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That's really strange, I seem to recall Linux DEs having user switching features long before systemd.

Read the fucking article, KDE contains code to interface with five different user management interfaces, but they think logind is the best and they want to clean up their code and just support logind.

(e.g. I press the suspend button, put laptop in bag, oops now it's overheating because it never actually finished going to sleep)

So you are saying that if it doesn't work as promised, it will suck and be broken. You just somehow know it will suck even though it's not done yet. Have you ever closed the lid on a laptop, then later opened it and found it displaying all your desktop windows and then going to the unlock screen? I hate that.... if this does work as promised, I want this.

For most of the other stuff there's no good reason for it to be monolithically lumped into one big piece of software.

SystemD is a collection of small pieces of software. Together it makes a big system but you probably haven't paid any attention to it.

Most of the stuff you listed already was implemented outside the init system

Alot of the SystemD features are "do X without root," fine grained control over hardware.... like logind lets X run without root.

if it's decided that those things are desired by multiple DEs, then they can simply be implemented in a generic version that still exists outside the init system.

Like already mentioned UselssD and SystemBSD?

According to heise.de, just marked "non-exportable" (sorry, no English link):

        http://www.heise.de/newsticker...

Person that reported this initially:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/techn...

Apparently being non-exportable is no protection whatsoever, and people are already offering the CA cert for download, which then lets everybody sign for this CA.

It is hard to display more fundamental incompetence with regards to certificate handling.

Victims are harmless, armed or not; you take them by surprise and you take them down. If they have weapons, you take them away before they can use them--this is hilariously easy when you attack someone and they turn out to have a firearm. A knife is actually more of a difficult proposition.

Citations, please. You have stated as fact that nobody ever successfully uses a firearm to prevent a violent attack, and that a knife is more likely to work for this purpose.

There is solid research estimating that firearms are used in the USA about two million times each year to prevent a violent crime. Most of these "defensive gun uses" do not involve anyone being killed or even anyone firing the gun; the defender deterred the assailant just by having a gun.

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdguse.html

If you think a knife is a better defensive weapon, please read through this discussion.

https://www.reddit.com/r/knives/comments/3alo5f/why_is_a_knife_for_self_defence_a_bad_idea/

A society of armed loners who only care about themselves is a society of targets.

You seem to be arguing that the average person is a sociopath who is willing to just watch others be hurt.

I suggest to you that a larger problem is that the majority of people have no idea how to handle a violent situation. The news media, and many of our celebrities, push a meme that ordinary people should never be armed for self-defense, and by extension shouldn't even train for self-defense. The same people who would like to ban all firearms in civilian hands would tell you that people shouldn't fight back against assailants; they should let the police handle the situation. (As the old saying goes, though, "When seconds count, the police are just minutes away!" There is no guarantee that the police will arrive in time to save lives.)

If a person is totally untrained, and suddenly face to face with horrible violence, it is unlikely that the person will swiftly and decisively come up with a plan to counter-attack and take out the assailant. I don't blame the victims the way you seem to, but I do wish more people would train in self-defense.

I agree with Larry Correia: our society would achieve a net reduction in violence if more people got trained in the use of weapons for defense, and more people carried concealed firearms.

http://monsterhunternation.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/

P.S. I once, in an online discussion, commented that if people shouldn't defend themselves but rather should rely purely on the police to protect them, maybe people shouldn't have fire extinguishers in their homes and should rely purely on the fire department to protect them. A person I was debating agreed with this proposition. I didn't agree with her but I give her props for intellectual consistency.

Build a gaming PC, set up with a Steam Link and enjoy all the benefits of the PC Master Race. Seriously, read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmas...

Just get a PC, PS4, and XBone -- that way everyone is happy, and you can properly evaluate which one was the better investment down the road.

Note: PC kick console's asses to the curb and back. Consoles barely do 1080p @ 60 Hz, PC gaming is doing 4K at 120+ Hz. There are tons of Budget PC Gaming Rigs

Look at people acting as if social media is All Important and Significant and Stuff. So cute.

Well let's look at some of the recent stuff that's happened in the last oh..month. We've got IGN turning around and filing a false DMCA claim against a video because it called out one of the people for spreading misinformation. Then we've got HTC trying to bribe the moderators of the /r/vive sub so they can control and censor information. To me, those both scream companies trying to censor things because they don't like it. So...maybe you're right, it's not important. Or maybe it is important.

Look at people acting as if social media is All Important and Significant and Stuff. So cute.

