Comment: Re:Plenty of smartphones fit in your pocket. (Score 2) 187
Or just get bigger pockets.
Comment: Re:Nickel-and-diming (Score 1) 384
... and people bought that sparklie flying horse for $25 in droves. Blizzard wanted to make that mount "exclusive", and one way to do that is to have it priced very high. Well, so much for that plan. If they can sell it to 10% of the player base at $25 and results in near maximum total profit, I don't see why they should not do this. Not like this mount is a requirement to enjoy the game, nor the auction house in D3 be required for maximum amount of fun for you.
Simple economics, my friend.
Oh, you always have the option to vote with your wallet, too.
Two-Thirds of US Internet Users Lack Fast Broadband 402
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Soulskill
from the it's-comcastic dept.
from the it's-comcastic dept.
jbrodkin writes "Two-thirds of US Internet connections are slower than 5 Mbps, putting the United States well behind speed leaders like South Korea, where penetration of so-called 'high broadband connectivity' is double the rate experienced in the United States. The United States places ninth in the world in access to high broadband connectivity, at 34% of users, including 27% of connections reaching 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps and 7% reaching above 10 Mbps, Akamai says in its latest State of the Internet Report. That's an improvement since a year ago, when the United States was in 12th place with only 24% of users accessing fast connections. But the United States is still dwarfed by South Korea, where 72% of Internet connections are greater than 5 Mbps, and Japan, which is at 60%. The numbers illustrate the gap between expectation and reality for US broadband users, which has fueled the creation of a government initiative to improve access. The US government broadband initiative says 100 million Americans lack any broadband access, and that faster Internet access is needed in the medical industry, schools, energy grid and public safety networks."
Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets 210
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samzenpus
from the we're-going-to-need-a-bigger-sidewalk dept.
from the we're-going-to-need-a-bigger-sidewalk dept.
As if the flood waters weren't bad enough for the people of Queensland, it now appears that there are sharks swimming in the streets. Two bull sharks were spotted swimming past a McDonald’s in the city of Goodna, Butcher Steve Bateman saw another making its way past his shop on Williams street. Ipswich councillor for the Goodna region Paul Tully said: "It would have swam several kilometres in from the river, across Evan Marginson Park and the motorway. It’s definitely a first for Goodna, to have a shark in the main street."
Comment: Re:Mobile Apps (Score 1) 185
One way to find out is to do a promiscuous tcpdump of your local network traffic while using that app - if you can read personally identifiable items in plain text, you are simply not safe.
Comment: Re:Seconded. (Score 2, Informative) 525
Not to mention lack of well insulated houses. Any heating won't do you any good (unless you live in apartments, but that too can vary). With the high energy costs here it's more economical to wear coats if it gets that cold.
Then again, Canadian winters have trained me well, I laugh at people who complain about the cold here.
Comment: Will not work and easy to abuse (Score 4, Insightful) 340
All someone interested in breaking this system at a basic level needs to do is to gain access to some popular server to put some code (plain HTML img tags, or javascript if site is vulnerable) that will automatically do searches based on those "monitored" search terms when a user-agent accesses it. This will incriminate all innocent parties that browse those "infected" pages (as if something like is bad), which naturally flood the monitoring tools with garbage.
Comment: Re:Kind of like... (Score 1) 237
I think a number of slashdotters skip the summary also and go straight into the comments.
Comment: Re:Sure the MPAA wasn't worried about piracy? (Score 1) 344
Why would you need to place cameras some specific distance apart to record what is essentially two constant stream of frames?
It's relatively trivial to replay the capture, all that is required are two projectors with a polarizing filter over each lenses turned in a way that so that it would work with the users' polarized glasses. Then synchronize the two streams temporally and spatially onto the screen (and play it out of the correct projector), and enjoy your 3D movie.
Comment: Re:Languages not for everyone (Score 1) 752
Just call yourself a programmer with a fluent understanding of proper programming methodologies (which is knowing how to separate out business/presentation logic, writing unit tests, etc.) The language you work with should be secondary to that.