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Well, they've announced Mass Effect: Annihilation. The story of the Quarian Ark that everyone wanted. Unfortuantely, it's just going to be a novel now.

This one might be of interest to a few folks here.. https://vimeo.com/25118844

I've been bouncing between Shadow of War (which has hit a very grindy stage), and Borderlands 2 lately in free time between lectures and studies, I'm pondering on re-installing Saints Row 2 for the sheer hell of it.

The university is putting on a coach to take anyone with a relevant background who might be interested up to the Cyber-Security Expo in London this week, so I decided to sign up for that and register out of curiousity.

Do you remember the other year when a research group asked facebook to let them run a research experiment? They spent one week using the news feeds of over 600,000 people worldwide. They divided them into groups, and slanted their news feeds to provide positive or negative news and then saw how people responded. Amazingly they discovered that if people only get negative news feeds, they start to post in a negative/down manner themselves, while people who get a majority of positive news feeds tend to post in a more up-beat and happy manner. The thing of course, is that no-one asked any of the people on FB if they wanted to take part. Apparently it's an automatic agreement to let Facebook do whatever they want when you click accept on those terms and conditions.

BBC - Pole Dancing is a Sport

Heh, I had a lecture in the week about Privacy and Internet Ethics. The lecturer showed us how easy it is to access Facebook API and developer and just how much information FB will provide to anyone using them. He then did a "Yeah, I stopped using FB 11 months ago when I found this" but he did amuse everyone present by whipping up a quick thing with the developer and then setting it on his own facebook to show what it extracts.

https://youtu.be/kB15UFO5ebA It can be strangely interesting to see how things got made...

Where on earth did you find it for £22? I keep seeing it for £34-39.

Sen. Klobuchar Questions Sen. Sessions on Media Protections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppBGvOeIcNE (at the 54:00 mark)

And it's all natural, all recycled...

Just be wary of Solyent Green...

For a fairly easy read explaining the changes occuring in the ACA What it means for you : The administration's "cost sharing" reduction funding cuts

Let's put it this way, the central setting is a small country in Africa that happens to have had ultra-advanced super-science beyond the rest of the planet, but no-one else is really aware of that fact. They have giant holographic shields to fake out modern day satellites, and closed / protected borders that don't allow outsiders easy access.. But at the same time of haviing all this advanced technology, they manage to successfully combine it with the supposed best parts of tribal, clost to nature lifestyle and attitudes, while also having good ethics, morality and human rights.