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  1. Re:In nearly 25 years in the gaming industry... on Gamers Are Fans of Games, Not Genres · · Score: 1

    Would you say that about Diablo or Final Fantasy?

    Boss is too hard? Go farm some mobs and level up then try the boss again. Only in one you're working with a team while the other you're working alone.

  2. Re:Firefox on Firefox Will Run Chrome Extensions · · Score: 1

    Exactly my issue.

    It's sitting at 10% CPU use and 2GB memory. And god forbid I go to a site with JS which can bog down the whole thing.

  3. Re:Great, I just switched BACK on Firefox Will Run Chrome Extensions · · Score: 1

    I switched as well but somehow FF is even worse performance than Chrome. Often idling with 10% CPU use and spiking up to 90% when visiting certain sites like Amazon.

  4. Re:Uh-huh on New Video Shows Shot Down Drone Hovered For Only 22 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Seriously... the shooter has done nothing but lie about all this.

    First the memory card goes missing from the drone after it crashes on his property. Then he said it was just a a couple feet in the air spying on his daughter, and now we have video of it's flight.

  5. It's just joule thief on Company Extends Alkaline Battery Life With Voltage Booster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's just joule thief, thing is not all batteries can tolerate being over discharged and may fail catastrophically.

  6. Re:Not surprising after Tron: Uprising was gutted on Tron 3 Is Cancelled · · Score: 2

    Yea, I have been rewatching uprising in light of this news. If they had let it keep going it likely could have been a another hit animated show on par with Avatar.

    Seems it had everything going against it. From the cost, to the demographic, to corporate wanting things to remain "kid" friendly. FFS you had Tron being tortured and being left with life altering disfigurements, makes for great storytelling but five year olds and the advertisers are not going to be interested in "PTSD Mutilated Tron Action Figures".

  7. Re:Is it all about the Chinese box office these da on Tron 3 Is Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Well also consider they only get like 1/4 of that money from China; and unless they want their movie to count against the foreign import quota they need to hire a Chinese production team to add in Chinese actors.

  8. Re:The song remains the same on Baton Bob Receives $20,000 Settlement For Coerced Facebook Post · · Score: 2

    You'd think cities would care more given how stretched their budgets are becoming of late.

  9. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    I used to have a job like that, and was expected to be reachable 24/7, even when on vacation.

    Customer might have major issues or there might be a hiccup with an outstanding order. Technically we had staff to cover, but it was expected that the larger customers would have a direct way to contact us, so would not sit through a phone tree if a server rack went offline.

    Plus my paycheck and my extension my job were dependent on those customers staying happy, so even if I had others to cover for me, if they put my people on the back burner, it'd be me who would have the hit.

  10. Re:serious question on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Same for the movie page, keeps forgetting what location I set, despite having a Favorited theater; and when I enter a zip code it pulls every theater in my city, not just the nearest ones to my zip.

    And now their Chrome extension will change your homepage and search engine to Yahoo, with no option to undo it unless you uninstall the extension, and it has shit reviews as a result.

  11. Re:So,,, on Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission · · Score: 1

    https://voat.co/

    Or atleast they want to be a replacement.

  12. Re:Somethig wrong with that on What Intel's $300 Million Diversity Pledge Really Means · · Score: 2

    Maybe they meant to get to the interview portion?

    Remove gender and suddenly more women are being interviewed?

  13. Re: Somethig wrong with that on What Intel's $300 Million Diversity Pledge Really Means · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Also ignore the STEM aspect, if women were paid so much less then men, then the natural effect of capitalism would make it so they are much more desired.

    As a business owner, you'd be able to cut your employee salary by 30%, that is a lot to most businesses.

  14. Maybe not so useful... on DMCA Exemption Campaign Would Let Fans Run Abandoned Games · · Score: 0

    All this will do is at best stop the companies from filing DMCA take downs on the fans; it will in no way obligate the company to release their internal software for the servers which ran the game.

