At Pax East, they commented further on this. Kill-stealing is solved because everyone who participates gets full credit and full reward for doing so. They also said that if 10 people are fighting and 2-3 are standing there, the AI is smart enough not to count them in its scaling calculations (they can even plink the enemy a bit to "act" interested...but still not count because they aren't meeting the level necessary to be considered "active" participants). From what they said at the convention panel, it does truly appear like all of these things have been taken into consideration.

Given how rudimentary and just plain awful Kodak's interface was for their WiFi picture frames from 2 years ago when I bought a few for the family to share the same albums with each other across the nation, this story doesn't surprise me in the least.

I mean, who lets the frame go on the internet and builds in a timer for when to turn the frame off and on at night...but then when it comes back on it ONLY goes to its own internal memory and NOT the last gallery you were viewing via the WiFi?? Every morning you have to reconnect it to the internet galleries...and its ability to cache the pics from the internet is so poor that it will often claim it has an "error" and...REVERT BACK TO INTERNAL MEMORY! It's next to impossible to use it to view galleries on the internet...that can ONLY be on their website...AND that they're now CHARGING you to keep "active"!

So, no, it doesn't surprise me at all that they could screw even this basic security up.

Isn't something of "pure evil" going to ultimately not be evil?

Wouldn't that be the ultimate evil act against someone who is searching for an A.I. that is pure evil?

To give him something that is not evil at all in return for his efforts.

You are spot on with the MMS and Tethering delays. That, alone, is enough reason to indict AT&T for asshatery more than any lack of upgrade pricing on 3G to 3GS.

You're squeezing us so hard because of your exclusivity, AT&T, but not keeping up with the hardware/software developer. You might just find more of us finding our way between your clenched fingers because of it. I've held off on jailbreaking my phone, but I could be using MMS and tethering TODAY if I wanted to, AT&T. Of course, then, I wouldn't have to be forced into being your customer, either. Consider your expediency in meeting the developer's abilities wisely.

I shall be twittering this with a sigh
On someone's blogs and blogs hence:
Two paths diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less googled by,
And that has made all the difference.

--RFrostie1977

No, unlike the neurons in your head, they do work...en masse and never to 100% of all strains of the virus for which they immunize.

Anyone who has gotten an MMR shot, including myself, are immunized against the Mumps virus with Genotype A (Jeryl Lynn strain). In 2006, Iowa recently had a big (relatively speaking) Mumps outbreak that was sourced to Genotype G. Even MMR-immunized people were susceptible (albeit to a much lesser likelihood than the non-immunized).

If not immunizing your kids were to get out of hand and less than 75-86% of the U.S. were immunized against genotype A, it would infect enough people that it could change into a new genotype and infect even the immunized by getting around the vaccine, the same way genotype G is already able to do.

Being vague in how you define a vaccine "working" isn't insightful and does nothing but shroud reality.

They refuse to put in the network within Boston because they're fighting with the state over getting a broad cable provider license. So unless you live in the burbs, you can't get FIOS in Boston and they (the city and Verizon) continue to let Comcast rape the rest of us with this sort of crap compression. It's enough to make a guy want to buy DirectTV...

If you find a joystick icon, or the phrase "movie tie-in" confusing, you can always edit your home page settings so you see "None" of the "Games" content on your slashdot.

Unfortunately, we've been hacking away at this problem for quite some time now. (Leanring the Grammar of DNA). We're actually quite good at understanding the grammar. It's decoding the meaning of the individual elements that seems to be the hard part.

Biologists have been, for about 10 years now, very very good at decoding the grammar of raw DNA sequences. The crux of the problem is figuring out how exactly those gene products function in the body, what elements of their sequence/structure cause them to behave in such a way, and how much does each element contribute to the overall picture.

It's one thing to be able to put together a well-formed sentence, but another thing entirely to make that sentence communicate something worthwhile, as part of a greater whole.

Indeed, biologists are now trying to put together the "paragraphs" and "chapters" of life, rather than the sentences.