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Comment Re:Where is the fun? (Score 1) 854

by EsabaCZ (#34030504) Attached to: Are Games Getting Easier?
I can see you point, and I also get pretty peeved when I get mocked by 14 yr olds that haven't hit puberty yet. However, I have found that just turning off all team chat makes a bit more enjoyable. When I first started playing COD:World at War (after being pretty bad ass back in the day at half-life Death match) and had my ass handed to me over and over at first just about made me want to rage quit. However, i toughed it out and figured out how to stay alive a little longer. Also, in the beginning (after being mocked a few times) i turned off all voice chat. Sure I couldn't talk to any what, but I didn't really fucking care. I couldn't hear them be jerks, so it didn't really bother me. So, step up turn off voice chat, I don't know about you, but I could fucking care less to "socialize" with 14 hr olds still living at home. Also, if you do a bit of looking sometimes you can find servers that will flat out ban people of shit talking and being a jerk. For COD: World at war, there use to be a guild out there MOF or house of something, can't relay remember, but they wouldn't stand for any of the shit talking that 14 yrs try to do and would flat out ban them after one warning. True, these types of servers are still few and far between , and I'm not sure if they ever existing on the console, but do a bit of poking around and you should be able to find one. Basically, my two cents, turn off voice chat and simple ignore the young fucks who want to be dick heads. I mean, after working all day, do you really fucking care about being able to talk with someone else? IMO, voice chat is what makes MP games irritating
The Almighty Buck

Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud 397

Posted by kdawson from the imagine-our-surprise dept.
Vrst1013 notes a Business Week account of a government report examining fraud in the H-1B program. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services just released a report to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee examining issues with fraud and technical violations within this program. Based on a sample size of 246 H-1B petitions, 13.4 percent showed fraud and 7.3 percent showed technical violations, for an overall violation rate of 20.7 percent. There was slso evidence of payment below the prevailing wage, offers of non-existent jobs, and fraudulent documentation. "'The report makes it clear that the H-1B program is rife with abuse and misuse,' says Ron Hira, [a professor] at the Rochester Institute of Technology ... However, both Presidential candidates, Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, have said they support expanding the program."
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Do Nerds Have Better Sperm? 178

Posted by samzenpus from the better-how dept.
mcgrew writes "The question of how we loveless nerds managed to not be bred out of the species genome may have been answered. According to New Scientist, we have better sperm. According to the article, men who scored high on a battery of intelligence tests boasted high counts of healthy sperm, while low scorers tended to have fewer and more sickly little guys. ... Though the connections between brains and sperm were 'not awesome, they're there and highly significant.' All things held equal, good sperm and good brains go together." Don't start gloating yet. Another recent study found that the gene that makes you good at Halo also makes you a premature ejaculator. A study of 200 Dutch men found that those with a premature ejaculation problem all had a version of a gene that controls the release of serotonin. These men seem to "have very quick reflexes. They may be excellent at playing tennis or computer games." Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.

Comment I don't give a damn (Score 1) 1730

by EsabaCZ (#22337894) Attached to: Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia
I don't give damn if it's insensitive to Muslims. The last time I checked, no body gives a damn about being insensitive to anyone much less offending any other religious group besides Muslims, why should they get special treatment because they act like childern and uncivilized heathens when they get "offended?"
  If you don't like something printed or said: turn the channel, visit another site, stop buying that particular paper, but don't try to hinder OUR right to free speech!

And if this "offends" you, stop reading slashdot and log-off the internet immediately. Life is about being offended, so if you can't get used that that notion you just need to seal off the rest of the world and never emerge from your "safe bubble." If none one is being offended, then we are all just sheep in the cosmic continuum.

Feed World-crushing Xbox news turns out to be new Pac-Man mazes -- game on (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Gaming

Just a quick check-in on that supposedly Earth-shattering Xbox news that was due today: turns out that Bandai and Pac-Man designer Toru Iwatani debuted Pac-Man Championship Edition for Xbox Live Marketplace in New York, with new game types and an undisclosed number of new mazes -- the first in 26 years. (Humorous: the event was presented by... wait for it... Quiznos.) We're not gonna harsh on Pac-Man or anything, we love the little bugger and know damn well that for some this will actually "go down in video game history" as claimed. But our minds remain thoroughly unblown, and so we point you to Joystiq for the complete story.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Feed CompUSA sells an empty Canon A630 box for $269, won't issue refund (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Digital Cameras