Well let's look at some of the recent stuff that's happened in the last oh..month. We've got IGN turning around and filing a false DMCA claim against a video because it called out one of the people for spreading misinformation. Then we've got HTC trying to bribe the moderators of the /r/vive sub so they can control and censor information. To me, those both scream companies trying to censor things because they don't like it. So...maybe you're right, it's not important. Or maybe it is important.

Please call them by their proper name: Daesh. Calling them the "Islamic State" of anything grants credibility to a minute, small fraction of the population.

Please tell me why I would use Linux when the typical experience is like this?

Not to mention simply running Windows Updates can result in 3rd party software being uninstalled!

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windo...

But the browser does not correctly page out tab state so entered text and even the scroll position is not saved, it just does a dumb reload. This is something that could and should be improved so I don't see why you're so defensive about it.

Oh, so you've seen the Source code for Mobile Safari? You would have to have done that, since in iOS, each Application is responsible for managing its own memory.

Oh, and two other things: Why does the OP require YOU to fight his battles? And do you not recognize sarcasm when you see it?

And one final thing: I think you will find that I covered the "different use cases" when I suggested that he might be one of those people who just launches Application after Application, until their system grinds to a halt. I've seen it many, many times with both iOS and OSX, because neither OS does a particularly "in your face" job of informing the user about which Apps are actually running.

As for you, I suggest you edumacate yourself on iOS Memory Management. Here's a pretty good discussion regarding same. It explains a lot about why Safari is doing what it's doing under conditions of high RAM pressure, and why iOS doesn't just cache stuff out to a swap file.

iOS is as much as spyware as Windows since all you can do about your privacy is trust MS or Apple to follow their privacy policy. Closed source and all that. Whether you follow or not their privacy policy is irrelevant since both monitor your actions (e.g. programs you install and run). As you say, neither really works without a permanent internet connection.

As for surfacelinux: https://www.reddit.com/r/surfa... . I document my own experiences in my website: http://javispedro.com/linux/su...

At the time it was basically the best device with this form factor of this kind. Now it seems that there are some serious competitors.

Almost everything works out of the box these days on the SP3, but not yet on the SP2.

> A keylogger????

Yes!!!!

You need at least two steps to remove the keylogger....

First,,,, use these easy GUI steps to turn off the above board keylogging stuff::::

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

Second,,,, you will want to also get rid of the keylogger service (((( this continues to run and remotely log your data,,,, sending it to microsoft ))))

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

Hope that helps,,,, quad punctuation man.

"If I am anywhere in the USA, and am talking on my cellphone, can the government hear me? And are they recording? And can they use it against me at any time?"

"Yes." -- Bill Binney, former NSA Tech Director. Worked for NSA 37 years

also:

"Bulk surveillance is not necessary to protect anybody. NSA tries to track everyone on the planet. google: the program Treasuremap. OS's are absolutely not safe!" -- Bill Binney, former NSA Tech Director. Worked for NSA 37 years

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

Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just saw the Joel's AMA on Reddit. He has a graphic up of how that first $2mil is spent here http://imgur.com/5CvUy9B. It looks like it's about $250,000 per episode.

Get an antenna, watch free OTA HDTV.

Agreed for many subscribers. But for others, what is the alternative to ESPN Monday Night Football or Food Network?

Use Redbox

Fails for any movie that's not a new release.

or get Netflix to send you discs

I'm told that when Netflix runs out of working copies of a movie, it doesn't replenish them. This leads to a queue full of Very Long Wait.

To be honest, yes, yes I was poking fun at the modern American socialist. I'm allowed some humor... It really has become a matter of emotion, at least that's what it appears like.

I like Marxism but I don't think it will ever work without totalitarianism and it needs to be absolute. There's no room for there to be a comparison. It also needs to eliminate the "more equal than others" that seems likely to be inevitable. Like all ideologies, nothing can be done in its pure form effectively. That's one of the reasons that I dislike zealots and extremists - even those who don't believe they are.

In short, we need a blended solution that is open to refinement as time passes. I think, I'm not certain, that the original ideas of the founders might have been along those lines and that's one of the reasons we've the ability to amend the Constitution.

I do not have any mailing lists or sites that I use on a regular basis. There used to be a few that were worth attention but, shall we say, their message has been changing over the past ten years or so. We do communicate in person, on the phone, and via email. You will find like minded people by making contacts through events and whatnot - see: www.lp.org but they're not the most vocal.

