I've found that "changing" the viewing options in the thread will work. Nothing actually needs to be changed, but the subject lines are visible when viewing from comments.pl instead of the main story page.
First, I agree that the death in VR = death in real life may be foolish.
However, your use of dreaming to support your argument is not made with the proper perspective. In your dreams of dinosaurs chasing you have you ever been killed or even felt pain? I doubt it. I don't know any scientific proof behind this, but from what I've experienced and what other people have told me, I have no stories that support the presence of physical pain or ones own death experienced in dreams. Even though what's happening my seem real, the body knows it isn't. However, in VR the senses could be fooled into thinking it is real. Pain could be felt and you might be able to die.
Like I said before, I'm not saying this means you will die in real life, I just feel you need a better comparison to support yourself.
Of course this has nothing to do with cookies or anything even close, but how much would you bet that the anti-cookie advocates are going to try and use this somehow? The media's willingness to purposely scare the public is obvious as was shown by y2k. Hopefully they avoid the temptation this time and say what it really means for the safety of online transactions, not much.
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Some of the 50% that guessed wrong may already be included in the 1/3, so you can't just add the two numbers.
I've found that "changing" the viewing options in the thread will work. Nothing actually needs to be changed, but the subject lines are visible when viewing from comments.pl instead of the main story page.
First, I agree that the death in VR = death in real life may be foolish.
However, your use of dreaming to support your argument is not made with the proper perspective. In your dreams of dinosaurs chasing you have you ever been killed or even felt pain? I doubt it. I don't know any scientific proof behind this, but from what I've experienced and what other people have told me, I have no stories that support the presence of physical pain or ones own death experienced in dreams. Even though what's happening my seem real, the body knows it isn't.
However, in VR the senses could be fooled into thinking it is real. Pain could be felt and you might be able to die.
Like I said before, I'm not saying this means you will die in real life, I just feel you need a better comparison to support yourself.
Of course this has nothing to do with cookies or anything even close, but how much would you bet that the anti-cookie advocates are going to try and use this somehow? The media's willingness to purposely scare the public is obvious as was shown by y2k. Hopefully they avoid the temptation this time and say what it really means for the safety of online transactions, not much.