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  1. Re:A Boom in Civilization on Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships · · Score: 1

    because it makes for a better space strategy game if you include the option for war between the factions.

    it's not simspace you know.

  2. Re:I don't like to hear about competition on Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships · · Score: 1

    you could just do the communication part in c/c++ if you really had to... a really minor thing in the big picture of things. and really minor compared to your choice of using AS3 for the game itself...

    you might be well better off just learning qml and javascript and doing it in that if you want use something like that which compiles nicely to a osx/ios/android/windows (qt has a nice c++ ide too..) application.

  3. Re:The End on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 1

    more like 60-70 years rather than 100... ignored for decades? as if.

    speculative science fiction hasn't had a good run on hollywood in a while. just big explosions shit. star trek into the darkness had me thinking it's shit in the first 10 minutes. put enterprise underwater, do some stupid volcano stopping shit, break prime directive and all that in the first 10 minutes. it's like the watched a parody of into the darkness and then made a film based on the parody, what a paradox.

  4. Re:Requirement to have compromised device on Researchers Use Siri To Steal Data From iPhones · · Score: 1

    if you have code already running on the phone it's trivial to send data out from the device.

    the article is stupid. the researcher is double stupid, only looking for to make a stir with a fucking stupid write up that deliberately claims that something people use daily is compromised. it's deceitful journalism/research. the researcher should be hit on the toes with a hammer.

    next up: "google chrome can be used to send data out from a computer maliciously.... ....from a computer you already have root access on"!

  5. Re:Old stuff. on Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships · · Score: 2

    Master of Orion comes to mind..

    first moo was pretty good. the sequels.. were missing something somehow.

    a decent master of magic remake would be nice.

  6. Re:If NSA thinks they are so great ... on NSA Prepares For Future Techno-Battles By Plotting Network Takedowns · · Score: 1

    oh only if it was that simple to pay the sum to each and not have it go into local chieftains.

    helping afghans and many other similar situation countries. the problem has a root it not being a country as such but a country with 10000 mini countries. majority of the violence is small group vs. another small group and none of them like losing grip on their local small "country".

    I'm rather amazed that they manage to keep 30 million people alive tbh.. natural environment must not be too unfriendly to life.

  7. Re:Comparable Efficiency ? on Microsoft Researchers Use Light Beams To Charge Smartphones · · Score: 1

    operating that would still take more juice than a conventional charger.

  8. Re:SUPER SLOW unless a faster than light system on Elon Musk's Proposed Internet-by-Satellite System Could Link With Mars Colonies · · Score: 1

    having more of them and on low altitude, they cold route it back to earth closer.

    much better than bouncing to the satellites that stay stationary(in regards of you) in space far, far away.

    basically the ping wouldn't be so bad.

    if it would be cheaper than building 3g connectivity on earth though, that's another thing.. and why the fuck even bring the mars trip to the issue at this point is beyond me.. putting a dedicated sat or two to support that trip would be pretty damn cheap compared to the total bill of either projects.

  9. Re:Tony Blair quoting Churchill quoting Verne on Winston Churchill's Scientists · · Score: 1

    at least vernes scifi had speculative fiction parts in it.

    unlike fantasy crap like dr who where 'science' is exchangeable with 'magic' and used almost solely for making the lazy plots to work(goes mostly for star trek as well but at least that one has some future society ponderings in it making it somewhat relevant).

    maybe that's why science is so underrated now then? because people are equating pulling anything goes in any which order plot shit out and calling scientific? like, you could just as well say that a show about mermaids is science! the day a politician starts quoting dr who to further science is when that country is totally fucked!(maybe beyond the point of being fixable thus the politician fantasizing about time travel to fix the plot hole in his budget)

  10. Re:Google hates widescreens on With Community Help, Chrome Could Support Side Tabs Extension · · Score: 1

    well the mac app-menu-at-top-of-screen is just stupid if there's multiple apps in view at a time...

  11. Re:Well... on NSA Hack of N. Korea Convinced Obama NK Was Behind Sony Hack · · Score: 1

    I thought the blurb was not exactly honest about the way the cyberattack on the iranian nuke program went down?

    sounds fishy - and this is what, the third explanation for how nsa/feds knew that north korea was behind it? one of the others was that "there was direct ip connection from north korea" or something like that..

    and I mean - if this explanation is actually correct then they knew BEFORE THE ATTACK but didn't do anything. and still haven't. yet the anon fucks on this article claim they could just shut down anything in the country at will? sounds like bs?

  12. Re:Spoofing! on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 1

    it's not the device that makes the fraud.

    it's the individual that would put it between the insurance companys dongle and the car that would be making the fraud, but the device itself wouldn't be illegal as such.. it's not doing copyright circumvention or any such thing, so no need to go on silk road to sell it.

    certainly it would be 1000 times more legal than ssl interceptors and such which seem pretty popular for corporate/airline networks...

    this thing is just that someone realized there was a market for hastily and lazily done surveillance device and found a market in the insurance companies for it. I mean, if they really cared it wouldn't be using the obd in the first place - it would have it's own accelerator and location sensors - which would have made developing the dongle possibly 10 times more expensive than a stupid microchip .

    *note: there's already ready made devices that would fit the bill far better than what the insurance companies are using so it's pretty bizarre! of course, the separate thing might be taken out of the car but what's stopping you from putting this in an another car?

