Amani576 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 341

by Amani576 on Thursday December 20, 2007 @02:30AM (#21761810) Attached to: Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released

In this case... I can actually see 10 years of development being beneficial to the developers... because well... people have been waiting so long and nearly everyone who's ever seriously played PC games knows about how long this game has taken to come out... some people will buy it for the "HOLY SHIT" factor, some people will buy it because they are legitimately happy that it's out, and some people will buy it because, well, it's Duke Nukem, one of the original gaming badasses and they're happy to see him return. Yes, there will be people who won't buy it because "It'll bring forth the apocalypse" or some bullshit like that, or because they think it'll just be some mediocre shooter.
To me... it doesn't really matter. I don't care if 3D Realms has taken 10, maybe 15 years to release the game when it finally comes out. I'll buy it because I'm proud they atleast did it, regardless of missed dealines and such and so forth. It's a game, people... and as many jokes as there are about it... why not buy it so you can revel in the fact that you're playing an actual joke, and something nearly indelibly tied to geek/nerd culture.
Whatever... that's just what I think.
GR

Giant Dinosaur Bird Discovered 166

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 15, 2007 @09:35PM from the einstein-looks-scared-of-the-big-birdy dept.

Cyclist110 writes "The BBC has the story of the discovery, in Inner Mongolia, of a Dinosaur bird twice the size of a man and weighing in at over 3000 lbs. From the article: 'Chinese researchers uncovered the fossilised remains of the flightless giant in the Erlian basin in Inner Mongolia. The researchers had originally thought they had found the bones of a tyrannosaur — the group of dinosaurs to which T. rex belongs — due to their large size.'"

Privacy Group Gives Google Lowest Possible Grade 260

Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 10, 2007 @05:14PM from the eff-triple-minus dept.

The Washington Post is reporting on a finding by London-based group Privacy International. In a new report, they find that Google has some of the worst privacy-protection practices anywhere on the web, giving them the lowest possible grade. "While a number of other Internet companies have troubling policies, none comes as close to Google to 'achieving status as an endemic threat to privacy,' Privacy International said in an explanation of its findings. In a statement from one of its lawyers, Google said it aggressively protects its users' privacy and stands behind its track record. In its most conspicuous defense of user privacy, Google last year successfully fought a U.S. Justice Department subpoena demanding to review millions of search requests."

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