That misses the point. I can't tell you what future generations will point to as our moral failings and condemn us for, but it's certain there will be many things. Every generation is certain they've got the right view of every moral issue, and that all of those past centuries were barbaric and wrong. Why would that pattern ever change?
If his lectures are good (and it seems that they are), they stand aside from his (un)professional conduct.
Fox News watchers - are they at least bitching about this? I mean if there is anything to pick on Democrats for it is THIS. No, they are going to bitch about Festivus poles or some such nonsense, aren't they. For profit propaganda is what we have for a media in this country.
There's a lot of bitching right now on the blogging dextrosphere about the shit the lame duck congress is pulling, especially about departing Republicans being dicks (the Dems at least are gaming the system in a predictable and understandable way, but the GOP has no excuse here, as you point out).
That's certainly the mainstream media's "narrative", but:
"I just took an action to change the law," said President Obama to amnesty hecklers, describing his recent executive ruling on amnesty non-enforcement as a change to the law in his own words, constitutional scholar that he is.
1920x1200 is the One True Resolution. 16:9 is just-barely-not-tall enough. More pixels doesn't seem to help any for anything text-related.
I bought 2 high-end IPS 1920x1200 monitors, just so I could store one and drag it out when the first one fails. I can only hope that after enough years go by, this fetish for movie-screen-aspect-ratio passes in computer monitors and sanity returns.
Basically the guy committed a crime the University found so horrible they are tossing him and his stuff to the curb. I really don't see the complaint here. Should the University be forced to maintain a relationship with him? Who else should be forced to continue to interact with him?
Alan Turing.
Let's keep useful knowledge separate from what any culture-and-decade happens to find bad behavior. Rumor has it that a lot of work attributed to Shannon was actually Turing's work, that the UK government didn't want associated with some gay guy.
Or, what I do, don't do anything important with your phone!
My phone has always been just "swipe to unlock" - no protection, no encryption, no anything. The only thing on it that anyone might find interesting is my call history, and a few texts from people who didn't realize that I don't text, and the contents of my Kindle/Audible library (which I expect the government can get at anyhow).
I like having a phone, GPS, and a few games all on the same device, but I've always expected phones to be so insecure that trying to lock one was just silly. Instead I keep important stuff off of any mobile device.
The problem you highlight is real, but it's a cultural problem in Congress, one with an entrenched old guard highly benefitting from it. I don't believe many people run for office in the hopes of becoming some corporation's bitch. If we can break that culture by throwing the bums out, I don't think it will come back soon. The dependence on competitive bidding for ad time on a few limited broadcast ad slots is the root of this evil: you can never have enough campaign funds until you have more than your opponent. As broadcast media dies, the problem dies too. (I'm sure we'll discover new problems in new generations, but we have enough to worry about with today's).
While we've had a wave of extremely partisan news media (only reporting stories that make the other side look bad, not naming the party of someone involved in a scandal if it's their team, and so on), the more partisan the media outlet, the faster it's dying. Seems like people are tired of that shit.
The current standard CIWS is anti-missile missiles. But they have problems: ammo is pretty limited, they take time to get to their target, and they're not built to target incoming slow-moving small boats. While a laser is limited to horizon range, that's fine for CIWS, and being able to kill very quickly after threat detection (the servos on the turret are likely the limiting factor) is a great advantage. The problem today is incoming anti-ship missiles that are faster than the anti-missile-missiles. That makes it really hard for escorts to do their job.
You say they only have to fire a few at once, but naval surface combat is all about launching hundreds of ship-to-ship missiles timed to arrive together to overwhelm defensive capacity - and that's a much lower tech trick to pull off than operating a modern aircraft carrier.
Like I said: it's fun in it's way. You can spend days coming up with a new build that maybe no one has tried before, or play some rather comical builds that are more entertaining than powerful, or etc. And I find it fun to craft a perfectly optimized weapon for each creature type that I commonly face.
Gave up? You're just not hardcore enough if you kept playing after you died!
Seriously, you want to fight that 25-year-old fight? Should we also argue about VI vs EMACS? (BTW: EMACS!!!!! And Kirk could totally kick Pickard's ass, and then steal his girl!)
