This is a pretty good idea as dogs like to smell genitals anyway. They should do it for testicular cancer too.

It wouldn't make sense for him to romanize it like that. His target market is regular Americans who are not at all familiar with the Japanese language.

They would pronounce "sake" to rhyme with "wake" (as in wake up) or "hake" (as in the fish). They are much more likely to pronounce "saké", using a diacritic, correctly.

The correct romanization scheme to use for Japanese depends entirely on the context.

I read 'World Maker Faire' and I think, "wow, that sounds shitty." 'Faire' is obviously terrible, but 'Maker' isn't a great word either. Can't they think of something that sounds less naff?

That's interesting: Do you think that 'It is notoriously hard to predict the brightness of "new" comets' because of Kokoutek?

I'm 22 and I think this sounds pretty cool. I'm already addicted to achievements in videogames, why not be addicted to achievements in programming, too?

It's like the drug dealers who gave out free samples of crack with the heroin they sold.

If you don't have to worry about gravity, making really big receivers and transmitters isn't much of an issue.

When I want to be 'random' I map successive digits of pi to whatever problem I am considering. (In this case, 1-3: rock, 4-6: paper, 7-9: scissors.)

Apparently memorising hundreds of those as a kid wasn't worthless after all!

This Newspaper is the worst kind of British rag. If the judgement day had come, and the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse were carving a path across the Earth, this paper would run an article about some minor celeb's new boob job.

He is my MP too. He seems to be a pretty good guy, his voting patterns in the past have generally agreed with my view on things. I was thinking about voting Conservative (really, I wanted to vote "not labour") but after this Bill, I will vote for Don.

Uh?

How is he a marine? He appears to be a British soldier. The British Marines are nothing like the US Marines - they are commando units used for specific, maritime activities, rather than being general purpose, semi-elite troopers.

Internet Spaceships are SERIOUS BUSINESS for a lot of the people in EVE, who tend to be much more in to the game than players of other MMOs. If the Devs didn't come down hard on this, the forums would be in open revolt.

Note how, at the end of the article, they are careful to inform us that no Devs were involved in carrying out the exploit. The last time a big story like this broke, it was to do with a Dev cheating, and the players were in uproar.

Eve is all about breaking the 4th wall. Hell, CCP employ a real, Phd-equipped economist to analyse their game, and provide market analysis every few months. The spy scene in Eve is quite famous too - most of that is carried out through mechanics outside of the game. Eve is not WoW, the userbase demand a completely different treatment of bugs such as this, that could potentially effect the balance of in-game politics.

You guys know that, In the UK at least, git is a moderate insult with the same meaning as bastard? Why, just earlier today a friend of mine referred to me as a "Jammy Git".

At least it will make any future lectures on Perl I attend more interesting.

I couldn't point at someone and say "he is Bangladeshi", so I don't know if there are communities of Bangladeshi immigrants in London who are so tightly nit that they refuse to intergate, but for Indians and other peoples from that region of the world, they tend to become "Londeners" by the second generation.

The UK is not the country it was 150 years ago. London today is a very multicultural place.

To be fair though, lots of people /are/ stupid enough to fall for this kind of thing... consider how well that "I love you" worm or whatever it was did a few years back.

With the right method, I'm sure you could con people into doing something silly with an Offical-sounding text message, and then exploit it.