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  1. Sony wonâ(TM)t follow suit on Microsoft Will Launch Disc-Less, 'All Digital' Xbox One S Next Month, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A decade ago Sony release the PSPGo which was an all digital download handheld gaming device.
    The blowback from the Japanese retail gaming shops was massive enough for them to threaten Sony to never do this again or they would refuse to support any Sony console in their stores.

    Since Microsoft is going to go this route itâ(TM)s safe to say that the Xbox will be dead in Japan if it isnâ(TM)t already. The Japanese domestic market is extremely loyal to their Japanese companies, and an all digital Xbox will be the final nail in the coffin.

  2. Your score is 100%
    You have completed this adventure

  3. I remember managing to finish all 9 levels of the game back in the day in a single sitting. I do recall that you have to map out your path to the bottom of the pyramid, so essentially thereâ(TM)s a lot of exploration involved... however, past level 3 the map remains largely unchained and instead the lower levels go dark requiring a torch. At this point thereâ(TM)s rote memorization of the platforms that needs to happen because you canâ(TM)t see them before finding the torch ... especially one of the rooms that has the torch because it is a nightmare.

    I figure that as long as the AI is good at exploring and mapping, it will have no issues remembering when and where to jump, even as it canâ(TM)t see the floor in the later levels.

  4. Re: Two words: Vagina Lottery on 14 Years of Mark Zuckerberg Saying Sorry, Not Sorry (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    AHA!!! There it is. The cause of the issues between left and right, and the solution.

    If you were born poor, blame your parents.
    If you are poor and have kids, donâ(TM)t blame other people for being wealthier than you.

    Figure out how to get money before you decide to have kids and youâ(TM)ll ensure that they donâ(TM)t end up wishing they were these other rich kids.

    To the victors go the spoils is as it should be.
    We shouldnâ(TM)t reward useless people with the spoils otherwise it encourages mediocrity.

  5. Hacking Epsons with Rihac inklinks on Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Iâ(TM)ve hacked a few Epsons with Rihac inklink inkwells.

    Some people do a fairly heavy amount of printing and generally speaking these units hack the printer into thinking that the inkwell system is a legitimate set of ink cartridges.

    Refill the inkwells when needed and keep printing.

    We know all the brands try to prevent third party cartridges. HP being the worst.
    Never update the firmware on your printer!
    So called security updates just try to block the hacks.

  6. Ridding Facebook of political crap canâ(TM)t on Facebook Removes Hundreds of Accounts Spamming Political Info (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I used to visit Facebook to catch up with what friends are doing and to see what events were in my area.

    Once Facebook went IPO it opened the floodgates on political garbage and commercial spam to the point which diminished what it used to be and what attracted people to it in the first place.

    Clearing out all the political garbage and sorting out their privacy and scam issues needs to be at the fore to fix their issues.

    On the one hand people may say âoecensorshipâ, but on the other hand a line needs to be drawn to kick people out who pee in the pool at the pool party.
    Facebook needs to go further and purge ALL the garbage that ruins the experience IMHO.

    Use twitter for political chatter.

  7. See cat, see bag on Lawsuit Threat Shuts Down ROM Downloads On Major Emulation Site 'EmuParadise' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    See cat. See bag.
    Notice how the cat is no longer in the bag.

    In any case, I know there are private trackers out there for old games for emulators that have pretty much everything. They keep a very low profile because they follow the first rule of fight club.

    Besides, most of this content is now floating about on thousands of pirate retropie boxes being flogged off on ebay

  8. Re:Read title as "Raft of Piracy Features" on Apple Launches iOS 11.3 With Raft of Privacy Features (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not as good as a sloop or frigate of Piracy features!
    ARRRR!

  9. Once upon a time... on US To Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook used to be a fun little website where you can keep in touch with friends you hadn't seen for ages.

    Now it's part of an Orwellian spy system.

    Time to delete all social media. It was fun, but this is why we can't have nice things.

  10. Whatâ(TM)s in a name on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Why name it after a big dirty city with the worst traffic in the world which is also sinking?