In the MMO I'm currently playing, I have 120 useful taskbar slots, 14 weapon sets I actively switch between, and a combination of gear that's a freaking jigsaw puzzle to get all of the three dozen bonuses I need or want in the limited slots available, so I need to regularly swap equipped gear and keep all that straight in my head (and which is which on my taskbars). It's fun in it's way, but Rogue had a certain charm it lacks.
Have you watched the video? It seems reasonably destructive. The missile target (carried on a platform on a boat, as the weapon seems manually aimed in this demo) just detonates - presumably the fuel goes up. It's hard to see how much damage the drone target took, as we only have the gun camera footage, but it clearly changed from flying to falling. Thermal energy is generally going to be more of a threat than a puncture to anything that's carrying a bunch of jet fuel.
I don't know about this weapon, but the ABL (a much larger and heavier and more expensive beast) actually compensated for atmospheric distortion using the same flexible-lens trick that spy sats use - that's a mature technology now.
what games is he playing? In all of the RPGs that I have played my character resurrects at a graveyard or a save point. I can always continue my game with the same character. Yes, I am showing my age. lol
I hate the fact that "roguelike" just means "permadeath" now. That was the least interesting part of rogue/nethack/etc. To me, "roguelike" has always meant an exploration-focused RPG with a simple UI but complex play. I always savescummed anyhow. (Except in nethack. There I played real permadeath. When my character died the first time -- to a cheap kill -- I deleted the game and never played again).
I'd love to find an RPG with the depth and detail of rogue/nethack/angband/etc but with the same learn-as-you go vibe, where everything has more depth than it seems at first. (Wait - you can eat your kills? And there are so many different effects depending on what the critter was? Now I have to try every one! Everything was like that.)
It started off as sexist BS, and it remained sexist BS. Basing an "ethics" campaign on flagrant lies isn't exactly a good place to get started.
It started off as a strong push-back against the latest Jack Thompson, the latest "Mothers Against D&D", against one more attempt to start a moral panic over video games. Fuck Jack Thompson and everyone like him. If it were a bunch of sexist drivel, it would have blown over in a week.
There's a small corner of gaming filled with adolescent boys who behave about like what you'd expect. Not a nice community. Trying to stereotype all "gamers" as that crowd will of course get extreme pushback, whether as #gamergate or something else. Unless you're prepared to explain the sexual stereotyping in CandyCrush or Civ5 or any of the vast majority of games where there's not even an identifiable protagonist, STFU about "gamers" and "gaming" and other over-broad stereotypes.
15 years ago, some game devs still thought that all sorts of games needed to appeal to adolescent male fantasy, and we got stuff like the dark elves in Everquest (or the box art!), but even Sony figured out the core gaming demographic was middle-aged women, and adjusted accordingly, and PopCap Games blew everyone else out of the water for years by focusing there.
Wow, I hadn't considered that, but it makes sense.
The last frequent poster who overstayed his welcome (I forget the guy's name, but he wrote the "hellmouth" series of posts about how badly geeks were abused in school), he started out by writing stuff that the/. community really enjoyed, and arguably never wrote such drivel, we just got tired of the topic.
But I think you're right: Bennett has incriminating pictures of someone important at Dice, or something like that.
Chavs. IMO, that's a complete rebuttal of the idea. You'll end up with a complete culture of people who view working for a living as a scam, and even the outliers who actually want to work have no cultural preparation or basic education for. I grew up -until I was 10 or so - in a trailer park where a similar mentality prevailed. I wouldn't recommend it.
TPB needs to move to Freenet. Freenet will likely always be too slow for content, but of course TPB doesn't host content. For the minimal metadata needed to find the torrent you want, Freenet would actually work, has no servers to shut down or raid, is very anonymous for uploads and, really is a perfect match for what TPB does (as long as you don't need JS to serve those ads, and there's no JS on Freenet, at least by default).
The government-invented internet was 3 sites. Usenet and only university hosts, with no search and no WWW just wasn't what we think of as the internet today, for better or worse. Commercialism made the internet take off, and gave it the critical mass for projects like Wikipedia to happen, and the infrastructure for online gaming and streaming porn and torrents and etc.
I didn't think pure catastrophic coverage was even possible under the ACA - don't all ACA-compliant plans have to pay for birth control, and some other similar predictable recurring expenses?