These guys are not too extreme... Comparatively speaking, of course.
http://www.libertariansforum.c...
As I recall, there's a few there but not a majority. They're mostly Randians with the associated baggage.

I've never visited but I've heard some good things about:
https://www.reddit.com/r/liber...

I'm pretty sure you can find some of us here:
http://forum.objectivismonline...
However, that's not really a Libertarian site.

If I knew where you lived then I might be able to help a bit more. We're not the best at organizing. We're not even going to clean house - it's not like we're going to do the whole purity test thing that the Tea Party/GOP wanted to do (or did?). If anything, I'd expect a few of us will tire of it and split off and make yet another redundant third party that doesn't get more than 2% of the votes due to a variety of reasons and a platform more complex than will fit on a bumper sticker.

That's essentially what Blackberry did with the Priv to make a "secure Android": https://www.reddit.com/r/black... (possibly related: early reviews are saying the Priv has performance issues, e.g. http://www.wsj.com/articles/bl... )

As I wrote a couple of months ago, if you check the Factory Images for Nexus Devices you'll see that "nakasi" for Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) remains at LMY47V, which was released before the libstagefright vulnerabilities were (mostly) patched.

This is an exceptionally popular device. I bought the newly released 32GB version for Christmas 2012. Google doesn't even care about patching its own-branded devices sold internationally less than three years ago.

Meesah loving Wesley Crusher!

Are you implying Wesley was a covert operative of Species 8472, analogous to Darth Jar-Jar ? https://np.reddit.com/r/StarWa...

Same thing happened with Opal and with FreeBSD. It seems to always be the worst, most abusive people pushing for these updates.

They're using "harassment" or "politically correct" as an excuse to harass and be assholes to people they see as assholes, and aren't really considering they're far worse than anyone they're accusing. The FreeBSD thing is interesting because it's someone advocating the newly adopted CoC be used to boot Randi Harper, who hasn't contributed to the project in years, but feels fine harassing male contributors and also pushed for the CoC in the first place to control other peoples behaviour.

Right, so Randi did it (if you can find those tweets). What about the rest? Just because one person is an arsehole doesn't mean everybody vaguely related to them is

Sure can find them here. and another instance here. Or her harassing Anne Rice, and leaving fake book reviews. Pretty good for a anti-harassment person, she does tell people to kill themselves and light themselves on fire often too. Of course there seems to be a pro-"no bad tactics, only targets" mentality among the majority of anti-GG people including making shit up. That's from Bob Chipman by the way, there's also people like Sam Biddle who's harassed and threatened to call a kids employer to get them fired, and said the phrase "bring back bullying." You can't forget the general crazy either.

And of course you can find a list of various people who've either doxed or harassed pro-GG people here. And you can see how someone falls into the cult mentality of wanting to be a "good feminist" here Just a list of anti-GG harassment and of course this beauty where Adem Sessler and Jim Sterling come out pro-doxing Well maybe it's nothing, or maybe there's a lot of people out there with serious mental problems who believe that lashing out is the only way to cope with their own problems.

Maybe way out of band of what you asked but I'm tired, so fuck it.

It only turned into gamergate because someone's jilted posted a bunch of lies and it exploded when all those basement dwellers felt offended that a woman should dump a guy that seemed so thoughtful and well spoken in his drunken rant.

That's not quite what actually happened or why GamerGate became a thing. After a man went public about the emotional abuse and infidelity he had dealt with from his ex-girlfriend, it turned out that one of the men she had cheated with was a writer for Kotaku and had given her favorable coverage without disclosing their relationship. GamerGate happened because, instead of admitting the mistake, Kotaku released an article claiming they had investigated and decided nothing improper was going on, despite photographic evidence otherwise. Personally, I find it very confusing that anti-GG keeps insisting that the entire incident was lies from a jilted ex despite the provided evidence and Quinn later admitting to it.

Many gamers were upset about the coverup, and it might have died down on its own, except several gaming news sites then seemingly independently produced a series of "gamers are dead" articles, which attacked and criticized gamers as a whole and accused gamers of widespread, systemic misogyny because they dared to be upset about a reporting scandal that involved a woman who cheated on her boyfriend. Making things even worse, it was discovered soon after that the series of articles was coordinated through a private mailing list used by all of those publications, where they colluded to decide what should be published.

