Comment Crazy Julia (Score 1) 22
You've got to be pretty damn obsessed with Turing to change your last name to his and give up such a profoundly epic name such as Schwinghamer.
Comment Re:tell me again (Score -1, Troll) 1105
What does that have to do with this?
Comment Re:Live by the walled garden... (Score 4, Insightful) 146
No, I believe it should come as a surprise when you've been working with Apple Representatives, had an update approved by their review process, then have it pulled less than a week later.
If apple wants quality apps in their store, they need to act in a predictable manner that businesses can work with.
Comment Re:Live by the walled garden... (Score 1) 146
Read the article... they had issues in the past, over-came them and believed to be in good standing, then they got pulled again.
Will Facebook Become the Net's SSO? 314
lordDallan writes "Simson Garfinkel at MIT Technology Review muses on the idea of your Facebook account becoming an 'Internet Driver's License', ruminating on the idea of an individual's Facebook login becoming their single sign on for the web. I say NO THANKS!!"
Comment Guns in lego are new? (Score 5, Insightful) 193
Wait... a gun for indiana jones is new?
When I was a kid (20 years ago), we had pirate sets with guns in them... medieval sets with swords and cross bows... weapons everywhere.... how is violence in lego anything even remotely new?
Comment Re:"controlled nuclear explosion" (Score 1) 97
^----This.
Comment Deck 36... (Score 3, Insightful) 491
Main Engineering
$10M For Unmanned Aircraft That Can Perch Like a Bird 176
coondoggie writes "Unmanned aircraft maker AeroVironment got an additional $5.4 million to further develop a diminutive aircraft that can fly into tight spaces undetected, perch and send live surveillance information to its handlers. Last Fall, AeroVironment, got $4.6 million initial funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the Stealthy, Persistent, Perch and Stare Air Vehicle System (SP2S), which is being built on the company's one-pound, 29-inch wingspan battery-powered Wasp unmanned system."
Comment Re:Can somebody explain how it works? (Score 1) 189
This one fits in your pocket, and is happy to see you.
Comment Re:Let me be the first (Score 1) 52
Everything is insanely expensive there because of import costs.
Comment Re:Online Bias! (Score 4, Interesting) 183
Agree. Being conducted online, it shows a bias to computer users who are more likely to be gamers. Now go do the same study by having people stand in a strip mall holding clip boards where there is a movie theater nearby.
Comment Re:If roles were reversed? (Score 1) 296
He wants the big record labels to be okay with him using their IP in derivative works.
Why would he not be okay with the reverse?
Comment Re:+1 (Score 1) 296
Maybe it was my tone? *shrug*
Comment Re:If roles were reversed? (Score 4, Insightful) 296
If they used his work as a component in yet another derivative work? I'm sure he'd be just fine with it.
