Comment Louise Mensch (Score 4, Informative) 99
For an example of her (lack of) grasp of politics, or indeed common sense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvAkhW-XNI
Comment 71, 57, 43 percent? (Score 1) 380
So, they asked 7 people?
Comment Re:Praying for (Score 1) 228
Not me. I enjoyed the first three books, slogged through the next five in the hope the pace would pick up, and gave up halfway through Winter's Heart. At that point, I gave up caring about how the bloody things ends
Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law 516
Ron2K writes in with a story about a Red Cross committee that is debating if people playing war video games should be subject to the same humanitarian laws as people in a real war. Seriously. "With 62 billion kills in Call of Duty: Black Ops alone, a committee of the Red Cross is debating whether the International Humanitarian Law is applicable to online gamers, and if they are violating it. From the committee's site: 'While the Movement works vigorously to promote international humanitarian law worldwide, there is also an audience of approximately 600 million gamers who may be virtually violating International Humanitarian Law. Exactly how video games influence individuals is a hotly debated topic, but for the first time, Movement partners discussed our role and responsibility to take action against violations of this law in video games.' While it's questionable if gamers themselves can be prosecuted for not obeying the Geneva convention, the Red Cross committee's actions seem to be aimed more at game developers — as first person shooters become more realistic, do game developers have an obligation to include humanitarian elements?"
Comment Re:Karma's a bitch, Sony. (Score 1) 303
Nah.
IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule 406
judgecorp writes "Even though we are running out of IPv4 addresses, IPv6 traffic is still not taking off. In fact it is less than one percent and falling, according to a report from Arbor Networks."
Comment Re:Screenshot/Mockups (Score 1) 366
But will Firefox stay relevant? Chrome is coming up fast and Mozilla seems to be stagnating.
Until Chrome supports the use of a master password (which, since the devs won't even admit is a serious problem, seems unlikely), Firefox will continue to be my default browser. Pity, since Chrome has a lot going for it otherwise.
Comment Re:Here's a few (Score 1) 585
When checking out at any store, do NOT ignore the cashier while talking on the phone. The rest of us would like to check out as well.
Agreed - that's one of the rudest, most pig-ignorant kinds of behaviour I've witnessed. It is treatable, however, with this.
Comment Any master password support yet? (Score 2, Insightful) 197
This one's a show-stopper for me (and, I suspect, others). Chrome offers to save your passwords but gives absolutely no protection on the saved password database. The discussion threads I've seen about this suggest that the Chrome devs don't even understand why this is such a serious problem. Chrome has a lot to like, but I'll be sticking to Firefox for now.
Comment Re:Build-in function library (Score 1) 831
There is basically zero quality control, anyone can put any module up they want and use any namespace. They don't have to offer ANY documentation
Sure, but since you can check the namespace and browse the docs before you choose to install the module, is that such a problem? I admit the quality control is limited, but there is a review facility which is reasonably well-used -see http://cpanratings.perl.org/.
if they go AWOL and stop maintaining the module, it just stays there, festering
Just like any other open-source project then.
Comment Re:What about cellphones? (Score 1) 438
If you can't live 2 hours without worrying about your children, maybe your children would be better off with parents less paranoiac than you.
Sorry, but that's nonsense.
The only chance my wife & I have these days to go to the cinema is when our son is in daycare. If anything was happen to him while there, they need to call us. If we're not reachable, they could call social services, and how would that look? So we need to be contactable while our son's there.
Having said that, my phone's always on silent when in the cinema, and I would leave the auditorium to take the call should I happen to receive one. That's just common courtesy - something most cinema-goers, parents or not, don't seem to have these days.
Comment Re:Their site... (Score 1) 454
Likewise, with one Exception (Glenn Beck), I've never read a negative review on a book's dust jacket. Authors and publishers are generally more savvy than that, and they are certainly under no obligation to put someone's scatrhing review of their book / movie / car / NAS / whatever on the site.
Actually I remember one other - The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Quick search for "wasp factory negative reviews" got this:
http://cloggie.org/books/wasp-factory.html
Those familiar with Banks's work will understand the statement he was making by insisting that extremely negative reviews also appeared on this book.
Comment Re:Rule of thumb with the Daily Mail (Score 1) 366
If the Daily Mail headline is "Could X do/cause/be Y?", the answer is almost certainly "No".
Unless X = "dirty foreign immigrants" and Y = "coming over here stealing our jobs".
Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results 582
bdcny7927 writes "Just as Bing is gaining popularity, some disturbingly pro-Microsoft and anti-Apple search results are rearing their ugly heads. Case in point: a search on Bing for the phrase, 'Why is Windows so expensive?' returned this as the top link: 'Why are Macs so expensive.' That's right. You're not hallucinating."
Comment Re:Everything works for me (Score 1) 554
Strange, my Ubuntu latop with an Intel 945GM graphics card drives its internal LVDS plus an external LCD monitor just fine. System -> Preferences -> Display, drag the monitor icons to the arrangement I want, press Apply. Done.
Are you trolling, or are you just talking about a Linux distro more than a couple of years old?
