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It is pretty idiotic that our foreign policy and military establishment seem intent on picking periodic fights with China over stupid little things rather than trying to elevate the relationship to become close allies.

Have you been living under a rock for the last several years? The Chinese have been using dredgers to build artificial islands atop coral reefs in the South China Sea, and these islands are now equipped with huge runways for operating military craft from fighters to patrol aircraft to medium bombers; all so they can project firepower over the entire South China Sea. To simply claim the entire Sea right up to the coasts of their regional neighbors as their own is one thing, but China has invested in a massive military build-up to back up their claims with raw force. Many of those nations are our regional allies, especially the Philippines. And if that's not enough, the Chinese have long engaged in hostile cybercrimes against the United States, not only hacking critical military defense information (like the information on the F-35 they stole) but also an ongoing government-ran campaign to steal American commercial trade secrets that mirrors their complete and utter disdain for Western Intellectual Property rights.

And you're going to tell me that America is the one "picking fights" because we dared sail a ship too close to a few of their sand-castles? Freedom of Navigation exercises are run frequently, all over the globe, and are NOT mutually exclusive with traditional diplomacy.

I understand that some people are deeply suspicious or even disdainful of America's role in world politics; but when you try to make out the 800 pound gorilla of Asia - who's busy mugging everyone it can get its hairy paws on - as the poor victim here, you just come across as a moron.

Right, so again no specific complaints about any of the sources, just general vague ad-homs against the sources. In any case, here are the full, uncensored IRC logs:

http://puu.sh/boAEC/f072f259b6...
http://archive.today/Ler4O

The second one was released by GamerGaters themselves. Documented here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

You can grep those logs yourself, and watch as they plan false flag operations, create fake social media accounts etc.

As for Sarkeesian doxing, I tracked down the original tweet: https://twitter.com/femfreq/st...

As you can see, the person in your source has carefully edited the image to make it look like there might have been some personal information there. In fact the information that was blacked out was an obviously fake email address and the "name" is "W.G., the Daily Telegraph interview request", not even an actual name.

You really should spend 1 minute checking these things out before believing them. That's how long it too to type the text of the tweet into Google and reveal the scam.

Here are the full IRC logs, released by GamerGate themselves: http://puu.sh/boAEC/f072f259b6...

They released them after Zoe Quinn posted some damning screenshots from the channel. Their hope was that the vast data dump would be so large that no-one would bother with it, but in fact all they did was provide independent confirmation that everything she wrote was true.

Here is some analysis, which you can easily verify is accurate with grep and the above file: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

As for feminists claiming that female gamers don't exist... That's so bizzaro I don't even know where to begin. Why would a movement that supports recognition of women deny that they exist? Why does Sarkeesian keep complaining about how companies presume their customers are straight males and ignoring female gamers? Why does Wu make games designed to appeal to female gamers if she denies that they exist?

The raw logs:

Independent GamerGate release of full logs: http://puu.sh/boAEC/f072f259b6...

Original partial release that prompted GG to doc dump: https://storify.com/strictmach...

Basically Quinn made her post, and then GG released full logs in the hope that the vast amount of information would overload anyone looking at it. Unfortunately they didn't reckon with grep and the fact that they used easily searchable keywords, so you can verify everything quite easily.

Analysis:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...

If you scroll down a bit in either article there is a screenshot of where a 4chan anon invented #notyourshield to "deflect genuine criticism." They have form of course, they also invented #EndFathersDay.

If our comments weigh a pound a piece, are we safe to fly now? http://puu.sh/kxOjL/0fb5958d2f...

Are you insinuating that the captured IRC etc. traffic on display there is faked?

No, I'm pointing out that it exposes the GGers. For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, there is a good summary here: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

The full log is here: http://puu.sh/boAEC/f072f259b6...

You can search it easily for keywords. I'm still kind of amazed that with all the planning and effort they put into GG they made the obvious mistake of using a public IRC room to organize it all, speaking quite openly about their real motives and how they were astroturfing the hell out of social media with sock puppet accounts.

But the F6F Hellcat is not simply an "Upengined F4F."

Quite correct! The F6F went from the Wildcat's 9-cylinder radial to the beastly 18 cylinder Double Wasp radial engine. The airframe had to be lengthened and modified just to admit that engine, and the whole shebang became bigger to admit other improvements (such as a hydraulic system to raise the landing gear.) The F6F was a direct developmental step up from the F4F, just as the F4F was a further refinement based on the F3F (which was a biplane!) It's worth mentioning that a "true" upengined F4F did exist; the FM-2. The larger Hellcat couldn't operate off of smaller escort carriers, so F4Fs were re-engined for service on them.

