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and make use of enough data points

The point was raised. We think we can create AI to find patterns because humans aren't capable of programming enough complexity in to account for it. But who do you think is making all that AI code and setting the standards for training it? The simple fact is that unless the AI was in a position of complete dominion over people with the ability to "die" and its competitor AIs to take its place will we ever hope to see creation of Evotars. As it stands, Facebook, Google, etc all want their AI to succeed over all the others and that means they're inherently trying to rig their AI to win. That also inherently means theirs will fail.

Although it seems to over control the population it does have some merit. Imagine a world in which those that behave well have far more privilege than those that misbehave.

If Hitler were running the show good behavior would be linked to the number of jews you gassed.

One persistent lesson from history people especially those living in more or less stable societies are incapable of understanding or internalizing is the simple fact power ALWAYS corrupts the user. Socialists in particular are uniquely unable to accept this basic fact.

For more information:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Fel

. This could start early in life with credit given for those who do well in their studies, take on extras such as school sports teams, school bands etc.. Further those that wish to come and do maintenance for the school a few hours a week could start to step ahead of those that do not. Rewards for doing the right thing might offer a better life for all in society.

In other words if you were a jerk off who spent their time playing video games and tagging neighbors you're really fucked now. If you spent all of your free time helping your parents because they were sick or as poor as shit no credits for you. If you hate school or sports or bands no credits for you.

Do what the king likes get rewarded.
Do what the king doesn't like get fucked.

Look at some of the current people in our government. Many of them are terrible and items like being only allowed to live in low class housing might be wonderful for society as every time they get caught doing wrong their lives decline. As an example Trump has a terrible record socially. his cheating and crimes are well known. Instead of being president he should be allowed only the most humble jobs and living conditions.

He was elected president of the United States by the people of the United States. Who the fuck are you to dictate what he should or should not be able to do? A wannabee totalitarian dictator? Sounds like it.

The people of the United States deserve to have Trump as their dumbass dipshit president for four whole glorious years. They deserve nothing less. They are WINNING.

I'll bite - how?

Three words motherfucker: "Muon Catalyzed Fusion".

Are you suggesting that (re)opening a coal plant be considered an act of war?

No plants made of coal are known to exist. Even if it were considered an act of war nobody would be able to commit it.

If so, do you support the notion of bombing the crap out of any nation that tries to (re)open a coal plant?

Hypothetically speaking it may be worth considering. See below.

Good luck with convincing anyone that bombing someone far away is a good solution to pollution or AGW

Global thermonuclear war can significantly lower global temperatures for decades.

Or do you just want a treaty signed by every nation on the planet?

I want a global treaty banning use of Fel.

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Fel

Spectre, unlike Meltdown, will haunt for years to come.

As she's been doing since 2006 https://dota2.gamepedia.com/Sp...

FaceBook just needs to add a feature that allows people to "Like" likes.

That's a good way to get your shield eaten.

There's obviously nothing so special about Minecraft that it would require any of the new APIs in Windows 10.

Any evidence to back that up?

Okay, have a cookie: "Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition is an adaptation of Minecraft Pocket Edition to run on the universal Windows 10 platform. It contains the same features as in Pocket Edition with a few additions, and is also capable of running on devices such as the HoloLens. [...] In addition to features existing in Pocket Edition, the Windows 10 Edition also has the ability to play with up to seven players using Xbox Live and also others using Pocket Edition through Pocket Realms or local multiplayer with an update that was released shortly after the initial beta version. Some other additional exclusive features include multiple control schemes, a player feedback feature, and the ability to record and share gameplay with Windows 10's built in GameDVR." So there you go, I was wrong (gasp): there is one feature in the new MC that requires Windows 10. However, it is not central to the product, and could easily simply be left off of versions for prior editions of Windows. I'm going to file this under "irrelevant to the point".

Maybe they ran into bedrock, only admins can remove that.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com...

Minecraft: Pocket Edition is already re-written in C++.

