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Why only list DMCAs? Because they're a special subset of cases that sometimes makes Github look like the good guy? How about listing the repos they forced offline themselves for petty ideological reasons?

The 2014 report failed to list the takedown of the Gamergate hub, and this 2015 report doesn't mention how Github took down WebMConverter to strongarm the developer into changing its content.

Instead of using a broad, feel-good word like "transparency," they should just call it the DMCA report since that's the one specific kind of censorship it discloses.

Why only list DMCAs? Because they're a special subset of cases that sometimes makes Github look like the good guy? How about listing the repos they forced offline themselves for petty ideological reasons?

The 2014 report failed to list the takedown of the Gamergate hub, and this 2015 report doesn't mention how Github took down WebMConverter to strongarm the developer into changing its content.

Instead of using a broad, feel-good word like "transparency," they should just call it the DMCA report since that's the one specific kind of censorship it discloses.

Relevant reading here. Short version: a single overwrite with random data is fine, but multiple passes are overkill, mostly due to improvements in density and recording density. The only time you would need more is if the drive is old. However, the big failure of most wiping methods is that they miss remapped sectors, so an ATA Secure Erase is necessary if your drive is showing any remapped sectors.

Fusion consumes very little fuel, and therefore creates very little helium. If we converted the entire planet to 100% fusion energy it would still be several orders of magnitude short of our helium demand. https://www.reddit.com/r/asksc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmas...

No, you need to remove kbs and services.

Indeed. While some of the CoD assets were based on real-life items, they were also clearly created specifically for that game since they had various embellishments and details unique to that game (as one of the examples floating around suggests, in much the same way that AK-47s look different in different games)...which were meticulously reproduced in Orion's models, even if they covered them up with different textures.

Moreover, it sounds like Orion's developer has a history of copyright infringement. For instance, the reddit post that's blowing up links to a a set of examples of plagiaraized artwork used for achievement images in one of their other games (in fact, it may be the game they renamed and re-released, allegedly so that they could dodge the bad scores the game had on Metacritic and trick people into buying it again). And after the developer created an Indiegogo campaign with a goal of $500 to help cover their legal fees and whatnot for this DMCA takedown, the first "donation" was $500 from the developer themselves.

Everything about this dev just smells fishy, and while I typically can't stand Activision as a company (nor have I ever had a desire to play any of their CoD games, let alone actually done so), I'm having trouble finding fault with them here. It sounds like this dev is ripping off their 3D art assets and slapping some new textures on them to try and call them their own. And it seems clear that they know they're in the wrong, since when they tried to defend their models as being their own, they didn't do the obvious thing someone who was innocent would do by posting like-for-life, side-by-side shots of both their model and CoD's asset so that we could all see that theirs was unique. Instead, they posed Activision's and their guns at wildly different angles, seemingly with the intent of obscuring the similarities that would be glaringly obvious if they had provided useful side-by-shots shots...as the side-by-side shots posted by others have demonstrated.

That said, it does seem like there's some Activision shilling going on in the comments here too, what with all these ACs posting the same stuff over and over again. Not sure what to make of that, but regardless of any shilling, it doesn't change that at least from a layman's perspective, it looks like this dev lifted models from Activision, along with all of the embellishments and details that make them uniquely Activision's, and now they're being rightfully called out on it.

Microsoft has historically been seen clearing flags or changing the flag that the program reads, which is why GWX Control Panel has a task that runs every once in a while that re-checks. It doesn't mean they'll ever do it again, but it also doesn't mean they won't.

And you still end up with the expanded telemetry that they've pushed out to 7 and 8.

Depending on what things you do or don't care about, those flags may or may not be useful.

they silently changed their algorithm

And by "silently" you mean they announced the change in a thread that got more than 11,000 comments?

so that anything from their Trump subforums can't hit the front page

Bullshit. The Trump subreddit can still make the front page of /r/all, with one post at a time, same as any other subreddit. It's on there right now. What they can't do anymore is go on a voting brigade to take up a dozen slots on that page. Neither can the Sanders or Hillary subreddits, or the Sweden one, or any of a dozen others that have been annoying users lately.

