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  1. I guess it's turd polishing? on Hello Games Received Death Threats Over 'No Man's Sky' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Judging by the sudden uptick in No Man's Sky articles here and elsewhere (such as the Amiga-rendered graphics which I won't link to, because I don't want to give additional publicity), I'm guessing that two years later, NMS is starting to become somewhat close to the game which was advertised, instead of the widely documented, I guess can you call it a "bait and switch" catastrophe which was shipped? Not really, a bait and switch in the traditional sense, but it's clear they didn't deliver what they advertised. I guess this is all so that we all remember the game and go "sure, I guess it's worth 20 bucks now"? Gotta recoup those losses.

  2. The DNC is fighting to keep dead people on the voter rolls. They're fighting to keep people who live in other states on the rolls in their former state.

    . Sigh. :citation needed:

  3. SPAM Garbage on How 'Mission Impossible' Made the Leap To 4K and HDR (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ugh. Man, what kind of paid advertisement shilling is this anyway? Oh really??? no shit!! 35mm film can be scanned at 4K , my mind is fucking blown. Cinematic classic Mission Impossible seen as never before.

    Give me a fucking break, /.

  4. Re:Every single person involved acted stupidly. on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    4. Said guy on Twitter overreacts as well.

    :citation needed:

  5. If you don't like your job on Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then quit.

    It never ceases to amaze me the gross sense of entitlement that certain types of people have. Tesla gave this dude a job, which he felt was beneath him. He performed that job poorly, and Tesla continued to employ him. The way he thanked Tesla was to commit corporate espionage, access systems which were not his property, make libelous statements, and steal. Now he will never be employed in his chosen field in any meaningful role, ever again. Destitute from civil financial judgement against him And that is after he gets out of prison for the criminal charges which will surely be forthcoming due to his unauthorized access of Tesla systems.

  6. People leaving these types of cars on in their garage have died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

    Citation needed.

  7. At least they don't have an interest in meddling in the lives of the average American...

    Well, it's kind of funny, dude: In this case, it really is true that as long as you're not a criminal piece of shit, you really don't have too much to worry about. Little advice for you: avoid collusion with foreign governments like your God Emperor, and you really don't have too much to worry about. =D

    Cheers!

  8. FWIW, although you definitely want the 5 gHz band, I have been playing with this on my Galaxy Tab 3 with standard issue 2.4 gHz TP-link router running OpenWRT. My experience is nothing like this review. It's very playable, with occasional stuttering. Pretty responsive even on titles such as Dead Cells.

  9. Re:to quote marty on First Measurement of Distribution of Pressure Inside a Proton (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Weight has nothing to do with it.

  10. Re:Glad I quit when I did on EA Still Believes in Loot Boxes, Will 'Push Forward' With Their Use (variety.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ok edgy badass grandpa. Video games are stupid and it's a sign of your superior taste and intellect to not play one for 22 years. :Eyeroll:

  11. Re:Drone enabled universal criminal brotherhood on Criminals Used a Fleet of Drones To Disrupt an FBI Hostage Operation (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me see if I understand you: you believe that organized crime does not exist and that criminal organizations such as the carel that kidnapped the man in Houston are too dumb/naive to use off the shelf electronics to enhance their surveillenace and intelligence capabities? LOL, ok buddy. Enjoy your fantasy world there in Hobbiton. Again, the complete disconnect you nutjobs have from reality would be charming if it wasn't so patently stupid.

  12. Re: "Just trust us"! on Criminals Used a Fleet of Drones To Disrupt an FBI Hostage Operation (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The edgy "but muh FBI" is really starting to get fucking tedious. Whether or not you are just an emotionally immature autist, or yet another organized crime whataboutism troll, the fact of the matter remains that you people live in denial about the reality of how the world operates. The irony of course being that I bet you're a "Blue Lives Matter" MAGAt. Fucking disgraceful.

  13. I counsel any young person that is curious to stay out of IT.

    I.T. has been an extremely lucrative and rewarding career for many of us. If I were counseling a young person, what I would tell them is to not be another degree less IT guy, the kind who finds themselves reasonably well paid at 30, but for whom management is closed due to lack of this qualification. Or, the even likelier scenario of the best corporate IT gigs being closed off to you because "Gosh, you have 15 years of experience, but no degree. Sorry, but we don't have room for you here on the Exxon desktop support team".

