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  1. And yet if you swipe it, it works just fine. It's almost as though social conventions inappropriate to the technology being used amount to junk data that encourages people to be lazy. Weird.

  2. Being a stickler about rules you know are extremely outmoded makes you an asshole. It starts with bureaucratic nonsense, but it's the same process as "just following orders."

  3. Re: Hot Take Below on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    They're the ones bothering us about it, yet they're consistently shown to be the worst examples of it whenever something leaks. Given all the other ways Silicon Valley and Hollywood seem completely oblivious about how the real world works, I am definitely inclined to believe they're huffing farts in this case as well.

  4. Hot Take Below on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    San Francisco tech startups have a serious problem with gender equality nearly as bad as the one in Hollywood, but the rest of the United States doesn't, so they can shut the hell up with their hypocritical political garbage.

  5. Re: Actually... on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    MY FORTY CENTS!!!!!

  6. Re: Great idea on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you're trolling. I agree 100%. I use TPB myself and I think this a great way to avoid all the shit opponents of piracy will try to clamp down on income streams. I also use a seedbox though, and haven't actually downloaded anything lately. Maybe I'll feel different if I get around to finding out what this would do to my system's performance.

  7. Shut up, Banksy. on You Are Already Living Inside a Computer (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    None of what you said means anything. Go away.

  8. It is, though. on Columnist Mocks The Case Against Cord-Cutting As 'Too Many Choices' (techhive.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Having too many streaming services isn't "too many choices" it's "too many bills."

  9. Re: Correct summary on Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    You're missing the point.

    The alt-right chanted. They chanted idiotic, hateful filth, but that is all they did until provoked. Far fewer of them even did that until the left had already become openly hostile, such as at Berkeley.

    People blame the alt-left for the escalating political violence on both sides because they started it. They declared that certain kinds of talk are themselves violent, the classic refuge of those who are too lazy to make stupid ideas look stupid.

  10. Our hobby has grown alot, and in many different directions, and so have you, and so has anyone who will answer you. Lately, gaming has also done something a great deal less common: it has united many different traditions into one modernity. I could show you something that I feel is a revival of the old ways. But my old ways aren't your old ways; four different kinds of console gamer still exist even though only three kinds of console still exist, and the PC is exponentially more riddled with tiny little zeitgeists that got amalgamated into what we have now. At this point if you're playing modern games, even the console/PC distinction only matters when somebody asks you what "retro" looks like.

    My point is this: I could say that a game feels like Quake to me. But I probably didn't get out of it what you did. I only experienced Doom and Quake as shareware until long after they were already retro. I never got the slightest taste of what real multiplayer gaming is like until they put it on the N64, where you could have a whole four people and a ridiculous number of bots. And what if I did get the same thing out of it? Do you have any idea how many of my favorites from 20 years ago I've gone back to and couldn't stand? There was just so much the medium hadn't done yet, you know? I always wait tearful years for remakes of these things to see if the dev team can pull off that strange and rare magic of taking what I loved from the old days and genuinely improving it with what we've learned since then. Almost nobody does it right, because they think the important part is something I don't think is important, or maybe all they modernized is the graphics and the gameplay is still too old-school to be fun, or maybe they're trying to wedge in a stupid new business model, or maybe the idea just doesn't actually work and I come to discover I liked it because I was a stupid kid.

    Home is a time, not a place. You can't play Quake again. I mean... you can. There are source ports of it. Loads of people play it all over the place. For all I know, even the community feels exactly like it used to. Won't you just rediscover why you left the first time? Maybe the reason you left is genuinely that you were too busy, and it'll work just as well as it ever did. So, it can't hurt to try. It probably won't work, though.

    If it doesn't work... get Doom. The one made in 2016. It's called Doom. Yes, I know, that's confusing. I'm sorry. It's basically perfect at giving you the old feeling without being the old thing, to the point that it makes all my hemming and hawing look like bullshit. I don't know how they did it, nobody else has ever done it that well. Maybe they actually made a pact with the Devil?

    Sorry if that was too long, I'm high on cough syrup.

  11. If you're a Boomer, it's your fault you can't afford to retire. People my age have enough trouble getting jobs without you keeping them into your 70s. Go sit on an ice floe.

  12. Re: Orange Stars on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it only shows up on mobile. I know that for those two in particular, I am on neither list. (Incidentally, I've also never figured out how you interact with those lists. Or why you'd really want to.)

  13. Isn't this headline extremely disingenuously now that there's been a report confirming it was an internal leak?

  14. Re: Orange Stars on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, this is bizarre. Although I'm certain almost all the orange stars I saw before now were on the left side of the issue, now that I'm actually looking for them today, I'm mostly finding posts on the right, specifically by Chas#5144 and Kohath#38547. Maybe the wall of socjus is harder to find now that the topic is more flooded with ACs.

  15. I'm sorry, I don't understand this headline. on Uber and Lyft May Cause Lower Car Ownership In Big Cities, Says Report (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Could the editors please rephrase it using "Millennials are killing...?"

  16. Orange Stars on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Even though I've tried to find something about it several times, I've never been able to suss out why some users on slashdot appear with orange stars next to their names.

    After seeing them consistently appear (extremely vehemently) on the same side of this and other political issues, I'm starting to suspect they're just this site's version of blue checks.

  17. Re: You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    In order to even try for a PhD, you DO have to be an expert in your field.

  18. Re: You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    His research was composed of statistics that prove those "stupid opinions." The only reason people who have read the full memo are angry at this is that neo-Catholic social justice disingenuously demands that we treat statements about "women, on average" as equivalent to statements about "women, individually."

  19. Re: The Rainbow Scare on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: 2

    That isn't the argument he made at all. You are demonstrating the very kind of hostility he's talking about: if you have anything to say about gender politics other than "feminism is the best," people don't listen to what you're actually saying at all. It is enough that you're on the wrong "side," and they can just fill in the blanks with whatever wrong-headed shit they think your "type" believes.

  20. If you asked that disingenuous cock holster what he's going to protect consumers from, do you suppose he'd say "government regulations" or "I know, right?"

  21. This shit is always backwards. on Slashdot Asks: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    They are depressed because they see the world they're meant to inherit giving them no meaningful opportunities.

    They are lonely because depressed people have difficulty connecting with others and generally make bad company anyway.

    They are immature because they are deprived of socialization in their formative years.

    To attempt to remedy all of this, they turn to smartphones, because we've told them that this is what communication is for.

  22. Re: Returnless Refund? on Amazon's New Refunds Policy Will 'Crush' Small Businesses, Outraged Sellers Say (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they can't. Health codes, I think.

  23. Lots of people still sell things from their own website. Depending on what you're looking for, it's often better to search for sites specifically about that product, as you'll have more access to information for comparison.

  24. Re: SOUNDS LIKE A CUSTOMER FRIENDLY POLICY TO ME on Amazon's New Refunds Policy Will 'Crush' Small Businesses, Outraged Sellers Say (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    No, there will be the 100% that was the .01% before they realized robots don't throw bricks at them when they aren't fed.

    If society fails to collapse before the megacorps perfect automation, eco-nuts will get their depopulation wish. We need to press for WORSE leaders than Trump to make sure it does. More of us will survive nuclear war.

  25. Could somebody please explain to me how this is not equivalent to Amazon enabling theft?