I just want to shop for health coverage like I do for car coverage. Make some minimum coverage a legal requirement - I can see the advantage of that, as you can then require coverage of pre-existing conditions - and just like car insurance add a high risk pool that insurers are stuck covering at a loss if they want to do business, but for most of us health insurance just becomes a product like any other.
Our tax system is totally fucked, no doubt, but if you can't see the difference between "government-run health care" and "free market* care with some tax breaks", you're not paying attention.
*Every successful free market includes the government regulating product quality, preventing fraud, and so on.
Vote all the older incumbents out. There's a broken society there, one than can acculturate a trickle of newbies. Give them the November That Never Ended, 80% turnover at every election for a while. Few go into politics with the intent of becoming corrupt, and culture of corruption, like any other culture, can be overwhelmed by a flood of newbies.
You mean like the private insurance industry has already been doing for years? My insurance carrier is dictating my care to my physician now. I want the power to decide what's best for me place back into her hands. That will never, ever, happen as long as the private insurance industry remains in the position it's in.
Pay for ordinary care out of pocket, and the problem is solved. If health insurance had nothing to do with people who had other power over you, like your employer or the government, but was instead like car insurance - just a product you shopped for, and only used in a crisis, the landscape would totally change.
It amazes me though the number of people pay $3-6K more a year (depending on how many insured) just to jet a lower deductible that works out to the same $3-6K a year! If every doctors visit is paid by insurance instead of you of course the company will call the shots: they're paying the bill - and you're not even saving any money that way!
Just give me a high-deductible plan that I buy like car insurance, and get government back to only regulating the quality of that product, not in the room with me in the doctor's office.
For example: the CIA torturing anyone they want, while lying to congress. And getting away with it.
If they get away with it, it's because you actually believe they lied to congress. Of course congress knew. Did you really think those Dems objecting to Gitmo actually cared, even after they had control for a control for a couple of years and did nothing? Man, people will believe anything these days.
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That misses the point. I can't tell you what future generations will point to as our moral failings and condemn us for, but it's certain there will be many things. Every generation is certain they've got the right view of every moral issue, and that all of those past centuries were barbaric and wrong. Why would that pattern ever change?
If his lectures are good (and it seems that they are), they stand aside from his (un)professional conduct.
Fox News watchers - are they at least bitching about this? I mean if there is anything to pick on Democrats for it is THIS. No, they are going to bitch about Festivus poles or some such nonsense, aren't they. For profit propaganda is what we have for a media in this country.
There's a lot of bitching right now on the blogging dextrosphere about the shit the lame duck congress is pulling, especially about departing Republicans being dicks (the Dems at least are gaming the system in a predictable and understandable way, but the GOP has no excuse here, as you point out).
That's certainly the mainstream media's "narrative", but:
"I just took an action to change the law," said President Obama to amnesty hecklers, describing his recent executive ruling on amnesty non-enforcement as a change to the law in his own words, constitutional scholar that he is.
Every time I see those guys I point to the "Help Wanted" sign hanging in the store window.
But I like cash, for the casual anonymity.
1920x1200 is the One True Resolution. 16:9 is just-barely-not-tall enough. More pixels doesn't seem to help any for anything text-related.
I bought 2 high-end IPS 1920x1200 monitors, just so I could store one and drag it out when the first one fails. I can only hope that after enough years go by, this fetish for movie-screen-aspect-ratio passes in computer monitors and sanity returns.
Basically the guy committed a crime the University found so horrible they are tossing him and his stuff to the curb.
I really don't see the complaint here. Should the University be forced to maintain a relationship with him?
Who else should be forced to continue to interact with him?
Alan Turing.
Let's keep useful knowledge separate from what any culture-and-decade happens to find bad behavior. Rumor has it that a lot of work attributed to Shannon was actually Turing's work, that the UK government didn't want associated with some gay guy.
Or, what I do, don't do anything important with your phone!
My phone has always been just "swipe to unlock" - no protection, no encryption, no anything. The only thing on it that anyone might find interesting is my call history, and a few texts from people who didn't realize that I don't text, and the contents of my Kindle/Audible library (which I expect the government can get at anyhow).