A lot of people were very upset about this, and what's when GamerGate really took off. Since then, the involved sites have continued to hammer down on their accusations, and a large number of third-wave feminists have joined in after hearing calls of misogyny, trying to claim that strong criticism is the same as harassment, even though men like Jason Schreier, Nathan Grayson, and Jonathan McIntosh have been just as harshly criticized as any women involved. Meanwhile, the examples that anti-GG tries to point to as harassment and threats regularly turn out to be either unassociated with GG or complete fabrications. I keep trying to find somebody who has actually committed physical violence in the name of GG, and I still haven't found any. Women Action Media even did a study and released a report indicating that only a tiny percentage of GamerGate-related activity was involved in harassment at all. If you're going to judge the group based on the actions of a few outliers, then you can condemn pretty much any group.

And it might make you feel better to tell yourself "10 people still believe that gamergate is still about ethics", but KotakuInAction is up to well over 53k subscribers now and is still working hard at exposing corruption, censorship, and collusion. Calling them misogynists just makes them even more determined.

My point is that copyright law gives video game publishers the power to set restrictive policies. Your point appears to be that most relevant publishers have not chosen to assert restrictive policies, and that their policies can change and have changed. But they can change in both directions.

It turns out Blizzard has a video policy that as of today grants essentially blanket noncommercial rights and specifies when a "content use license" must be negotiated. But it doesn't give any examples of how much such a license is likely to cost or whether the conditions that Blizzard imposes on licensees qualify as a fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) regime. Another page implies that a commercial license is not available to individuals: "Blizzard Entertainment® does not enter into licensing agreements with individuals." It also supports the point that policies can change: "we reserve the right to revoke this limited use license at any time, for any reason, and at the sole discretion of Blizzard Entertainment®." And here's a story from 2015 about Blizzard takedowns. Finally, Blizzard's parent company also publishes Guitar Hero, which contains third-party music to which more restrictive policies have been applied.

A post by a moderator implies that Capcom also grants blanket noncommercial rights. In fact, both Blizzard and Capcom have announced that they are working with the noncommercial YouTube community to resolve copyright strikes.

But to me, the "sports" ecosystem includes broadcasting the events on subscription or ad-supported television. A blanket noncommercial license does not cover such commercial use. So I'm still confused as to how much an organizer of a video game tournament shown on TV should expect to have to pay for a nonexclusive license to stream each event or what other conditions a promoter will be expected to follow.

Sure there ya go. Oh and you can get Windows for about $15, legally. I should have said $400, but it's close enough, since the price of PC hardware has been going up the last 5 months or so. Not much, but enough to make a difference.

Sorry, you wanted something else? Even at $400 it's enough to bury both consoles into the ground. And most sales for both consoles start at $399, maybe with one game if you're lucky. Where as you could start up on a PC with an internet connection and find a few thousand abandonware titles to start off with, and then go onto the free MMO's.

Uh, wait a second here. You absolutely will find people who lean pro saying that harassment and doxing are justified, and furthermore, this whole fucking flap began because some of them doxed and harassed.

Really, let's go look at /r/KotakuinactionHmm...nope...doesn't look like it...and where people made mention of it, they were called out and shouted down. Well let's look at GG's current 8ch board. Hmm...nope, and when someone tries, they're shouted down and auto-saged off. Let's go look at the8chan archivesHmm...again it looks exactly like what happens in GGHQ. Well that's troubling...how about #gamergate? Well even WAM Didn't find that, and their own data said it was mainly the work of trolls.

Hmm...let's keep looking, how about this one? A journalist wants to know about GGers and harassment/doxing. Well this could be promising....oh wait...he only wants GGers that explicitly support it, so he's just looking for stuff to re-enforce the narrative that people in GG support it. Well that's a problem...

Uh, wait a second here. You absolutely will find people who lean pro saying that harassment and doxing are justified, and furthermore, this whole fucking flap began because some of them doxed and harassed.

Really, let's go look at /r/KotakuinactionHmm...nope...doesn't look like it...and where people made mention of it, they were called out and shouted down. Well let's look at GG's current 8ch board. Hmm...nope, and when someone tries, they're shouted down and auto-saged off. Let's go look at the8chan archivesHmm...again it looks exactly like what happens in GGHQ. Well that's troubling...how about #gamergate? Well even WAM Didn't find that, and their own data said it was mainly the work of trolls.

Hmm...let's keep looking, how about this one? A journalist wants to know about GGers and harassment/doxing. Well this could be promising....oh wait...he only wants GGers that explicitly support it, so he's just looking for stuff to re-enforce the narrative that people in GG support it. Well that's a problem...

