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Comment Re:And they're all shit (Score 1) 272

Amen to theat. Antichamber has given me more hours of entertainment than I could ever expect. As one reviewer put it, "The biggest challenge is yourself."
As long as you don't look up solutions, Antichamber is of the best games I've ever played. The solutions are truly your own. The game lets you solve it in your own way. I can't really tell you much about it without spoiling it.

The only thing I can say about it is: Antichamber is best experienced by yourself. Solve it by yourself or you will be cheating yourself of one of the best games you'll ever play.

Privacy

Submission + - Florida School District Fingerprinting Students to (wjhg.com)

Boogaroo writes: The Washington County school district in Florida has placed fingerprint scanners at the entrance to Chipley High School. They've also made a decision to run an alternate trial by placing the scanners on buses since most kids in the district ride buses every day.

Since the beginning the fingerprinting, attendance is up, but not everyone is in agreement that the costs and risks are worth the attendance boost.

Submission + - Russian Telco MTS bans Skype, other VoIP

An anonymous reader writes: MTS, one of the three largest mobile carriers in Russia, have been buying up smaller cable TV and Internet providers across the country, and besides the GSM/3G cellphone service they now also offer cable TV and home broadband Internet access. And their unified TOS (Russian; mirror) for home broadband now says: "3.4.4. The customer may not use the Services for the purpose of transferring voice over the Internet; Skype and other similar software is forbidden." (screenshot). Really, why would you need to phone over the Internet, comrade, when you have a perfectly good cellphone [from MTS, assumingly]?

Comment Re:Rollover gigabytes (Score 1) 537

Cingular was the cellphone service that did the rollover thing.
Cingular bought AT&T, and it wasn't until later that they bought the name and renamed themselves to AT&T. Not the same company at all.

Besides, the idea has a fundamental flaw in it.

If you are constantly rolling over minutes/GB, you're over-paying for service.
If you're not rolling over much, you have very little to cover overages.
If you're not rolling over anything, you're paying overage charges.

The whole scenario works for very few people. The rest just feel better about having over-payed every month.

Math

Submission + - No proof (yet) of P = NP after all (wordpress.com)

00_NOP writes: "Internet commerce seems safe for now as Russian computer scientist Vladimir Romanov has conceded that his previously published solution to the "3 SAT" problem of boolean algebra does not work. If his solution did work it would have shown that many problems thought to be unsolvable with conventional computers — including decrypting your HTTPS encoded credit card number — would have been solvable in polynominal time. Romanov, who is very far from the sort of crank who normally claims to have proved P = NP or the opposite, is not giving up though..."

Comment Re:Wow, pretty impressed. (Score 2) 179

Not everyone is all or nothing about ads.
I see a checkbox to disable ads on this site, but I don't click it.

On common sites I visit that I feel are worth visiting, I don't block their ads either.

All random sites, ads blocked unless I find them to be unobtrusive or worthy of my support.

I'm OK with advertising. It has to overcome a few barriers but it's not something that is altogether horrible everywhere. What really matters is whether I am in control or not.

Comment Re:self-rescue (Score 1) 33

This is why I have regular flares, orange smoke flares, signal flash, water, food, bedding, etc...
When I go into the wilderness. I've never had to use anything more than water, food, bedding, matches/lighter, and bandages.
I'm prepared for more, but if the shit hits the fan, I want rescue teams to find me or those I'm with as fast as possible.

Comment Re:Well, rationally speaking... (Score 1) 449

While that is a very interesting story, it's certainly not the case for every juvenile offender.I have seen entire families that are crooks use their children to commit robberies, burglaries, shoplifting, and more. The reason is that the kids get slaps on the wrist and zero jail time for committing the same crimes as their older family members. There have been gang members so entrenched in gangs that they've beat their children for wearing the wrong color clothing!

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=823226&catid=14

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A St. Paul father has been charged for allegedly hitting his four-year-old son because the boy was wearing a shirt with the color of a rival gang

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