Comment Re:Which games are installed... (Score 1) 128
Or just look up user names on Steam community to see who has not marked themselves as "private". It shows all games that they own in their profile and what they have played recently.
Comment Re:Before anyone panics... (Score 2) 128
That is a setting in the play store for android. Easy to turn off.
Defense Expert: Hire Hackers and Wage War 157
Phoghat writes "A top defense and cybersecurity expert says the U.S. should stop trying to take aim at expert hackers and start doing a better job of recruiting them. 'Let's just say that in some places you find guys with body piercings and nonregulation haircuts,' says U.S. Naval Postgraduate School professor John Arquilla . 'But most of these sorts of guys can't be vetted in the traditional way. We need a new institutional culture that allows us to reach out to them.'"
Comment Re:Negative reactions (Score 1) 701
Are you sure that the child in question lives in the UK? Does it state that anywhere in the posting? Or are you just assuming the location of the child based off of the screenname of the grandparent?
I think that the suggestion is to go to a local university to locate tutors and teaching help for the child, not to enroll the child in the Uni.
Personally, I read enough slashdot to know better then the AC on the reactions here. There are few places with more flaming.
Comment they use GoDaddy... (Score 2) 419
Since http://oceanmarketinginc.com/ uses GoDaddy, and the story of Weebly's fun with GoDaddy, maybe we just need to complain to GoDaddy to get the DNS for OceanMarketing removed..
For those who do not know, here is the weebly story:
http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-the-internet-under-sopa.html
Google To Honor "Don't-Track-Me-Bro" Requests 129
theodp writes "Someday soon, Google will allow owners of Wi-Fi access points to opt out of a Google service that uses their data to determine the location of others' smartphones. The opt-out service will be available globally, although it was created at the instigation of European privacy regulators, Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer explained in a blog post."
Comment Bypasses Apple's Patent (Score 1) 123
After all, this is multi-touch with feet and not multi-touch with fingers....
Comment Re:Verizon does enable tethering (Score 1) 190
Why does it matter what types of 1's and 0's I send over the air? Is it a big difference when I send 1's and 0's from my laptop as opposed to my cell phone? After all, I am still limited to the same speed and volume....
If I have paid for data, I would like to use data, thankyou.
Comment Re:Absurd. (Score 2) 167
Considering the amount of words in there already that, at one point in their life or another, where considered slang...
no.
Comment Re:Brevity, Brevity, Brevity!! (Score 1) 153
At the same time, in-depth info should be made available on request. Too many times have people built slide decks as the whole of their presentation and totally forgot that there are some people who either by want or need, will request much more info then can be presented in a deck or during the Q&A.
Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? 785
Hugh Pickens writes "Dolphins have long been recognized as among the most intelligent of animals, but now the Times reports that a series of behavioral studies suggest that dolphins, especially species such as the bottlenose, have distinct personalities, a strong sense of self, can think about the future and are so bright that they should be treated as 'non-human persons.' 'Many dolphin brains are larger than our own and second in mass only to the human brain when corrected for body size,' says Lori Marino, a zoologist at Emory University. 'The neuroanatomy suggests psychological continuity between humans and dolphins and has profound implications for the ethics of human-dolphin interactions.' For example, one study found that dolphins can recognize their image in a mirror as a reflection of themselves — a finding that indicates self-awareness similar to that seen in higher primates and elephants. Other studies have found that dolphins are capable of advanced cognitive abilities such as problem-solving, artificial language comprehension, and complex social behavior, indicating that dolphins are far more intellectually and emotionally sophisticated than previously thought. Thomas White, professor of ethics at Loyola Marymount University, has written a series of academic studies suggesting dolphins should have rights, claiming that the current relationship between humans and dolphins is, in effect, equivalent to the relationship between whites and black slaves two centuries ago."
Comment Re:An interesting strategy (Score 1) 150
Irony would be Microsoft suing Google to disassociate the cloud from the OS
I don't think Microsoft has managed to patent the cloud...
But they may believe that if they use it enough in adverts, people may think that they patented it....
Comment Re:Took some time to think. (Score 1) 537
He also should have a second set of keys (or a Password Vault) available in case the driver dies in a fire with the keys on him.
Sid Meier and the 48-Hour Game 58
MMBK writes "Sid Meier is possibly the most influential game designer ever, having developed the Civilization series, among others. This video documentary looks at his past while he travels to the University of Michigan for the 48-hour game design competition, which was hosted by his son."
Comment Re:From having read TFA... (Score 1) 806
See, the removing the default F* keys and making me do a Fn+F* to use it bothers me more then the Sysreq key. I use the F* keys a lot on all my keyboards.
And BTW, using Apple as an example for what is right is questionable.Remember, long ago, they decided that end users did not need the ability to right click...
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