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I wonder what these guys think of this discovery..

Turkey is not European. Even if the EU accepts it as a member, I will not consider it to be European. It doesn't share our values, heritage or culture, and it does things like this.

lol plagiarism? http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/200604 27p2g00m0fe016000c.html

Comparing pictures of this KEK Blue Gene with pictures of Lawrence Livermore's Blue Gene/L, what strikes me is ... one of them appears to be upside-down.

Any logic to this? Or is the idea that when they add another gazillion processors to each one, they will be able to meet up nicely somewhere over the Pacific.

The censors in this country would assplode if they had to deal with those women.

The censors in this country would assplode if they had to deal with those women.

The censors in this country would assplode if they had to deal with those women.

Changes have been happening to Akihabara and Anime slowly but surely. The degradation of Electric City into a hideout for child pornographers and pedophiles was inevitable, as is evidenced by the mountain of child porn anime that is leaking out of the 2nd and 3rd stories of the much-admired electronics Mecca. Anime has progressed down this path as well, attracting more and more artistic talent, but unfortunately also attracting many people who less than seemly. Is it any wonder that an anime fan was responsible for burning down his house because his dad wouldn't buy him a figurine based on an anime character?

From Mainichi News: "The accidental order was 42 times bigger than the number of issued shares, but a computer warning of the misplaced order was overlooked." (emphasis mine)

As usual, our favorite Japanese English-language newspaper has complete coverage of the important parts of the story:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/ 051019motorgals/

Do you stil (sic) think the US is 'the richest nation on earth'? Look at unemployment, illiteracy, innumeracy, infant mortality (43rd, after Cuba!) and poverty figures for the last decades. Compare to any other country and then do the same for the added figures for the whole EU.

The United States IS "The Richest Nation on Earth." The value of our assets dwarfs the values of the assets of most nations, with only a couple coming anywhere close (Japan, China, Germany).

Look at the value of our prime assets and liabilities: our owned equity, money, real property, inventories, capital goods, net our net debt. I don't have hard numbers, and I challenge someone to find them. I'd imagine the wealth US owned (by citizens, government, and share of corporations) to be about $100 trillion. I'd estimate that this is 30% of global wealth. Probably only Japan comes even close, with maybe $30 trillion, or 10% of global wealth.

Unemployment: United States labor markets are so efficient, that unlike the socialized economies of Western Europe, if you don't have a job, you can get one. Only in Japan is unemployment better managed (at the cost of growth). Some people might be into something called 'facts' - here you go.
August 2005 - US: 4.9%. Germany: 11.6%. France: 9.9% . China: 23%, +/-20% (pick a number, any number). India: 9%. Indonesia: 9%. Japan: 4.4%.

Illiteracy: Literacy rates of countries with population of more than 150 million - US: 97% China: 91% India: 59% Indonesia: 88% Brazil: 86% Pakistan: 46%. While I'd assume EU Literacy rate is 99% (quite commendable), 3% of our population being miseducated is not a condemnation of our wealth - just our education system. Imagine what our unemployment would look like if everyone could read... (Source: CIA World Book)

The main wealth Americans have, however, is institutional. We have the ability to choose from a variety of goods and services, more enforceable rights than almost anywhere else, and impressively low corruption. When the Chinese can buy any American goods, have the right to due process and continuous ownership, responsive government, and don't have to pay off the police on a daily basis, maybe then they could build wealth.

Computer users who hacked into the popular online game "Lineage 2" used a special program that enabled them to automatically defeat the characters of other users and steal their game items, it has been learned.

The users from China who illegally accessed the game obtained credits using the program. They are thought to have sold these credits over the Internet, exchanging them for Japanese yen.

I saw this article earlier on digg, so I did some fact checking.

The original article was reported in the Mainichi Daily.

I couldn't find any reference to an such arrest at http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/.

AOU2005 968 KiB
Neo-Arcadia.com: Toutes les dernieres news 10,4 MiB
MSN-Mainichi INTERACTIVE [2005] 308 KiB

Now mod me up, shitnipples. :)

slashdot -> Voodoo Extreme -> rpg.boomtown.net -> Mainichi Shimbun

Indeed--here is the original Mainichi article for those who can read Japanese:

One interesting tidbit that Boomtown picked up but Voodoo Extreme and Slashdot left out is that the two met online through Lineage itself. A far less important detail (that Mainichi nevertheless decided to report) is that the man is in his 20s. (The woman is in her 30s.)