I thought it seemed pretty obvious that it was a bluff. The lecture was pretty well delivered and I liked it, but he was clearly nervous when he was talking about finding and punishing the cheaters where later he became clearly angry. Anyway, the bluff obviously did its job. Do you think people that would cheat on an exam would have the logical reasoning to know they couldn't be punished based on statistics due to the repercussions of punishing false positives?

I love Mac OS X, but let's be honest. 10.1 to 10.4 they were really just fixing performance from the extremely sluggish beta OS. Since then, I haven't seen much improvement personally, while continuing to buy new hardware. It's not a bad thing - they are adding new features without making the OS feel bogged down by them. Also, much improvement has been seen in the past 6 months on the gaming side of things as well.

No, *you* get off *my* lawn! Do you think SC2 is somehow different than the original in this regard? The game is not simple enough for it to even be possible to make a perfect chain of actions. There is human error and 90% of the player base doesn't care to read about genetic algorithms. In the case that an easy-to-copy build comes up like this 7 roach rush, Blizzard will patch it so roaches take longer to build or move a little slower. You're just getting older and gaming in general can lose its appeal. Games are still fun, don't doubt it ;)

Oh, thank you for explaining that to me. You must be one of the smart people. The whoosh sound is at such a frequency that smart people cannot hear it. ;)

Geez, you're awfully cynical for a 27 year old.

..due to The Event?

Maybe [...] Meego [...] more so than Maemo [...] IMO.

Listen to yourself, man!

I have my secretary print out the slashdot comments and leave them on my desk every hour, you insensitive clod!

The unattainable is unknown at ZomboCom!

Gmail detecting Firebug? I don't actually use Gmail regularly but it detected it for me just now. Big red block of text at the top of the window: "Firebug is known to make Gmail slow unless it is configured correctly. Fix this." Firebug slows things down a lot when there is DOM manipulation going on. I accept that as the price of such an awesome web dev tool, however.

I read it in another person's comment and it makes sense at least on some level. Giving out the key which was likely used to encrypt multiple videos is unpatriotic because the key and other videos are American secrets, but blowing the whistle on a particular instance where it was necessary is patriotic.

There is a difference between leaking an encrypted video + key and leaking an already decrypted video. Meaning that Wikileaks didn't actually do the decrypting.

I agree with you about Google and China, I just disagree with your stance on admiring change :)

I disagree. There's nothing wrong with admiring growth of character. I don't know if I agree Google's actions are truly based on character or just business, but that aside.. Maybe you were raised to be a perfect child and have never done wrong, just like I was, but you and I must acknowledge that not everyone was given that same opportunity. Sure, doing it right the first time is PREFERRED, but being able to look at yourself and analyze something that you accepted as TRUTH because that's how you were raised and seeing how it was WRONG and reacting to that realization by GROWING is certainly admirable in my book. It takes a strong person to do that. I hope that I used enough caps to convey my point adequately..