  13. you mean everything doesn't break into pieces if you double or triple the font size on osx and ios now? I would imagine 99% of applications breaking beyond belief (due to the pixel oriented designing of apps for osx/ios for the past decade).

    what the friend might like.. would be to get something like a 10" android tablet and somehow adjust the firmware to think that the screen is just 3 inches wide(end result would be that applications that are resolution+density aware would just make everything bigger without breaking.

    I assume that's what he is looking for anyways, he doesn't just want audio I would think, but would like a portable magnifying glass..

  14. Re:Beats using bullets on 19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    lots of good targets.. hack their sms gateways, post shit about the people who try to benefit from west hate(plenty of such people. they benefit from it locally, like selling usa flags for burning you know, most of them don't really care shit about what happens 10 km from them), hack the islamist nations sites and put on information on how to bypass their censorships, links to news sites, links to just sites about their own countries laws so they understand that the local warlords are fucking them up the ass and that the tribe shit belongs to 17th century and they - their ability to learn how technology works, the future of their occupational careers, the future of their wealth and health - is all getting fucked up by extremists who claim the west is exploiting them when the worst exploiter for any one of them is the village chief and corruption! corruption includes paying thugs to go shoot neighboring village up with ak47's to "gain advantage" on price of khat or whatever the fuck their petty dealings center around.

  15. Re:Oil sands on Why We Have To Kiss Off Big Carbon Now · · Score: 1

    business as usual.

    "kiss big carbon goodbye" headline is sort of stupid. it's beyond stupid actually. somehow the reasoning is that because oil is cheap the oil use and production is going to go away.

    like: what the fuck? it's a cheap form of energy so how is it going away by being cheap? it's almost as stupid as the peak oil crap a couple of years ago was(well for the past two decades or whatever).

  16. Re: And they may have. on Belgian Raid Kills 2, Said To Avert "Major Terrorist Attacks" · · Score: 1

    well, if the next would avoid having (military) weapons then that's a positive start.

  17. Re:Bitcoin on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    evidently such a system is more stable than speculating with buying things with such a system.

    like, a country can switch to a currency system where a tv costs always 1000 dugarees, a liter of milk costs always 10 dugarees and gasoline 15 dugarees and forbid exchange of dugarees to any other currency.

    consequently, in pretty much all of these countries something else becomes _the_ currency, be it butter, foreign currencies or whatever and you'll have trouble stocking the shelves with tv's and other imports.

    as for using bitcoin vs dollar, if you want something that retains it's value against the dollar at 1:1 then buy dollars. that's speculation as well though, as is everything. however, to use bitcoin as form of payment you don't actually have to keep bitcoin in your "wallet", just exchange-send or receive-exchange as you need.

  18. Re:time to buy futures, now. on Why We Have To Kiss Off Big Carbon Now · · Score: 1

    there's no point in hydrogen powered trucks if cheapest way to get hydrogen is the oil.

    and being as energy dense? in what world?

  19. Re:Are you trying to get legislation? on Uber Suspends Australian Transport Inspector Accounts To Block Stings · · Score: 1

    ...you think they're performing sting operations because there isn't legislation?

    there is legislation already, so they can do sting operations, it's already forbidden so what the fuck do they lose?

  20. Re:LOL fascists on Samsung Launches Tizen Phone In India · · Score: 1

    if you think tizen style javascript apps are better than android vm apps then.. eh.

    whatever. in design tizen isn't that different from any other linux + app layer designs.

    it's just whatever shit you have installed on the android, nokia x(yes an android based phone) gets a week+ of standby(and about same specs as the samsung tizen and about the same price and has been out for a year. not for long of course since ms killed it and never released the x in euro/usa).

  21. Re:Not a problem on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 2

    "Yes, I'd like to live in a world where anyone who was willing to do an honest days work could easily find a job that paid enough to support a small family simply but comfortably (and safely)."

    that criteria is always unfortunately compared to those around you.

    so "comfortably" might mean a two bedroom apartment or a 4 bedroom house with garden and everything. it might mean being able to drink 3 nights a week or 1 night a month. ...and if you look at globally, then nordic nanny states are best at providing what you described as ideal. sure it might be -20C outside but you sure wouldn't be freezing but being in a comfortable warm home with hot running water.. ..and in the countries where almost everyone works for cash money with no protections or paying taxes everyone is fucked and making day by day

  22. Re:Windows 8.1: Not quite as shitty as believed. on PC Shipments Are Slowly Recovering · · Score: 1

    would you pay more for such a thing than you would be paying for a 250 laptop? why?

    or more than for a stick-pc(20-50bucks) + screen + kb?

    if you want low latency proper applications then there's no avoiding the pc.

  23. Re:Kiss the gesture control goodbye..... on Talk to the World Through Ubi -- and Use Gestures, Too (Video) · · Score: 1

    well they both just watched kinect adverts and went from there.

  24. Re:So.... on Apple Awarded Gesture-Control Patent · · Score: 1

    their crap is so vague that stuff from years ago infringes it.

    it doesn't explain how they do the detecting as such even, it doesn't explain how the device itself works...

  25. Re:SimCity 2000 available for free on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    I forgot that it spies your pc and sends home info.(unrelated info)