Comment: Get a dog (Score 5, Insightful) 480
You need something to make you get out of the house and walk 20 minutes at least twice a day. Get a little dog. I've 2 Bichon Frieze and without them I would need surgery to get off my computer chair.
Cuddly Pillow Helps You Snore Less-> 1
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Random2 writes "Last week, Wasaeda University unveiled a new type of pillow at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo. Unlike conventional pillows, the cuddly bear is designed to gently stroke the face of a sleeping person as they snore, encouraging them to roll on their side; where they are less likely to snore.
Primarily intended to roommates and spouses who want to enjoy a night without sleep, the bear hasn't quite made it to market yet.
Is another invasion of cuteness from Japan imminent, or would the device suffer too much abuse from thrashing sleepers?"
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Primarily intended to roommates and spouses who want to enjoy a night without sleep, the bear hasn't quite made it to market yet.
Is another invasion of cuteness from Japan imminent, or would the device suffer too much abuse from thrashing sleepers?"
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Russia's MiG Aircraft Company Develops 3D Flight S->
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Zothecula writes "Russian aircraft company MiG is best known for its fighter planes which have been used by the USSR, China, North Korea and North Vietnam since the beginning of WWII. These days, the former Government-owned RAC MiG is a publicly traded entity and competes on the open market with its technologies, having more than 1600 of its MiG-29 fighters in operation in 25 countries. Now MiG is claiming a major first in military aviation with the launch of a 3D flight simulator at the Dubai Air Show, providing volumetric visualization of beyond-the-cockpit space for trainee top guns. The simulator comes complete with the MiG-29’s cockpit and actual control systems."
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Tor enabled Browser for the iPad on the AppStore ->
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An anonymous reader writes "While there has been a port of Tor for jailbroken iOS devices for a long time, there was no way to use it if you did not want to loose your warranty. Now it looks like Apple has approved a Webbrowser for the iPad called "Covert Browser" which includes a Tor client. If you look at the first screenshot on the authors page it looks like you can even select the Exitnode at wish. According to App Shopper it already hit place 64 in the iPad/Utilites category."
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Trion has spyware in Rift->
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Captain Kirk writes "Trion has a vigorous anti-cheat policy which we all applaud. But its a shock that they are scanning all processes, including email and IM. Blizzard used do this and stopped due to privacy concerns. Here's hoping Trion does the same and restricts itself to scanning its own game processes, not everything it can see on the client computer!"
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Comment: Bad. (Score 1) 102
Alzheimers can be 20 years in your body before it causes problems. There is no effective treatment. Forcing people to take this test early would simply mean that otherwise healthy people have 20 years of their lives ruined waiting for Alzheimers before the disease itself starts to affect them.
Really its like you didn't read the article
Comment: There is a cure (Score 1) 246
Osama bin Ladin used have that problem but its been solved.
Comment: $5 - that Microsoft, Apple and Oracle beaten (Score 1, Troll) 132
Seriously, what kind of developer would even notice a $5 charge? Even modestly successful apps make over $500 per day.
Comment: UO wasn't that much fun really (Score 4, Insightful) 480
A lot of of the people who rave about pre-Tramell UO are people who fit the "Multi-player appeal to the Killer" label Bartle uses.
Sadly they needed 1000s of "Multi-player appeal to the Socializer" players to feed on. Beign griefed is not fun for such a person so UO failed to grow. No other game that allows griefign will be fun so you won't see them get developed or launched.
WoW allows griefing on PVP realms - you have to opt in. Most of those realms are empty for the same reason.
Comment: Confuses cause and effect (Score 1, Informative) 661
Swine flu is a serious thread to people who are already chronically ill. If you are seriously ill, you are likely bed ridden and pumped with cortizone, steroids and other drugs. And as a result, of course you have a poor body mass index. Its a miracle you are even alive. Swine flu comes along and is the final straw, your body can't take another illness.