Comment If you wipe your phone - you're a suspect (Score 3, Insightful) 301
Well, you wipe your phone when trying to enter - it means that you have something to hide and should be detained and not allowed in.
Comment Perception is getting worse? (Score 2) 277
TI does not report corruption level, it reports corruption perception level.
If we perceive that it's getting worse, it can be because it's actually getting worse, or it can be because we know better than before.
Comment Re:Cave (Score 3, Funny) 335
> We are all in a cave, strapped to a stone. Everything is an illusion.
That's what Russian propaganda wants you to believe, and you are spreading it, being a Putin's "useful idiot". According to this anonymous study, of course.
Comment Re:Alfabank and mystery Trump connections. (Score 1) 103
> Any juicy conspiracy theories here?
Who gave those experts, including Paul Vixie, right to snoop on DNS traffic of their political opponent?
Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 352
> BTW in future we will need less coders, as more stuff will be generated automatically.
More automated code generation can actually increase a demand for coders - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Business which can't hire a programmer today because of expenses, could in future get some code written using better automated tools with less talented (hence cheaper) coder.
Comment Soviet Russia (Score 1) 766
In Post-Soviet Russia, the state blocks xHamster.
In the US, xHamster blocks a state!
The Ethics of Social Games 75
Gamespot is running a story about the ethics and morality of the social games market, which in recent years has exploded to involve hundreds of millions of players. Between micro-transactions, getting players to recruit friends, and the thin line between compelling games and addictive games, there are plenty of opportunities for developers to stray into shady practices. Quoting:
"The most successful social games to date have used very simple gameplay mechanics, encouraging neither strategy nor dexterity but regular interaction with the game ... Although undeniably successful, the existing social game framework has been the subject of much debate among game developers from every corner of the game industry, from the mainstream to the indie community. Some, like Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen, are particularly strident in their assessment. 'Social games tend to have a really seedy and abusive means of manipulation that they use to rope people in and keep them in,' McMillen said. 'People are so tricked into that that they'll actually spend real money on something that does absolutely nothing, nothing at all.'
Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132
An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"
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