CompUSA has been trying to turn itself around for a while now -- it closed a ton of stores earlier this year and has generally been pretty aggressive in trying to cut costs. No matter how bad things get, though, sometimes a company's gotta bite the bullet and do the right thing by its customers, and it looks like the $269 CompUSA is holding back from Texas consultant Terry Heaton might end up costing it a lot more than it anticipated. Seems as though Terry purchased what he thought was a Canon A630 from one of the stores CompUSA was closing back in March, but when his step-daughter opened the box a few weeks ago, it was empty. Assuming he'd get a refund, Terry drove to the nearest CompUSA, where he was told that all liquidation sales were handled by a third party and not CompUSA, and that he would have to contact CompUSA's attorneys to secure a refund. Undaunted, Terry then wrote a letter to CompUSA's CEO, whose "Executive Care" assistant replied and said that Terry should have been more careful to inspect the box when he purchased the camera, and that the prominent ALL SALES ARE FINAL signs around the store and on the receipt weren't just for show. That's pretty callous, if you ask us -- while we're always extra-careful when we buy clearance items, we can't imagine CompUSA (or its liquidators) knowingly marked an empty box with a $269 price tag, and we can't imagine seeing that price and thinking the box might be empty. So come on, CompUSA -- let's see some customer friggin service, okay?

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Feed Removal of Dell warranty programs a "glitch" (slashdot.org)

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The flareup over Dell's lack of warranty for their Ubuntu-equipped laptops reported by Slashdot this morning turns out to have been caused by a Web site malfunction rather than being a change in policy.
Biotech

Controlling Computers With the Brain 253

Posted by kdawson from the telepathic-smileys dept.
Killam0n takes note of a story in CNN Money on progress in controlling computers via brainwaves. From an aspirin-sized implant a quadriplegic is now using to play computer games, the article extrapolates out to a near future in which we will all be wearing headband computers and IM'ing one another as if telepathically. "Two years ago, a quadriplegic man started playing video games using his brain as a controller. That may just sound like fun and games for the unfortunate, but really, it spells the beginning of a radical change in how we interact with computers — and business will never be the same. Someday, keyboards and computer mice will be remembered only as medieval-style torture devices for the wrists. All work — emails, spreadsheets, and Google searches — will be performed by mind control."

Feed AMD, Cray and reporter in Barcelona caper (theregister.com)

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Colonel Mustard in Q4 with a processor

An uncomfortable war of speculation over the ship date for AMD's four-core Barcelona processor has broken out between the chipmaker, supercomputer vendor Cray and the Dow Jones newswire.
Netscape

Submission + - First peek at Netscape Navigator 9

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lisah writes: "Netscape released a beta version of Navigator 9 today that includes several new components while giving some old ones the boot. This release will no longer ship with mail or composer but does have URL correction, a pre-populated RSS feed menu, and a neat clipboard in the browser's sidebar that will hold links to websites you want to visit again but not necessarily bookmark."
Programming

Submission + - Intel updates compilers for multicore CPUs (arstechnica.com)

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Threaded writes: With multicore CPUs becoming the norm, Intel has announced major updates to its C++ and Fortran tools. The new compilers are Intel's first that are capable of doing thread-level optimization and auto-vectorization simultaneiously in a single pass. 'On the data parallelism side, the Intel C++ Compiler and Fortran Professional Editions both sport improved auto-vectorization features that can target Intel's new SSE4 extensions. For thread-level parallelism, the compilers support the use of Intel's Thread Building Blocks for automatic thread-level optimization that takes place simultaneously with auto-vectorization... Intel is encouraging the widespread use of its Intel Threading Tools as an interface to its multicore processors. As the company raises the core count with each generation of new products, it will get harder and harder for programmers to manage the complexity associated with all of that available parallelism. So the Thread Building Blocks are Intel's attempt to insert a stable layer of abstraction between the programmer and the processor so that code scales less painfully with the number of cores.'
Communications

Journal Journal: Vonage still being put down by the Man

Journal by mattatwork
According to the NY Times, Vonage is again getting it rough in court. The FCC requires VOIP companies to contribute to a fund that through the Universal Service Fund, which aims at bringing a variety of services to lower income Americans. The issue Vonage brought up in court was the high price they had to pay in light of a last years posted loss of $286 mi

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