Comment Re:ignore them and show it anyway (Score 1) 821
Long live George Carlin!
Comment I fall into the5% catagory (Score 1) 495
I was born (prematurely) with eyes that did not point correctly and one eye was lazy. Corrective surgery (circa 1975) corrected my left eye. However, due to my right eye being lazy, they were never able to fully correct it. As a result the brain ignores a great deal of input from this eye. Visual therapy helped, but was not able to fully adapt. This is a brain issue on how it interprets the visual data and discards it. I just saw a specialist in this area not long ago. While the test they ran was mind boggling, there simply isn't much they can do. For me 3-D is wasted.
Facebook Mafiosi Go To the Mattresses vs. Zynga 102
sympleko writes "Zynga has the lion's share of traffic in Facebook applications, and Mafia Wars is one of their most popular social games. Collapsing under the weight of over 26 million users, Zynga has been scrambling to thwart hard-core gamers who reverse-engineer URLs or script the game to optimize their enjoyment. Many of the workarounds have annoyed users who were accustomed to various game features, and even worse, the hastily-deployed changes have resulted in many players losing access to the game, in-game prizes, or statistics. Fed up with a software company seemingly bent on discouraging people from enjoying their product, a number of tagged players have organized a boycott of all Zynga games. The first 24-hour boycott on Sunday 12/13 resulted in an 11% decline in Daily Active Users, and an emergency thread on Zynga's forums (from which most of the flames were deleted). The current boycott, extending Wednesday through Sunday is being supported by a 428K strong Facebook group. At issue is the social contract between software companies and their devoted user base, as well as the nefarious tactics Zynga has used to raise cash."
US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal 490
theodp writes "Many US colleges and universities have notices posted on their websites informing US companies that they're tax chumps if they hire students who are US citizens. 'In fact, a company may save money by hiring international students because the majority of them are exempt from Social Security (FICA) and Medicare tax requirements,' advises the taxpayer-supported University of Pittsburgh (pdf) as it makes the case against hiring its own US students. You'll find identical pitches made by the University of Delaware, the University of Cincinnati, Kansas State University, the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, and other public colleges and universities. The same message is also echoed by private schools, such as John Hopkins University, Brown University, Rollins College and Loyola University Chicago."
Comment followup (Score 1) 629
They didn't take all the servers from the datacenter. Just the ones they had co-located there. Electronic forensics has gotten much more efficient over time. So instead of taking months to return said servers, it should take them on a few days to a few weeks. Unfortunate for those affected.
However, there are many variables on how the servers were configured, how they were managed, how the data was organized, backed up and archived. They take the systems away so they can do anaylysis in a controlled environment.
It does sound like they have a very good idea of what they are looking for. Local news (in dallas) reports today that they are looking for info related to a mass fraud investigation.
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