While I agree with the basic sentiment, I have to ask one thing.
Of those hundreds of games society stands to lose forever, how many of those are actually worth remembering? How many of those would society care about if we kept them?
Anyways, the reason nobody works on these is probably because our existing antibiotics already work really well,
If you don't take into account the growing number of things you can't treat with existing antibiotics because the bacteria are developing resistances to them.
We should be working on new antibiotics NOW, not when we can't fight disease anymore.
Are you installing a program on another person's computer, without his knowledge and consent, that will allow you to at any time take control of that computer again without his knowledge and consent?
Back in the late 60s or early 70s there was a robbery at the bank. The robber had beforehand stolen a bike to get away, so he was thinking ahead.
He also knew that people were untrustworthy scumbags that might steal an unattended bike, so to be sure it was there when he came out from the bank... he locked it.
The stolen bike.
The police didn't have much trouble catching him because even back then, people did really, REALLY stupid stuff when breaking the law.
Emphasize its position is a casual gaming network. I'm thinking Candy Crush, Farmville etc. - stupid as the games may be they are popular, and I have to admit having Candy Crush on the tablet when sitting in a waiting room at the doctor's helps pass the time.
And somehow that still seems better than my bank, which allowed a series of purchases on a hacked Trion account when ArcheAge released - on a credit card that had expired a year before.
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Living in a ghost city gives me fast enough internet to get first post.
We have exactly one planet to test things on.
Models are our best bet for predicting what is going to happen; evidence will only appear when it's too late to do something else.
While I agree with the basic sentiment, I have to ask one thing.
Of those hundreds of games society stands to lose forever, how many of those are actually worth remembering? How many of those would society care about if we kept them?
what sort of poorly controlled emotion causes a person to warm to the idea of torture and death?
One too many instances of thinking, "This is why we can't have nice things."
Anyways, the reason nobody works on these is probably because our existing antibiotics already work really well,
If you don't take into account the growing number of things you can't treat with existing antibiotics because the bacteria are developing resistances to them.
We should be working on new antibiotics NOW, not when we can't fight disease anymore.
Are you installing a program on another person's computer, without his knowledge and consent, that will allow you to at any time take control of that computer again without his knowledge and consent?
That is not legal. That is how botnets work.
So you can only get known if you're already known?
Honey Boo-Boo for President 2020!
Not if they keep living in the ruins of the house. Now there are no walls to muffle the sound of the beating.
In my case, and probably the case of a lot of other people, my driver's license is IN my wallet. I never leave home without it.
It will be so nice standing in a busy supermarket about to pay only to realize you forgot to charge your phone, won't it?
I'm sure there are a LOT of chess players around the world, so winning a chess championship isn't notable?
I reckon a lot of Slashdot regulars come here for the comments rather than the summaries.
There are 6 billion units of food.
There are 8 billion humans.
Each human needs one unit of food to not die.
Guess what happens.
Are you sending your bank account number, your social security number, and your personal phone number in plaintext email messages ..?
Only old Korean people cheat at StarCraft.
Isn't that how it went?
Because nothing prevents an accident like suddenly not being in control of your car at 80 miles per hour.
Increased market dominance for Win10 over Win7 and Win8 if even 1% of affected machines proceed to fully upgrade.
It wasn't his lock. He didn't know the combination to it, thus the bike remained locked when he came out from the bank and had to get away.
Why is alcohol so important, even necessary to have a nice night out? I really don't get it.
My grandfather was a manager at a bank.
Back in the late 60s or early 70s there was a robbery at the bank. The robber had beforehand stolen a bike to get away, so he was thinking ahead.
He also knew that people were untrustworthy scumbags that might steal an unattended bike, so to be sure it was there when he came out from the bank ... he locked it.
The stolen bike.
The police didn't have much trouble catching him because even back then, people did really, REALLY stupid stuff when breaking the law.
So you know Facebook's database admin personally?
Emphasize its position is a casual gaming network. I'm thinking Candy Crush, Farmville etc. - stupid as the games may be they are popular, and I have to admit having Candy Crush on the tablet when sitting in a waiting room at the doctor's helps pass the time.
The bank didn't update the phone number when the new owner of it told them. That IS the bank's fault.
And somehow that still seems better than my bank, which allowed a series of purchases on a hacked Trion account when ArcheAge released - on a credit card that had expired a year before.
So what you're saying is that during a war there is NO "Holy shit you're bombing friendlies!" protocol?