Comment Live from Ottawa St. N! (Score 1) 117
Canada's favourite zombie brand of mobile hot milkshake dispensary owned by a Brazillian hedge fund 3G capital. Been a long time since the pies smelled like cigarettes.
Comment Re: Who is Gab? (Score 1) 164
So fucking tired of this "unlimited tolerance of intolerance is a scared American cow" white guy libertarian BULLSHIT. It's not. It's an enabling attitude of rhetoric disseminated by racists and hate groups. Fucking stop it.
Comment Re: Who is Gab? (Score 0) 164
No, those nazi punks need to f-off. It's just really fascinating how all these "free speech" ideologues find themselves defending notorious trolls, neo-nazis and criminals. Keep up the good fight!
Comment Re:Tech support scams! (Score 1) 85
Lots of the people they're contacting are senior citizens, disabled and, yes, often times not too bright. It's kind of a sad confluence of a few things including a lot of old Windows XP computers and the people who still use them. But it's still pretty criminal and the victims are people who don't know any better until it's too late.
Comment Ultrabooks (Score 1) 243
Aren't "Ultrabooks" the Netbooks we all really wanted? We have 12-13" laptops now that probably have less volume than the 9-12" Netbooks they replaced.
Comment Aw (Score 1) 17
I love you too, man.
Comment White Wolf gone too (Score 1) 352
Since CCP Games is the owner of White Wolf Publishing (makers of RPGs like Vampire), a number of White Wolf's sites have gone down as well.
Main site: http://www.white-wolf.com/
Open development/info site for the 20th anniversary of Vampire: http://www.vampirethemasquerade.com/
Site for the annual World of Darkness fan convention: http://www.thegrandmasquerade.com/
Why Apple's DUI Checkpoint App Ban Is Stupid 228
hookskat writes "Reason.tv Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie reacts to Apple's decision to ban DUI Checkpoint Apps from the App Store, writing: 'Let me add something even more damning of this latest development in corporate cave-ins to legally protected free speech and I'm gonna bold it for emphasis: Some police departments actually supply the data used in such apps because they reduce the number of drunk drivers on the roads! Somehow, I'm thinking that Steve Jobs circa 1984...would have told U.S. senators sending threatening letters about computer-based info sharing to take a hike. Or at least to spend time on, I don't know, creating a freaking budget for the country rather than worrying about regulating something that helps reduce impaired driving.' Last month, after RIM caved on the same question, Reason.tv released this video on the subject of banning DUI checkpoint apps."
Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed 288
stupid_is writes with news that Duke Nukem Forever has now gotten a firm US release date: May 3rd. It will release worldwide three days later. The game was resurrected last fall by Gearbox Software and 2K Games after 3D Realms' 12-year attempt at development came to an end in 2009 when the company closed its doors.
Microsoft CEO Says Kinect To Support PCs Eventually 47
Ken writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that the company will support Kinect for PCs sometime in the future. The motion controller is currently only officially supported for the Xbox 360, although it has been hacked and tweaked to work on pretty much any platform that can be plugged into via a USB port. 'We're trying to move beyond gaming to include the world of socialization, movies, TV, music, and we're trying to make the whole experience accessible to everybody in the family not just the traditional gamer.' When Ballmer was asked, 'Will you plug-in the Kinect to the PC, will you go for that in the near future?' he replied, 'We'll support that in a formal way in the right time and when we've got an announcement to make we'll make it.' Note that this is completely separate from the Kinect-like controller from PrimeSense and Asus."
Other readers have tipped related articles about Kinect being used to enable 3D teleconferencing and help drive a small helicopter drone.
Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria 164
Bananana writes "A research team out of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found a way to do data encryption and storage with bacteria. The project is called 'Bioencryption,' and their presentation (as a PDF file) is here."
Webvention Demanding $80k For Rollover Images 314
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Webvention is demanding that websites with rollover images pay $80,000 or face a patent lawsuit based on US patent 5,251,294, which it bought from Intellectual Ventures. Webvention claims to already have licensing deals with Apple, Google, Nokia, Sears, Sony and Orbitz. Right now, they're suing Abercrombie and Fitch, Bed Bath & Beyond, Dell, Gamestop, E*Trade, Neiman Marcus, Visa and ten others in a court in east Texas."
Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime 103
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook officially gave out more technical details on the endless loop in a database control mechanism that forced a 2.5-hour shutdown of the social site, and the resulting combination of a productivity burst, increased fertility (check back on June 25, 2011) and mass hysteria all around the world."
The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally 703
jamie writes "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent 'Restoring Honor' event. The would-be rally has been dubbed 'Restoring Truthiness' and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young woman wondered if the only way to point out the absurdity of the Tea Party's rally would be if Colbert mirrored it with his own Colbert Nation.'"
BlindType — the Amazing Keyboard of the Future 125
kkleiner writes "BlindType has created a new touchscreen keyboard program of the same name that changes size, orientation, and position to match your wandering fingers as they type. BlindType also features some of the most impressive typing correction software I've ever seen. The result is a practical touchscreen interface that knows what you meant to type, even if you make mistakes. Lots of them. In fact, you can type without looking at the screen at all."
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