I like having a phone, GPS, and a few games all on the same device, but I've always expected phones to be so insecure that trying to lock one was just silly. Instead I keep important stuff off of any mobile device.
The problem you highlight is real, but it's a cultural problem in Congress, one with an entrenched old guard highly benefitting from it. I don't believe many people run for office in the hopes of becoming some corporation's bitch. If we can break that culture by throwing the bums out, I don't think it will come back soon. The dependence on competitive bidding for ad time on a few limited broadcast ad slots is the root of this evil: you can never have enough campaign funds until you have more than your opponent. As broadcast media dies, the problem dies too. (I'm sure we'll discover new problems in new generations, but we have enough to worry about with today's).
While we've had a wave of extremely partisan news media (only reporting stories that make the other side look bad, not naming the party of someone involved in a scandal if it's their team, and so on), the more partisan the media outlet, the faster it's dying. Seems like people are tired of that shit.
The current standard CIWS is anti-missile missiles. But they have problems: ammo is pretty limited, they take time to get to their target, and they're not built to target incoming slow-moving small boats. While a laser is limited to horizon range, that's fine for CIWS, and being able to kill very quickly after threat detection (the servos on the turret are likely the limiting factor) is a great advantage. The problem today is incoming anti-ship missiles that are faster than the anti-missile-missiles. That makes it really hard for escorts to do their job.
You say they only have to fire a few at once, but naval surface combat is all about launching hundreds of ship-to-ship missiles timed to arrive together to overwhelm defensive capacity - and that's a much lower tech trick to pull off than operating a modern aircraft carrier.
Like I said: it's fun in it's way. You can spend days coming up with a new build that maybe no one has tried before, or play some rather comical builds that are more entertaining than powerful, or etc. And I find it fun to craft a perfectly optimized weapon for each creature type that I commonly face.
Gave up? You're just not hardcore enough if you kept playing after you died!
Seriously, you want to fight that 25-year-old fight? Should we also argue about VI vs EMACS? (BTW: EMACS!!!!! And Kirk could totally kick Pickard's ass, and then steal his girl!)
In the MMO I'm currently playing, I have 120 useful taskbar slots, 14 weapon sets I actively switch between, and a combination of gear that's a freaking jigsaw puzzle to get all of the three dozen bonuses I need or want in the limited slots available, so I need to regularly swap equipped gear and keep all that straight in my head (and which is which on my taskbars). It's fun in it's way, but Rogue had a certain charm it lacks.
You play the game you enjoy, and I'll play the game I enjoy, how about that?
Have you watched the video? It seems reasonably destructive. The missile target (carried on a platform on a boat, as the weapon seems manually aimed in this demo) just detonates - presumably the fuel goes up. It's hard to see how much damage the drone target took, as we only have the gun camera footage, but it clearly changed from flying to falling. Thermal energy is generally going to be more of a threat than a puncture to anything that's carrying a bunch of jet fuel.
I don't know about this weapon, but the ABL (a much larger and heavier and more expensive beast) actually compensated for atmospheric distortion using the same flexible-lens trick that spy sats use - that's a mature technology now.
what games is he playing? In all of the RPGs that I have played my character resurrects at a graveyard or a save point. I can always continue my game with the same character. Yes, I am showing my age. lol
I hate the fact that "roguelike" just means "permadeath" now. That was the least interesting part of rogue/nethack/etc. To me, "roguelike" has always meant an exploration-focused RPG with a simple UI but complex play. I always savescummed anyhow. (Except in nethack. There I played real permadeath. When my character died the first time -- to a cheap kill -- I deleted the game and never played again).
I'd love to find an RPG with the depth and detail of rogue/nethack/angband/etc but with the same learn-as-you go vibe, where everything has more depth than it seems at first. (Wait - you can eat your kills? And there are so many different effects depending on what the critter was? Now I have to try every one! Everything was like that.)
It started off as sexist BS, and it remained sexist BS. Basing an "ethics" campaign on flagrant lies isn't exactly a good place to get started.
It started off as a strong push-back against the latest Jack Thompson, the latest "Mothers Against D&D", against one more attempt to start a moral panic over video games. Fuck Jack Thompson and everyone like him. If it were a bunch of sexist drivel, it would have blown over in a week.