Uh, wait a second here. You absolutely will find people who lean pro saying that harassment and doxing are justified, and furthermore, this whole fucking flap began because some of them doxed and harassed.

Really, let's go look at /r/KotakuinactionHmm...nope...doesn't look like it...and where people made mention of it, they were called out and shouted down. Well let's look at GG's current 8ch board. Hmm...nope, and when someone tries, they're shouted down and auto-saged off. Let's go look at the8chan archivesHmm...again it looks exactly like what happens in GGHQ. Well that's troubling...how about #gamergate? Well even WAM Didn't find that, and their own data said it was mainly the work of trolls.

Hmm...let's keep looking, how about this one? A journalist wants to know about GGers and harassment/doxing. Well this could be promising....oh wait...he only wants GGers that explicitly support it, so he's just looking for stuff to re-enforce the narrative that people in GG support it. Well that's a problem...

The problem is that the threats they keep getting seem to be sent by GamerGate to itself.

Well your first link here let me help you out a bit. That bit from Oliver Campell, that was anti-GG individuals who sent themselves death threats. Not Gamergate individuals sending themselves threats. And of course, if you've ever done a FOIA or ATI, then you already know that vague requests are automatically ignored. But then again, you might not know this but there are several people back in the early days of Gamergate, who have T/S clearances and were doxed by anti-GG individuals. That's enough to refuse any requests on information, simply because the information was related to classified information.

The second link, good old ghazi making shit up to support their narrative. Of course the person in question wasn't a gamergate supporter, they used the gamergate hashtag 35 times. To put that in perspective, the #gamergate hashtag on twitter alone has over 3m+ tweets now, there's 50k+subs on Kotakuinaction, that sub alone gets 500k-4m unique visits a month, it's in the top 50 busiest subs on reddit for subscriber size. That of course isn't even counting boards on 8chan, and voat. Here's the good part, they were a prolific writer for left-leaning sites including DailyKos, Feministing, and the guardian as contributors among other sites. He of course also claimed to be a jew, an isis supporter, a neo-nazi, a feminist, wrote as a feminist, and so on as well.

They also advocated the restriction of speech, freedom of speech, radical support for freedom of speech, attacks against individuals who were not of their ideological orientation and so on. Among a whole pile of other things.

Anita Sarkeesian reviewed a bunch of games, or more accurately started a kickstarted to make "Tropes versus women in videogames" and got a shitstorm of harassment. Are you claiming she wasn't in fact a victim of harassment?

Would that be, before or after she said she doesn't play video games? Oh she got some harassment, of course in her world criticism = harassment. She even said as much in front of the UN. And of course one can't forget that she refuses to debate anyone, or anything she says. But wants her garbage to be put in place in schools, and used as teaching material. Well that seems great, how'd that work out for Jack Thompson and his "games cause people to become psychopaths" bit.

And Zoe Quinn got a shitstorm of harassment over a review allegedly paid for by sex, except the review doesn't exist. So she got a shitstorm of harassment for something that never happend. Still going to claim she wasn't a victim of harassment?

You still can't figure it out huh? It wasn't a review, it was favorable coverage. She got mentions over a pile of other indie games, not once but several times. Those articles were written by the same person, without disclosure. And if I remember right, I posted the links on that to you the last time. You simply got all upset and stuck to the "but it was a review" which of course is what anti-gg people have been saying for a year, which gg folks haven't said. Of course one can't forget the amount of harassment that she's engaged in, like doxing the owner of a credit collection company, or Of course you have to be pretty damn pathetic to dox a bunch of 30 year old loners and virgins who are already a mental wreck. Of course she also belonged to helldump(part of SA), which was a notorious group of doxers who drove at least one person to suicide. Yeah great face, for anti-harassment.

Of course, one can't forget that PC gamer deleted all of Tyler Wilde's articles either. You know why? Because he was shacked up with Anne Marie Lewis who was a Ubisoft comm. associate. PC gamer believed that the articles were biased, and deleted them all and went further to have all existing search results on those articles purged.

It seems what happened is a bunch of bullies picked on some people and are now deeply upset that other people sympathise with the victims of the harassment. Well crap, what did you think would happen?

Well it appears people didn't want to hear anything about her, or her little talk going by the polling that SXSW had up. So she went crying off to twitter when she discovered that the GG panel was approved, and they pulled it on both.

But I can't really blame SXSW. Considering the amount of crap that GG has put up with in the last year, it becomes more of a safety issue for pro-GG individuals. Since there have been at least a dozen confirmed bomb threats where GG has had their talks, panels and so on in the past. The most recent of course was the SPJ Airplay event, where the building was evacuated because of another credible threat that someone wanted to blow up pro-GG people.