And even it couldn't (or wasn't supposed to) dogfight with a Zero, because the Zero was more maneuverable.

Not quite. Hearken back to roll rate being the most important aspect of maneuverability, then consult this old NACA roll rate chart. The Zero was a very poor roller, which meant it was in trouble versus any foe who declined to pull into a sustained turn. Against the Wildcat it had its phenomenal climbing ability... but the F6F retained the Wildcat's excellent roll rate and drastically increased the power available. The Zero could still out-climb an F6F on paper, but if it tried to get on a Hellcat's tail by entering a loop (enticing the pursuer to climb after and stall out, which would reverse their positions,) the Zero would simply be riddled with bullets as it hovered at the top of its loop by the Hellcat, whereas a Wildcat would've stalled out before it could draw a bead. The Zero's handling became more and more atrocious as airspeed increased, and though it was light and accelerated quite well, it retained energy poorly through sustained maneuvers (poor inertia.) There are many, many ways to dogfight that do not entail tight turns and do not involve a series of boom-and-zoom passes such as the rolling scissors, straight and circular yo-yos and so forth.

The F-35 doesn't appear to have any of the advantages. It's slower

That doesn't count for as much as you might think in air combat maneuvering. Aircraft bleed energy when they turn, so power/weight ratio, acceleration and the "cleanness" of the aircraft (its drag co-efficient) play a much greater role. This "report" with no name and no source is long on buzzwords and short on details; it alleges that the F-35 falls behind in the energy game, but the only reason mentioned in the article is the pilot using the energy-intensive sideslip to gain angles for shots. What about vertical performance? Were they going for supersonic snapshots in the merge, or taking tail-end shots during flat or rolling scissors? Remember, we heard the same inane complaints about the F-22 from the Fighter Mafia, including the gem "it's too big and will be spotted easily." Being big and easy to see didn't inhibit the P-47 back when the Mk1 eyeball was the only sensor, much less in the radar age. And the F-22 has an insane nose-pointing ability, which we only know about because a pilot slipped up and alluded to its post-stall turning ability (vectored thrust and all.) It can also hit supersonic speed at military power, without need for gas-guzzling afterburners, which alone ensures it's going to enter a fight with more energy to start with, as well as retain energy well (it has to be very slick to achieve supersonic without afterburners!) This didn't spare it the same rough treatment the F-14 received, or the F-18, or indeed any US built fighter that isn't the sainted and precious F-16. Between the scant - and suspect - statements in the article, and the decades-long pattern of nonsense slander hurled at every new airframe that isn't "light," I can't help but feel the article is incredibly suspect.

There is an on-going FBI investigation, but it takes time. There is a lot of evidence to go through. For example, after Quinn posted IRC logs showing the GamerGaters organizing their trolling and talking openly about it, GG published the full IRC logs: http://puu.sh/boAEC/f072f259b6... (warning: very large text file)

It's going to take a long, long time to go through those logs, build up profiles of those users and gather together the relevant sections where they post incriminating material, then tie that up with Twitter accounts. Victims will need to be identified (many of the sock puppet accounts used stolen profile pictures from social media), both to include them in the charges and to make sure it wasn't them posting. Information will need to be requested from Twitter, and then ISPs, and then local cops will probably be involved in the actual arrests.

The good news is that GamerGate seems to have mostly shut up and the amount of trolling has decreased since those logs were published. Maybe some of the trolls are already in custody, maybe they are just laying low and hoping they don't get caught.

Ok prosthetic hands are very important work. But i foresee the evolution of FUFME taking a giant leap forward

You mean this guy
http://puu.sh/90GV5.jpg

may be he will may be he wont, lot's of people know his face now

This is the piece of shit http://puu.sh/90GV5.jpg

The only issue is that you can't play while your friend plays. Proof!

And no, I don't think I'm misunderstanding as it doessay library instead of game.

Neither, considering that the article mentions 3% muzzle energy of an .22 LR which is different than the muzzle velocity. Proof: this picture here

This is apparently what (part of?) the battle looked like... talk about a clusterfuck...

http://puu.sh/1TcVz

Well, while the site is being hammered, I'll post this here...

Running here on a Mac, the application pops up an error window after the opening text sequence: http://puu.sh/12dax and exits.