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  1. You mean like that one game where the only thing on the DVD was an 8 MB Steam install file?

  2. Re:What we need on Windows 10's Store Locks 'Call of Duty' Purchasers Into Windows-10-Only Battles (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Getting all games on all platforms is not feasible, no.

    But why the flying hell can't the SAME GAME on PS4, XB1, Windows Store and Steam just ... just play TOGETHER?

    FF14 has managed to do it, although I'm told Sony really didn't like the idea - but they have PS3, PS4 and PC players on the same servers. They then have OTHER problems if you want to, say, migrate your standalone PC account to Steam, but that's a whole other can of worms.

  3. Re:As the next US president said....... on IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, are you putting sound bites in CONTEXT? That's not how mindless outrage works!

  4. Re:rare and well done on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 0

    "If they agree with me they're right, if they disagree with me they're wrong."

    Is that how your world works?

  5. But aren't they?

  6. Re:Emulator on The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux · · Score: 1

    It was the cartridge blowing I was referring to as tongue-in-cheek humor.

  7. Re:So they're currently violating the GPL? on The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux · · Score: 1

    Honest question here, is it really accurate to put the period inside the quotation when what you're quoting isn't supposed to contain a period?

  8. Re:Emulator on The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux · · Score: 2

    We didn't get that back in the day, why should people get it now?!

  9. Re:That sounds like a lot of power to make oil on A New Process Turns Sewage Into Crude Oil (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    But what if it's actually Atmosphere -> Plant -> Animal -> Fuel -> Atmosphere?

    Why do humans have to be in the equation for it to be carbon neutral?

  10. Re:One huge difference on Google's DeepMind AI Plans To Take On StarCraft II (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't so much about 100% solving as it is about learning HOW to solve. If the AI can go toe-to-toe with human players that's great, if it can't even come close then it's an area that needs more work.

  11. Since when was Overwatch made by Sony?

    Nice try, wanna play again?

  12. Re:Why we never should handed over control of DNS on Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred (dw.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And the US certainly isn't trying to make everyone forget the slave period ever existed by banning any kind of racist speech and rewriting literary classics to be politically correct, right?

  13. Re:ECM for phun and profit on Ukraine's Military Wants To Use the HoloLens For Its Tanks (ubergizmo.com) · · Score: 2

    What on earth makes you think the cameras don't use wires that go into the tank?

  14. Re:Yay for metered connections! on Windows 10 Updates Are About To Get a Lot Smaller To Download as Microsoft Switches To Differential Patching (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    German neighbor here, hi.

    My cell phone gets 200 MB monthly. For six Euros I can buy another 200 MB.

    My DSL caps out at 448/96 kbps. That amounts to roughly 100 GB maximum download over a month, but obviously doing that would ruin any kind of latency-sensitive activity. Like loading Slashdot, believe it or not. If I have a download running the https handshake to Slashdot actually times out.

  15. You're the kind of guy who also thinks it's not censorship if it gets outsourced to private companies, aren't you?

  16. Listen to yourself.

    If billions of dollars per year amount to a few cents per kid per year, the number of kids in your country would be approaching TRILLIONS. You are not the world's largest ant colony, so knock it off!

  17. Re:Sports money on US Government Sues AT&T/DirecTV, Calls It 'Ringleader' of Collusion Scheme (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for.

    You mean like paying five dollars a month for a sports channel you don't watch?

  18. Maybe the Dodgers should make themselves more interesting, then.

    I'm curious, are the ticket prices to watch a game at the stadium only paid by the 10% interested in watching the game, or by everyone?

  19. Sports money on US Government Sues AT&T/DirecTV, Calls It 'Ringleader' of Collusion Scheme (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Imagine if all the money the world spends on sports would, for just one year, be funnelled into things like getting people out of poverty, creating jobs, curing cancer, building infrastructure ...

  20. Re:How dangerous is it really? on SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With People Aboard Raises Alarm Bells (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Before your underwear?

    Mr. Kent, is that you?

  21. Re:What are people thinking? on Mobile Browsing Just Overtook the Desktop For the First Time (alphr.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they spend that long in the bathroom BECAUSE they bring their phone or tablet, instead of having Facebook calling them back to the office and the computer?

  22. And it's not like those mobile games are all that much fun.

    I'd like to see him write a twenty page report on his phone, though. Poor thumbs.

  23. Re:How dangerous is it really? on SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With People Aboard Raises Alarm Bells (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    But on the other hand, what would possibly be gained by loading the astronauts before the fuel?

  24. Decades old?! on You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    The DMCA is not decades old yet. It was enacted in 1998, and while it does pull together two sets of treaties from 1996, the DMCA itself is ONLY 18 years old.

  25. Re:My google record on Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    From dictionary.com, emphasis mine:
    noun
    1.
    a person who votes.
    2.
    a person who has a right to vote; elector.

    It is, in fact, very useful information that the OP is a voter who does not vote. Depending on his reasons not to vote he can either be swung to one side or should be ignored entirely so you don't waste resources needlessly.