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The writer of the original article should be shot, hung, shot, and then boiled. ...
It is comedically ridiculous to claim that it's going to result in products this year.

That at least seems to not have come from the article writer. The University of Manchester's twitter feed is repeating it, and retweeting people who make the claim, so I assume it originated with them.

IOW, he's afraid that moronic FUDsters misquote what he said to attack Apple - and the fucking bad article intentionally does just that. Spreading FUDS - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, and Stupidity. And the stupid load hit the posters in this discussion big time.

Hahaha, I wish. I've seen people flat-out declare that Adam Baldwin's politics make it impossible for them to watch Firefly. No joke, people are really saying that.

In case they get pushed off, the tweets I get from that search include:

@simon_lindsell: @ChrisWarcraft Now I know what a single-digit IQ douche Baldwin is, I can't watch anything he's in...there goes Firefly :(
@DylanReeve: @ChrisWarcraft Sadly having seen Baldwin on Twitter has completely ruined Firefly for me. Don't even want to watch it anymore.
@CurmudgeonBeast: Adam Baldwin has pretty well ruined Firefly, for me. At least I can still watch him get beat up by River.

There's no need to parody SJWs or feminists, they do it themselves.

(Oh, and like the majority of Internet feminists, you'll notice that all the people quoted are men.)

Hahaha, I wish. I've seen people flat-out declare that Adam Baldwin's politics make it impossible for them to watch Firefly. No joke, people are really saying that.

In case they get pushed off, the tweets I get from that search include:

@simon_lindsell: @ChrisWarcraft Now I know what a single-digit IQ douche Baldwin is, I can't watch anything he's in...there goes Firefly :(
@DylanReeve: @ChrisWarcraft Sadly having seen Baldwin on Twitter has completely ruined Firefly for me. Don't even want to watch it anymore.
@CurmudgeonBeast: Adam Baldwin has pretty well ruined Firefly, for me. At least I can still watch him get beat up by River.

There's no need to parody SJWs or feminists, they do it themselves.

(Oh, and like the majority of Internet feminists, you'll notice that all the people quoted are men.)

Hahaha, I wish. I've seen people flat-out declare that Adam Baldwin's politics make it impossible for them to watch Firefly. No joke, people are really saying that.

In case they get pushed off, the tweets I get from that search include:

@simon_lindsell: @ChrisWarcraft Now I know what a single-digit IQ douche Baldwin is, I can't watch anything he's in...there goes Firefly :(
@DylanReeve: @ChrisWarcraft Sadly having seen Baldwin on Twitter has completely ruined Firefly for me. Don't even want to watch it anymore.
@CurmudgeonBeast: Adam Baldwin has pretty well ruined Firefly, for me. At least I can still watch him get beat up by River.

There's no need to parody SJWs or feminists, they do it themselves.

(Oh, and like the majority of Internet feminists, you'll notice that all the people quoted are men.)

Hahaha, I wish. I've seen people flat-out declare that Adam Baldwin's politics make it impossible for them to watch Firefly. No joke, people are really saying that.

In case they get pushed off, the tweets I get from that search include:

@simon_lindsell: @ChrisWarcraft Now I know what a single-digit IQ douche Baldwin is, I can't watch anything he's in...there goes Firefly :(
@DylanReeve: @ChrisWarcraft Sadly having seen Baldwin on Twitter has completely ruined Firefly for me. Don't even want to watch it anymore.
@CurmudgeonBeast: Adam Baldwin has pretty well ruined Firefly, for me. At least I can still watch him get beat up by River.

There's no need to parody SJWs or feminists, they do it themselves.

(Oh, and like the majority of Internet feminists, you'll notice that all the people quoted are men.)

"Who gives a f*ck about an Oxford comma", let alone a your/you're mistake. The single most beautiful thing about English is that when it is verified, everyone will know aliens exist. Probably through a Stephen Hawking tweet

You use and defend Apple so your IQ is questionable

Ongoing research continues to demonstrate conclusively that your IQ is an excellent predictor of your score on an IQ test.

The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and ongoing user comment/forum censorship (in former free-speech strongholds such as 4chan and Reddit, no less) didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.
The SVU episode . . . hahaahhahaha WOW, where do I even begin . . . it is progapanda that couldn't be more precisely crafted to the corrupt press's specifications (i.e. "narrative"), and broadcast to a national non-gamer audience, much of which likely accepted it as reality. It was a wake-up call to quite a few previously unaware or neutral parties, especially game devs*.

Eurogamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining PC Gamer, IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.

Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi...
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20...
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-...

Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.

Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.