Buy him a copy of minecraft and help him learn how to make Redstone circuits and Command blocks

Buy him a copy of minecraft and help him learn how to make Redstone circuits and Command blocks

I've been using BSD for a long time, both in OpenBSD and FreeBSD. FreeBSD is fantastic. I use mostly just plain Xorg and i3 window manager. With emacs, LaTeX and conkeror I can accomplish all that I need to do, and do it efficiently. However you can put as many bells and whistles on your installation as you want. True, you could do that with linux but there are some very important advantages with using FreeBSD:

1/ ZFS file system. This alone is worth switching to FreeBSD. If you don't know what it is, learn how to use it. What is extremely useful is doing "zfs send" of snapshots to another machine. Need more storage? Just add a disk to the pool. ZFS is very much production grade in FreeBSD 10.1.

2/ Jails. These are better than VirtualBox in my humble opinion, but they do have a learning curve. The advantage is putting each jail on a zfs filesystem where you can do snapshots of different stages of your application deployment and if something doesn't work you can simply rollback. Yes, I know you can do this with VMWare and the rest but jails allow me to access the filesystem directly in the command line and in general it is much more intuitive for my work habits. Note that you can also install jails of different flavors - for instance a debian jail where you can run everything just like it is on linux.

VirtualBox works just fine on FreeBSD, but I'll admit I haven't used it much.

3/ General simplicity of the system. Linux is fastly becoming as non-unix like as possible [though to be fair GNU is Not Unix]. Just a simple install of Ubuntu and you will see tons of processes running that you sometimes wonder what they are all up to. This may provide some utility for some people, but most people will never use those features. In FreeBSD I know exactly what each process is doing and it is very easy to turn off or enable as I desire. FreeBSD provides me control because I know the system, and the system is easier to know because it is much simpler and in my opinion more coherently designed.

4/ Much better documentation. FreeBSD (and BSD in general) has a good reputation for providing documentation. Almost everything you need is in the handbook. Also there is a lot of stability in the way things are done. Often in Linux the entire manner of doing things is changed from one version to another. Plus there are no monstrosities like NetworkManager which are opaque and not very well documented.

5/ More secure - a system is only as secure in as much as you know how it is working and what it is doing. In this case FreeBSD is more secure because I know more of what it is doing. With Ubuntu giving web searches every time you try to find a file on your machine, there is just asking for trouble.

6/ The system is more responsive. FreeBSD simple feels more 'alive' in the sense it is doing only what you want it to do. You don't have to wait for that useless application to stop doing what it is doing because it is not there. You don't need to wait for the indexing of the harddrive to give you back control of the system, as you decide when it should be done, etc. But I think even the UI elements are much smoother even on large desktops like KDE. The scrolling of windows for instance seems much more responsive than it is on linux, but that could be due to all sorts of factors.

As to your particular needs:
A/ Minecraft works just fine. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com...
B/ I have no idea, but an acquaintance tells me it works. In the forums they mention FreeBSD so someone must be using it.
C/ Mplayer works just fine, but I've seen a lot of people use VLC.
D/ Firefox works extremely well, though I use Conkeror which is simply a different shell to the same browser.
E/ Flash works with a multiple of different options.
F/ No idea to be honest about OpenRA. If there is source code I'm sure you could get it to run. At the very worst there is a linux-emulation layer.
G/ All the major Desktop Environments are in

While a game was supposed to be nonviolent, plenty of Minecraft servers seem to have added functionality that allows direct fighting and ability to kill other players. Chat capabilities go unmonitored and "adult language" is widespread.

So do not let your child play, unsupervised, on these public servers. You cannot get to a server without specifically adding the server address (which you typically get by searching on the internet).

Better yet, run your own server. It's free, easy to set up, and super fun (for my family). It also provided me with a way to make my job sound intersting to my kids (My dad runs all the Minecraft servers at his work!)

Portal and Portal 2 are all about murdering people! Of course in this instance the people that are being murdered are the protagonists but it's not like it's non-violent.

