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World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career 272

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 22, 2010 @01:31AM from the tanking-the-boss dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Forbes reports that although videogames have long been thought of as distractions to work and education rather than aids, there is a growing school of thought that says game-playing in moderation, and in your free time, can make you more successful in your career. 'We're finding that the younger people coming into the teams who have had experience playing online games are the highest-level performers because they are constantly motivated to seek out the next challenge and grab on to performance metrics,' says John Hagel III, co-chairman of a tech-oriented strategy center for Deloitte. Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, spends six to seven hours a week playing online games and believes World of Warcraft trains him to become a better leader."

Comment Re:Eleanor is breaking the law (Score 1) 973

by lolbutts on Sunday July 04, 2010 @11:20PM (#32795532) Attached to: A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars

I think the issue is that she is distributing an "unauthorized copy", not that it is being made. (At least in the US, she would be free to email the music to herself. It's the willful act of giving it to someone else that is the problem.)

Comment Re:Why only focus on the leak? (Score 3, Insightful) 768

by lolbutts on Sunday May 30, 2010 @05:33AM (#32395486) Attached to: BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed

Unfortunately, BP has been using dispersants on the failed well to prevent the oil from slicking on the surface. Because there is so much oil, the slicks on the surface are still happening, but this isn't all of the oil. I don't know of any defensible estimates for the % of oil that is getting to the surface versus hanging out in "clouds of oil". However, it seems that most people, even BP, will acknowledge that this is a nontrivial amount of oil. Though it would be nice to do something more about the oil. Perhaps it could even dissuade them from using the dispersants... (Haha, I kid. They wouldn't backpedal on the effectiveness of dispersants now.)

Comment There's this cool thing about letters (Score 4, Insightful) 195

by lolbutts on Sunday May 23, 2010 @06:15AM (#32312826) Attached to: New iConji Language For the Symbol-Minded Texter

You don't need to have thousands of different glyphs available so that people can communicate. "Coffee at 4?" works fine for my uses (well, in a theoretical world where I drink coffee).

Comment Re:Mention their name in the headline (Score 1) 3

by lolbutts on Sunday May 09, 2010 @07:57PM (#32150340) Attached to: Reporting security flaws in websites?

I was considering it...except my data is in there too. If I were to somehow remove it from the database, though...

Unknown 7m Asteroid Almost Impacted Earth 289

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @03:21PM from the just-passing-by dept.

xp65 writes "A previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth — just over one Earth diameter, 1/30 the lunar distance — on Friday, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST, a 7-meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our planet. This is the third-closest known non-impacting Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid. The asteroid was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey and was quickly identified by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge MA as an object that would soon pass very close to the Earth. JPL's Near-Earth Object Program Office also computed an orbit solution for this object, and determined that it was not headed for an impact." The article notes, "On average, objects the size of 2009 VA pass this close about twice per year and impact Earth about once every 5 years."

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