Comment Well... (Score 4, Insightful) 126
You get what you pay for. Who would trust this craptastic bargain basement shit anyway? When something is being sold for a much lower price then competing products, there is a reason for it.
Comment Re:Is it true that Chinese girl pass all drug test (Score 1) 559
Are you kidding? The Olympics is a hugely political event. It's not about the medals, it's about beating the U.S. and the West to prove that their way of doing things is better. Just like the U.S.S.R. back in it's day.
They played games in the 2008 Gymnastics competition with their 14^H^H16 year old Gymnasts, so I don't doubt for a second they're playing games now.
Comment Re:Is it true that Chinese girl pass all drug test (Score 4, Insightful) 559
No, but to ignore the fishy bullshit they've pulled in the past is retarded, too. If you believe they're on the up and up, that's fine, but forgive us for a little incredulity when they've demonstrated that they'll play games like this before.
Comment Re:Is it true that Chinese girl pass all drug test (Score 1) 559
Just like their star gymnast in 2008, He Kexin was 16 when she competed?
Sorry, but I didn't buy it then, nor do I buy it now.
Comment Re:Is it true that Chinese girl pass all drug test (Score 5, Funny) 559
Yeah, but believe me, if a spectator goes to do it everyone gets all bitchy about it. Where's the fairness in that?
Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 409
If you take that approach, then you can prevent the kind of stupid laws that want to turn universities into more "business-like" entities, if anything they are TOO MUCH like private enterprize already, they OUGHT to operate as a public service. Nobody ever asks if a neighbourhood playground makes MONEY - we just build them because it's better to live in a world with them than a world without them. That is what science should be. A neighbourhood playground.
Good analogy. I like the cut of your jib, sir.
Comment Re:FUCK THE FCC!! (Score 1) 218
Dude, what are you talking about? We're all fucking old.
Comment Re:Bah. (Score 5, Funny) 304
Does that mean Apple owes its existence to Microsoft?
I just felt a great disturbance in the Apple fandom, as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Submission + - Square Enix Confirms Final Fantasy 3 Coming to Ouya Console
AlistairCharlton writes: "Game publisher Square Enix has announced that the classic role-playing game Final Fantasy 3 will be released on the Android-based Ouya games console when it launches next year."
Submission + - Respected US Swim Coach John Leonard Suggest China Using Genetic Manipulation (dailymail.co.uk) 4
doston writes: Top US swimming coach John Leonard, the executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, has branded Ye's performance as "unbelievable" and "disturbing" and her speed over the final 50-metres as "flat out impossible".
Leonard told The Guardian that the race brings back memories of Irish swimmer Michelle Smith's four medal win at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996; she was later given a four year ban after failing a drug test.
He added that because she is from China — which has been dogged by swimmers testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in recent years — adds even more suspicion.
He has even suggested that the Chinese could be using genetic manipulation to enhance performances.
Leonard told The Guardian that the race brings back memories of Irish swimmer Michelle Smith's four medal win at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996; she was later given a four year ban after failing a drug test.
He added that because she is from China — which has been dogged by swimmers testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in recent years — adds even more suspicion.
He has even suggested that the Chinese could be using genetic manipulation to enhance performances.
Submission + - Number of 'Distracted Walking' Injuries Quadruples
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The LA Times reports that the number of people who have landed in US emergency rooms thanks to injuries incurred while they were walking and texting, tweeting, playing video games, talking on the phone, or listening to music on headphones, has more than quadrupled in the past seven years with 1,152 people treated in 2011 for distracted walking, a number that is likely a gross underestimate since many doctors or nurses may not have asked whether the patient was using a mobile device at the time of the accident. "We are where we were with cellphone use in cars 10 years or so ago. We knew it was a problem, but we didn't have the data," says Jonathan Atkins, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association. Philadelphia officials are drafting a safety campaign that will be aimed in part at pedestrians who are looking at their devices instead of where they're going. "One of the messages will certainly be 'pick your head up' — I want to say 'nitwit,' but I probably shouldn't call them names," says Rina Cutler, deputy mayor for transportation and public utilities. Psychological studies that show most people can't focus on two things at once. Rather, their attention shifts rapidly back and forth between tasks, and performance suffers. But like a lot of drivers who use cellphones behind the wheel, pedestrians often think they're in control and that it's all the other fools on their phones who aren't watching what they're doing. "People really need to be aware that they are impacting their safety by texting or talking on the cellphone" while walking, says Eric Lamberg, author of a study of young people walking and using their cell phones. "I think the risk is there.""
Comment Re:Betteridge's Law of Headlines (Score 1) 181
It's time to start trolling the trollers.
If I wanted that I'd just go to 4chan.
Comment Re:under the DMCA any antivirus software can get s (Score 2) 473
The court stated that Zeidenberg could have rejected the terms of the contract and returned the software.
Good luck finding any software retailer that will allow you to return opened software, of course. Is the manufacturer even legally required to compensate the purchaser in a case such as that? Seems like the consumer is screwed either way...
Comment Re:So what's the purpose of this story again? (Score 1) 172
Dude's broke. He'll be living off his salary as an ESPN analyst.
Clearly our definitions of "broke" are vastly dissimilar.
Let me know when he's working at fucking Walmart shagging carts for $8 bucks an hour wondering how he's going to pay for health insurance and food at the same time.
Comment Re:Location, Location, Location. (Score 2) 170
You jest, but I've heard people say shit just like that. It's a "status symbol", remember?
