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  1. Re:It never has been effective on Shadow Warrior 2 Developers Say DRM Is a Waste of Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The way things are going people consider a DRM-free copy less "worth" though so it still beats it.

    If Shadow warrior is DRM-free (maybe not on a disc but online) then people will think that why should they "buy" your copy which is just a copy they could make themselves / fetch anyway? If they are going to pay for it at all to get a "legit" copy they want that money to reach the developers. If all they get is a copy with no money (at that transaction at-least) going to the developers they could just as-well pirate it. So it leave them with piracy or getting a legit copy and no real usage for second hand copies.

  2. Re:Slashdotters are 2%ers, don't pay. DRM don't wo on Shadow Warrior 2 Developers Say DRM Is a Waste of Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "You had $5,000 to spend on a home computer, yet you pirated/stole the software."

    Yes.. because they *had* 5000$. They *have* no more money. It's really not that difficult to understand.

    My current PC was close to free (Phenom X4 9850, HD 6950, mobo, RAM, monitor = free.)

    I am getting close and closer to $5000 spent on bundles though .. And I don't even use the content :/

  3. I wonder if they have considered pay what you want on Shadow Warrior 2 Developers Say DRM Is a Waste of Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I buy lots of game bundles and a few games on sale once I think the price is good enough.

    SW2 MSRP I think is â40 and maybe it's worth that but I know it will be much cheaper, normally 6-12 months later you can likely get a 75% discount and eventually this too will likely be bundled. As such I won't be buying it now but I assume I will buy it when the price is right. However if it was "pay what you want" possibly with some lower price like say $5 then I could maybe had gotten it right now.

    They would lose a lot of high value sales so maybe it's not worth it but if it was available for such a low price maybe some pirates would had bought it too, then again they sadly likely wouldn't had anyway even less so if it's DRM-free because they would see it as a weakness and just compare their "free" was $5 and "OMG it's DRM-free I can just copy it anyway!"

    Socialist entitlement ruining everything.

  4. Re:So it's like... on Russia Builds Microwave Weapon To Take Down Enemy Drones (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    there were no occupying governments

    But now there is through the EU.

    Also I wouldn't view our Swedish government as by or for the people.

    For the Russians, of course, losing traditional satellites/occupied regions like Poland, the Baltic states, and the other Central European Slavic states was a symbol of its decline. That these states, so long under the Russian thumb, then joined NATO, was seen as a slap in the face. Putin is trying to recover something of Russia's old power, but he runs a nation that, while improving in some respects, really is a midget compared to Europe and the US.

    The Russian identity is pretty intact though, that and the culture is in a much better position than in most of the rest of the west. Which was my point.

    My point was never about what Russia try to portray themselves about or how mighty they are.
    My point was all about how the west consider themselves as superior in democracy and freedom even though in the case of the US it's all foreign politics and dictators and non-elected leaders are just fine / possibly better as-long as they act in the interest of the US and here in Europe and Sweden especially democracy isn't a thing since social and main-stream media don't allow all opinions to be heard, the public sector and financial power is everywhere and so strong (majority of the public service employees and teaches in Sweden are sympathizers of the environmentalist party / left), information is being hidden (criminality statistics and data about the suspects of criminal activity, social economic costs and so on), lies are told and voice of the public is seen to be inferior and bad and that the "responsible" politicians and media know better and have to "take responsibility" (act authoritarian) because the public is wrong.
    Germany may be even more fucked up than Sweden. They have always suffered under the "oh you were Nazis so you have to suffer under this and for that!" - I have no fucking clue what wrong Sweden have done but I guess it's just basic "white guilt"-shaming from the Marxists and parasites of color.

    The combined economic and military might of NATO dwarfs Russia. The US alone is able to project force to just about everywhere from the Arctic to the Antarctic circles, and while Russia still has a lot of military capability, it remains as it always was, a fundamentally land-based power, able to harass and dominate some of its Eurasian neighbors, but ultimately geopolitically weaker than its competitors.

    I'd rather say it's basically that of the US.
    USA is what make up NATO. That comes with consequences though since USA is the people who pay for everything and who have the power the politics of the US also matter.
    Sweden + Norway + Denmark + Finland + Iceland + Estonia (+ Lithuania + Latvia + Scotland + Poland + Hungary + Ukraine) could have had a reasonable population count and economy and through that military might to possibly hold up on their own and could had acted as a buffer zone in both direction and pose no threat to either side while still not be ruled by the US or EU.

    Reality of course is that Russia harass and interfere less than USA do. And yeah, they have less capability so maybe that's part of the reason why, it's still how it is. Where Russia try to harass seem to be mostly into propaganda and sharing the Russian "view" of things. Then again it's not like the world doesn't listen to the American view either.

  5. Re:So it's like... on Russia Builds Microwave Weapon To Take Down Enemy Drones (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For Russia these days, "force projection" literally does mean the Black Sea and Syria.

    And in the west democracy mean to let the globalist elite decide your destiny. .. or did the Europeans and Swedes actually wanted it this way? Really? Have anyone asked?

  6. Re:Syrian drones on Russia Builds Microwave Weapon To Take Down Enemy Drones (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    A nuke here or there on Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, would fix things for good

    I'm not 100% convinced they are themselves responsible for their behavior and that US foreign and security politics and former British and French one haven't had its share in what have become of the area. But even if it was and even if it all was nuked what about western and northern Europe? Kick them out first or nuke us too?

