Comment I look forward to the innovation this will cause (Score 1) 224
I hope that the brighter pirates devise even more inventive ways to keep their privacy, perhaps that creativity will spill over into the more legal realm of the internet.
Indie Devs Upload Their Own Game To The Pirate Bay 227
dartttt writes "Indie game company tinyBuild Games, who released a platformer called No Time To Explain recently, uploaded their own game to the Pirate Bay. However, there's a key difference between the game they uploaded and the version you can purchase: the game characters wear pirate hats, and everything else has a pirate theme. One of the company's founders, Alex Nichiporchik, said, '[S]ome people are going to torrent it either way, we might as well make something funny out of it. ... You can’t really stop piracy, all you can do is make it work for you and/or provide something that people actually want to pay for. For us this is humor, we like making people laugh.'"
Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 209
I was referring to the story startup, I didn't think it was an actual event haha.
Comment Interesting (Score 1) 209
While I think this is awesome, isn't this how I Am Legend happened?
Comment Re:let the fanboy wars begin! (Score 1) 118
I find it humorous that all of the numbering for the xbox's indicate going in a circle!
Comment They must love linux (Score 1) 580
Cause they are giving people more excuses to give it more business. Who would possibly be stupid enough to use this service, when you can get a better computer with linux, or if they keep this up possibly pirated windows.
Comment Re:They'll just use their own laptops. (Score 1) 1117
Or if they want to be really sneaky just use a livecd to do whatever they want.
Comment Re:Tie porn to it and it will die (Score 1) 318
Your right, we need to help out the Canadian porn industry, and they will help us in return. We give them a voice, they tank the bill.
Comment Hope it works out for you (Score -1, Offtopic) 61
This is not a field I am really into, but I wish them the best of luck finding the dark matter.
I wonder if dark matter to them is like a Ubuntu release to most of us?
Comment Re:Stresstest (Score 3, Interesting) 1486
Well I skimmed the tech section, nothing on copyright infringement. If Biden would admit he is the RIAA lackey, then they would get a true stress test.
Comment While I am not suprised, (Score 1) 255
I am a little curious that someone would make all of that information so readily available.
Like many
Predicting Human Errors From Brain Activity 123
Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers report that brain activity can be used to predict the likelihood of someone making an error about six seconds in advance, with gradual changes starting as much as 30 seconds ahead of time. The team used an imaging machine to scan the brains of a group of volunteers who performed a task in the presence of distracting information. When performing correctly the volunteers' brains showed increased levels of activity in those parts associated with cognitive effort, as would be expected. However, these areas gradually became less active before errors were made and at the same time another set of regions in the brain became more active. These regions are part of a so-called "default mode network" and show increased use when people are resting or asleep [PDF]. While imaging machines are far too big and complex to be used in workplaces to monitor the brain activity of people engaged in important tasks, the team hopes to correlate errors to changes in electrical activity in the brain with electroencephalography (EEG), using electrodes placed on the scalp. If EEG features can be found that correspond to the change in brain activity, then a hat that gives warning of an imminent mistake might one day become reality. We've previously discussed similar studies of brain activity."
NASA To Develop Small Satellites 85
coondoggie brings news that NASA has announced it will team with Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corp. to produce small satellites, called 'nanosats,' weighing between 11 and 110 pounds. The satellites will work together in 'constellations' and facilitate networking in space. According to NASA's press release, it will 'develop a fifth generation telecommunications and networking system for Internet protocol-based and related services.' We've discussed miniature satellites in the past.
Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago 777
Josh Fink brings us a CNN story discussing evidence found by researchers which indicates that humans came close to extinction roughly 70,000 years ago. A similar study by Stanford scientists suggests that droughts reduced the population to as few as 2,000 humans, who were scattered in small, isolated groups. Quoting:
"'This study illustrates the extraordinary power of genetics to reveal insights into some of the key events in our species' history,' said Spencer Wells, National Geographic Society explorer in residence. 'Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world. Truly an epic drama, written in our DNA.'"
Are C and C++ Losing Ground? 961
Pickens writes "Dr. Dobbs has an interesting interview with Paul Jansen, the managing director of TIOBE Software, about the Programming Community Index, which measures the popularity of programming languages by monitoring their web presence. Since the TIOBE index has been published now for more than 6 years, it gives an interesting picture about trends in the usage of programming languages. Jansen says not much has affected the top ten programming languages in the last five years, with only Python entering the top 10 (replacing COBOL), but C and C++ are definitely losing ground. 'Languages without automated garbage collection are getting out of fashion,' says Jansen. 'The chance of running into all kinds of memory problems is gradually outweighing the performance penalty you have to pay for garbage collection.'"