It's a FAAAAKE!!

I play a lot of CS:GO, and somewhat follow the esports scene. In my experience, the competitive community is largely separate from the Twitch community. Every time I've gone to Twitch to check for interesting CS:GO streams, the top streams were all gambling and or Russian. Twitch recently added a rule that streaming gambling for more than 30 minutes will result in a ban for non-gaming content; that's probably why the 3 top streamers have left. It has nothing to do with actual Counterstrike. Additionally, I've never even heard of the Twitch tournaments; as far as I'm aware players are mostly just concerned with the Majors, large tournaments sponsored by Valve that occur 3 times a year.

Regarding the article: I've never gambled, with CS:GO skins or otherwise, and I fail to see the attraction. However, it is undoubtedly a large part of csgo, and you see the effects of it all over. Many pro teams are sponsored by gambling or betting websites, and top players carry skins that are renamed with site URLs. Through the steam market and steam trading, Valve has provided TF2 and CS:GO players with a huge amount of freedom over their virtual items. Given the ability to do what they want, this is just one of those things that people are going to do. It's unfortunate, but I value the freedom that we have and I'd rather not see Valve go the way of Twitch and Riot, who micromanage their communities and closely regulate what players can do with their own virtual items. The worst thing that could happen is that Valve forms a community management team full of a bunch of idealistic boneheads who go around banning everything they don't like.

TL;DR: CS:GO is not dead; Twitch is dead; gambling sucks but Valve has always been hands-off with the community and forcing them to control the community will result in a worse steam experience for everyone.

The hair in particular makes it look like it's based on Brianna Wu, a game developer with published and we'll received titles and demonstrated technical knowledge. Mattel did good.

Can't say that's a good plan aposematism and all that. FYI Wu hasn't had any acclaim to their titles outside of what they paid reviewers for. Every site that gave big accolades was a tablet pay-as-you-go review site, and demonstrated technical knowledge? Is that before or after they got put in their place by actual developers? Or where they're simply a sack of shit? Or they're considered one of the biggest jokes around.

Sorry, you can try polishing a turd but it's still a piece of shit in the end. And in this case, one that stinks.

If you want to use Linux but don't want to use systemd, you're forced to use a niche distro like Devuan, Gentoo or Slackware. Or you're forced to try to hack it out of your installation, which is error prone and can impact future updates. Of course, neither of these is an option for somebody who wants a usable, reliable Linux installation without systemd.

Just FYI Ubuntu 14.04 is a LTS release and uses upstart, and still has support for ~2 years, so somebody can use that.

That being said, I don't see anything wrong with Gentoo or Slackware, other than time required to compile things? It's not difficult, just time-consuming. Gentoo by nature is designed to give you as much choice as possible. I fail to see how they're unreliable. You know, ChromeOS is based on Gentoo, just saying. Also, personally, I use Void Linux and I'd say it's pretty rock solid. See chair analogy for Linux distros.

The thing about Linux is there are a lot of distributions out there. Just because the most popular distributions do things you don't like, doesn't mean you have to stick with them.

Every /. article about a lab trying this experiments has reported "thrust", and I thought we all agree that this thrust is "unexplainable".

You can't claim to have shown thrust until you rule out other explanations. The experiments have not been able to rule out other explanations. Specifically, they have not been able to show that this was not measurement error. Few of the studies have even attempted to do so.

How can something be outside of an errorbar when the errorbar is not determined?

I think we agree that not attempting to quantify your measurement error is foolish. Perhaps someone can inform the "researchers" about this.

As far as I see no creditable debunk, I consider science reports true, perhaps you should correct your attitude towards them?

