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quoting myself

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

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You can also get independent RSS feeds from each subreddit. sweet!

quoting myself

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

You can also get independent RSS feeds from each subreddit. sweet!

quoting myself

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

You can also get independent RSS feeds from each subreddit. sweet!

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/law
http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/games

To get all of slashdot covered.

The specs are pretty decent and probably exceed your expectations.

Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 â" February 2, 2014) was an American actor and director.

http://www.reddit.com/r/movies...

There is some useful info for new players over in the eve subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/co...

Apparently you can already buy printers with Bitcoin: http://www.bizjournals.com/bos... Other sources: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoi...

It has been confirmed:

The MPEx Bitcoin stock exchange (run by Mircea Popescu) is listed on the significant contributors page.

Also, according to Bob Beck, director of OpenBSD Foundation, 100k has been raised so far; their target goal for 2014 fundraising is 150k:

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2014.html

The Dogecoin community wants to help the Jamaican bobsleigh team get to Sochi, and there is a donation up! http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1virfc/lets_send_the_jamaican_bobsled_team_to_the_winter/ I hope we will see a lot more of this in the coming years, people who have earned big on cryptocurrency and who ends up helping others with some of their earnings.

No, he's fucking bartering foreign intel [theguardian.com] to foreign countries.

"Edward Snowden has offered to help Brazil investigate US spying on its soil in exchange for political asylum,"

Yeah dude, read it again. He has no bartering power concerning the leaked intel, because he no longer has any control over it. It's in the hands of journalists. He cannot use it to barter. He is not using intel to barter with Brazil for asylum. He is offering to WORK for Brazil and ANALYZE. You know, like his old job.
Come on, reading comprehension. Try it.

Heroes like Daniel Ellsberg

. . . You haven't been keeping up with the news have you?
Daniel the motherfucking hero Ellsberg had a reddit ask-me-anything. He's a full supporter of Snowden and says Snowden is doing the exact same sort of thing that he himself did back in the day.
The title is "I am Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg. Edward Snowden is my hero. AMA"

Or are you one of those "nobody should be spying on anyone" people?

No no, I fully support foreign espionage, AGAINST OUR ENEMIES. During WAR. The NSA broke NAZI cryptos. They helped win the war. Now the war is over. And unless we do something really dickish, like breaking international law and spying on allies, then war will most likely not resume. Yay living in a MAD world.

You seriously think revealing methods and intel on how we spy on other countries doesn't do us any harm? Really?

I think that when the US government is caught doing something illegal they need to be punished least they disregard all respect for the rule of law. They need to be taught that they have to respect the law. That respecting the law will encourage others to respect the law. I think that exposing criminality is the first step to helping the criminal be a better person/nation. Seriously, we CAN'T be the bad guys.

I hope you get a chance to read this before it disappears off the site

Moderation is not the same as censorship. I will always be able to find this post and rub it in your face years later.

The gif is pretty amazing, credit.

Speaking of spaceships, I found it fun to contrast these fake code uses with one in the game Starbound (got it a day or few after it hit Steam as an Early Access game). When you obtain enough fuel (like coal) from your current planet there and send it back to your spaceborne ship, you can take it to another planet and enjoy a flashy warp sequence with code that scrolls on a screen. The code shown is that of...the warp sequence. (Starbound is a C++ game, and you'll notice fun things in the display like uint64_t and class names.)

Granted, it's almost certainly not a true quine, as it uses only a portion of the code; said code is in PNG form, not text; and I doubt the display will be updated for each patch, especially this early in development.

Following this 'anonymous developer' this article ended up being refuted by multiple developers ...

More bad blood and FUD by EA perhaps?

See more details here and here.

I'm sorry but I refuse to take Bruce Schneier with any level of seriousness anymore. I've been lead to believe he's some sort of security expert, but not only does he use Windows and ONLY Windows, he has not even tried using Linux because he's lazy:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1r8ibh/iama_security_technologist_and_author_bruce/cdknf7a

So he's picked convenience over security, something a security expert should NEVER choose as a priority. Why the fuck should we listen to him anymore?

Of interest: A group interview with the developers of SimCity months before the release date. They were told by thousands of people that DRM was a no-go.

For instructions, go to http://peeron.com/

They have them all (along with catalogs, etc.) and you can browse by genre, eg. Classic Space, Castle, etc. Then, hit http://reddit.com/r/lego and see what fans are doing today. There's some amazing stuff out there. Enjoy!

I meant implementing the whole messaging system like the Reddit API.

