Comment Re:CAT (Score 1) 186
Artichoke
Comment CAT (Score 1) 186
Dolphin
Comment Hyperbole error at line 10 (Score 1) 95
If you want to avoid all the chatter and buzz around the concept of gamification, I recommend being me. Never heard of it. Is this a US thing?
Comment Re:I posted this in the last story on this too... (Score 1) 224
Or for UK readers, Mitchell and Webb?
Comment Re:Well, that'll be helpful (Score 1) 377
By all means have an argument with the straw man you consider me to be. You'll always beat him. But did I say that? No, I didn't.
Comment Re:Well, that'll be helpful (Score 1) 377
Hehe, well I am British. Who knows, maybe I would have been. Nice try at an ad hominem attack though.
Comment Re:Well, that'll be helpful (Score 3, Insightful) 377
The only place where two wrongs make a right is boolean algebra. Revenge/retaliation just continues a cycle of aggression and destruction. I'm hardly happy about extraordinary rendition either. Whatever Anonymous' valid claims may be, this does nothing for their cause, except to give themselves hugely negative publicity. Way to go, generate sympathy for those you are against... sheesh.
Comment Well, that'll be helpful (Score 3, Insightful) 377
Another mature contribution from those grown-ups at Anonymous.
Atari Loses Copyright Suit Against RapidShare 198
dotarray writes "Online copyright lawsuits aren't all about music. Video game publisher Atari Europe recently became concerned that copies of its game Alone in the Dark were floating around one-click file-hosting service RapidShare, so it took the hosting company to court. While they won the initial case, the decision was overturned on appeal, finding that RapidShare is doing nothing wrong."
Comment Re:I'm sure there's no hyperbole in this article (Score 2, Insightful) 360
Let's review that argument, shall we?
Statement 1: The ONLY reasonable explanation is that they are cheating. Or there is an optimisation bug which screws performance.
Comment: I think you need to look at meaning of "ONLY" as you have used it, and the way the rest of the world uses is.
Statement 2: there is no evidence of an optimisation bug, therefore it must be cheating
Comment: One could plausibly argue that there is no actual evidence of cheating, therefore it's an optimisation bug. Since there is no internal evidence of any kind.
Yes, it COULD be cheating, but you can't argue that it must be so based on the information in the article. There are enough weasel phrases in your analysis to populate a weasel world theme park.
Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers 419
It probably comes as no surprise, but researchers have found that most of us would gladly put on a mask and fight do-gooders if given super powers. From the article: "But power also acts like strong cologne that affects both the wearer and those within smelling distance, Galinsky noted. The person gains an enhanced sense of their importance, and other people may regard them with greater respect as well as extend leniency toward their actions. That combination makes for an easy slide into corruption."
Comment Re:Wikipedia is useful... (Score 1) 315
{citation required}
Submission + - Saturn's Moon Spawning Moonlets (discovery.com)
astroengine writes: "For the first time ever, astronomers have witnessed the formation of celestial objects... in Saturn's rings. As the Saturnian moon Prometheus dashes through the gas giant's rings, it leaves large formations of ice behind, some as large as 12 kilometers in diameter. When the small moon makes another pass, it is not known whether these giant "snowballs" remain or get destroyed, but according to Linda Spilker, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "You can think of Saturn's rings as miniature versions of the disks where planets form. The same physical processes are occurring.""
Comment Re:More BP news... (Score 1) 560
Well, Mr. AC, I am F-ing O of it. I don't live in the USA. I'll fully accept that anti-BP sentiment is justified. Hey, if they were greedy corporate imbeciles, then sue them just as you would do greedy corporate imbeciles from the USA or anywhere else.
I'll not accept snide remarks made about BP just because it's British. That's irrelevant.
Comment Re:More BP news... (Score 4, Insightful) 560
Absolutely! The oil spill is bad enough, and there's no point pretending otherwise, but I find the anti-British sentiment that accompanies it unbelievably distasteful. As we say in football (soccer), play the ball, not the man! Deal with the issues, of course. It doesn't matter who owns BP; they and the company should be held to account without regard to their nationality.