There have been no published studies, because none of the "researchers" can pass peer review, because they can't show that their results are not measurement error. All theories attempting to prove the non-impossibility of this device have been thoroughly debunked. Your "creditable debunk" is the normal laws of physics, which do not permit violation of the conservation of energy/momentum. With no empirical evidence, no theory, and a mountain of both theory and evidence pointing the other direction, you are not describing science.

I can only assume that your desire for this to be true has prevented you from actually trying to evaluate whether it is true.

Every /. article about a lab trying this experiments has reported "thrust", and I thought we all agree that this thrust is "unexplainable".

You can't claim to have shown thrust until you rule out other explanations. The experiments have not been able to rule out other explanations. Specifically, they have not been able to show that this was not measurement error. Few of the studies have even attempted to do so.

How can something be outside of an errorbar when the errorbar is not determined?

I think we agree that not attempting to quantify your measurement error is foolish. Perhaps someone can inform the "researchers" about this.

As far as I see no creditable debunk, I consider science reports true, perhaps you should correct your attitude towards them?

There have been no published studies, because none of the "researchers" can pass peer review, because they can't show that their results are not measurement error. All theories attempting to prove the non-impossibility of this device have been thoroughly debunked. Your "creditable debunk" is the normal laws of physics, which do not permit violation of the conservation of energy/momentum. With no empirical evidence, no theory, and a mountain of both theory and evidence pointing the other direction, you are not describing science.

I can only assume that your desire for this to be true has prevented you from actually trying to evaluate whether it is true.

McCulloch's paper has been repeatedly torn to pieces on r/EmDrive and this current theory fares no better. No one has measured thrust beyond the error bars, none of the experimental results have passed peer review, and all theories trying to explain the supposed phenomenon have basic physical errors, and just happen to overturn one of the most fundamental and well-tested concepts in science.

I don't know what combination of ignorance, credulity, and motivated reasoning is required to believe in this. I'd suggest you should reexamine your beliefs about this phenomenon, but at the least you should not be promoting a paper which has been so thoroughly discredited.

It's not an isolated incident. Their shipping has turned to shit for many longtime Prime members.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazo...

Politifact is biased.

  "By levying 23 Pants on Fire ratings to Republicans over the past year compared to just 4 to Democrats, it appears the sport of choice is game hunting - and the game is elephants."
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/smartpolitics/2011/02/10/selection-bias-politifact-rate/

The Tampa Bay Times just endorsed Clinton for President. Why is this relevant? They own Politifact.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/45ml0p/the_tampa_bay_times_just_endorsed_clinton_for/

Apple has been accused of doing this sort of things many, many many many many times. Even before OS X ("macOS") and iOS, I also remember all kinds of features back in System 7/8/9 that started off as 3rd party extensions/programs but were pretty much fucked when Apple added something nearly identical.

I'm trying to think of a few examples where overnight a web site would be like "well, a clone of our app is basically in the new release of OS X...so we're out of business now." Can anyone with a better memory offer some examples?

I won't say, "I don't think it has," because it demonstrably has not.

The language has been released in open beta. It still has many properties that I think chase away those who approach it outside of language research communities. As a Perl 5 nostalgia fix, the learning curve is just too daunting, so as the beta progresses, I expect it to continue to build its own base of enthusiasts, the same way Perl did when it was first released.

So the language has not "flopped" yet because it hasn't had a chance to succeed yet.

It took Perl many years to go from a small toy that a trivial number of Usenet enthusiasts had heard of to a standard part of the Unix and Unix-like toolset. I don't think Perl 6 will gain traction any faster, especially given the learning curve. That's not flopping.

However, it has some substantial advantages over other languages. High on that list is the trivial nature of slinging highly functional grammars as first-class objects. That's something that you just can't do as easily in any other language that I know of. Perl 5 parsers and those of many other high level languages have some pretty severe performance penalties; yacc and its kin aren't dynamic enough; the various parser generators for Java are fast and mostly complete, but really painful to use.

