Recently, several companies in Asia and Europe have begun to manufacture dietary supplements and energy drinks which contain synthetic versions of secretions of the larvae of Vespa mandarinia... The manufacturers of these products make claims that consuming the larval hornet secretions (marketed as "hornet juice") will enhance human endurance because of the effect it has on adult hornets' performance
If you read the article, they demanded the SSL key since Lavabit did not comply with the earlier order. All the Feds originally wanted was metadata for one user. Lavabit could have provided that, but refused. The prosecutors asked they be held in contempt of court, and then asked for the SSL keys. This is on Lavabit.
Yes, how dare the impudent bastards attempt to protect their customers from illegal surveillance!
Seriously, I think you just posited a digital variant of the 'skinny jeans defense' rapists use.
The flipside is that if you buy a PS4 game, you're guaranteed that it will work on your system with no further thought required.
Theoretically, yes, but in practice, developers are almost constantly having to put out updates and patches to fix broken stuff. Hell, I remember when I bought Black Ops maybe a week after launch, put it in the console, and proceeded to wait almost an hour for patches and updates to finish downloading and installing before I could so much as see the intro vid.
You and the rest of the world may have a largely different definition of "graphically intensive".
You obviously have not played the port; there have been some upgrades. It's no Crysis, but it's also not the blocky, 10-pixel crapfest it was 14 years ago, either.
There's a danger of segmentation, of course. But I think the way Valve is approaching this is quite brilliant. The PS4, XBone, and Wii platforms have the advantage of being "do-it-all" machines, but they're also prohibitively expensive (at least in the cases of the PS4 and XBone) and might not be interesting to casuals, fans of games requiring lesser resources, or even hi-end gamer enthusiasts. Valve is taking a page from Android and casting a wide net.
Plus, if I buy a PS4 game, I can only play it on a PS4 (more than likely, I can only play it on my PS4); whereas if I buy a game from Steam, I can play it on literally any machine that meets the system requirements.
In addition to those criteria, if SteamOS has the capability to install and run emulators of my choice (PSXe, Nesticle*, et. al), as well as having AAA games available on launch day, there's about a snowball's chance in hell I'm going to buy one of the other consoles.
* Yes, I still have a copy of Nesticle stashed on a drive somewhere; No, I'm not sending you the binary.
Unless we're talking about 30 story, airborne Man-O-Wars attempting to devour Manhattan, I don't see why this belongs on Slashdot...
Which causes my mind, which functions much like a runaway train, to immediately wonder: if such a thing were to happen, how would the Pastafarians react?
It makes the comment section - which is a large part of the slashdot experience - seem like something tacked onto the end of a news article where people post one line responses.
This.
Slashdot's biggest selling point, as it's always been, is the conversation the stories generate. If I wanted day-old news with a barely-considered comment section, I'd go to Yahoo or visit the local Gannett affiliate's website.
OR, they're more worried about fiscal security at the end of their lives, and fear of things like being shoved in a crappy nursing home and having all their possessions sold off frightens them into taking risks they wouldn't otherwise consider.
Not all people over 65 are rich, you know; fact is, most are quite the opposite.
Switching off the engine is fine, but putting it in park on a public thoroughfare is most definitely against the law (at least, where I live); although I do admit, a law that's not likely to be enforced without another, more egregious infraction occurring simultaneously... like texting.
FYI, Automatics can be stopped/started from the neutral gear just as well as from park. Just keep your foot on the brake.
No it's not. You subjectively believe it to be, because for whatever reason you've determined them to be "the enemy" and thus, incapable of things like cogent reasoning or being correct, but objectively speaking the criteria you're using to judge them would render a remarkably similar result if applied to Democrats, Green Party people, Libertarians, et. al.
heaping side of massive, deliberate willful ignorance.
Prevalent in pretty much all political movements - Tea Partiers who claim to want less gov't interference, but vote against those interests; OWS kids with liberal arts degrees, who decry the abuses and excesses of capitalism by tweeting nonsense from their blood-mineral encrusted, high-end luxury electronic devices; Democrats who claim to be "progressive" while supporting regressive measures that roll back and otherwise limit freedoms; Libertarians who proclaim the free market will solve all issues, meanwhile playing ignorance to the fact that there never was and never will be such a thing as a truly free market.
the Tea Party will vanish in the next two or three cycles, taking the Republicans with them.
FWIW, that's almost exactly what Republicans used to say about the KKK and Democrats 40 years ago.
"Most generalizations are false, including this one." -- Mark Twain
I get that people organize under particular flags because of a shared ideology, but any time I see someone use a phrase like "they do all express the same level of [blank]," I pretty much ignore what they're saying because it's an obvious generalization, which are essentially always false.
In my experience, the last half of your post applies to pretty much every named group of any particular political ideology.
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Neither is rape, if her jeans are tight enough. Doesn't make it right.
And honestly now, guns... for dealing with thousands of tiny insects...
TINY??? Have you seen one of those things? They're fuckin' huge!!!
Do try to keep your imagination in check good sir/madame. No one is that dumb.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Bonus points if they're an aphrodisiac.
Ask, and ye shall receive.. kinda.
From Wikipedia:
If you read the article, they demanded the SSL key since Lavabit did not comply with the earlier order. All the Feds originally wanted was metadata for one user. Lavabit could have provided that, but refused. The prosecutors asked they be held in contempt of court, and then asked for the SSL keys. This is on Lavabit.
Yes, how dare the impudent bastards attempt to protect their customers from illegal surveillance!