During periods of heavy trading, Mt. Gox trade data has repeatedly been observed to be unrealistic. Sometimes it gets very strange. During heavy trading periods, trades are often done out of order. Delays up to 46 minutes have been reported. Whether this is incompetence or market manipulation has never been entirely clear.

(Despite all the hype, Bitcoin transaction volume is not large. Most exchanges do a few transactions per minute.)

When the time comes that you can easily buy a Ferrari for bitcoins

Don't know about Ferrari, but this Lamborghini purchase for bitcoin is legit: http://fr.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1sn0gi/someone_on_4chan_actually_bought_a_lamborghini/

... which followed this Tesla purchase from the same dealer: http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/cars/bitcoin-used-for-tesla-model-s-purchase-at-lamborghini-dealership-1.6568853

The important question is; which is a better game play platform and which has the best games?

That's obvious, PC. All hail the Gaben.

Did you submit this to reddit?

https://pay.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1sg049/the_single_line_of_cobol_code_in_todays_google/
Look at the top-rated comment.

I read it 3 or 4 times before I gave up and read the summary. Sounds like someone (submitter and the one accepting the submission) are easily excitable, or it is a marketing placement (which does not necessarily mean "for pay", good connections can achieve more, sometimes).

Unless I'm wrong and this is the most exciting thing since the creation of http://www.reddit.com/r/cats/

I just posted a thread over on reddit about Time Warner throttling my server. A 200mb download file download from them at 100kiB/s even though many TWC clients had 50mbit connections. That same 200mb file could be downloaded at 10mbit (2,000 kiB/s) when a proxy server was used.

You might want to get some inspiration from reddit / imgur cableporn sections.

I just counted - there are 8 engineers focused on reddit.com, and 4 engineers focused on redditgifts.com, and 2 sysadmins. That's the entire technical staff. source: http://www.reddit.com/about/team/ also: i work there too

The guy who owned that transaction was already located. His name is Dustin and he is not Satoshi. What's more, these transactions had aroused interest before, been researched, the guy who owned them was not really trying to hide his identity and publicly confirmed they were his. And all this was available just by doing a google search on the address in question.

This is the second time Shamir has associated his name with research which contains elementary mistakes, makes wild claims and is funded by the Citi Foundation (as in, Citibank). What is going on?

San Fran will turn into Detroit?

While from Reddit posted a day ago, it's so on topic to your post I had to post it your reply

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1r6f8w/eli5_americans_what_exactly_happened_to_detroit_i/
Very good read if you want to know about Detroit

Eve Online is the only MMO that has been able to keep me interested in playing for more than a few months at a time. It doesn't have any elves or dragons. It's not built around a film franchise or a beloved series of books. It is unique in that the content created by the game developers plays second fiddle to the content created by the players themselves. It has vibrant player corporations (guilds) based around third-party websites like Something Awful and Reddit (see also: Fweddit and Brave Newbies); which leads to in-game drama aka content creation. It offers high-stakes PvP, in that when you die; your ship explodes and the winning player loots your wreck (corpse) taking whatever valuables survived the explosions. It also allows you to scam your fellow players; which is fairly unique among games. It regularly makes mainstream news for it's large fleet fights and huge losses. And, you're allowed to use your money to buy in-game currency if you are so inclined. I should note that your characters do not level and you don't earn XP or experience points for killing stuff in-game. Instead, your characters earn points that apply to in-game skills in real-time whether you are logged in or not. Eve Online, because spaceships.

Eve Online is the only MMO that has been able to keep me interested in playing for more than a few months at a time. It doesn't have any elves or dragons. It's not built around a film franchise or a beloved series of books. It is unique in that the content created by the game developers plays second fiddle to the content created by the players themselves. It has vibrant player corporations (guilds) based around third-party websites like Something Awful and Reddit (see also: Fweddit and Brave Newbies); which leads to in-game drama aka content creation. It offers high-stakes PvP, in that when you die; your ship explodes and the winning player loots your wreck (corpse) taking whatever valuables survived the explosions. It also allows you to scam your fellow players; which is fairly unique among games. It regularly makes mainstream news for it's large fleet fights and huge losses. And, you're allowed to use your money to buy in-game currency if you are so inclined. I should note that your characters do not level and you don't earn XP or experience points for killing stuff in-game. Instead, your characters earn points that apply to in-game skills in real-time whether you are logged in or not. Eve Online, because spaceships.

