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  1. Re:The games on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, if you took part in the "welcome back" deal, which I did, you could get two games out of those choices for each platform, for a total of 4 games. In addition to a month of PSN, FreeRealms and PS Home goodies (about 20 bucks worth of stuff for each), movie rentals and a Music Unlimited 30-day extension for those who subscribed to that.

    So those who didn't take part in "welcome back", actually get less stuff than those who did who can still get one of the benefits from the new settlement. Either a game, themes or 3 months of PS+

  2. Re:The games on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 1

    Which version? The PSP or the PS3? IIRC the PS3 versions physics are the way they are because you're supposed to be doing in-air tricks for boosts all the time. I found that feature annoying. If you want something more traditional, there's Little Big Planet racing, ModNation Racing's spiritual sucessor.

  3. Re:The games on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 2

    Aren't those the "Welcome back" games? They haven't listed the games in the new deal as far as I know.

    Ars Technica says those who didn't take part in the Welcome Back get two choices from 3. (PS3/PSP game, Themes, 3 months PS+), those who did get 1 choice of the three. And apparently those who get 2 can choose two of the same benefit, a la two games instead of 1 game and themes.

  4. Re:About time something is happening on UK Cabinet Office Adopts ODF As Exclusive Standard For Sharable Documents · · Score: 1

    All the formatting will basically convert "correctly," but the spacing and rendering are often way off, making the document look like you didn't pay enough attention to detail (exactly the OPPOSITE of what you want in a job application).

    Sometimes that is a typeface issue. The fix is to make sure both machines have the exact same ones available.

  5. Re:Hypothetical on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Hang out with Elliot Rodger at http://alphagameplan.blogspot....?

  6. Re:Trigger warnings inidicate deeply held bias on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Third/Fourth wave feminists tend to loathe Dworkin and other radfems.

  7. Re:Let me count the ways on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    You want well researched in depth commentary on the subject go to YouTube and look for Feminist Frequency by Anita Sarkeesian.

    You shouldn't have mentioned her since she's one of the "denyers" favorite targets for harassment. She could do a video about how the sky is blue and some jerk would comment about how she's a C*** and should die.

  8. Re:This has nothing to do with sexism on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Women will be protected from male society. We will protect you from our viciousness and brutality.

    But why be vicious and brutal in the first place?

    And in return... you stay out of our business.

    We won't be vicious and brutal to you if you stay in the kitchen and sudo make me a sandwich?

    If you want in... that fine. But you will not be protected from viciousness and brutality if you enter our world.

    What world is that? And why be vicious to anyone?

    This is how it works.

    How what works? It doesn't sound like a civilized place to me.

  9. Re:Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    looks like she's had FFS, Osterhaut by the looks of it, so her passibility is high. The voice being the thing that "might" get her clocked as an MTF.

    But to most non-trans, she'd just be a tall woman with a laptop. Besides, most MTF's have identified with women and women's issues long before they ever transitioned. And if she transitioned young, she would have experienced life as a woman, and even if she didn't transition young, she would be having the experiences "now"

  10. Re:Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Get a playstation. We have less of the vocal retarded 12 year old retards.

    I don't know about that, it would be nice if it was true, but I don't think it is. And I'm saying that as a PlayStation fan.

  11. Re:Wow. Terrble Turn. on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Why yes, and then Comrade Putin will go on TASS and say that the US is being Imperialist/Aggressive and wants to start the cold war again.

    That wouldn't help.

  12. Re:Wait for it... on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    There were any German non-submarine ships in the Atlantic between 1941 and 1945? Not if the Royal Navy or United States Navy could help it.

    Meaning the non-submarine presence of German ships in the atlantic was practically nil.

  13. Re:Elon Musk at Nokia?... on Microsoft CEO To Slash 18,000 Jobs, 12,500 From Nokia To Go · · Score: 1

    I'm always mixing them up too.

  14. Re:They'd still be on Power if not for two things. on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    IBM's manufacturing capacity for Power/PPC cores outside its own servers and workstations was eaten up by Microsoft for its XBox line

    You mean Sony with the PS3. The Xenon in the 360 is based on the Cell's PPE.

