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  1. Yesssssssss! on Megatokyo Gets a Visual Novel Game · · Score: 1

    > "a Megatokyo Visual Novel Game

    Is that like an action MMO on a console? Because apparently that's the only thing anyone wants to buy anymore, according to big game companies.

    A new D&D and Marvel online "action MMO" came out this week. Action MMO! Obviously if it isn't an action MMO it must suck.

    I assume game designers got together a few years back and sang a Beatles song:

    All we are sayyyyyyyyyy-ing
    Is give Action MMOs a chance.
    All we are sayyyyyyyyyy-ing
    Is give Action MMOs a chance.

    Shake that butt.
    Baby got Action MMO.

    Hey, I just met you
    This is crazy.
    Here's my action MMO
    Play it daily.

    Action MMO for president! I'll bet Barney Fife would play Action MMOs all day long!

  2. ...I assure you both points. on Pinholes and Plastic Wrap Make Solid Walls "Transparent" To Sound · · Score: 1

    A pinhole and plastic wrap also make it transparent to visual frequencies!

    -100: Ten thousand people did that joke already.

  3. Yes, the snap should hurt. Learn dammit. on Nationwide Snooping System Launched In India · · Score: 1

    "Should we do this?"

    "Well, the US does. Oh, if you catch a tax cheat, don't forget to waterboard."

  4. Re:A conspiracy... on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    Either a Jewish nut or a fundamemtalist Christian nut, the latter of which wants Israel to survive because its establishment is one of the requirements for the End Times to begin.

  5. Re:"Be awesome. Don't do this...do this!" on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    To put it more bluntly, 200 "minor issues that can wait" because you're restaging a machine is 200 irritated people. The guy waiting for a restage isn't gonna be pissed it it takes 2 extra hours

  6. "Be awesome. Don't do this...do this!" on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    Had a sysadm once, send him an email, a few minutes later, boom, done!

    After a couple of years he was promoted, and out of IT. The replacement, messages entered a black hole where you'd have to follow up and pester. You knew the first message was going to be ignored and was just the beginning of a tedius dance.

    Before IT people beak off, "Oh, I'm supposed to drop everyhing and help you?" realize it was taking care of little issues instantaneously that made the first guy get glowing reviews.

    So, yes, do the opposite of triage. Put laborious things on hold and service quick easy ones. You won't be slowed terribly and will look some 600-800 times better (est.)

    If a big server is down, that's one thing, but regular day-to-day? Fix the quick problems quickly.

    To those who still feel feisty and wanna argue, enjoy your long stay as a lackey. You've been shown the way.

  7. Re:Is it Vetted? on US and Russia Set Up Cyber Cold War Hotline · · Score: 1

    Bugs are so old tech now. For 20 years they've been bouncing lasers off windows and decoding the audio vibrations.

  8. Gee on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    Something doesn't seem right about this. They couldn't scrape up a few thousand dollars on their own?

    "Hi! Will you give us some money so we can buy a powerful X-ray and a remote control for it so we can burn down people? No? Do you know anyone who might?"

    Like Checkov running around San Francisco asking where the nuclear vwessels are.

  9. Hit me baby one more time on Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? · · Score: 2

    We use Microsoft VSS. No, don't hit me!

    I get punched in the face several times a day already.

  10. Re:Poor summary on Revisiting Amdahl's Law · · Score: 1

    Most of the cool stuff is pure parallel anyway, like the brain, or simulations of bodies made of atoms or cells. Plenty of room to grow regardless of some un-de-serializable algorithms.

  11. Re:Time to end the charade on NSA's Role In Terror Cases Concealed From Defense Lawyers · · Score: 2

    The war on terror isn't even a real war. No war was declared by Congress. It refused to lest all the insurance policies after 9/11 not have to pay up because policies always exempt acts of war.

    I wouldn't be surprised if they've been updated to include acts of terrorism.

  12. So... on Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates · · Score: 5, Informative

    Normal book publishers have been doing this for decades, inserting the occasional misspelling here or there. Later, they inserted correct spellings, but of the wrong word, to get around auto-correction in scanner software.

    So...no, they can't patent it.

  13. No, really. on Jon 'Maddog' Hall On Project Cauã: a Server In Every Highrise · · Score: 2

    Would be useful in the US. Just don't forget the hardline feed into a secret room controlled by the NSA with "trust us" on the locked door.

  14. Anyway on Shapeshifting: Proposal For a New Periodic Table of the Elements · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh for god's sake. Even the original in Portuguese is slashdotted.

  15. Government has the only Iwin button :( on BitCoin Mining, Other Virtual Activity Taxable Under US Law · · Score: 1

    Senator: What good is this "electricity"?

    Engineer: Sir, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it.

    You were warned. It's only a matter of time before auction house trades are considered sales, because the virtual iyems can be converted to real-world cash by black market, and, increasingly, official cash conversion markets.

    Remember: Government is voracious for cash to buy votes ladeling it out. Their only calculus is, "Will I get more votes than I lose doing this?". End of story.

  16. Re:So what does it cost in USA? on ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World" · · Score: 1

    Scan in thy bill, please, and do so for 1000 other people ar random.

  17. Re:The Point on ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World" · · Score: 1

    Fwiw, if you had read. TFA, you would see it is tied to PC ownership.

    Also, broadband subscriptions are "only" 70%.

  18. Sounds pretty cool tho. on Google Enables VP9 Video Codec In Chromium · · Score: 2

    I was looking at the API. I couldn't figure out what this function did:

    int streamCameraFeedToCIACommaNSACommaAndFBI();

  19. It's a gas! on Intel Announces New Enterprise Xeons, More Powerful Xeon Phi Cards · · Score: 4, Funny

    Xeon, Itanium. I think I've figured out the real genius at Intel.

    1. Pick a cool element.
    2. Remove a letter.
    3. ?????
    4. Profit!!!

    2015 Arbon
    2018 Heliu
    2023 Litium
    2024 Silion
    2026 Eon

  20. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    > HFT is a symptom of a deeply broken system.

    No, Tom Harkin is the symptom of a deeply broken system. He exempted many fraudulent snake oil alternative treatments from FDA requirements for efficacy.

    Which is odd, because the real treatments are forced under it and slowed down, probably costing more lives through delay than saved.

  21. It's in our way...now it isn't! on Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton · · Score: 1

    A simple principle where The People, if they find an issue So Damned Important, should be required To Pay For Their Conceit Thru Government...

    Would Be Nice.

    It's supposed to be this way in the US with the prohibition against seizure without just compensation. "But that would make environmental regulations way too costly!" Well, then what in god's name is government doing ladling that on private citizens? If IT's So Damned Important To The People...

  22. Re:Exactly - and how do you define underage? on Google Aims To Cull Child Porn By Algorithm, Not Human Review · · Score: 1

    Whst about topless on beaches? A lot of women don't even own a bikini top and just take off their T-shirt when they get there.

    Would those photos be illegal? Hell, there are nude parks in Berlin, to say nothing of a mile down a beach away from the main beach.

  23. Their point is? on Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations · · Score: 2

    Officially they probed less than 300. In this one program. Which is all pointless if an agent can listen in on a conversation without a warrant and no alarm bells go off.

  24. Re:Bullshit on Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remember the S&P downgrading the US' debt rating? In short order the government loudly and proudly announced an IRS investigation into them. Do we forget this quickly?

  25. Oh oh. on Anxiety Gaming Wants To Offer Mental Help Via Game Console · · Score: 1

    I'm too bashful to go play with these guys. Now what do I do?