Basically, you need a language that closely integrates grammars with the language itself in order gain the benefits of Perl 6. Here's and example parser I posted to reddit the other day:

https://www.reddit.com/r/perl6...

A few other notable things that I think will draw people in:

The generalization of operators over iterable sequences and the hyper-operator version of reduction are features that you're going to hear a lot more about, I suspect. Perhaps in Perl 6, perhaps in other languages that adopt these ideas. I'm especially stunned by the utility of hyper-method-invocation (foo>>.method) which dispatches a given method over any iterable sequence of objects (whether they are the same type or not).

Full macros have not yet landed, not least because we've never had a full understanding of what macros would be. We know that they need to operate on the ASTs that represent code, and all of the self-hosting properties necessary to support that are there, but the exact syntax and semantics that are most Perl-friendly haven't fully gelled, yet. Once they do, I think that every language to have true macros in the past (mostly Lisp variants) has demonstrated the power of this tool.

A few other languages auto-generate accessors for classes, but I find the way Perl 6 does it to be a substantial improvement on the field, and it really is a joy to use. I think others will feel the same.

Speaking of objects, role composition will take some time for people to get used to, but as in other languages that have had similar features, I think this will be critical to Perl 6's adoption.

There are dozens of smaller features that are just quality-of-life benefits ranging from lexical variable/named parameter passing to the way any block can be turned into an anonymous closure and even curried. Some of these will be important to some, but not to others. It will be interesting to see it play out.

FiletOfFish1066 is a 2-day-old account (as of June 13, 2016)

That's some mighty fine police work there, Lou, because the story was actually posted on May 22. Would you say the job he managed to automate was, perhaps, time-travel?

The actual user in question is NOT at your link, but instead can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/user/Fi...

Two days old? Not exactly...

So fake that the guy himself deleted the story as soon as it blew up.

This story will guarantee he'll never get another job in IT, if that handle ever gets connected to his real identity. Lots of people post stupid stuff on Facebook, and only realize they shouldn't AFTER it gets them in trouble.

Of course it's still quite possible his story is fake, but I've convincingly proven that YOU don't exist, so you don't have to worry about it...

So everybody in here is calling out how the story *may* be false etc... but what's even worse is that /u/FiletOfFish1066 is a 2-day-old account (as of June 13, 2016) and has 0 posts and 0 comments. So fake that the guy himself deleted the story as soon as it blew up.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Fi...

I was on Reddit as this happened. It was a complete clusterfuck on the part of /r/news. One or more mods were deleting anything referencing the story. For those unfamiliar with Reddit, /r/news is a "default sub" - this means new users get automatically subscribed to it. /r/news is effectively the main source of news on Reddit. The censorship meant that the attack simply wasn't on the front page for most of the day, and users were being banned for questioning the censorship.

The mods created a "megathread", where supposedly people could go to discuss the story. They began with a sticky, suggesting people leave the sub if they want to complain about censorship, and proceeded to delete fucking everything in the megathread. See https://r.go1dfish.me/r/news/c...

In that link, the comments in red are those that were deleted. The mods claimed these comments broke the rules, yet a cursory glance shows that this is not the case. Instead they censored because they didn't want another story of Islamic terrorism. It was insane that a Trump sub and /r/AskReddit ended up breaking the news on the front page. For added bonus points, on the mods was busy arguing with people in another sub where the censorship was called out, where this mod was a complete wanker. In one of the posts, their response is to tell someone to "kill yourself". http://i.imgur.com/UFlsuHV.png

A large number of people have joined a new sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/uncen...

It will never be as big as /r/News but it'll hopefully not fall to censorship. The /r/news mods should be fucking ashamed of themselves and they continue to avoid addressing the issues. Because of them, one of the largest terrorist attacks in recent US history went unreported for the best part of a day - all because of political correctness.

http://www.broderbund.com/ and http://www.broderbund.com/sear... are still there! ;)

You know. I still use it (and other clones) today in Windows. I mainly make cheap paper cards. :O

BTW, http://www.reddit.com/r/loderu... and it needs more activites. :P

Redditors are unsubscribing from r/News in protest of the moderation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...