* like Mark Kern and Ken Levine, who had nothing to do with Gamergate, but were so disgusted by the SVU episode that they publically called on the gaming press to stop slandering gamers. Both were instantly swarmed by anti-GG on twitter, and VG24/7 ran a hit piece on Kern without even getting his side of the story, and refused even after he specifically asked them. I think Eurogamer saw exactly what happened to Kern, and it's no accident that that their policy explicitly includes a "right of reply" (perhaps a subtle message that they won't similarly treat game devs like shit).

apparently already blocks this Teslacrypt variant. Finding niches in the world to exploit becomes a sport it seems, I wonder what the next niche will be. I will be busy asserting my Linux security in the meanwhile.

See his twitter feed : https://twitter.com/terryandro...

This feels pertinent to me because this morning I was woken up at 6:45am by a loud helicopter hovering overhead for over an hour. A teenager had jumped in front of the CalTrain by where I live in Palo Alto in an apparent suicide. Turns out this is the 8th such CalTrain suicide so far this year, up from 8 suicides total (10 deaths) over the whole year last year. Locals are loudly requesting for the crossroads to be made into underpasses, and for improved fences etc.

On the one hand I keep thinking that if someone is determined to commit suicide, they'll find a way. (There was a police guard posted at the crossing after previous suicides to prevent this, but the teenager simply jumped the fence 200 yards from the crossing and jumped in front of the train there instead.)

On the other hand, I see the wisdom in trying to make the world a place where it's in no convenient way to commit suicide. As Banksy tweeted this morning, "Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse, suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better."

Seem like the max number of CS:GO players may have happened during this last (two?) day(s, yesterday seem higher) since there's a tweet about it:
https://twitter.com/matttwood/...

I don't know but now with 208 000 players is close to this days low, 463 000 players is a peak.

Here is proof the regulations are indeed 332 pages. This photographic proof comes from one of the 5 FCC commissioners who wants to make it public. Crunchy-- what better proof do you want? Where is your proof that its 320 pages of "comments"?

Here is a picture of Ajit Pai holding up the paperwork... Made secret by Tom Wheeler.

tl;dr: WE HAVE ACHIEVED PEAK CAUCASITY

Actually did RTFA. This experiment in aversive racism seems to assume broad definition racism, ie "us vs them", or group membership.

At this moment, colloquial use of word "racism" in clickbait media is essentially interchangeable with "bigotry". Sadly how words are used define their meaning, not the other way around. But yes, most people are bigoted. Even the pope is bigoted towards the idea of hell, fallen angels and satan (recently he promised to like gays; which is actually somewhat encouraging).

You see, we europeans with crooked teeth are long past carnal racism based on obvious cues like skin color - owing to being class based serfdoms, instead of color based chattel slavery cultures in recent history. So we're left with no choice to hate thy neighbor based on ethnicity and/or nationality.

Also, taking this all the way to ad-absurdum conclusion - a liberal not being fond of a conservative for being bigoted is racist (because hating political leaning is racist, just like hating russians because of stalin, or hating germans because of hitler or ...). The argument became so over simplified it becomes self-contradictory.

When the shouting match between stormfronters and white guilt becomes polarised like it did recently, new words get invented and old meanings get redefined just by the sheer volume of simpleton shit sprung in both directions of camps of this career activism.

Random (not)interesting tidbit: The nationality people around the world are racist towards the most is not blacks (or "people of color", or whatever its called today), not even chinese, but North Americans as a whole. This is just a speculation - eastern parts of europe, arab nations and large parts of asia would unilaterally prefer to sacrifice an american, instead of one of their supergroup. American race being defined by your accent and certain "american" behaviorial stereotypes.

I didn't think of that because I dismiss inherently ridiculous thoughts. All that happens is that a persons OWN WORDS are pointed out to others.

I'll just leave this here, you filthy ADD-ridden spammer.

indeed https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s...

You mean like this?

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/...

Then don't follow such celebrities. You can use it to see @slashdot topics as well, for example.

Also, somewhat presciently: Don't smoke. I did. Wish I never had. LLAP

RIP, Leonard Nimoy. You are sorely missed.

"Don't smoke. I did. Wish I never had. LLAP"

The sad thing is about 100 different commenters have pointed out that it's 8 pages of regulations & ~300 pages of justification & background to these guys & they just keep on spewing bullshit.

https://twitter.com/GigiBSohnF...

Oh look, yet another low information voter!

8 pages of regulations, 299+ pages of responses to the comments that were left on the FCCs website.

Let me help you with your ignorance problem.

https://twitter.com/GigiBSohnF...

http://transition.fcc.gov/Dail...

Unless you're just making shit up.

You're looking at the wrong account. Go to the NSA's "Public Affairs Office"

https://twitter.com/nsa_pao

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

IIRC, the really silly ones go back to right around Thanskgiving.