I'm a big proponent of Minecraft as an educational tool. Granted it also has violence too but I'd say it's a less violent game than the Portal games. At it's basic level it teaches survival in a hostile world. If the kids get into it, it teaches planning, resource management, resource conservation, programming, and math, and also spurs creativity. Add in multiplayer and it teaches basic tenets of society like community, sharing/trading of goods, and respect of others property. It really is the best edutainment ever invented.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

From 2011

You might think this is getting to be epidemic in China or somebody over there takes advantage of gullible westerners ?

ok, I'd like to argue your point. You seem to think online gaming addiction isn't a "Thing"
First you'll have to accept that "Gambling addiction" is real and causes people do these same sorts of things. If you don't that's a different argument.

Then I, of course, am going to say that Online Gaming addiction is one and the same as Gambling addiction. And not that they are similar to or trigger similar things in the brain... no, it's that online gaming has turned into true gambling.

As an example I'm going to cite "Neverwinter Online"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

It's not the only one like this, but it's a good example of what I mean. They've taken strategies strait out of casinos and applied them to an MMO.

First, they have so many currencies that are so confusing you can never keep track of what you have. There are dozens, if not over 100 of them:
http://neverwinter.gamepedia.c...

Secondly, you can BUY one of these currencies with real money. Zen:
https://billing.arcgames.com/e...

Then you can turn around any buy a whole host of items with this Zen in the game.
But, those items are expensive. But, you can buy "Keys" that open magic boxes that drop like rain in the game.
Those boxes have completely undisclosed "odds" that can change at random.

This is where it gets interesting...

You can then sell the items that you got in those boxes at a profit in their online auction house.
Then use the money you get from the sales to buy more keys
Open more boxes
You're getting the idea...

On occasion you'll get a "winner" and get some fantastic item that sells for a lot.
Often you'll lose a "small" amount and on occasion a LOT
To get back into the game you have to buy more Zen...

and it goes on like this. This is clearly gambling in my eyes. People are being used an manipulated. The fact that they hide the odds should be a red flag, but it's still going on. And before you argue that this isn't gambling because you don't get real world cash out of it... you can. There are plenty of people that will buy your currency for real money if you're selling cheaper than the game is. They make no attempt at all to stop it. There are a lot of people that make their entire living in markets like this. Ironically, most of them in China.

So yes, I think it could get as crazy as these articles suggest. I don't propose banning it or anything. But more disclosure on odds... less pretend bullshit that this is anything less than what it is: Gambling... would do us all some good.

...whose mind went a completely different direction?
I saw Blood Moon and thought, "Holy shit, gotta block up the doors! Zombies incoming!"
Maybe 200 hours of playing Terraria is entirely too much.

I was tooling around in the freebie Advanced Escort for a long time. I recently acquired a Fleet Chimera Heavy Destroyer in exchange for just 20,000 fleet credits and a single 500 zen ship module, though you do have to be Vice Admiral rank and your fleet has to have a tier 2 Dyson sphere spire in order to get it. The nice thing is even if I didn't want to spend $5 on the ship module, it really wouldn't take much time to earn/mine enough dilithium to exchange for the zen, I just tend to put all of my earned dilithium into the fleet unless I have a project that needs it, which is pretty seldom.

I'm glad they added ship loadouts. It makes it easy to swap your best gear out between ships so that you can use whichever one you want for a task instead of using one and having seven (or more) collecting dust.

I was tooling around in the freebie Advanced Escort for a long time. I recently acquired a Fleet Chimera Heavy Destroyer in exchange for just 20,000 fleet credits and a single 500 zen ship module, though you do have to be Vice Admiral rank and your fleet has to have a tier 2 Dyson sphere spire in order to get it. The nice thing is even if I didn't want to spend $5 on the ship module, it really wouldn't take much time to earn/mine enough dilithium to exchange for the zen, I just tend to put all of my earned dilithium into the fleet unless I have a project that needs it, which is pretty seldom.

I'm glad they added ship loadouts. It makes it easy to swap your best gear out between ships so that you can use whichever one you want for a task instead of using one and having seven (or more) collecting dust.

Yep, I feel the same way about STO, I'd play it more except it doesn't work very well under Wine now.

I'm experiencing the symptoms descibed in the Performance Degradation subthread:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...

A couple of months ago, I was getting annoyed by the ugliness of my "golf ball" Olympic Research Science Vessel,

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Resea...

so I ponied up some cash for some points to get a Nebula.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Advan...