Can't forget people like Geordie Tait either, who said he wanted to use sarin gas to kill pro-GG people at PAX.

Anita Sarkeesian reviewed a bunch of games, or more accurately started a kickstarted to make "Tropes versus women in videogames" and got a shitstorm of harassment. Are you claiming she wasn't in fact a victim of harassment?

Would that be, before or after she said she doesn't play video games? Oh she got some harassment, of course in her world criticism = harassment. She even said as much in front of the UN. And of course one can't forget that she refuses to debate anyone, or anything she says. But wants her garbage to be put in place in schools, and used as teaching material. Well that seems great, how'd that work out for Jack Thompson and his "games cause people to become psychopaths" bit.

And Zoe Quinn got a shitstorm of harassment over a review allegedly paid for by sex, except the review doesn't exist. So she got a shitstorm of harassment for something that never happend. Still going to claim she wasn't a victim of harassment?

You still can't figure it out huh? It wasn't a review, it was favorable coverage. She got mentions over a pile of other indie games, not once but several times. Those articles were written by the same person, without disclosure. And if I remember right, I posted the links on that to you the last time. You simply got all upset and stuck to the "but it was a review" which of course is what anti-gg people have been saying for a year, which gg folks haven't said. Of course one can't forget the amount of harassment that she's engaged in, like doxing the owner of a credit collection company, or Of course you have to be pretty damn pathetic to dox a bunch of 30 year old loners and virgins who are already a mental wreck. Of course she also belonged to helldump(part of SA), which was a notorious group of doxers who drove at least one person to suicide. Yeah great face, for anti-harassment.

Of course, one can't forget that PC gamer deleted all of Tyler Wilde's articles either. You know why? Because he was shacked up with Anne Marie Lewis who was a Ubisoft comm. associate. PC gamer believed that the articles were biased, and deleted them all and went further to have all existing search results on those articles purged.

It seems what happened is a bunch of bullies picked on some people and are now deeply upset that other people sympathise with the victims of the harassment. Well crap, what did you think would happen?

Well it appears people didn't want to hear anything about her, or her little talk going by the polling that SXSW had up. So she went crying off to twitter when she discovered that the GG panel was approved, and they pulled it on both.

But I can't really blame SXSW. Considering the amount of crap that GG has put up with in the last year, it becomes more of a safety issue for pro-GG individuals. Since there have been at least a dozen confirmed bomb threats where GG has had their talks, panels and so on in the past. The most recent of course was the SPJ Airplay event, where the building was evacuated because of another credible threat that someone wanted to blow up pro-GG people.

Can't forget people like Geordie Tait either, who said he wanted to use sarin gas to kill pro-GG people at PAX.

The problem is that the threats they keep getting seem to be sent by GamerGate to itself. In the case of threats against people like Sarkeesian there was independent verification from the venue organizers and a criminal investigation. In the case of GamerGate there do not seem to be any open FBI or local police investigations, probably because they are worried that an investigation might reveal the true origin of the threats.

Don't take my word for it though, a quick google turns up the GG wiki and Reddit channel:

http://gamergate.wikia.com/wik...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamer...

If GamerGate is really being threatened it should be reported to the FBI, who appear more than willing to act because this sort of thing comes under terrorism.

This guy is a multiple-time asshole

Oh Stinkypoo, forgot to take your meds today?

This guy is a multiple-time asshole

I've heard a few disturbing stories over the years that sound a lot like that, but I always imagined it was just hyperbole, at least in most cases.

It's escalated way beyond a few disturbing stories over the years. Police abuse, brutality, summary execution of innocent people, etc. is taking place every day all across the country.

FFXIV has over 4M accounts, which seems equate to about 1.4M active subscriptions before Heavensward.

You are aware that link says I'm right, correct? FFXIV, FFXI, and DQ-X have a million subscribers combined. DQ-X has around 300,000 subscribers, leaving about 350,000 each for FFXI and FFXIV, which works out to be pretty much what I'm saying. 1,400,000 is a made up number not based on reality.

Now 2 years since re-launch, the MMO that nobody thought could has ended up closing in on SWTOR numbers

SWTOR is free to play with an optional subscription for premium features. A subscription-only MMO having as many subscribers as a free to play MMO has subscribers is - well, not exactly something to brag about.

