Comment Hold Credit card companies responsible (Score 1) 169
Take away their ability to use credit cards - problem goes away. Am I the only one who sees this?
Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 467
I concur, but the fact is that American lawyers are arguing this which means that they are not able to do anything about it AFAIK. In turn if the lawyers are arguing about this it takes them away from other other pursuits, such as suing everybody and their neighbor. I see this as a bit of a circle jerk that will simply keep some lawyers busy for a while which in turn will help society as a whole. The more clueless lawyers that are discussing quantum physics the better in my opinion.
Duke Nukem 3D Ported To Nokia N900 95
andylim writes "It looks as if Duke Nukem isn't completely 'nuked' after all. Someone has ported the 90s classic on to a Nokia N900. As you'll see in the video, you control Duke using the Qwerty keypad and shoot using the touchscreen. I'm wondering how long it will take for this to get on other mobile platforms."
In other Duke news, reader Jupix points out that 3D Realms' CEO Scott Miller recently said, "There are numerous other Duke games in various stages of development, several due out this year. We are definitely looking to bring Duke into casual gaming spaces, plus there are other major Duke games in production."
Music By Natural Selection 164
maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."
Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398
plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."
Comment Re:My god. (Score 5, Funny) 806
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Hand Written Clock 86
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Comment Re:Easier solution - *.bank.se (Score 1) 175
Re: sig - I wonder how many people actually know the Genesis reference? - Gonna have to go listen to the song now.
Comment Re:We allowed them in (Score 2, Funny) 226
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Comment I will say it again (Score 1) 228
The only real solution to spam is to get to the source of the income. The way to stop spam is to have the credit card companies hunt them down and stop the payments. The way in which spammers are paid is through credit cards, so if they cannot use credit cards the business plan fails. Unfortunately the credit card companies also get income from spam.
Comment Re:Surprising (Score 1) 243
OK, I'm perplexed now. The fix would be to eradicate all of the laws and rebuild from the start. This has been done throughout history. The difference now is that the general population is now able to look up information and respond on a moments notice without thinking. Historically a handful of indiviuals have got together and tried their best to come out a solution. Now it would be almost impossible to do this without a huge amount of peoples' input, therefore "noise". ...... we are too far gone. ....gonna go build a bunker in the middle of the woods
Academics To Predict Next Twitter and Its Pitfalls 150
An anonymous reader writes "University researchers in the UK have put together a team tasked with predicting the next big thing in terms of communication technologies, in a bid to tackle ethical pitfalls before they become a problem. This is in the wake of the rise of social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, which has led to a dramatic increase in the amount of personal information available online."
Unzipping Nanotubes Makes Superfast Electronics 64
Al writes "Two research groups have found a way to unzip carbon nanotubes to create nanoribbons of graphene — a material that has shown great promise for use as nanoscale transistors, but which has proven difficult to manufacture previously. A team led by James Tour, a professor of chemistry and computer science at Rice University, and another led by Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford University, both figured out ways to slice carbon nanotubes open to create the nanoribbons. The Stanford team was funded by Intel, and the Rice group is in talks with several companies about commercializing their approach."
Comment Obvous plan to rid world of spam (Score 2, Insightful) 522
We all bloody well know how to get rid of spam but nobody ever talks about the real culprits. The credit card companies. The ones who facilitate the way for spammers to make money. Unfortunately the CC companies make money so they don't care, but let's face it, if the CC companies decided to get rid of spam and lose the income, it could be wiped out in a week. All they would have to do is deny any payments to somebody suspected of spam - problem solved - I never hear anybody bitch about the root of the problem which is the ability to recieve payments.
Comment All servers!!!!! (Score 3, Insightful) 629
Do the Americans now live in a police state that is controlled by the RIAA.
This may sound alarmist but when innocent companies are hurt by the use of FBI force - how far away is it?