While the nebula did have a few advantages over the RSV, the ensign slot is generic and has more crew/hull and another engineering console slot (and the Tachyon console) , but it loses serious maneuverability, it turns like a brick. Which is why you need the extra hull. So it's not like you're paying to win with it.

Then again, it is not ugly.

Now once I reached captain, I was quite happy with the default Intrepid.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Long_...

Course, everyone loves the Intrepid.

Yep, I feel the same way about STO, I'd play it more except it doesn't work very well under Wine now.

I'm experiencing the symptoms descibed in the Performance Degradation subthread:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...

A couple of months ago, I was getting annoyed by the ugliness of my "golf ball" Olympic Research Science Vessel,

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Resea...

so I ponied up some cash for some points to get a Nebula.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Advan...

While the nebula did have a few advantages over the RSV, the ensign slot is generic and has more crew/hull and another engineering console slot (and the Tachyon console) , but it loses serious maneuverability, it turns like a brick. Which is why you need the extra hull. So it's not like you're paying to win with it.

Then again, it is not ugly.

Now once I reached captain, I was quite happy with the default Intrepid.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Long_...

Course, everyone loves the Intrepid.

Yep, I feel the same way about STO, I'd play it more except it doesn't work very well under Wine now.

I'm experiencing the symptoms descibed in the Performance Degradation subthread:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...

A couple of months ago, I was getting annoyed by the ugliness of my "golf ball" Olympic Research Science Vessel,

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Resea...

so I ponied up some cash for some points to get a Nebula.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Advan...

While the nebula did have a few advantages over the RSV, the ensign slot is generic and has more crew/hull and another engineering console slot (and the Tachyon console) , but it loses serious maneuverability, it turns like a brick. Which is why you need the extra hull. So it's not like you're paying to win with it.

Then again, it is not ugly.

Now once I reached captain, I was quite happy with the default Intrepid.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Long_...

Course, everyone loves the Intrepid.

Path of Exiles. On Steam. Integrates with your steam account for login & purchases. Free to play! Sales are purely cosmetic, with the exception of an (unnecessary) larger stash. It's what Diablo 3 SHOULD have been!

Stash can go up to over 64,000 tabs. Most people never need more than the (free) default. Really over the top skill-tree. All classes can get any skill in the tree, can use any weapon or armor (if you have the stats from the skill tree), can use any spells. Your class just determines where you start on the skill-tree, and what your quest rewards are. Complexity is as high as you want to make it. There is no gold. Everything is traded for "currency items".

Caveats: If you don't know graph theory, that skill-tree will make you learn. My only gripe so far: To few keybindings for spell-gems. (All spells are socketed gems. Some help connected gems.)

Path of Exiles. On Steam. Integrates with your steam account for login & purchases. Free to play! Sales are purely cosmetic, with the exception of an (unnecessary) larger stash. It's what Diablo 3 SHOULD have been!

Stash can go up to over 64,000 tabs. Most people never need more than the (free) default. Really over the top skill-tree. All classes can get any skill in the tree, can use any weapon or armor (if you have the stats from the skill tree), can use any spells. Your class just determines where you start on the skill-tree, and what your quest rewards are. Complexity is as high as you want to make it. There is no gold. Everything is traded for "currency items".

Caveats: If you don't know graph theory, that skill-tree will make you learn. My only gripe so far: To few keybindings for spell-gems. (All spells are socketed gems. Some help connected gems.)

Path of Exiles. On Steam. Integrates with your steam account for login & purchases. Free to play! Sales are purely cosmetic, with the exception of an (unnecessary) larger stash. It's what Diablo 3 SHOULD have been!

Stash can go up to over 64,000 tabs. Most people never need more than the (free) default. Really over the top skill-tree. All classes can get any skill in the tree, can use any weapon or armor (if you have the stats from the skill tree), can use any spells. Your class just determines where you start on the skill-tree, and what your quest rewards are. Complexity is as high as you want to make it. There is no gold. Everything is traded for "currency items".

Caveats: If you don't know graph theory, that skill-tree will make you learn. My only gripe so far: To few keybindings for spell-gems. (All spells are socketed gems. Some help connected gems.)