Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 143
Exposing your children to religious ideas, when they're otherwise being raised secularly, won't make them want to believe.
Submission + - Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans - She Isnt Real (singularityhub.com)
kkleiner writes: "She was the newest member of the very popular all-girl Japanese idol group AKB 48. Upon seeing the new face appear on a candy commercial, the band’s faithful took to the message boards: Who is Aimi Eguchi? This past Sunday, Ezaki Glico, the candy company which aired the commercial, confirmed what many of AKB 48’s fans had come to suspect: Aimi Eguchi wasn’t real. The new group member, it turns out, was a computer-generated composite of the real band members."
Submission + - More Users Are Shunning Facebook
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Blake Snow writes that evidence suggests that a small but increasing number of users — at least in North America, where Facebook use is especially saturated — may be shunning the site with Facebook losing nearly 6 million users, falling from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million at the end of the month, the first time the US has lost users in the past year. Some users complain they're spending so much time on Facebook that they're short-changing the rest of their lives. "I figured out that I wouldn't look back as an old man and wish I had spent more time on Facebook," says David Cole, an IT manager from Boston, adding that he believes the popular social-networking site is a useful tool, but not a replacement for what he calls "realbook" experiences. Kip Krieger, a college student from Virginia, says Facebook has become predictable. "It's really gotten to a point where I know pretty much what my friends are going to post. They usually just write the same thing over and over again, and I am getting sick of that." Still there are a lot more satisfied customers of Facebook than disgruntled ones, so are Facebook shunners a tiny minority or part of a growing trend? "Having that connection with others is a very powerful thing," says Toby Bushman who felt so much pressure that she decided to rejoin Facebook, and is glad she did. "It makes me feel like I'm a part of something bigger and more grand than just my life as a stay-at-home mother.""
Comment Re:Better use inert gas (Score 1) 669
Duh, we'll digitize them.
Submission + - The End of Cheap Labor in China (time.com) 3
hackingbear writes: The Time magazine reports, in what is supposed to be a land of unlimited cheap labor — a nation of 1.3 billion people, whose extraordinary 20-year economic rise has been built first and foremost on the backs of low-priced workers — the game has changed. In the past decade, real wages for manufacturing workers in China have grown nearly 12% per year. The hourly cost advantage, while still significant [comparing to the West], is shrinking rapidly. The changing economics of Made in China will benefit both the rich and poor world. Countries like Cambodia, Laos, India and Vietnam are picking up some of the cheapest labor manufacturing left by the Chinese. And there is already evidence of at least the beginning of a shift in manufacturing operations returning to the U.S. Perhaps we will soon stop picking at "Made in China" but instead complaining "Made in Vietnam/Cambodia", while serving the flood of Chinese tourists stocking up brand-name merchandises on US tours and Chinese students paying high tuitions to our cash-strapped universities.
Submission + - LulSec helping out for a change (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Sega Corp joins the ranks of video game companies to ne hacked in recent time with one small twist, it seems LulSecz was not behind this one. They reached to Sega's official twitter account and offered to "destroy the hackers that attacked" them https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/81765889329991680
Comment I guess you could say... (Score 1) 569
Winter is coming.
Submission + - Notch Announces Minecraft 'Adventure Update' (tumblr.com)
jjp9999 writes: "Notch announced that Minecraft 1.7 will include the long awaited “Adventure Update.” In an E3 roundup on his blog, Notch wrote “The idea with this update is to flesh out the game a bit, making it reward exploration and combat more.” Although he added, “We’re keeping the details secret so people can get surprises,” Notch wrote back on July 7, 2010, that Adventure Mode would be one of the three game modes in Minecraft (the other two being Survival and Creative), and would include a health bar and an inventory, but would remove the player’s ability to place or destroy blocks. He said the value of this is that “people can design ‘challenge maps’ in creative or survival mode, then share them with people so that they can try to beat them in Adventure mode.” Interestingly, Notch also announced the release of the Minecraft source code to a small group of mod developers, in his latest blog post."
Submission + - Google tags C++ as the best performing language
An anonymous reader writes: Global search engine giant Google has conducted a benchmark of four programming languages, Java, Scala, C++ and Go, where C++ has emerged victorious.
Submission + - Duke Nukem Forever Leaked to BitTorrent (torrentfreak.com)
jjp9999 writes: "After 14 years in development, Duke Nukem Forever was leaked to BitTorrent just a week before its official June 14 release. Notably, the same thing happened to Half Life 2 before its release and it didn't noticeably affect sales, but by giving gamers an early taste of whether the game lives up to the hype, the leak could make or break the game."
Comment Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 (Score 1) 615
What about hash collissions? If you have a 37-character password, but there exists a 5-character string with the same hash, you're screwed.
Comment Re:Most polluting laptop ever! (Score 1) 120
Sounds like a great idea!
The only problem is that laptop manufacturers employ an infinite diversity of batteries and infinite variations of power connectors.
Comment Re:Most polluting laptop ever! (Score 1) 120
Yes, laptops should standardize on some sort of power connector, and they should sell detachable solar panels, that you can move to your new laptop when you upgrade after some years.
But, a solar-powered laptop will have a big advantage: you'll be able to charge it in places where you don't have access to electricity. This of course does not negate the points in the previous paragraph.
Comment Note to those cops: (Score 2) 983
Yes, stomping the phone will easily destroy the recording, which is stored on a very fragile medium. The act of giving the broken phone back, accompanied by some choice threats, really complements the boot-stomping nicely! There is absolutely no need to do difficult technical stuff in order to erase the recording, or to "confiscate" the phone. Breaking the screen of the phone is all it takes. Giving it back adds insult to injury so nicely! You deserve a sprinkle-encrusted donut for this brave and ironic act! Don't listen to those trolls talking about memory cards and other stuff, they're just trying to make you waste your precious time.