Windows doesn't count, for a number of reasons.

Original post doesn't specify an operating system, and you can run Linux on Surface tablets. There's an entire subreddit devoted to the practice.

So YOU'RE specifically referring to high end Android tablets? Samsung tried higher end business tablets and it was a disaster. The Android tablet ecosystem is horrible. The only chick and egg problem is that no one will buy an Android tablet because of the horrible state of Android tablet apps, and no one will build Android tablet apps because, well, Android tablets are cheap garbage.

I first learned about this awful incident at Hacker News.

What scares me the most is some of the responses there which just brush it off as no big deal! There are comments there like:

It sucks this happened but I don't really care.

and

Interesting. Slightly embarrassing. Not a huge deal. Handled well.

and

Things like this happens all the time. Give them a break.

The responses are just about as bad over at reddit:

Stupid bug, but the consequences of this bug is... nada. zip.

and

this is non-news, emails are public info

To make matters worse I'm seeing comments from people pointing out that this is not acceptable getting downvoted!

It scares the living hell out me that people can think that somehow this incident was acceptable or excusable, especially when it was an organization that has to put security, privacy and trust paramount that was responsible.

This incident was not acceptable. It should be considered a total disaster.

That sounds entirely reasonable.

BRB.

It's reasonable for gawker, and threat'sand doxing are okay with feminists too. Along with getting people fired because reasons.

That sounds entirely reasonable.

BRB.

It's reasonable for gawker, and threat'sand doxing are okay with feminists too. Along with getting people fired because reasons.

Reading through the long Reddit thread, it looks as if the "telemetry" call saves the telemetry data locally; it does not seem to export it. So it's hard to call it "inserting backdoors".
From https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/c...

[–]flashmozzg 68 points 1 month ago
Apparently it's only VS15 feature. It logs at least when your app is executed. You can access logs via logman and tracerpt. Some investigation was done here recently: (lang: Russian) https://habrahabr.ru/post/2813...

[–]sammiesdog[S] 30 points 1 month ago
Are the logs a local feature (i.e. stays on the user's computer)?
And can it be disabled?

[–]flashmozzg 29 points 1 month ago
Seems to be that way. At least right now they only keep main invoked/returned, exit/abort called and such. Nothing serious.
The suggested way to disable it is adding this to your project:

extern "C"
{
        void _cdecl __vcrt_initialize_telemetry_provider() {}
        void _cdecl __telemetry_main_invoke_trigger() {}
        void _cdecl __telemetry_main_return_trigger() {}
        void _cdecl __vcrt_uninitialize_telemetry_provider() {}
};

Steve Carroll, the dev manager for the Visual Studio diagnostics team, responded directly to these concerns on Reddit. The rest of that whole thread is pretty informative as well.

Visual Studio adding telemetry function calls to binary?

http://totalsororitymove.com/t...
Be careful what you ask for.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/4c1i5k/i_need_pull_to_location_to_replace_switch_to_tab/

Basically I open a new tab, it's DIRECTLY RIGHT of my current tab (how I prefer my workflow)
I start to type a URL, awesomebar confirms, I do infact already have what I'm after open, great. I down arrow but I want it to *move* from current location (god knows where, 400 tabs open) into the new slot I just opened.

I imagine, if I could code, it would be one of the easiest plugins to make ever. I nearly posted on the Mozilla addons forums about it.

Now Clickable...

https://www.reddit.com/r/teamviewer

So you want to vote for someone who will give all of our secrets to the enemy, let people die for political gain just because she has a fucking twat? Your options are Klinton who will wreck America or Trump who will Make America Great Again.

Trump2016

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mr_Tr...

There are TONS of ideas that could be done. Anyone who reads /r/minecraft will be aware of them.

i.e.

