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  1. Re:Reinvent this, reinvent that. It's all still sh on John Romero On Reinventing the Shooter · · Score: 1

    Reinventions and creatively redesigning games and activities into a virtual space is like, the thing that made the big devs of the old studios of yor. I don't think people inspired to change paradigms are bad people to design.

    It's just a risky business model. But the results can be gr8. Most likely this guy can survive another failure and is more than happy to get the chance to take a risk on this next en devour they dream of.

    Honestly I don't know really where the hell FPS's can be taken... that they havn't at some point by a mod... but I guess someone could roll out an fps quite quickly by mashing up mod ideas and just using a stock engine.

  2. Re:Humans have too much on Should Cyborgs Have the Same Privacy Rights As Humans? · · Score: 1

    Indeed to me it's pretty simple. The group will really has no business influencing an individuals personal and private life. The life that has nothing to do with anyone else. Especially.

    Other than that, really for many of us, me, particularly, an idealistic society is one in which every person is individually empowered and completely independent from the moires of society.

  3. Sounds like a bunch of retarded mongoloid nvidia fanbois begrudgingly agree with me as AC's. The idea of a shader model is nothing new boys and girls....... If I stampted it into a peice of metal and used a flywheel with a needle to read the algorithm in. It wouldn't exactly be innovation now would it? Maybe artistic. But hardly innovative.

  4. I'm pretty sure none of this technology is really innovative. Shaders for example have been around since over two decades ago.

  5. Re:Like DRM? on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 1

    And this couldnt be hotwired or bypassed by just replacing the controller unit with some off the shelf parts? Come on...

  6. Re:All it would do is add an order of complexity. on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 1

    the whole damn article is flamebait, thx mods

  7. All it would do is add an order of complexity. on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 0

    To add kill switches that can easily be bypassed by anyone. And probably would end up being designed to be bypassed in the long run.

    The problem is, how did the equipment get in their hands in the first place?

    The solution is, stop putting equipment were it can be aquired by our enemies. That includes shipping it over sea, unless it's going to be physically used in active combat.

    But we all know these wars are not:
    A. fought to win
    B. justifiable
    C. directly intended for our or anyones benefit other than rich warmongers

  8. Re:I predict on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 2

    After reading the article, seeing the discussion here, being a gamer myself, and also experiencing the effects of this objectification myself.

    I would say, regardless of her 'moral character' (tbh what she does in her own time).

    She is damn right about the gaming industry.

    TBH games are fairly weak and lacking in any substance that adds anything to humanity overall. But it is worse if you take them apart piece by piece out of context.

    I would be the first to argue that some as a whole are not all that bad. But her argument is that the overwhelming majority of games suffer from the curse of objectification.

    And in that she is absolutely right.

  9. Re:hubris on Researchers Harness E. Coli To Produce Propane · · Score: 1

    No, they probably realized that propane was an easy target for ecoli and put some work to make it happen. TBH this is more likely to control and patent the process rather than release it ever to the public. Fat chance plebs get their hands on propane conversion kits and any mass production of this stuff gets underway.

    Big oil already has massive construction and infrastructure production under way for nat gas from ocean vents.

    And ironically there is so much natural gas available that it could be cheaply gathered from the planet for a few hundred years before worrying about renewables.

    This application will probably end up having most implementations in space or somewhere where it would be more benificial to reprocess waste into gas.

  10. Re:This does not bother me on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    Makes sense.

  11. Re:This does not bother me on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 1

    I'de like to also point out that these towers seem to be unsecure as more than the military agencies have accessed them. So you can't even be sure the military is to blame for them. It could very well be an illegal underground operation footed by the very very rich and powerful telecoms who know this technology oooh so well for many many nefarious reasons.

  12. Re:This does not bother me on Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uh, yeah, but the military can damn well make sure their hardware only interfaces with other military hardware, not your cell phone, and not prioritize your civilian traffic over their 'emergency, auxilary, or military channels'.

    This is just more and more slippery goose shit for the sauce.

  13. Re:Anti-competitive behavior is a big deal on Uber Now Blocked All Over Germany · · Score: 1

    Indeed, and not all taxi permit systems are anti competative. But most laws and business regulations are in most places I've read about or researched.

    So it stands to reason that a company who disagrees and works around the laws. Is not necessarily being anti competative, when the other taxi companies COULD do the same. But more than likely they lobbied to get this changed with their local or foreign congress critter type.

    This is exactly how the music and automotive and fuel/gas/oil industries work.

  14. Re:Anti-competitive behavior is a big deal on Uber Now Blocked All Over Germany · · Score: 1

    Yes, attacking government revenue streams is not exactly anti competative though. But this is the world we live in. This is such a hard thing to explain to the layperson.

  15. Re:We use to do this all the time in the 50's as w on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 1

    I didn't RTFA :) Thx for pointing that out. My point still stands. We never really had that much freedom individually in this country. It was just way less visible in our past than in the soviets past. IMO.

  16. We use to do this all the time in the 50's as well on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 1

    In the USA. We just didn't do it to very rich white people. And we had the Mafia to do it to the lower class whites.

    This is nothing new kids. The internet just made it visible for us all to go OMFG collectively.

  17. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Yes, but your phone probably didn't explicitly say your photos could be accessed in the cloud by other people. Or describe what security measures were in place. Nor did you probably read the legalese that comes with the EULA or license. And in fact most phones have an option to read through this deeply embedded in the menu system. So it may in fact have said that your pictures would be secure. I know that my andriod makes no such claim, but the individual software packages that come with it all have their own terms.

    IANAL so I don't even know if this matters. But it seems irresponsible of Apple in this case.

  18. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 2

    Or, you know. People should maybe be concerned about computer security and the companies that held those pictures "securely" should be held partly responsible for creating a false sense of security or encouraging reckless behavior.

    Although I'm sure they are indemnified against anything civil in writing (I don't think it would be good to prosecute apple criminally culpable).

    But they basically sold a service giving the customer a fraudulent sense of false safety and privacy.

  19. Re:yet if we did it on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 1

    Or it could mean that white people benefited from better education and privilege, there-fore having less reason to riot over perceived ills and taking alternative means of remedying the situation.

  20. Re:yet if we did it on Deputy Who Fatally Struck Cyclist While Answering Email Will Face No Charges · · Score: 1

    Just going to hug your top level comment and say this was assasination plane and simple. But he has friends in high places, so if one of those emails said "drift into the bikelane" it will never be investigated.

  21. Re:Free market escapades! on China Gives Microsoft 20 Days To Respond To Competition Probe · · Score: 2

    Lastly, I'm sure some libre office nerd in the Chinese Aristocracy probably got pissed when they tried to recently open an msword file and saw a lot of jibberish. It was bound to happen eventually.

  22. Re:Free market escapades! on China Gives Microsoft 20 Days To Respond To Competition Probe · · Score: 1

    TBH, in a world were IP and bullshit flies rampant around the globe. What you said is basically the same thing as being concerned about free economics. Liaise faire motherfuckers.

  23. Re:Obvious Reason on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    tubgirl.jpg (drowning in a fury of shit) ... I'm not even mad bra

  24. Re:Obvious Reason on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Maybe women just want to put nice things on pinterest instead of arguing about pedantic bullshit all day.