Unless you're just making shit up.

You're looking at the wrong account. Go to the NSA's "Public Affairs Office"

https://twitter.com/nsa_pao

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

IIRC, the really silly ones go back to right around Thanskgiving.

Unless you're just making shit up.

You're looking at the wrong account. Go to the NSA's "Public Affairs Office"

https://twitter.com/nsa_pao

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

IIRC, the really silly ones go back to right around Thanskgiving.

Unless you're just making shit up.

You're looking at the wrong account. Go to the NSA's "Public Affairs Office"

https://twitter.com/nsa_pao

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

https://twitter.com/NSA_PAO/st...

IIRC, the really silly ones go back to right around Thanskgiving.

If you had done a bit of research, or DEITY$ forbid, read the very thread you are posting on, you'd know that what you are parroting is disingenuous drivel.

It's 8 pages of regulations. The bulk of the document is responding to the millions of FCC comments as they are required to do by law.

https://twitter.com/GigiBSohnF...

http://transition.fcc.gov/Dail...

Also, the text of the ICC/USF was 751 pages, so as regulatory documents go, this one isn't anything special.

But, by all means, keep on being a useful idiot.

Oh look, yet another low info voter.

Gigi Sohn, a special counsel for Wheeler, said the text of the actually net neutrality rules are only 8 pages. She said the other pages responds to the millions of public comments, "as required by law."

https://twitter.com/GigiBSohnF...

From TFA:

We have this top tier [of scientists] in the U.S., the people who graduated from Stanford, from Berkeley, from MIT, Cornell. Those people are still exceptional and really good. But we have this enormous gap between that and just regular software writers and farmers and people that need to be scientifically literate.

I don't think what I said is an inaccurate representation of the article under discussion. Now that article may not be representative of his usual, or actual, views. If he was put on the spot by the interviewer he may have given a less well planned answer than in other situations. And that's fine, I can forgive him for that.

But it didn't take me much scrolling through his twitter feed to find some incredibly bad science. I would have hoped that "one of the foremost scientific communicators of our day" would know that science does not and cannot tell you what your rights are. Or here. One snow storm in Boston is as consistent with no climate change as it is with climate change, one would hope that "one of the foremost scientific communicators of our day" would understand the dangers of taking individual datapoints in isolation.*

*The fact that he may well know this, and know the rigorous statistics that support climate change, does not change the fact his job is to help people embrace scientific thinking. This means not tweeting blatantly erroneous logic, no matter how correct the conclusion may be.

From TFA:

We have this top tier [of scientists] in the U.S., the people who graduated from Stanford, from Berkeley, from MIT, Cornell. Those people are still exceptional and really good. But we have this enormous gap between that and just regular software writers and farmers and people that need to be scientifically literate.

I don't think what I said is an inaccurate representation of the article under discussion. Now that article may not be representative of his usual, or actual, views. If he was put on the spot by the interviewer he may have given a less well planned answer than in other situations. And that's fine, I can forgive him for that.

But it didn't take me much scrolling through his twitter feed to find some incredibly bad science. I would have hoped that "one of the foremost scientific communicators of our day" would know that science does not and cannot tell you what your rights are. Or here. One snow storm in Boston is as consistent with no climate change as it is with climate change, one would hope that "one of the foremost scientific communicators of our day" would understand the dangers of taking individual datapoints in isolation.*

*The fact that he may well know this, and know the rigorous statistics that support climate change, does not change the fact his job is to help people embrace scientific thinking. This means not tweeting blatantly erroneous logic, no matter how correct the conclusion may be.

Correction: There might be code to inject into FF and Opera - https://twitter.com/supersat/s...

The irony is that the kind of people who post comments on articles on web sites tend to be the least qualified to do so. By commenting on a news article, you are acknowledging that you have nothing more constructive to do with your time, and that you aren't satisfied with the attention that you get from the people around you. The level of hateful and ignorant bile in most news sites' comment sections is so great that anyone who would stoop to adding to them must be kinda sad and desperate.

And yes, I am completely aware that my comments here contain a full day's supply of irony.

https://twitter.com/avoidcomme...

Landing on a barge (or ASDS) would still be needed for deep space missions like DSCOVR which didn't have enough fuel left to boost back the stage towards launch pad. The center core of Falcon 9 Heavy wouldn't have enough fuel as well, and will most likely land on ASDS, while other two booster cores go back to landing pad.

SpaceX is in fact building a second ASDS which will be used for launches from Pacific coast.

They never live-cast the landing right now, mostly to maintain their PR image. Their Twitter page does a decent job of maintaining updates about the rocket status https://twitter.com/spacex

Well, he could always go work at Arby's.