  14. Interesting interpretation of the numbers on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yet, nationwide, three out of 10 high school grads who go to four-year public universities haven't earned degrees within six years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. At four-year private colleges, that number is more than 1 in 5

    soooo, what you're telling us that 70% of public university students and 80% pf private university students successfully complete their degree?

  15. Re:For working on on US Government Weighing Sanctions Against Kaspersky Lab (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: -1

    Well, I guess maybe that is something that Kaspersky needs to take up with the "government" of Russia, no? It seems unfortunate for them to be so harshly judged, but nonetheless, here we are. I guess that is what happens when you try to conduct a business from within an authoritarian mafia-state kleptocracy.

  16. Re:Stupid on Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    This is probably also part of the culture war that France has been waging against the US in vain for the past decade.

    You might have been reading an alternate history text, but you might recall somewhere around the invasion of Iraq based upon manufactured evidence that the Congress decided we needed to rename "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries", along with a whole host of other petty insults from the American right towards one of America's longest-standing allies and best friends. But the reality is that I am lucky to work with a French company, and my experience is that they are nothing but lovely people who enjoy America and american culture very much. Do you know any folks from France? I wonder if you do. I suspect the answer is probably somewhere around zero.

  17. Correlation =\= Causation on Late To Bed, Early To Die? Night Owls May Die Sooner (livescience.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I remember a time on the "old" Slashdot when articles like this never hit the front page. Thr article itself seems to give no indication that we are controlling for diet, excercise, other health factors. Just "welp people who are night owls are more likely to die". annecdotally, the times in my life when I was up until 4 AM and sleeping until 2-3 were certainly not the periods where I maintained my health responsibly.

  18. Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a "bit" overblown; it's pure hyperbole/clickbait. ... the issue is that the monitors will no longer work when they are connected through a third party peripheral with drivers that do some encapsulation....

    So, in other words, literally every single dock available for Macbook laptops (because apple do not make their own), and using the _universally_ supported DisplayLink protocol, which is the standard on every single USB 3.0, 3.1, and C dock used in the Windows world, as well. I gotcha. This is all just overblown and no big deal.

  19. Re: Foreign? Maybe ... on US Suspects Listening Devices in Washington (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Da comrade American! Who else could it be but American intelligence agency and also a symptom of failed American constitution!

    Fuck off, Ivan.

  20. Re:Two Words on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...b...b...b..ut you guys keep telling us about states' rights and limited government interference! Surely you aren't just a sour-grapes hypocrite more concerned with "sticking it" to whatever you imagine liberalism and by extension California to be?

    LOL, anyway, I'm sure _this_ will be the time that the courts side with the Trump administration, over the last 50 years of California's regulation of emissions produced by vehicles in their state.

  21. Re:Gun owners in North America have the same probl on Man Starts 'Gunbook' Social Media Site After His Gun-Loving Friends Were Kicked Off Facebook (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, almost forgot. Capitalism hasn't had any effect on arming teachers in Texas. There are already over 150 school districts where this is allowed and no insurance companies have bothered to intervene in this at all. There a bunch of reasons for that but basically it comes down to CHL holders being safer and more law abiding than even police officers.

    My girlfriend teaches at a college on the Texas Gulf Coast. There has been a significant material cost in the required establishment of a police department for a small campus that never needed one, as a direct result of the legislature's actions. Not surprisingly, many of the students and a significant amountof faculty are also angry and upset that guns are allowed to be carried on their campus. But whatever, it is cool because it allows you who knows nothing of school administration to make sanctimonious and uninformed posts so that your little feels>reals game with your security blanket can be fully realized.

  22. > If there was someone I wouldn't feel bad about getting SWATTED, it would be this douchecanoe.

    "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?". Go the fuck away troll, you are the problem.

  23. The star trek transporter works by measuring a target's impression on spacetime at a subatomic level, and then creating a 4-dimensional hologram of that impression at the destination point. The inverse of that hologram is then applied to the source point, cancelling out the probability of the target being at the source location, while the probability of it being at the destination rises to certainty.

    The tone of Slashdot seems to have changed a lot lately. It's disheartening, but posts like these remind me that everything is still right in the tech world.

  24. Well, no, colonialism has a very specific meaning relating to the extraction of material wealth from a country combined with subjugation of native born citizens. But, your "everyone is mean to muh white people" definition is cute, I guess. Thanks for showing everyone where the real racist hypocrisy is.

  25. Use qBittorrent on uTorrent Client Affected by Some Pretty Severe Security Flaws (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    uBittorent was nerfed and winamped years ago. qBittorent has taken its place as lightweight, clean, and reliable.