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  1. VR Support on NetHack 3.6.0 Released After a 12-Year Wait (nethack.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will they be adding VR support soon?

  2. It makes more sense in your analogy if you are a mobile blacksmith. This is equivalent to realizing you don't need two anvils and dropping one to only run with the other. Exactly as they are doing here, instead of reserving 2 of the 8 cores they are opening one up and only reserving 1.

  3. Re:Important to note on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a law enforcement spread myth. while potency can very greatly due to the dipping process so you never really know how much is there, there has been no evidence of "quality" issues otherwise. I usually ask about the mic count on the tabs.

  4. Actually, yes. Most likely your brain makeup may be very similar to someone else's after a small dose.

  5. Re:Whatever. on Persian Gulf Temperatures May Be At the Edge of Human Tolerance In 30 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And here is a huge problem, disagree with the solution and you are a "denialist."

  6. Re:Linus is right. on Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics (iu.edu) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Much more understandable, ignored and forgotten about. Fuck that, at least his way is getting some attention which may get the shit fixed.

  7. Why is your MySQL server directly on the internet?

  8. Re:Some basic rules on If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    A gift is not free. That milk was paid for by the mother in some form. It is this small minded, self absorbed, megalomaniac thought line that created that phrase to begin with.

  9. Re:Please.... someone.... on Valve's "Room Scale VR Survey" Finds a Lot of People Play In Their Bedrooms (itworld.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Engineering is expensive on Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" · · Score: 1

    It's difficult not to rant and rave about it, but I will say you should give it a try. GearVR isn't even really game focused. It does have a lot of games but has much more passive content that is pretty amazing. I've had mine since Feb and I still feel like I'm participating in the future.

  11. Re:Engineering is expensive on Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" · · Score: 1

    Just curious, have you tried one of the modern (2015) versions of VR?

    Even the late 2014 development kits were pretty amazing and has replaced my previous gaming with headset gaming.

  12. Re:Why is this taking so long? on Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" · · Score: 1

    quite the opposite actually. Think about it, it's been 3 years since the first of this new generation of VR started. I've followed it very closely and own a couple of the devkit headsets that have come out over those three years. I have watched it evolve from a barf inducing curiosity to an established and amazing new format. 99% of the work that has gone into it is finding out what you can and can't do in VR. Some people are nearly immune to the motion sickness (John Carmack, Oculus CTO) others are highly susceptible to it (Brendan Iribe, Oculus CEO) At their last keynote they talked about how excited they were that Brendan was in a new Mincraft project for well over an hour and was still having a great time, where up until that time he was 15 minutes and turning green.

    It's really hard to sell a product when a good review is usually followed with "5 stars! It didn't make me sick." Oculus has developed the best practices around what makes a headset get that kind of rating.

  13. Re:Here we go again on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    Or kept him from going on a killing spree sooner? Ohh yea, big Pharma bad, sorry.

  14. Re:Let's get this out of the way on Yelp For People To Launch In November · · Score: 1

    Amazon women on the moon 1987

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Re:Let's get this out of the way on Yelp For People To Launch In November · · Score: 1

    This was already available back in the 1980s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  16. You can also use the phone.

  17. Re: What is really worrying ... on FireEye Tries to Bury Keynote Reporting That It Ran Apache As Root On Security Servers · · Score: 1

    If you can't trust your developers you shouldn't be blindly deploying their code either.

  18. Re: What is really worrying ... on FireEye Tries to Bury Keynote Reporting That It Ran Apache As Root On Security Servers · · Score: 1

    docker is a different approach to the same problem that VMs solve. UID 0 in a container may be nearly the same as UID 0 outside a container, but the simple fix to that is don't run anything inside the container as UID 0 and don't install anything that grants permission upgrade, they are not needed.

  19. Re: What is really worrying ... on FireEye Tries to Bury Keynote Reporting That It Ran Apache As Root On Security Servers · · Score: 1

    Nobody has replied about how easy it is to get out of a docker container so they are insecure crappy software that can't run in enterprise.

    Of course it means that someone has to break your code AND break docker, no matter how easy docker is to break it's still harder than not using docker.

  20. and really what's the point any more, so now you have root on some limited VM that only has access to the same connections you would have as any other user that apache may be running as. Ohh, but you could install drivers or some crap? Who cares, delete the vm fix the security leak in the config management and redeploy.

  21. Re:What I don't like on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    As much as recruiters have relegated it to mean sysadmin, some of the core DevOps philosophies are made to react to just that. Automation, testing, release early and iterate. If you are fixing the same thing over and over then you're doing it wrong.

  22. Re:reading is fundamental on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest? · · Score: 1

    The GPP post said not to run a generator in a camp site that didn't have electrical hookups, alluding to the idea that generators should be relegated to only sites with electrical hookups which seems a little ridiculous.

  23. Re:Maybe becuase on Why Do So Many Tech Workers Dislike Their Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Screw that, I do tech work because it makes me good money, and I mostly hate it. (actually the devops movement within development and operations has reinvigorated me over the last 2 years but that's a cultural thing and i digress) I weld at home as a hobby because I enjoy it. If it was all I did all day every day I would hate it. Just like most of my hobbies that I think I could do this for a living, then I would hate doing it.

  24. Re:Generators . . . on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why the fuck would I run a generator in a camp site with electrical hookups?

  25. Re:The best I can come up with. on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest? · · Score: 1

    You don't need solar. A deep cycle marine battery will keep a tablet and phone charged for up to several weeks. You can even run a laptop off of one for at least a week with a couple hours of use per day. Low tech and easy. git an alligator clamp cigarette lighter adapter and make sure you have chargers that will fit that and you'll be fine.