Comment Just in time to start drinking again! (Score 1) 54
Although we'll likely never see this in the U.S. The current organ donation industry has plenty of money to hire lobbyists.
Comment Thank you Azure (Score 2) 314
I think M$FT realized that they couldn't scale their cloud architecture on windows so they started porting Azure services to run on Linux. May as well release their linux versions..
Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 3, Interesting) 245
Govt is exceptionally good a proving the 'theory' of unintended consequences. n-level thinking requires more cynicism than most politicians can muster.
Submission + - DOJ to Ban Texas Flights over Anti-Patdown Law (consumerist.com)
hellkyng writes: The Department of Justice may ban flights from Texas because of the Anti-Patdown law making its way through the legal system. Rep. David Simpson "Someone must make a stand against the atrocities of our government agents...". Should be interesting to see if Texas can pave the way for grope free flying fun.
The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting 251
The Guardian's Games blog explores the tendency of modern video games to suffer from poor voice acting, a flaw made all the more glaring by increasingly precise and impressive graphics. Quoting:
"Due to the interactive nature of games, actors can't be given a standard film script from which they're able to gauge the throughline of their character and a feel for the dramatic development of the narrative. Instead, lines of dialogue need to be isolated into chunks so they can be accessed and triggered within the game in line with the actions of each individual player. Consequently, the performer will usually be presented with a spreadsheet jammed with hundreds of single lines of dialogue, with little sense of context or interaction. ... But according to David Sobolov, one of the most experienced videogame voice actors in the world (just check out his website), the significant time pressures mean that close, in-depth direction is not always possible. 'Often, there's a need to record a great number of lines, so to keep the session moving, once we've established the tone of the character we're performing, the director will silently direct us using the spreadsheet on the screen by simply moving the cursor down the page to indicate if he/she liked what we did. Or they'll make up a code, like typing an 'x' to ask us to give them another take.' It sounds, in effect, like a sort of acting battery farm, a grinding, dehumanizing production line of disembodied phrases, delivered for hours on end. Hardly conducive to Oscar-winning performances."
Comment Re:One small step for man (Score 1) 920
Private industry will fill the void. Cheaper and with much less bureaucracy. I hope.
Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" 319
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."
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