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Comment Re:yep (Score 1) 234

by y0ssar1an on Sunday April 20, 2014 @03:04AM (#46798307) Attached to: Russia Writes Off 90 Percent of North Korea Debt

Believe it or not, the biggest proponent of keeping the current leadership in power is South Korea.

I do not believe it because that's complete nonsense. South Korea does not enjoy having an insane, WMD-equipped power constantly threatening them with nuclear/chemical annihilation. They do not enjoy having their submarines sunk, their citizens shelled, or assassination attempts on their leaders. They do not enjoy being infiltrated by spies, having their families torn apart, or spending enormous sums to defend against the North. The fact that South Korea and the US have not acted just might have something to do with the thousands of North Korean artillery batteries armed with chemical and incendiary shells within range of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, a city of 10 million people. North Korea has promised that, if war ever breaks out, Seoul will become a "sea of flames".

Comment Re:Planned obsolescence treadmill accelerating (Score 1) 516

by y0ssar1an on Sunday September 11, 2011 @11:18PM (#37373052) Attached to: Gut-Check Time For Windows 8, Microsoft

Windows 7 was released 2 years and 8 months after Vista. How is that rushing?

10 Worst Evolutionary Designs 232

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 10, 2009 @06:35PM from the everyone-makes-mistakes dept.

JamJam writes "Besides my beer gut, which I'm sure has some purpose, Wired is running a story on the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs. Ranging from baby giraffes being dropped 5-foot during birth to Goliath bird-eating spiders that practically explode when they fall from trees."

Google Acquiring VP3 Developer On2 Technologies 133

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 05, 2009 @02:01PM from the my-crystal-ball-shows-the-web-is-good-for-video dept.

R.Mo_Robert writes "BetaNews is reporting that Google is acquiring On2, the video codec company and original developers of the VP3 codec from which Theora is derived. The article suggests that this may mean Google is backing Ogg Theora as the HTML5 video standard, but this is likely not the case--with Theora already being open-source and On2 having disclaimed all rights and patents, there is no reason Google should have needed to do this to push Theora. You may recall from some time back that HTML5 no longer specifies which video codec(s) a browser should support due to there being, unfortunately, no suitable codec at this time. But Google (known for supporting H.264) practically owns Web video with YouTube in most people's minds, so their influence could really swing the future of HTML5 video either way. It remains to be seen whether Google's acquisition of On2 has any bearing on their plans for video on the Web."

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