FFXI has never been close to the subscriptions of FFXIV. XI was never a contender for "Big MMO", as they never broke 1M accounts (let alone subscribers) even when MMO subscriptions were at an all-time high. Right now they're in around the 200-300k mark, at best (it took 9 years for the game to become Square's most profitable FF title). From what I can find the best current estimate for EVE is half a million, a more than 50% jump over their previously reported subscription number of about 300k. FFXIV has over 4M accounts, which seems equate to about 1.4M active subscriptions before Heavensward.

SE acknowledged that the brand was already damaged by the original FFXIV and FFXIII as well, so they took a risk and a safe-bet. Turns out the risk paid off, while the safe-bet got a couple of sequels that had diminishing returns.

Now 2 years since re-launch, the MMO that nobody thought could has ended up closing in on SWTOR numbers, and they're still gaining rather than losing. FFXIV is credited with saving the company (mostly by the Internet, not so much the company), and not just in financial terms. Yoshi's decision to actually listen to player feedback was something that the rest of the company didn't think could be possible, let alone actually work, and work it did. Yoshida got a promotion for saving the game, and now the rest of SE is learning how to do the same (like the changes to the FFXV demo based on feedback and just recently when they removed the pre-order incentive scheme for Deus Ex), although they still need to work on their initial implementation to try to head stupid schemes off before they can begin (like just recently with the pre-order incentive scheme for Deus Ex).

It's most telling that the new CEO is trying to take the company back to the kinds of games that made them popular in the first place, although it will still be another year or two before we start seeing the old pot run dry and how this new-old idea pans out. As a fan of the old Squaresoft, I hope it does work out.

From the summary:

...almost 50 years after coming close to possibly provoking a nuclear disaster, Secretary of State John Kerry, following years of wrangling between Spain and the U.S., signed an agreement...

Now, I'm not really John Kerry's biggest fan, but I think it's a bit much to blame him for "coming close to possibly provoking a nuclear disaster".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier

I also find the phrase "coming close to possibly provoking a nuclear disaster" rather strange. What sort of "disaster" does one "provoke"? One might provoke a war, or cause a disaster. And is "coming close to possibly" the same thing as "coming close", or does "possibly" mean that it wasn't that close?

P.S. It's not actually likely that a nuclear bomb that isn't armed will go off in a nuclear explosion by accident. The carefully-designed explosive charges need to go off in a specifically timed sequence, and if one of them goes off first because the bomb fell on it from a high altitude, what you would expect to happen is exactly what happened here: a non-nuclear explosion that scatters the radioactive components of the bomb over an area. If you define "scattering radioactive material" as a "nuclear disaster" then one did occur; if you don't define it that way, then no "nuclear disaster" was very likely to occur.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3bm65m/has_a_nuclear_bomb_ever_been_accidentally_set_off/

It's because of the above that I had trouble swallowing the plot of part of The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. The protagonist needs to prevent a nuclear detonation from a warhead, and comes up with a needlessly elaborate plan involving a magical gadget that changes chemical compositions. All they needed to do was stick an explosive on one side of the warhead and light it off with a delay timer or remote detonator; after that, the radioactive bits would be blown here and there and no nuclear detonation would be possible.

I guess the protagonist of that story never read "The Long Watch" by Heinlein. You can read it, though, at this link:

http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1439133417/1439133417___4.htm

First, the actual comment from TFA was:

Daily battery life was nothing short of astounding and ranks among the best any modern smartphone can offer. The larger battery certainly helps and it’s likely that optimizations within Android 6.0 Marshmallow are doing quite a bit of work here too. I was able to get over 6 and a half hours of screen on time here with normal web browsing, chatting and video watching during a full day. This is among the best battery life you’ll find on any smartphone regardless of the specs, you’re looking at something truly magical here.

Second, as discussed extensively on reddit, it's way too early to draw any conclusions about the battery. Nobody has had the phone for more than a few days.

So the video is fake as well? You know the part where they logged into their facebook account and recorded it. Well I guess that solves that doesn't it after all it's difficult to fake that isn't it. Of course you can always ask Eron yourself, he's on reddit this is his account: /u/qrios

And the only people saying that it was a review for positive coverage are people who don't know what they're talking about. It was favorable coverage with no disclosure by the author while they were in a relationship and the author in question paid $500+ for her hotel room. That of course was while she was banging 4 other people, in the industry some who were also journalists who wrote about her point-and-click adventure, without disclosing they were also in a relationship with her.

