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Comment: Re:You lived below sea level (Score 1) 193

by Derg (#15929676) Attached to: Rewiring (and Unwiring) New Orleans
I live in Racine, WI. Beautiful little city, south of Milwaukee (born and raised, 20 years) and north of Chicago.
I live and work about 1/2 mile west of Lake Michigan and as such, have a meteorlogical buffer; little snow, 15 degrees cooler on average during the summer (Milwaukee baked a couple weeks back, we barely broke a sweat). Not to mention all the Wi-Fi a guy can handle, three of the best bakeries in the universe within a 5 minute bike ride, and living on the 3rd story of a building on top of a huge hill. No floods, tornados, earthquakes or anything.


If the great lakes flood, I'm screwed, but given my altitude I'd just hop in and swim away. ;P

Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? 696

Posted by ScuttleMonkey
from the telling-you-what-is-good dept.
An anonymous reader writes "That Wal-Mart smiley face is looking pretty evil now that Allen Varney has explained how much influence they have on virtually every modern game: 'Publisher sales reps inform Wal-Mart buyers of games in development; the games' subjects, titles, artwork and packaging are vetted and sometimes vetoed by Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart tells a top-end publisher it won't carry a certain game, the publisher kills that game. In short, every triple-A game sold at retail in North America is managed start to finish, top to bottom, with the publisher's gaze fixed squarely on Wal-Mart, and no other.'"

First Digital Simulation of an Entire Life Form 271

Posted by Zonk
from the who-doesn't-love-alife dept.
An anonymous reader writes "LiveScience is reporting on what appears to be the first digital simulation of an entire life form. Researchers created more than a million digital atoms to reverse engineer the satellite tobacco mosaic virus, a relatively simple organism. But is it really a life form? From the article: 'Viruses are tiny bundles of protein and genetic material that straddle the line between life and non-life. Many scientists prefer to call them "particles" because even though they contain RNA or DNA like other lifeforms, they can only replicate inside other living cells.'"

Judge Orders Deleted Emails Turned Over 600

Posted by Zonk
from the that-is-a-lot-of-mash-letters dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "In a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission, a subpoena sent to Google orders the turnover of the complete contents of a Gmail account, including deleted e-mail messages. The Judge has granted the subpoena and orders that all e-mail messages, including deleted messages, be divulged. Google's privacy policy says deleted e-mail messages 'may remain in our offline backup systems' in perpetuity. It does not guarantee that backups are ever deleted. So much for the Delete Forever button."

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. -- George Bernard Shaw