skyyblueandblack - Slashdot User

Comment Light on perspective, and hold the insight? (Score 1) 123

by skyyblueandblack on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:42PM (#36612626) Attached to: 7 Hackers Who Got Legit Jobs From Their Misdeeds

... Seriously? First: it's a hell of a lot smarter to keep someone who's proven he can hack just about anything BUSY. Ish. Or something. Idle hands, and all that. Second: would anyone *really* not be willing to bet that being saddled with a nine-to-five corporate job is the next thing to a living hell for most hackers? Honestly. Somehow, I get the sense that the article's written by someone who lives and dies for the corporate grind. o_O

Comment Re:Cybercheat? (Score 1) 484

by skyyblueandblack on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @04:09PM (#35142140) Attached to: 61.9% of Undergraduates Cybercheat

Er... doubt it; that's the Burma Shave ad format. Though if each line had been posted ten minutes apart, it'd lend a more "authentic" air to it. ^_^

New Study Links Video Games and Mental Problems 306

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 17, 2011 @09:55AM from the think-of-the-children dept.

eldavojohn writes "A new study published today in Pediatrics Journal conducted in Singapore on three thousand children in grades third, fourth, seventh and eighth claims that one in ten are video game addicts and almost all of those suffer mental health problems. This comes conveniently after the suspect in the Tucson shooting has widely been reported as an online gamer. Among the accusations from the study are that playing video games leads to lower school performance and fewer social skills while exacerbating existing depression, anxiety and social phobias. Gamasutra reports that the Entertainment Software Alliance is already criticizing this study, saying, 'Its definition of "pathological gaming" is neither scientifically nor medically accepted and the type of measure used has been criticized by other scholars. Other outcomes are also measured using dubious instruments when well-validated tools are readily available. In addition, because the effect sizes of the outcomes are mainly trivial, it leaves open the possibility the author is simply interpreting things as negatively as possible.' It seems that the doctors are still disagreeing on whether or not gaming causes problems."

Comment Re:Count me in (Score 1) 703

by skyyblueandblack on Friday September 03, 2010 @04:28PM (#33469470) Attached to: The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally

Yes, and like Mister Stewart, the difference is that he's SUPPOSED to be a parody. Or did you not catch that episode of Crossfire several years back? "What is WRONG with you people??"

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