  11. iPhone has no parental controls. on Apple Planning New, 'Robust' Parental Controls To Help Protect Children, Teens (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    MacOS has had parentally managed user accounts for quite a while which can do all the application, website, and time-based lockdowns.
    These are the sorts of things that parents want control over (until little Johnny gets savvy and decides to explore the mac recovery partition because nobody's put in a firmware password)
    The thing is, most parents don't know about these features - much less make use of them.
    It's easy to implement - when you know about them. The issue is that nobody knows, and don't have time/inclination to learn

    The iPhone has none of the parental controls - and if they ARE there and I'm actually mistaken - I can't easily find them.
    Honestly - it makes a lot of sense that Apple should put these features into the iPhone for worried parents. They want their kids to be contactable with their phones, but not using them every hour of the day.

    For example, Apple could make it so the parent's iCloud account can lock the phone down before giving it to their kid. Apple could put a time lock on the smartphone features, and only enable phone calls from people known in the contacts list - or only accept calls from parents when it's out of hours. That's in addition to the website and application locking you see on MacOS.

    Data usage limits and application purchases can be managed easily enough.

  12. If "fake news" is really influencing an election, perhaps we're just not ready for democracy?

    That's right, and our glorious leaders will take democracy off us if we all don't learn how to vote properly.

  13. Re:Good question on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Banning the tool instead of the crime affects legitimate use of the tool by law-abiding citizens.

    The difference with guns - especially the assault types obtainable in the US - is that they have no legitimate use.
    You would have to define killing other people as legitimate for you to be able to use that argument with guns.

  14. Re:Who would be your "dream CEO" for HP? on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You know if you look at the DXC logo close enough, it looks like a close-up of a skull.

  15. Re:Wrong trademark on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You really don't want to know how much they spent on having that green rectangle designed.

    You really DON'T

  16. Re:Good! But... on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry we can't give you any more raises. We spent too much money on our directors' salaries!
    So sorry, we're going to have to cut costs in the business and let you go.

  17. Time to cash out on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All you did Meg was fire a lot of people under the pretense of splitting up a company.
    And you got paid a lot of money for it while a lot of people hit the skids.
    Well F**king done.

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  19. Jokes about Volvo drivers

  20. Re:2021? Maybe. on Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They also currently require very detailed mapping to work -- any truly autonomous vehicle should be able to take info from GPS, a general map of the street network, visual/IR/mmWave sensors, and street markings/signs in order to operate safely. Details of roads change too frequently (by the hour, sometimes) to be reliable.

    This is one of the problems of GPS maps. None of them can take construction work and the chance of a possible road-closure and/or detour into consideration, much less deal with the fact that there may be no right/left turn in some intersections at different times of the day.

    All this information needs to be updated constantly.

  21. But an educated populace is not what the incumbents want, they like the idea of a populace that believes whatever propaganda they read, what they don't like is for anyone else to have the ability to put propaganda infront of large numbers of people.

    An educated, financially independent population with their own ideas and plenty of time to free time to implement them is not what incumbents want, as such people are harder to control.

    Even harder are ones that are aware of the huge amount of psy-ops being planted onto them, and who even know the tricks themselves so that they are able to not only use it to their own ends but are immune to anyone else's.

  22. "Century of Self" Documentary on Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you haven't seen it already, you really need to see it.

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

  23. Re:let's talk on An Inside Look At the First Church of Artificial Intelligence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Religion has always been about hypnosis for a happier, more enlightened self -- and when it has been misused -- it's hypnosis to turn followers into zombies at the command of their guru.

    Many of the concepts found in religion - the vague and hypnotic arcane language, use of stories to get past the conscious to the subconscious mind, the rituals, the repetition, the praying (self-hypnosis), the weird artefacts, the huge imposing buildings, the leaders wearing strange clothes, etc. etc. -- are all tools of the hypnotist. (and also the medical profession!)

    I think when we learn to use the power of our subconscious mind properly, we won't really need religion -- but we will still need faith.

    The reason why we need faith is that we need to believe that this world and universe is a wonderful and loving place in absence of objective evidence.
    If we don't have that as a baseline fundamental understanding, our lives become meaningless pretty quickly.

  24. Re:8.5/10 on Bitcoin Gold, the Latest Bitcoin Fork, Explained (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That will then be followed by Bitcoin II Super Alpha Hyper-mining Ultra EX Championship edition 3

  25. Thinkpad or bust on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Gotta be those classic Thinkpads with the best keyboards

    Although, I'd love to use a laptop with a built-in IBM model M buckling spring "clicky" keyboard - just to annoy everyone in the coffee shop.
    Pity we'll probably never see one.