If you watch his actual announcement (why isn't this in the story?), he says he doesn't have any specific plans yet, but he will be doing something.

Well, he could always go work at Arby's.

If you watch his actual announcement (why isn't this in the story?), he says he doesn't have any specific plans yet, but he will be doing something.

https://twitter.com/peeweeherm...

The Video in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Jail for deniers:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03...

Murder:
Comment by Bluecloud
https://twitter.com/RichardTol...
There are many more... some directly from Greenpeace. But I'll let you do your own research.

Death penalty:
https://tallbloke.wordpress.co...

You mean the victim of domestic abuse who posted about his abuser, and experiences being abused, after HE dumped HER? And that so far almost every major claim has turned out to have so much evidence behind it that the FTC has come down hard on Gawker and its ilk? The only people whose claims have been debunked time and time again are the self-aggrandizing manipulative bigots trying to claim they're victims while getting caught working with racist GNAA trolls to pay for fake tweets while they themselves publicly dox anyone they dislike.

You're siding with neonazis, domestic abusers, and violent racists who STARTED by calling women "house ni***ers" and escalated to getting people fired, hacking bank accounts, mailing knives, syringes, and dead animals to people, and even SWATting.

Gamergate HAS a problem, and that problem is that they picked a fight with people that have no problem paying for fake tweets saying things like that, even as they themselves scream racial slurs like "house ni***" at women, get black men fired from their jobs for disagreeing with rich white hipsters, mail people knives, syringes, and dead animals, and send SWAT teams to peoples houses to try and get them killed.

You want to talk about civilized society... maybe you shouldn't be siding with neonazis, domestic abusers, and violent racists.

Oddly, the 10GB plan is the only one that went up in price (and by $20, no less). There's a chart of all the new prices.

Here is a Haiku By a Robot from Highlights Magazine.

Seven Hundred Ten
Seven Hundred Eleven
Seven Hundred Twelve

https://twitter.com/zachwhalen...

The cover-up didn't work.
The week-long gaming press news blackout and user comment/forum censorship didn't work.
The coordinated, ongoing smear campaign that began with the "Gamers are Over" articles hasn't worked.
The doxxing and harassment of pro-GG folks hasn't worked.
The endless train of embarrassingly desperate counter-hashtags hasn't worked.
The Wikipedia and Nightline hit pieces only damage those outlets' credibility for short-term effect.

PC Gamer is the latest games journalism site to update its ethics policy in the wake of Gamergate, joining IGN, the Escapist, and of course Kotaku/Gawker (though in Gawker's case, they put up more of a fight and the Gamergate pressure to be ethical had to be routed through the FTC). And there are probably more I'm forgetting.

Gamergate also got Brad Wardell (CEO of Stardock) some long-overdue apologies for hit pieces run against him:
https://twitter.com/iamDavidWi...
http://www.gamepolitics.com/20...
http://www.zenofdesign.com/in-...

Ask yourself how much of this you've seen reported in the corrupt media (which at this point, sadly, clearly includes Slashdot). Of course none of it ever had a chance of appearing in the Wikipedia article. Nothing enrages anti-Gamergaters more than someone covering both sides of the story, and that should tell you something.

Their side thrives only in an environment of propaganda and censorship, and evaporates when faced with integrity and transparency. They prove the need for Gamergate every time they write an article based on the assumption that terrorism and child porn^W^W^W^W misogyny and harassment have become the root passwords to the Constitution^W^W journalistic ethics.

Odd however for someone who "left twitter", Looks like Zelda came back
https://twitter.com/zeldawilli...

Also, what is considered a 'core user'? Is the point of using Zelda Williams as an example mean she was a core user?
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I have seen commentary from 'advocates' for better block tools. It consisted of feeding a program in which you fed precreated blacklist you got from a 3rd party.

If you are going to choose to let others decide who you communicate with on social media, you need to re-evaluate why you are using social media.

Or better yet, use Minecraft to teach them the basics of logic and programming.

A modpack with ComputerCraft, RedLogic, and possibly a couple of "just for fun" mods like Thermal Expansion or RailCraft would be a solid starting point...if you want to put together something more complex, contact me on IRC (esper.net, #minechem channel) or via Twitter and I'd be more than happy to help you out.

Disclosure: I develop the Minechem mod, and help maintain a couple of different modpacks.

Actually, in many cases it does. Ask the people who psted their stories (not anonymously either) on twitter under the tag #beenrapedneverreported.

Keeping stuff like this private tends to have serious long-term consequences. Going public is about self-affirmation, prevention of recurrences, and getting help. Stigma and the tendancy of people to think such things should be kept private hurts the victims and encourages the perps.

Read more here and here. Or read the thousands of stories at #beenrapedneverreported.