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Comment Re:I'm not French (Score 1) 98

There is some hope that this whole surveillance may start crumbling because the French are much more likely to take it more seriously, fish out that old, trusted and may be a little rusted Guillotine to behead Hollande.

I have to disappoint you: I currently live in France, and the revelation about the French state spying on its citizens get hardly any airtime. No one cares here. They are too busy with good-old-fashioned politics with faces attached to issues.

Comment Re:Not the first study of this sort (Score 1) 160

There's been other similar prior work. For example, there's evidence that gamers can quickly allocate their attention in an efficient fashion. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680769/ and that gamers have faster reaction times for a large variety of tasks http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/18/6/321.short.

Indeed, I'd have modded you up if I'd have mod points.

This study is yet another one showing these effects, but is by far not the first. The effects of video-game playing, in particular action video-game playing, on various part of the decision making process have been studied extensively. The whole research was kicked off by the publication of

Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (2003). Action video games modify visual selective attention. Nature, 423, 534-537

with more publications related to that topic available on the lab page of Daphne Bavelier.

Disclaimer: I was working in the same department as the above-mentioned lab some years ago

The Media

Rupert Murdoch Hates Google, Loves the iPad 412

Hugh Pickens writes "The Register reports that News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, reiterated his disgust at how search engines handle news and called on old media to rethink how their stories are distributed on the web. 'It's produced a river of gold, but those words are being taken mostly from the newspapers,' said Rupert. 'I think they ought to stop it, that the newspapers ought to stand up and let them do their own reporting.' Murdoch added that the iPad was a 'wonderful tool' for listening to music, watching videos and reading newspapers. 'It may well be the saving of the newspaper industry,' by making it cheaper to distribute content to a broader audience, Murdoch said. 'I'm old, I like the tactile experience of the newspaper,' Murdoch said. '(But) if you have less newspapers and more of these, that's OK. It doesn't destroy the traditional newspaper, it just comes in a different form.'"
Businesses

Clues That Apple's Bought Another Processor Design House 183

According to Ars Technica: "Apple's gigantic bankroll may be burning a hole in its pocket. Almost two years after purchasing PowerPC designer P.A. Semi, Apple appears to have snapped up ARM design house Intrinsity. According to a report that first appeared on electronista, a number of engineers at the company have indicated that they are now or soon will be employed by Apple. Some of them have even gone as far as to change their LinkedIn profiles, with one reverting it, possibly out of fear of drawing the wrath of his new, secretive employer." Updated 20100404 1:15 GMT Brian Dipert points out the earlier coverage at EDN, from which both of the above reports draw.

Comment Re:The French would disagree (Score 1) 473

The French would disagree with this. They have single handedly foisted on the world ever longer copyrights since the 19th century. I don't know why the French are this way, but given that they have invented croissants, mayonaisse and champagne, I'm inclined to believe them.

You shouldn't love them too much for their croissants, as those were blatantly copied from the Austrians, who created the croissant's predecessor, known as the 'Kipferl', which - after being introduced by a Viennese into the Parisian society - was copied by French 'viennoiseries' and became the croissant. Luckily - for them - intellectual property protection wasn't going havoc in the 1830s, yet.

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Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 4, Informative) 302

You'd think they'd have gotten the police involved instead of trying to scoop a story...

From the article:

Wie so viele Kontonummern illegal in Umlauf gelangen konnten, muss in den nächsten Wochen die Staatsanwaltschaft Düsseldorf klären. Die WirtschaftsWoche übergab den Ermittlern am vergangenen Donnerstag die CD mit den 1,2 Millionen Datensätzen und Kontonummern.

which roughly means:

How that many account number reached circulation illegally is to be clarified over the next weeks by the prosecuting authorities of Düsseldorf. Reporters of the WirtschaftsWoche handed the CD with the 1.2 million data sets and account numbers to the investigators last Thursday.

So, they firstly contacted the responsible branch of jurisdiction and after that published the article.

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