Rangsk - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How should Google respond? (Score 1) 242

by Rangsk on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @04:56AM (#26706555) Attached to: Google Privacy Counsel Facing Criminal Charges

Your post concerns me because of the far-reaching consequences it implies. What you are suggesting is that a corporation has more power than a government, and can indeed blackmail that government into giving it amnesty for any crime.

Whether or not I agree with this particular prosecution, the thought that Google would have the power to undermine the efforts of a government scares me. Even more frightening is that many Slashdotters here agree that your suggestion not only would work, but is also a reasonable course of action!

Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV 482

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 21, 2008 @07:08PM from the or-was-that-redundant dept.

Whiteox writes about an Australian researcher named Renata Pronk, who has discovered that octopuses prefer HDTV. She recruited 32 gloomy octopuses from the waters of Chowder Bay. Previously, researchers have reported little success when showing video to octopuses. Miss Pronk's insight was that the octopus eye is so refined that it might see standard PAL video, at 25 fps, as a series of stills. She tried HDTV (50 fps) and her subjects reacted to the videos of a crab, another octopus, or a swinging bottle on the end of a string. A further discovery is that octopuses show no trait of individual personalities, even though they exhibit a high level of intelligence. It would certainly be possible to quibble about the definition of "personality" employed, and whether Miss Pronk had successfully measured it.

China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites 174

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 08, 2008 @11:01PM from the state-is-still-not-your-friend dept.

frogger writes "China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently, however, several reports came in from China indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked. The sites became inaccessible, instead redirecting to the leading Chinese search engine Baidu."

Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud 397

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @08:59PM 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."

Comment Re:Where no one has gone before?? (Score 3, Interesting) 272

by Rangsk on Monday August 11, 2008 @06:11AM (#24553463) Attached to: Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer

Have you not seen Star Trek: The Next Generation? Patrick Stuart's voiceover in the title credits had already changed it to "where no one has gone before" in 1987. Considering this game takes place 30 years after Star Trek: Nemesis (a Next Generation movie), it's fitting to use the Next Generation wording.

Gamespot Previews World of Starcraft 116

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @07:04PM from the zerg-rush dept.

ScaryFroMan writes "Gamespot has a preview up of Blizzard's new MMO, World of Starcraft. From the article: "To put it mildly, the human brain cannot possibly fathom and the English language cannot possibly express how amazingly incredible the next massively multiplayer game from Blizzard is going to be. First screens and details!""

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