Comment Re:About time (Score 1) 107
Try maximizing it .....
Comment Same here ... (Score 2, Informative) 698
... in Virginia Beach. You are not allowed to swear out on the boardwalk. http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherdale/23860378/ Picture of the signs they have posted up and down the board walk. I believe you receive a fine for violating it.
Valve's Battle Against Cheaters 336
wjousts writes "IEEE Spectrum takes a look behind the scenes at Valve's on-going efforts to battle cheaters in online games: 'Cheating is a superserious threat,' says [Steam's lead engineer, John] Cook. 'Cheating is more of a serious threat than piracy.' The company combats this with its own Valve Anti-Cheat System, which a user consents to install in the Steam subscriber agreement. Cook says the software gets around anti-virus programs by handling all the operations that require administrator access to the user's machine. So, how important is preventing cheating? How much privacy are you willing to sacrifice in the interests of a level playing field? 'Valve also looks for changes within the player's computer processor's memory, which might indicate that cheat code is running.'"
Journal Journal: Worst. President. Evar....now with Holocaust Denial! 2
Looks like the peanut farmer has taken up Holocaust denial as a hobby:
Jimmy Carter Speaks on WWII & the "So-Called" Holocaust (Video)
Submission + - Scientists find "Altruistic" brain center
Feed New Agency Seeks to Promote Indie Music Labels (nytimes.com)
Merlin, a new agency that seeks to represent the world’s independent music sector, has agreed to a deal that will allow music from Merlin clients to be sold from Web sites like MySpace.
Submission + - Pyramid Stones Were Poured, not Quarried
brian0918 writes: "Times Online is reporting that French and American researchers have discovered that the stones on the higher levels of the great pyramids of Egypt were built with concrete. From the article: 'Until recently it was hard for geologists to distinguish between natural limestone and the kind that would have been made by reconstituting liquefied lime.' They found 'traces of a rapid chemical reaction which did not allow natural crystalisation. The reaction would be inexplicable if the stones were quarried, but perfectly comprehensible if one accepts that they were cast like concrete.'"
Submission + - SPAM: Found -- the apple gene for red
FiReaNGeL writes: "Researchers have located the gene that controls the red colour of apples — a discovery that may lead to bright new apple varieties. "The red colour in apple skin is the result of anthocyanins, the natural plant compounds responsible for blue and red colours in many flowers and fruits" says the leader of the CSIRO. By identifying master genes that were activated by light, they were able to pinpoint the gene that controls the formation of anthocyanins in apples. "As well as giving apples their rosy red hue, anthocyanins are also antioxidants with healthy attributes, giving us plenty of reasons to study how the biochemical pathway leading to apple colour is regulated", researchers said."