Eve Online is the only MMO that has been able to keep me interested in playing for more than a few months at a time. It doesn't have any elves or dragons. It's not built around a film franchise or a beloved series of books. It is unique in that the content created by the game developers plays second fiddle to the content created by the players themselves. It has vibrant player corporations (guilds) based around third-party websites like Something Awful and Reddit (see also: Fweddit and Brave Newbies); which leads to in-game drama aka content creation. It offers high-stakes PvP, in that when you die; your ship explodes and the winning player loots your wreck (corpse) taking whatever valuables survived the explosions. It also allows you to scam your fellow players; which is fairly unique among games. It regularly makes mainstream news for it's large fleet fights and huge losses. And, you're allowed to use your money to buy in-game currency if you are so inclined. I should note that your characters do not level and you don't earn XP or experience points for killing stuff in-game. Instead, your characters earn points that apply to in-game skills in real-time whether you are logged in or not. Eve Online, because spaceships.

So far Krugman has been wrong in his predictions about bitcoin. I know the guy joked about staging an alien invasion to improve the economy, but if his economic model was accurate then that actually would be a good way to improve the economy. His model isn't accurate though, and therefore it's not. He doesn't pay attention to the broken window fallacy, just assuming that so long as somebody is paid to do something -- even if the results of their labor aren't actually useful -- it builds the economy, nevermind that no capital was gained or wealth was created. This is part of why every decade, something happens in the economy that Keynesians say shouldn't happen, the biggest blunder being stagflation in the 80's which Keynesian theory ruled out entirely saying it was impossible, yet it happened anyways.

So, you think that austerity is a good thing, because it conserves the resources of the society, right? Savings is good. Debt is bad. How is that working out for Europe now, or Japan for the last 15 years?

Krugman is more or less just a propagandist writer - he's more or less just there to reassure people that they'll be fine so long as vote for politicians who also adopt the Keynesian model (democrat or republican alike.) I think there are other Keynesians who make more sound arguments than he does. Pretty much the only major things he and I agree on is the idea that tariffs are bad and so is minimum wage (Maynard Keynes would disagree though.)

Actually, there are more and more economists who are publicly 'coming around' to his point of view. Many have been on his side from the beginning, but have been constrained by screaming austrians to be somewhat more contrite (/cough bernanke). However, see the recent speech given by Sommers at IMF, which appears quite similar to a blog post of Krugman from September. Also, Krugman has a Nobel memorial prize in Economics. Fama also has one, so the distinction is dubious at best. However, Krugman was a sole recipient, unlike Fama.

Personally I thought the idea of bitcoins wasn't a sound one (the idea of a community of people you don't even know or trust keeping records of what you own seemed like an odd one,) but I started mining them just as an experiment, and when I found out I could actually buy stuff I wanted with them I've started using them. I've mined about $1,000 worth of bitcoins over the last 8 months at an electricity cost of $5 a month using just GPU's I've obtained for the sole purpose of gaming, so it's not bad. I've actually heavily padded my steam games library with humble bundle using bitcoins - imagine that, my GPU's aren't just playing the games, they're working for them too.

The volatility concerns me a bit (the value going up to $400 I don't have faith in, so I won't sell anything for bitcoins myself at the moment, but I'll buy - such is the nature of the beast of deflation) but with the way our government's current fiscal and monetary policy is setup, I actually have less faith in the dollar (a government can't borrow in perpetuity forever, and there's no sign of a balanced budget coming any time soon.)

Ah, bitcoins. Love em. Gotta have em. Better than tulips! I started a thread at reddit, asking whether I should sell my house and buy bitcoins. Everybody says I should do it. The winklevoss twins like em, so they must be OK, right?

While many states offer subsidies for solar, Arizona is starting to tax solar installations

more people should frequent reddit.com/r/datahoarder

Torrents only work if the data is available somewhere.

I was about to pen a witty reply when I realised the Internet had already delivered.

http://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesonyoutube/

PS3 in a drop down fashion are NetFlix, youtube, then of course Amazon instant videos and Red Box
showed up on the last update -4.5.

Flame: Know how time consuming it was to find that reddit link? It used to be a tab on my browser.

Yesterday I updated Opera 12 to version 17. I didn't want to lose the /. taking me to slashdot feature so put it off.
Opera doesn't have bookmarks anymore, how truly asinine is that? Nor can I disable flash, and much more.
So I don't use Opera after well since forever, but FireFox that auto log's me into a site (for the moment).
and off topic but I'm still hot over it.

Since the site can't handle coverage of all major genres, it seems more reasonable that we all do exactly what those non-entertainment-stereotypical nerds do -- get news directly related to tech (including movie technology, of course) here on Slashdot, get our entertainment boost on another decent site.

That's one option. Another is that those of us who've been here a long time can keep our home, and new people who don't like the site for which they've signed up can discuss the movies they like better on a site that better matches their interests.