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Submission + - Starcraft 2 Drops LAN Support, Battle.net Only (gamespot.com) 2

Kemeno writes: Blizzard has announced that they will be dropping LAN support for Starcraft II, citing piracy and quality concerns. Instead, ALL multiplayer games will be hosted through their new Battle.net service. I suppose I shouldn't be suprised by this move, but wasn't LAN play how the original Starcraft became popular? It's the only way I ever played it, and I don't see why Blizzard would alienate casual LAN gamers in favor of forcing their new service upon everyone (well, except for more profit, of course).
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Submission + - Data Breach Exposes RAF Staff to Blackmail (wired.com)

Yehuda writes:

Yet another breach of sensitive, unencrypted data is making news in the United Kingdom. This time the breach puts Royal Air Force staff at serious risk of being targeted for blackmail by foreign intelligence services or others.
The breach involves audio recordings with high-ranking air force officers who were being interviewed in-depth for a security clearance. In the interviews, the officers disclosed information about extra-marital affairs, drug abuse, visits to prostitutes, medical conditions, criminal convictions and debt histories — information the military needed to determine their security risk.
The recordings were stored on three unencrypted hard drives that disappeared last year.


Privacy

Submission + - UK government to monitor all internet use (itpro.co.uk)

nk497 writes: "The UK government has further detailed plans to track all communications — mobile phone calls, text messages, email and browser sessions — in the fight against terrorism, pedophiles and organised crime. The government said it's not looking to see what you're saying, just to whom and when and how. Contrary to previous plans to keep it all in a massive database, it will now let ISPs and telecoms firms store the data themselves, and access it when it feels it needs it."

Comment Re:Broken summary (Score 2, Funny) 263

Slashdot: Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a... tail! Yeah! Tail! And hey, what's this roaring sound, whooshing past what I'm suddenly gonna call my head? Wind! Is that a good name? It'll do. Yeah, this is really exciting. I'm dizzy with anticipation! Or is it the wind? There's an awful lot of that now isn't it? And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!

--THGTTG

Comment Re:Kansas: a triumph of reason (Score 1) 421

Would you care to state one disproof of evolution?

Okay, but you have to trade me. I want one proof of evolution. Just one. ;)

Probably the largest black eye for macroevolution comes from the foundational idea of transition. Transition is this concept of an amoeba evolving to something that eventually evolved into you.

However, transition loses on every angle: historical evidence, science and logic. Moreover, each of these areas has a variety of serious, unanswerable problems for Darwin.

For example, on the historical evidence side, your local paleontologist is still waiting for Darwin to be proven right by some other means. This is because there are still no fossil examples of evolutionary transition. We're talking a LOT of fossil evidence here that is repeatedly showing species that suddenly appear and then become extinct. The lack of transitional evidence is universal, not just mammals.

Even Darwin was embarrassed by the fossil record and his famous book plays that fun old game of twister (spin the wheel dial, put right leg on red circle, spin the wheel dial ...) trying to explain away this huge, ugly wart in his theory. That was even years before paleontologists evolved ;) their skills, expertise with the ever-increasing evidence that refuses to support Darwin's theory.

Scientifically, we can only determine evolutionary proof from repeatable observations. Even if Darwinists weren't busy running away from the fossil evidence that embarrasses them, they still eventually have to deal with the fact that there are no living examples of transition for us to observe. Nothing.

And what about genetics and mutations? The field of genetics was around for a while before Darwin, but it was mostly ignored until late in the game. When genetics finally acquired some of it's deserved standing, evolutionists were once again embarrassed and quickly decided that mutations had to be the "answer".

Unfortunately, scientific evidence shows that mutations are repeatedly proven to be a reduction of genetic information, not an improvement or addition to the information. What's worse is that to evolve, we would need thousands of these non-existent "positive" mutations to improve our ability to survive. Mutations speak more for entropy than for evolution, and I personally think that entropy speaks against evolution.

We don't have historical evidence of transition and we have no living, repeatable, observable evidence of transition. If there never has been evidence and no evidence exists yet that points to the conclusion that "the butler did it", we have to at least be honest with ourselves and admit that the possibility exists that he may not have actually done it. I mean, any theory arrived at by drinking a couple glasses of whiskey ought to be given the same weight as the macroevolution theory.

If you're not asleep yet and you want me to start quoting authoritative names and facts from the respective fields, just let me know. There are a lot paleontologists, scientists, mathmeticians and documented materials that can say this stuff better than I can.

Schnucki

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