  15. Re:Twice the performance, half the price ... on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    However Intel was able to achieve higher clock rates than PowerPC and maintain a general performance lead.

    That's not quite true, IBM makes some very fast PPC's, they have a 5GHz one available. In fact, you can buy 3.2GHz PPC chips in every Wal-Mart. The problem being, that IBM didn't have those 3+GHz PPC's ready when Apple wanted them.

  16. Re:come on... on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    I haven't bought an SOE product in 10yrs because of the Foglok fiasco... I was actually banned from their forums for a few months back in the day for suggesting they didnt exist, only later find out I was right.

    What do you mean froglok's don't exist, I've seen them. There was a HUGE underground fortress/city FULL of them down south near the Ogre/Troll town in EQOA. High level Froglok paladins and such.

    They were NPC's in the original EQ release too. Ykesha made them playable.

  17. Re:I was really worried on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    And then I realized I never use PSN

    Wouldn't matter, this was an SOE issue, not SCE-foo. Sony handles it's PC games separate as Sony Online Entertainment. The consoles are operated by Sony Computer Entertainment

    As I posted earlier, there was only one console game that ever used an SOE login, that being EQOA on the PS2.

  18. Re:and your suprised why?? on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    This isn't SCEfoo, this is SOE, Sony's PC gaming centric division.

  19. Re:Sony playing catchup with Microsoft on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    Didn't affect PSN/SEN on the PS3/PS4/PSP/Vita, it doesn't use SOE logins. In fact, as far as I know, only one sony console game used an SOE based login, and that was Everquest Online Adventures, which is no longer running.

  20. Re:Passwords are bad on Selectively Reusing Bad Passwords Is Not a Bad Idea, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    Not the OP, but I'd like to see passwords replaced with SSL client certificates.

    That would be nice.

    The GUI for them in most modern browsers is horrific and the error messages shown when something goes wrong even worse; but both issues could be fixed.

    That is true. Don't some of the Linux "Password & Keys" utilities handle SSL client certs too? I'm not sure on that.

    Hmmph, Comodo doesn't e-mail you when your freecert is about to expire.

  21. Re:Simpler approach... on Selectively Reusing Bad Passwords Is Not a Bad Idea, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    What kills me is that different sites have different password restrictions that infuriates me.

    Yeah, that. Though I basically do what the article says and have "weak" passwords for things like Slashdot, and stronger ones for things involving money. I'd like to be able to use my strongest password everywhere, but many places don't support that many characters. yes it's longer than "correct horse battery staple"

    Obligatory XKCD:

    http://xkcd.com/936/

  22. Re:The sad thing... on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    How the heck can you browse slashdot on a 640kbps connection? Ah, I kid the Slashdot.

    I feel for you, limited online gaming, and slow youtube cat videos. I'm with Mediacom, their "Prime" 15/1 service, which is never actually 15/1...for some reason it's always faster, more like 17/2.5 most of the time. The price is at the "sweet spot" too. They do offer a 50/5, but it's not at the sweet spot yet.

    Mediacom has effectively no competition for internet, not because they don't have any competitors...it's because their offering is just simply so much better than any other locally available service. You can "maybe" get 6mbps DSL...if you're lucky enough to live where the wiring is really new.

    It's bad enough that one of the dish based TV providers now partners with Mediacom in a combined satellite/internet package. Did I mention t hat Mediacom is a cable company?

  23. Re:Great time to call to reduce my monthly bill on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    Service providers are getting wise to that trick and cutting back on reductions for people claiming they're canceling.

  24. Re:Same business model, different business on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    "Say But again! I dare you!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  25. Re:Not to detract from our roots... on How To Fix The Shortage of K-5 Scholastic Chess Facilitators · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong; I was in a "Chess and Tactical Games Club" when I was in Highschool.

    Here's the question I want to ask.

    What about the schools WITHOUT chess clubs/teams or "tactical games clubs"? Yes, not everyone went to one of those schools with all those geek clubs like chess, rocketry, games, AV, computers.