Seriously, I think you just posited a digital variant of the 'skinny jeans defense' rapists use.
The flipside is that if you buy a PS4 game, you're guaranteed that it will work on your system with no further thought required.
Theoretically, yes, but in practice, developers are almost constantly having to put out updates and patches to fix broken stuff. Hell, I remember when I bought Black Ops maybe a week after launch, put it in the console, and proceeded to wait almost an hour for patches and updates to finish downloading and installing before I could so much as see the intro vid.
Translation: renamed and doubly funded.
Not being a code monkey myself, I will have to take your word on that.
Why run Nesticle in DOSBox, an emulator in an emulator, when much better NES emulators such as FCEUX and Nestopia are ported to desktop Linux?
Why?? By golly, I'll tell you why!
Um... because I forgot we were talking about a Linux-based system... mea culpa.
You and the rest of the world may have a largely different definition of "graphically intensive".
You obviously have not played the port; there have been some upgrades. It's no Crysis, but it's also not the blocky, 10-pixel crapfest it was 14 years ago, either.
There's a danger of segmentation, of course. But I think the way Valve is approaching this is quite brilliant. The PS4, XBone, and Wii platforms have the advantage of being "do-it-all" machines, but they're also prohibitively expensive (at least in the cases of the PS4 and XBone) and might not be interesting to casuals, fans of games requiring lesser resources, or even hi-end gamer enthusiasts. Valve is taking a page from Android and casting a wide net.
Plus, if I buy a PS4 game, I can only play it on a PS4 (more than likely, I can only play it on my PS4); whereas if I buy a game from Steam, I can play it on literally any machine that meets the system requirements.
I like that.
In addition to those criteria, if SteamOS has the capability to install and run emulators of my choice (PSXe, Nesticle*, et. al), as well as having AAA games available on launch day, there's about a snowball's chance in hell I'm going to buy one of the other consoles.
* Yes, I still have a copy of Nesticle stashed on a drive somewhere; No, I'm not sending you the binary.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stainlessgames.carmageddon&hl=en
Granted, it's a port of an older game, but graphically intensive nonetheless.
Unless we're talking about 30 story, airborne Man-O-Wars attempting to devour Manhattan, I don't see why this belongs on Slashdot...
Which causes my mind, which functions much like a runaway train, to immediately wonder: if such a thing were to happen, how would the Pastafarians react?
Yeah. Conversation.
Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, maloderous, pervert!!!
Look, I CAME HERE FOR AN ARGUMENT, I'm not going to just stand...!!
OH, oh I'm sorry, but this is abuse; you want room 12A, Just along the corridor.
Oh, Thank you very much. Sorry.
Not at all... stupid git...
Hater hater who hates haters more than haters hate the hater hater. HA!
Can you eliminate the haters? If /. gets much worse, it will be home to haters and no one else.
I don't suppose you considered the hilarious irony of such a statement?
It makes the comment section - which is a large part of the slashdot experience - seem like something tacked onto the end of a news article where people post one line responses.
This.
Slashdot's biggest selling point, as it's always been, is the conversation the stories generate. If I wanted day-old news with a barely-considered comment section, I'd go to Yahoo or visit the local Gannett affiliate's website.
Fair enough.
OR, they're more worried about fiscal security at the end of their lives, and fear of things like being shoved in a crappy nursing home and having all their possessions sold off frightens them into taking risks they wouldn't otherwise consider.
Not all people over 65 are rich, you know; fact is, most are quite the opposite.
Switching off the engine is fine, but putting it in park on a public thoroughfare is most definitely against the law (at least, where I live); although I do admit, a law that's not likely to be enforced without another, more egregious infraction occurring simultaneously... like texting.
FYI, Automatics can be stopped/started from the neutral gear just as well as from park. Just keep your foot on the brake.
It's really the only appropriate name for such a machine.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10932011
Tea Party stupid is special.
No it's not. You subjectively believe it to be, because for whatever reason you've determined them to be "the enemy" and thus, incapable of things like cogent reasoning or being correct, but objectively speaking the criteria you're using to judge them would render a remarkably similar result if applied to Democrats, Green Party people, Libertarians, et. al.
heaping side of massive, deliberate willful ignorance.
Prevalent in pretty much all political movements - Tea Partiers who claim to want less gov't interference, but vote against those interests; OWS kids with liberal arts degrees, who decry the abuses and excesses of capitalism by tweeting nonsense from their blood-mineral encrusted, high-end luxury electronic devices; Democrats who claim to be "progressive" while supporting regressive measures that roll back and otherwise limit freedoms; Libertarians who proclaim the free market will solve all issues, meanwhile playing ignorance to the fact that there never was and never will be such a thing as a truly free market.
the Tea Party will vanish in the next two or three cycles, taking the Republicans with them.
FWIW, that's almost exactly what Republicans used to say about the KKK and Democrats 40 years ago.
I mean, if it was the OP, he'd have no reason not to use his account (since, you know, the content identifies him).
That was the tip-off; well, the lack of a username, and that the general writing style of the submitter and AC don't even come close to matching.
In triplicate; always in triplicate...
Congratulations, you've written a lot of words without actually saying anything, let alone addressing the points I brought up.
"Most generalizations are false, including this one." -- Mark Twain
I get that people organize under particular flags because of a shared ideology, but any time I see someone use a phrase like "they do all express the same level of [blank]," I pretty much ignore what they're saying because it's an obvious generalization, which are essentially always false.
In my experience, the last half of your post applies to pretty much every named group of any particular political ideology.