  7. .. and if you let time go slower and slower and the speed of light remain the same relative that time unit even at the expansion of the speed of light the universe would be more than twice the radius (assuming spherical here) of the age * speed of light distance across.

  8. Even if space expanded from one singularity into all three directions at the speed of light you wouldn't be able to see all of it (the stuff on the other side of the singularity is moving away with the speed of 2 times that of light relative you.)

  9. Re:Drake Equation.... on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    some way of cheating physics

    I doubt we will ever CHEAT physics.
    If anything have a better understanding of it and hence a better method to use what is there.

  10. Re:Would not fly in Ukraine on ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As I view it it's no more weird than Assad ruling the nation.

    I wonder if nations such as my own would support a native (Swedish) uprising against the overlords (the Swedish government, media and the EU.) ... I assume not.-
    Sweden too is a non-free non-democratic fascist state.

  11. Re:Would not fly in Ukraine on ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Had Russia really been fighting ISIS in Syria, they would've sent the same technology (and personnel) there.

    What bullshit. Because really where does that leave the US? Though you may argue they don't either and that no-one is fighting ISIS.

    These drones likely posses/have posed no/very small risk to Russian forces and this isn't Russian soil or close to it and I have no idea what the range are of these devices and so on but ..

    Since the commercial drones most likely used legal to use bands and communication and the military likely have developed methods to shut those channels down sure, fine. Maybe they just haven't had the intention to shut all such communication down in all of Syria yet.

    Not necessarily to preserve ISIS.

  12. Yeah I don't see how he was infringing copyright by running the site no matter what it was called.

    Helping possibly but doing it? Not unless he actually shared the videos.

  13. Re:My and a friend played CS:GO yesterday. on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    Seem like maybe launching Task scheduler and going to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft & gt; Windows & gt; UpdateOrchestrator and then right click Reboot and choose Disable may do the trick. ... and if Microsoft ever tries to get it back again go to C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator rename Reboot to Reboot.bak and make a folder called Reboot so no new Reboot file can be made ..

    http://winaero.com/blog/how-to...

  14. My and a friend played CS:GO yesterday. on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 2

    20:12 / 20:02 his Windows machine had told him it would reboot itself for an update.

    The time passed and he mentioned how it hadn't restarted for that and I told him that maybe it didn't do that if one was playing a game. .. but surely enough Windows like the idiotic authoritarian knows better shit-product it is rebooted his machine and he was gone from the team. We won 16-14 and he got a two hours ban from leaving the game.

    I assume one can block that behavior with enough leet / admin / group setting skills but the normal user settings don't let you do that, all you can do is set a 12 hour working period and that's it and beyond that Windows reboots whenever the fuck it wants to if it wants to. Why should you be the master of your computer after all?!

  15. Re:India is number 4? on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Except it never says US is #4:
    https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

    If the world's reservoirs were a country, they'd be #8 on a list of polluters -- right behind Brazil, China, the EU and the U.S.

    It's wrong in that it mention EU as a country but it's not listed in order in that #1 is Brazil, #2 is China, #3 is EU and #4 is the US.
    Also it says "polluters" not green-house gas emissions, but maybe that's what one should assume it is?
    Green-house gas emissions:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .. would put China and USA as #1 and #2 and Brazil at #6 if you don't view EU as a country.

  16. I tried this Rust thing on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Got run over by three nekkid guys and shot into pieces.

    Next time I become a slave.

    "Try Rust! It's safe!" they said.

  17. You do realize 50*200 = 10 000 which require you grow the population 100 times to reach one million?

    Also it grows as much as you can provide for I guess.
    And yeah, I guess they can grow the capability once on Mars but still.

  18. So 200+ ships at billions of dollars each? Yeah, that's gonna happen.

    Muslim and African colonization of Europe paid for and against the will of the Europeans are happening so why is this so unlikely?

    Just demand that someone else pays for it. If not say they are intergalactofobic - that will shut them up good!

  19. 20-50 trips * 100-200+ people = 1 000 000?

    They will bring embryos or what?

  20. Re:Will it run systemd? on Boot Linux (or OpenBSD Or Oberon Or FreeDOS) In Your Browser (copy.sh) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be a hoot. It'd probably make as much sense as anything else those two blather about. I'd rather watch Johnson and Stein debate. Sad!

    Immigrants should be kept in user-land.

    (Well, not me in America (if ever) but others and immigrants here (Sweden.))

  21. Re:What about English? on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So you want to punish your users for inability to express yourself in universally comprehensible language?

    I have no clue about what you mean.

  22. Re:What about English? on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's my AI function in English:
    Try to win the game.

  23. Re:But at least his god loves him on Hacker Who Aided ISIS Gets 20 Years In Prison (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea was to suggest god would love him because god supposedly is a complete ass-hole and want at-least the IS supporting Muslims to do bad stuff.

  24. Re:This is not going to work well. on U.S. Funds Challenges To North Korea's 'Information Shield' (freekorea.us) · · Score: 1

    What about tables pre-loaded with Wikipedia?

    Lots of information to be had.

  25. Re:But at least his god loves him on Hacker Who Aided ISIS Gets 20 Years In Prison (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Was supposed to be "love trash and hate" or something.. Hadn't really thought it through when I started typing for what it would contain.