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Comment Re:Gawker? Scadenfreude Central Hoist on own Petar (Score 1) 236

by GarryFre (#34569488) Attached to: Learning From Gawker's Failure
Totally agree, they get hacked and suddenly sites I did not think had anything to do with gawker media or the sites mentioned in the article, are demanding that I change my passwords. I chose my passwords because they meant something to me I could remember so I would not have to consult the password TOME I would require so I an log into some stupid site I forgot the password for. Many dozens of times I find I am not able to log into sites because of so called incorrect log in info, and I go consult the stupid database only to find that my info is correct, and they are wrong. In view of this, I think gawker media has been hacked probably a number of times, but this is either the first time they noticed, or the first time someone said something about it so the public finds out. I'm so pissed at all this that I almost wish I had a gawker account so I could ask for it to be deleted!

Comment Hey Pumkin, Want to play hide and seek the bomb? (Score 1) 1135

by GarryFre (#34257448) Attached to: TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old
Honey, be sure not to say anything about the little bomby womby! Maybe TSA should start to get a grip on reasonableness instead of a grope on some poor child. One cannot eliminate all risk. I might get run over by some mad lunatic too, but that doesn't mean the police should pat down everyone before they get into a car. There is a line called ridiculousness which needs to be acknowledged. Teach a kid not to talk to strangers, and then expect them to not be frightened when some stranger pats them down. Or you have to explain to the kid that this is happening because the world is full of evil and not the bright, wonderful adventurous place they think it is and darken their world? There's got to be a better way!
Security

TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old 1135

Posted by samzenpus from the security-theater dept.
3-year-old Mandy Simon started crying when her teddy bear had to go through the X-ray machine at airport security in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was so upset that she refused to go calmly through the metal detector, setting it off twice. Agents then informed her parents that she "must be hand-searched." The subsequent TSA employee pat down of the screaming child was captured by her father, who happens to be a reporter, on his cell phone. The video have left some questioning why better procedures for children aren't in place. I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.

Submission + - A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory (io9.com) 1

Submitted by GarryFre
GarryFre writes: Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.

Submission + - General and Special Relativity duke it Out. (physicscentral.com)

Submitted by GarryFre
GarryFre writes: As it turns out, relativity is a pretty tricky theory to try and wrap around your finger. Who would have guessed? If you’ve been thinking about our astronaut twins from yesterday, then I imagine you’ve been doing a lot of head-scratching. Does general relativity cause Scott Kelly to age faster in space, or does special relativity and a slower-ticking clock take the cake?

Buckle your seatbelt, because it’s time for the answer, and it’s a bumpy ride.
Games

Submission + - President of Blizzard pisses off Korean minister (teamliquid.net)

Submitted by GarryFre
GarryFre writes: From Teamliquid comes this gem of a story of soured negotiations between Blizzard, and the Korean government originally deleted but recovered through some persistent forensic searching the entire originally deleted post. Interesting the things that happen when a company gets so big it can contend with large governments.

Someone posted a snippet of a blog post on PGR21.com, of a guy who posted a first person account of a meeting between Mike Morhaime and the Department of Culture's vice Minister. Due to its sensitive nature, the blog post was quickly deleted by the writer. However, small portions were recoverable by using search engines, and me being a curious little bugger google searched every line and used the preview to recover the entire post 8)
Medicine

Submission + - The New Children's Health Plan is Videogames

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Remember how Catbert once declared 'The new company health plan is Google'? Well, for some kids, the new health plan may be videogames. While health insurer Humana has opted out of 'child-only' health insurance coverage to skirt around requirements of President Obama's health reform, uninsurable children with pre-existing conditions are still presumably welcome to use Trainer, the Humana-bankrolled-and-branded videogame that took home $20,000 last month as the Grand Prize winner in First Lady Michelle Obama's Apps for Healthy Kids Competition. Over at the USDA site, Humana is praised for having 'generously provided a gift to fund the development of the [Trainer] game..that will help children and their families live healthier, happier lives. No child is alone on the road to better health.'
The Internet

W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet 205

Posted by CmdrTaco from the stop-dragging-yer-feet dept.
GMGruman writes "InfoWorld's Paul Krill reports that the W3C, the standards body behind the Web standards, is urging Web developers not to use the draft HTML5 standards on their websites. This flies in the face of HTML5 support and encouragement, especially for mobile devices, by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others. The W3C says developers should avoid the draft HTML5 spec (the final version is not due for several years) because of interoperability issues across browsers."

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