* Separate the geometry from the texture, so you don't have to wait for half-block, stair, equivalents of a new material
* Shared / Co-operative building
* Steam Workshop
* Actual magic
* Actual quests
* New block types. i.e. Think Lego

thats not the jetsons flying cars. the state of flying cars has been AT THE TOTAL SAME for about 70 years now straight.

The Jetsons is a cartoon. Head over to /r/RetroFuturism and start looking through old concept art.
You will see that the vast majority of flying car concepts look a lot like what is available today.
The problem is that you decided to pick the one that was intentionally unrealistic for comedic purposes and decided that it was the only acceptable option.

Maybe the Democrats created the welfare state ... as Johnson said "Keep those niggers voting for us for the next 200 years".

Oh wait, that doesn't fit the narrative you want to portray?

Ah, you mean that alleged quote, which is not verified through independent sources but instead comes from a book by Ronald Kessler written decades after Johnson's death, and met by the opposite statement that it would cost the Democrats the South, that allegedly comes from a comment to Bill Moyer, but is also lacking in verification?

That particular narrative goes both ways, in case you didn't know.

Interesting that you only present one side, is it because you don't want to portray the opposite sentiment? Is it because you have your own agenda to push?

Or are you simply unaware of the quote's lack of legitimacy?

Which is it?

Maybe you actually think Abe Lincoln did warn you not to trust everything you read on the internet?

But even "Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre." is probably made up as well.

uses the same amount of power as leaving a mid sized window air conditioner running 24/7.

aka the most power hungry appliance in the entire house?

"For level 1 charging when plugged into regular 120VAC outlet, a lot of cars (like the Chevy Volt) will limit to 12A which is 1.4 kW"

https://m.reddit.com/r/askscie...

I realize the cite is reddit... feel free to correct me if its wrong.

1.4kW x 5000 parking spots = 7MW
vs 1MW baseline to run a mall, per your claim

Unless my math is wrong? That appears to be a pretty substantial increase... even if half the spots were empty. It would still be a major increase and expense for the electricity. Nevermind the significant electrical upgrades that would surely be required, not to mention the parking lot electrification infrastructure itself.

and you can see that installing a hundred or so slow charging outlets

100? In a mall with 5000 spots? we're projecting mainstream electric vehicles here. 100 is sufficient for 2015-2020... but what about when half of all new cars are electric? or 2/3rds? that's potentially not THAT far away.

There is a stand-alone update to address that very issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysad...

I keep a locally cached version of the update along with the offline SP1 and IE11 installers for doing win7 reloads. Saves ages of time and hassle. You can never be too sure which systems will suffer the dreaded "cant properly run windows update" problem. Better to just proactively install the fix.

So, in this thread we learn that if someone's fifteen year old daughter makes money by writing fake amazon reviews, then that makes her and her parent sociopathic, whore con-artists. While I suppose there might be some moral issues with writing fake reviews for money (which is really questionable since Amazon doesn't do anything to stop it, like, I don't know, actually making sure the reviewer bought the product?), can people get a fucking grip? They're fucking Amazon reviews, not priceless works of art being fabricated. I mean people turn them into jokes all the fucking time and no-one bats an eye. The economy is being raped, and you all are worried about some fifteen year old writing reviews that no one is probably going to ever read. Get some motherfucking perspective!

Actually, if, on a Mac running OS X, you do nohup blahblahblah >/tmp/blahblahlog 2>&1 & in a Terminal window in a GUI session, and then log out and log back in again, blahblahblah will still be running (verified experimentally on an El Camino (virtual) machine just now).

Shouldn't that read: "Disclaimer: verified using hacked OS image in an unsupported environment, your mileage may vary."?

No, it shouldn't, because it is a standard El Capitan running on VMware Fusion, not a Hackintoshed version of El Capitan running on some hypervisor to which Apple haven't given permission to run standard OS X.

