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  1. Hooray for multiplayer! on Pac-Man 256 Coming To PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC With Multiplayer (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    We tried Pac-Man 256 awhile ago and really liked it. I have 8 children and most of them are old enough for video games. They are going to love a multiplayer mode!

  2. And even then, they'd need to have pretty good video evidence to demonstrate that they were not just asking for directions, or that the girls didn't go up to their car unsolicited.

    Very good point. So you tell the wives, and let them conclude the investigation themselves in their own way.

  3. If my wife is not being honest with me, I want to know about it. If I'm not being honest with her, she wants to know about it. If you want to help increase people's ability to deceive their spouse while stepping out, that's your business. And if I want to do the opposite, that's my business. :D

  4. Don't worry. The 70% figure is a complete fabrication. The figure is more like 1 billion %. This is a click-bait slash-advertisement disguised as a news item.

    Well, in true slashdot tradition, I just ran my mouth without RTFA, so I wouldn't know! :D

  5. Let's not out people who do things that are legal, just because your morals aren't reflected in the law.

    Let's just all make our own decisions like grownups. If you don't want to out people, don't do it. If other people want to, leave them alone.

    If people had let the public know long ago that Bill Cosby was stepping out on his wife with such frequency, he might not have been such a tool for authoritarian "family values" tyrants.

  6. How about this. Stay out of others personal lives, it is none of your beeswax.

    Great idea. So if my wife and I want to tell the neighbor that her husband is seeing a sex worker, stay out of our business! :D

  7. The fact that courts think adultery isn't a legal issue doesn't mean it's not a personal issue. If you want to be married and step out on your wife, you have every legal right to do so, and if somebody finds out about it and wants to tell your wife, they should have every legal right to do so as well. It's not a legal issue, after all. It's just a piece of information.

  8. I think you are misunderstanding something. I believe the following should all be legal:
    • sex between consenting adults
    • secession
    • letting someone know that their spouse is seeing a sex worker
    • letting the public know that public "family values" advocates like Bill Cosby and Josh Duggar are engaging in paid and/or consensual sex with persons other than their spouse

    War isn't on the list. In fact one reason I advocate secession is to help make war less possible. If everybody who didn't support the US government's wars could secede, then the US government couldn't afford to wage war.

  9. If one of them is married, though, there's a third, non-consenting adult involved, who deserves to know - and if there are people who feel like exposing this kind of thing, I think their efforts would be better spent in those cases rather than just exposing sex workers.

  10. The publication reported on an abuse of the app in which porn stars and sex workers were targeted. Some wanted to use FindFace for the purpose of "outing" these sex workers to their families and social media contacts.

    It would also be helpful and possibly more equitable to out the people who frequent the sex workers. In fact, maybe leave the sex workers alone since for the most part they are just earning an honest living, and out the people using them, who typically are betraying someone they have promised to be faithful to.

  11. Obligatory Dilbert on Microsoft Needs To Fix Skype (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny
  12. I don't understand what they are trying to say here: "Gizmodo reports that McAfee tried to do so by sending journalists with compromised smartphones -- riddled with malicious tools such as keylogger." What? He sent compromised smartphones to journalists? He sent messages to journalists who already had compromised smartphones? keyloggerS?

  13. Classic Start on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Good thing I use Classic Start / Class Shell, which I installed from ninite.com

  14. Government forcibly educating people. What could possibly go wrong?

  15. Re:Let's collect terrible puns on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What benefits?

  16. Re:Let's collect terrible puns on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Let's suppose hypothetically, that American stormtroopers invaded your piece of shit country (like the Japanese did so many countries in the 1930s and 40s). Would you suggest that your side's soldiers march their butts away as the solution?

    Currently "my" side is the one that invades, so this is a completely academic question.

  17. I started learning to program around 1987, and got my first job in 1998. After about a month of real work a light came on and I realized I enjoyed having somebody else who knew what I should program. That doesn't keep me from still writing programs I really want, but it is very rewarding for me meeting people's needs by writing the programs they envision.

  18. The thing about "unconditional surrender" is that it means "we demand that you surrender and we make no promise to show you or your family mercy when you capitulate." This is the missing "why" that explains why Japanese were willing to fight to the death, just like the missing "why" that explains why radical Muslims want to engage in terrorist acts against the West is the fact that the West is bombing them.

  19. Right, for example we don't talk about the actions Roosevelt engaged in to provoke and bait Japan into bombing Pearl Harbor.

    It just seems wrong that we spend so much more time talking about the thing that ended the war than the actions, and victims, that made those means necessary.

    Those means were not necessary, except that the American government wanted an empire.

  20. Re:Let's collect terrible puns on Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    We can debate the dropping of the two bombs on Japan. Maybe they saved even more lives than they took, both Japanese and American

    Or American stormtroopers could've marched their butts back to this continent where they belonged, same as they need to do today.

  21. Just don't use Uber; use some other service that fingerprints their drivers.

  22. If you are against abortion, don't have one. If you are against riding with a non-fingerprinted driver, don't ride with one.

  23. Re:"No, Timmy, say it right." on Bitcoin 'Creator' Reneges On Promise To Provide More Proof, Says He's Sorry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I have experience doing volunteer work for several years with an affair recovery organization, with assistance from a psychologist who specializes in recovery from infidelity. In addition to my own experience I am drawing from his expertise and from the experiences of numerous couples I have seen.

  24. Re:"No, Timmy, say it right." on Bitcoin 'Creator' Reneges On Promise To Provide More Proof, Says He's Sorry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also what spouses do when you accuse them of having an affair and they're not having an affair.

    Nope. I've actually lived through both versions of that scenario, and the behavior of a spouse having an affair is vastly different from the behavior of a spouse not having an affair. One of them invites accountability, the other does not.

    the affair is a symptom, not a cause

    Baloney.

    Have you had an affair yourself at some point?

  25. Re:Who are these people they are talking with? on After ISIS, Americans Fear Cyberattacks Most (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I would argue that the fact that "we" created the mess proves that we are incapable of cleaning it up. At the very least I would certainly argue that more of the same thing is only going to create more mess and certainly isn't going to clean anything up.