Comment Related story (Score 1) 298
...seen 6 years ago on slashdot (and with a lovely video in TFA)
GOG.com Not Really Gone 276
gspr writes "On Sunday, Slashdot and many others reported that DRM-free games site GOG.com was shutting down. Now the site is back, revealing that it was all a hoax. According to the site: 'Now it's time we put an end to all the speculations once and for all. It's true that we decided that we couldn't keep GOG.com the way it was so we won't. As you probably know by now, GOG.com is entering its new era with an end of the two-years beta stage and we're launching a brand new GOG.com with new, huge releases.' So it was all an advertising stunt."
Comment Re:Here's my solution (Score 1) 183
You must be Mr Ramadass, aren't you ?
Comment Re:The French should know a thing or two about spy (Score 1) 268
Funny, because the perception in France (full disclosure: I'm french) - regardless of any anti-american feelings - is that the US do spy a lot, with lots of intelligence agencies having focused even more on economic intelligence since the end of the cold war era, forcing us to defend with what we can. (Echelon, for one, is not here to contradict this point of view.)
As much as your quoted article reports mostly on US "defeats", most of the time here we're fed with stories of how we lost (insert obligatory cheese-eating surrending monkeys joke) in this field.
Anyway, I think spying on your foes and friends is as old as humanity, with every party saying "you did it first, I'm only defending" !
As much as your quoted article reports mostly on US "defeats", most of the time here we're fed with stories of how we lost (insert obligatory cheese-eating surrending monkeys joke) in this field.
Anyway, I think spying on your foes and friends is as old as humanity, with every party saying "you did it first, I'm only defending" !
Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone 373
An anonymous reader writes "CNet.co.uk has done some simple head-to-head testing of camera phones alongside digital cameras to see which device takes the best quality pictures. The results are surprising, with Nokia's latest handset, featuring a built-in 5-megapixel camera, taking more vibrant pictures in medium light conditions than a 10-megapixel dSLR. Of course, the pictures aren't fully representative of how the images would look at full size; but given that most people resize images to put on Flickr, we could start to see a decline in dedicated digital cameras sales and an increase in camera phone sales."
Enormous Amount of Frozen Water Found on Mars 442
schweini writes "Space.com is reporting that the Mars Express probe's MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) experiment has detected and measured an enormous amount of water ice near Mars' south pole, which would be sufficient to submerge the whole planet's surface underneath approximately 10m of water on average."
Genetically Modified Maize Is Toxic — Greenpeace 655
gandracu writes "It appears that a variety of genetically modified maize produced by Monsanto is toxic for the liver and kidneys. What's worse, Monsanto knew about it and tried to conceal the facts in its own publications. Greenpeace fought in court to obtain the data and had it analyzed by a team of experts. MON863, the variety of GM maze in question, has been authorized for markets in the US, EU, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines. Here are Greenpeace's brief on the study and their account of how the story was unearthed (both PDFs)."
Street Fighting Robot Challenge 180
ianchaos writes "There's no better way to assure the eventual destruction of mankind than by the event sponsored by Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency. Newscientist has a good writeup of the robot challenge, which is to build a robot that can operate autonomously in urban warfare conditions, moving in and out of buildings to search and destroy targets like a human soldier."
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