(Sorry about the name mixup; I've been jokingly calling it "El Camino" for a while, but I meant "El Capitan", not "El Camino".)

This is the dumbest article Ars Technica has ever pushed. Ever. ..

I'm pretty sure to have seen similar concepts in 1960ies tech magazines too.

Yep, you can find those concepts over at RetroFuturism
That doesn't mean that it was possible to get the technology to work back then.

One thing that is a bit funny to me is all those flying cars concepts.
Whenever a "flying car" concept shows up on slashdot there are a plenty of people claiming that a flying car shouldn't have wings just because the one they saw on Jetsons didn't have wings, yet the vast majority of old flying car concepts from the 60ies and earlier looks surprisingly much like modern helicopters and planes.

Karen Straughan, author of GirlWritesWhat, on Reddit:

"I used to live under a young couple with a baby. I'd listen as she followed him from room to room upstairs, stomping, slamming things, throwing things, screaming. After about an hour, he'd eventually hit her, and everything would go quiet. An hour after that, they'd be out with the baby in the stroller, looking perfectly content with each other.
A man I know who has experience with men in abusive relationships would get his clients to answer a questionare. Things like, "after the violence, did you have sex?" "If so, how would you rate the sex?" 100% of men in reciprocally abusive relationships said "yes" to the first, and "scorching" to the second.
He also posited that the much-quoted cycle of violence--the build-up, the explosion, the honeymoon period--correlates with foreplay, orgasm and post-coital bliss.
Erin Pizzey called it "consensual violence", and said in the main, that was the type she'd see at her shelter. It is also the type that results in the most severe injuries in women, surprise surprise, likely because our "never EVER hit a woman" mentality has those men waiting until they completely lose control of their emotions before giving their women what they're demanding.
The DV in Sleeping with the Enemy is the most rare form out there, half as common as "matriarchal terrorism", and injuries are typically less severe. It's seriously foolish to treat all cases like the most rare type, and refuse to address women's instigation and participation in violence.
I don't really find too much in the article that strikes me as seriously ethically questionable. DV isn't pretty. Neither is the article."

While I'm sure some of them are nice enough, the movement as a whole is associated with groups like A Voice for Men and tends to spout misogynist rhetoric via its website.

https://gist.github.com/xvital...

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmas...

There are a couple utilities floating around that blocks most/all of the M$ telemetry IPs by dumping them into the hosts file. A few months ago I was able to revert a Win10 upgrade back to Win7; not sure if it lets you do that anymore.

Unlike with Windows 10, with Windows 7 you actually can remove the spyware. Check out this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmas...

THANKS!!!

Now was that so hard, guys?!?

So, if I don't have any of those "KB" files, then I never was infected with Telemetry?

Unlike with Windows 10, with Windows 7 you actually can remove the spyware. Check out this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmas...

To be fair, at least NewScientist was better, subject-matter wise, than the more recent love affair with Forbes.com

One of the things we learned during the last few months of Gamergate is that Forbes is now a glorified blogging network that pays per click. So you have a serious economic incentive to get your article out there for clicks... and tailoring a pitch for it for Slashdot is a great way to do so.

Also, that means that Forbes.com is about as newsworthy as Wordpress.com.

Clickbait: The More You Know (TM)

No, not really.

The problem is that multiplayer is completely screwed -- you spawn at some random location in the universe. Want to meet up with your buddy? Yeah, good luck with that.

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Downvote is NOT I disagree, but adds nothing useful to the discussion.

Did you just invent a new source of energy? Because even if we somehow captured all 170 Petawatts of solar energy that hits the Earth and used it to boil the ocean, we're still looking at 1 million years before it's all gone[1]. And that's assuming you somehow kept all infrared radiation from escaping to space.

[1] Calculated by dividing 170 PW from 5.58072 x 10^30 J [2] and the number of seconds in a year
[2] The amount of heat energy needed to boil the oceans