There's a small corner of gaming filled with adolescent boys who behave about like what you'd expect. Not a nice community. Trying to stereotype all "gamers" as that crowd will of course get extreme pushback, whether as #gamergate or something else. Unless you're prepared to explain the sexual stereotyping in CandyCrush or Civ5 or any of the vast majority of games where there's not even an identifiable protagonist, STFU about "gamers" and "gaming" and other over-broad stereotypes.
15 years ago, some game devs still thought that all sorts of games needed to appeal to adolescent male fantasy, and we got stuff like the dark elves in Everquest (or the box art!), but even Sony figured out the core gaming demographic was middle-aged women, and adjusted accordingly, and PopCap Games blew everyone else out of the water for years by focusing there.
Wow, I hadn't considered that, but it makes sense.
The last frequent poster who overstayed his welcome (I forget the guy's name, but he wrote the "hellmouth" series of posts about how badly geeks were abused in school), he started out by writing stuff that the /. community really enjoyed, and arguably never wrote such drivel, we just got tired of the topic.
But I think you're right: Bennett has incriminating pictures of someone important at Dice, or something like that.
Chavs. IMO, that's a complete rebuttal of the idea. You'll end up with a complete culture of people who view working for a living as a scam, and even the outliers who actually want to work have no cultural preparation or basic education for. I grew up -until I was 10 or so - in a trailer park where a similar mentality prevailed. I wouldn't recommend it.
TPB needs to move to Freenet. Freenet will likely always be too slow for content, but of course TPB doesn't host content. For the minimal metadata needed to find the torrent you want, Freenet would actually work, has no servers to shut down or raid, is very anonymous for uploads and, really is a perfect match for what TPB does (as long as you don't need JS to serve those ads, and there's no JS on Freenet, at least by default).
The government-invented internet was 3 sites. Usenet and only university hosts, with no search and no WWW just wasn't what we think of as the internet today, for better or worse. Commercialism made the internet take off, and gave it the critical mass for projects like Wikipedia to happen, and the infrastructure for online gaming and streaming porn and torrents and etc.
I didn't think pure catastrophic coverage was even possible under the ACA - don't all ACA-compliant plans have to pay for birth control, and some other similar predictable recurring expenses?
I just want to shop for health coverage like I do for car coverage. Make some minimum coverage a legal requirement - I can see the advantage of that, as you can then require coverage of pre-existing conditions - and just like car insurance add a high risk pool that insurers are stuck covering at a loss if they want to do business, but for most of us health insurance just becomes a product like any other.
Our tax system is totally fucked, no doubt, but if you can't see the difference between "government-run health care" and "free market* care with some tax breaks", you're not paying attention.
*Every successful free market includes the government regulating product quality, preventing fraud, and so on.
Vote all the older incumbents out. There's a broken society there, one than can acculturate a trickle of newbies. Give them the November That Never Ended, 80% turnover at every election for a while. Few go into politics with the intent of becoming corrupt, and culture of corruption, like any other culture, can be overwhelmed by a flood of newbies.
You mean like the private insurance industry has already been doing for years? My insurance carrier is dictating my care to my physician now. I want the power to decide what's best for me place back into her hands. That will never, ever, happen as long as the private insurance industry remains in the position it's in.
Pay for ordinary care out of pocket, and the problem is solved. If health insurance had nothing to do with people who had other power over you, like your employer or the government, but was instead like car insurance - just a product you shopped for, and only used in a crisis, the landscape would totally change.
It amazes me though the number of people pay $3-6K more a year (depending on how many insured) just to jet a lower deductible that works out to the same $3-6K a year! If every doctors visit is paid by insurance instead of you of course the company will call the shots: they're paying the bill - and you're not even saving any money that way!
Just give me a high-deductible plan that I buy like car insurance, and get government back to only regulating the quality of that product, not in the room with me in the doctor's office.
For example: the CIA torturing anyone they want, while lying to congress. And getting away with it.
If they get away with it, it's because you actually believe they lied to congress. Of course congress knew. Did you really think those Dems objecting to Gitmo actually cared, even after they had control for a control for a couple of years and did nothing? Man, people will believe anything these days.