Comment Re:Wish American companies would gtfo of EU (Score 1) 380
From a tech perspective, Shutting out ideas is never a good idea. From a Business perspective, more markets are better. Politically, that sh*t is how wars start.
Comment Isolationism is bad (Score 1) 380
From a tech perspective, Shutting out ideas is never a good idea. From a Business perspective, more markets are better.
Politically, that sh*t is how wars start.
Comment Comments from Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine (Score 3, Informative) 214
Jacob Appelbaum and Roger Dingledine talked about this at the 30c3 conference last December. Here's a link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJNxbpbHA-I
They talk about this around the 39:55 mark. Basically they weren't thrilled about microsoft doing such a thing, but on the other hand if the attack had been malicious it would have taken down the entire TOR network.
Comment Re:Player pianos used to be cool (Score 1) 117
My family has had a player piano for over 60 years. It still works great. The most we've had to worry about from a maintenance standpoint was occasionally replacing an old hose.
Comment Re:Nope, sorry (Score 2, Informative) 507
I don't know how much of Orson Scott Card's money goes toward directly supporting his political causes, but we know that it is at least possible for money spent on science fiction books to go toward agendas that we might otherwise oppose completely.
10% of his income goes to his church which in turn supports his political causes.
NASA Responds To MMO Concerns 91
Sean Hollister writes "GameCyte contacted Daniel Laughlin, Project Manager of NASA Learning Technologies, to find out where that $3 million budget for their educational MMO actually went. As it turns out, NASA still has the money — they are just planning to use it differently than we thought. Meanwhile, the 'non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement' actually allows the game developer to profit where they might not have, otherwise. 'If it were a government contract, it would be illegal to be paid twice, once by the government and a second time by consumers.'"
