitter, Unexpof, only links to stories on Graham Cluley's blog at Sophos.
Comment Any recent information? (Score 1) 53
The Press Release is dated January 22, 2009. Has there been any recent developments? What's the timeline for human trials?