  15. Re:Excellent idea on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of religion.

    All the goods things in my life, I have god to thank; while all the bad shit is on me. Funny how I don't remember god helping me study for that exam so I could get a promotion and raise.

  16. Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 1

    First your entire understanding is completely incorrect.

    She initially claimed that a RO was needed becuase he was spreading nudes of her, while it was she who posted them publicly when working as a model. A) He did not spread the links (or rather nothing concrete can be found to link him), and B) they were distributed BEFORE the RO was issued; give they were used as justification for one.

    Unless you are now arguing that action which promoted the issuance of a RO can then be used as evidence of violating it after issuance?

    Secondly, I guess you missed the start of the second paragraph, wherein she claims Milo and Gjoni are part of some group whose purpose is to spread doxx information. When in fact they had never met or spoken before GamerGate and only talked as reporter and interviewee. You might as well claim that Brianna Wu is part of the same group becuase she interacted with Milo in the same capacity.

    Third, if you simply listen to the podcast, it was not Gjoni discussing that information. KoP was, and Gjoni was just present. So even if the information was spread, it was not Gjoni spreading it. A RO may prevent Gjoni from discussing the matter but that does not hold him liable for when others do.

    Also in followup to this, Gjoni's Lawyer was then doxxed and threatened; and the doxxer is now being sued.

    RalphRetort has the rest of the links but I am opting not to share them directly due to doxxing issues.

  17. Re:Arg, not Slashdot too on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: -1, Troll

    ummm... Just FYI, ZQ is not her real name, it was an alias used during her time as a porn model.

  18. Re:Slashdot stance on #gamergate on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't like what they say?

    They have flat out said that DOXXING is acceptable, that it's only a matter of wrong targets, not methods.

    Hell, ZQ has retweeted doxxes of Wiki editors, including trans minors.

    Tweet:
    http://i.imgur.com/k96uLWF.jpg

    The referenced doxx (censored):
    http://i.imgur.com/He7UCVW.png

    OR how as part of the gag order, she claimed that Gjoni spread internet links to nude pictures of her, while failing to mention these were images she had made public of her own volition, while working as a model/camgirl.

    And claimed that he and Milo, are part of some professional doxxing organization, despite in reality they had never spoken prior to GG.
    http://theralphretort.com/wp-c...

    *Police report obtained via FOIA

  19. Re:Better Late Than Never on Doxing Victim Zoe Quinn Launches Online "Anti-harassment Task Force" · · Score: 0

    Not sure why this is flamebait, it's 100% accurate and the GG-HP was accepting of any volunteer. This just get's ZQ more publicity.

  20. Re:Response Rate on Study: Belief That Some Fields Require "Brilliance" May Keep Women Out · · Score: 2

    I'd be curious about the response rate for the different fields of study. Did Humanities and Social fields have greater response rates then others; becuase that would introduce an unaccounted for bias?

  21. Re:That's what 0.14%? on Comcast-TWC Merger Review On Hold · · Score: 1

    Documents vs. Pages

    31 Thousand DOCUMENTS vs 5 Million PAGES

    Depends on if they count each page as it's own unique document, summary specifically notes that the 5mil portion was pages, most any other use will have a document as being one or hundreds of pages; each of those 31,000 documents could themselves have as many as a million pages each.

  22. Hyperbole much?

    Yes, a lawyer suing a fan project to protect a trademark may be shitty PR; but it hardly compares to the Nazis and Nuremberg.

  23. Re:Just a thought... on In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games · · Score: 1

    Yea, if someone asked me to code a program, I'd just go with "Hello World". It's simple and get's the job done.

  24. Re:Comfortable, were we? on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 1

    Well that's it, I guess once someone large exists there will be no stopping them and we should not even try. Even if we have access to capital that would rival them. Amazon is listed for around $30b net worth, while the publishing industry does billions a year, and has multiple billionaires owning publishing companies.

  25. Re:Comfortable, were we? on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 1

    Would be kinda interesting having an eBay for talent like that. The more busy or talented they were the higher the price.