Don't worry if the only proof you've been getting is the one where the aggros and press have been lying out of their teeth for the last year. It's an easy mistake, but I corrected it for you.

I also noted that you failed to comment on the part where Zoe Quinn filed a gag order that blocked his freedom of speech. Where she was the abusive party in the relationship as well, I'll bet $20 that if the sexes were reversed you'd be cheering her on.

You linked to a list of mostly Chromebooks. A Chromebook has two modes: non-developer mode and developer mode. In non-developer mode, the only app it can run is Google Chrome, which means I would have to rewrite all my programs from scratch in JavaScript as Chrome apps before I can run them. In developer mode, a Chromebook begs you to erase its hard drive every time you turn it on, with a message to the effect "OS verification is turned off. Press Space to perform a factory reset." Others have run into the same problem: "The user I lent it to pressed the spacebar at the scary message prompt and erased my entire Chomebook" [sic].

Narrow to "Linux" (by which I think they mean X11/GNU/Linux) and there are only six results, mostly either used (and therefore out of warranty) or over $500 (when they were $300 two years ago).

According to Reddit, Florida is no more per capita crazy than any other state, it just allows public access to all police records.

"Since 1909, Florida has had a proud tradition that all government business is public business and therefore should be available to the public. That means all records, including photos and videos, produced by a public agency are easily accessible with a few narrow and obvious exceptions. Public officials are also required to open all of their meetings — even unofficial ones — to the public."

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-government-laws-lead-to-the-shame-of-florida-man-news-stories-7608595 [Warning: Possibly Disturbing Mugshots]

It's commonly stated that hunger is not a production problem, it's a distribution problem.

In the UK we throw away 30-40% of the food we buy. And we are increasingly suffering from the same obesity crisis as the US, so clearly we could probably feed at least another 60 million people with very few ill effects.

In the US, 70% of maize grown is fed to livestock. It takes 100kg of plant matter to make 10kg animal matter, and most westerners eat way more meat than is necessary, so there's another food source.

The feeling of people getting something for nothing : well, as you say, developed nations are reconciled to that anyway, since they feed their poor and starving (although some of their governments seem to be trying to wriggle out of that social bargain). Perhaps it would just be more efficient to recognise this and stop all the bureaucracy involved, and just provide everyone with a Basic Income - which is probably the biggest step we could take toward a Star Trekkian Utopia imaginable.

already being done https://www.reddit.com/r/whale...

...of Linus lamenting that it's hard to find kernel maintainers? Wonder why that might be...

Add to that the fact that she's not a gamer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

was involved in a MLM handwriting scam:
http://webcache.googleusercont...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...

So I went searching for the app in question and lo and behold, it isn't available on the Apple app store. I was inclined to think it was a conspiracy and that Apple didn't want people returning phones because they contained a certain processor. After some digging I found this on Reddit and this on Twitter explaining why it was taken down. Long story short the dev took it down saying "We will take the App down in 24 hours until we can release a decent update."

Certified ADS-B transponders run multiple thousands of dollars, but as with everything in aviation, much of that cost comes not from the product but from the certification process. The hardware itself is not necessarily expensive. Proving to the FAA that the hardware is safe and reliable, and maintaining insurance coverage for when NTSB inevitably cites the device as a contributing factor to an accident, is what incurs the expense for manufacturers and why the prices are so high.

There are pilots building battery powered homebrew ADS-B receivers out of a Raspberry Pi and a USB software-defined radio tuner. The whole setup runs around $120. They aren't FAA certified, of course, but are not required to be since all they do is receive. It wouldn't be difficult to turn this design into a transponder with little additional weight. Surely it's conceivable to manufacture something even lighter and smaller and less expensive when done on a large scale, if the certification requirements were set reasonably enough to make such a unit commercially viable for consumer level "drones."

It's well documented women and men have different innate drives. The more free a society becomes, the more we can indulge our natural predispositions. That was the general consensus of this documentary that delved into the "gender equality paradox":

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

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

"The Nordic Council of Ministers (a regional inter-governmental co-operation consisting of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland) has decided to close down the NIKK Nordic Gender Institute. The NIKK had been the flagship of “Gender Theory”, providing the “scientific” basis for social and educational policies that, from the 1970s onward, had transformed the Nordic countries to become the most “gender sensitive” societies in the world.

The decision was made after the Norwegian State Television had broadcasted a television documentary called “Hjernevask” (the Norwegian word for “brainwash”) in which comedian Harald Eia exposed the hopelessly unscientific character of the NIKK."

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