I would bet that it's just a power supply that died. It's a great excuse to buy a new computer, but all in all, I'd give it a 90% chance it's the power supply that died.
99% of gun owners do absolutely nothing wrong with their guns.
In many parts of the world, those 99% of gun owners do something wrong with their gun: owning it. (yes, in many parts of the world gun ownership itself is forbidden, except very few specific exceptions...)
In the US, the prison system is the solution to every problem. I always say that tourists should have a look inside our prisons to see what the real America is like. The New America is represented by a sadistic prison guard beating the shit out of an inmate for fun. Our culture is all about punishment and revenge and hurting people. A whole country full of angry, enthusiastic torturers who don't care what happens to anyone else but themselves.
Okay, question here. have you ever been in a USA Prison? Have you seen guards beating up prisoners? Or is this what you see on TV?
Because you sure seem it's this way, so I'm curious, do you know from experience?
Because I know a lot of people who did prison time, and I know what stories they have to tell. And their stories aren't matching up with yours.
Many punishments essentially mark a person for life, though. DUI is one of them. It's not in one's self interest to admit to a DUI, no matter how moral it might make you to do so.
Speaking of crimes that mark people for life, drug offenses. (including pot) Many examples put forward by the media where pot users who have been caught have lost permanent rights, such as running for certain offices...like president, which two recent self-admitted tokers have done. (and probably at least a dozen non-admitting, I'd only believe that Nixon never inhaled, frankly...and maybe LBJ)
Felonies mark people for life, misdemeanors don't. Unless someone is stupid enough to let people make a deal about misdemeanors.
As someone who knows many drug addicts and used to be one himself over 15 years ago: John McAfee's blog is not the writing of a drug addict. Either he is as clear from drugs as he says he is or he has someone else write the stuff for him.
No, he's probably not a drug addict. But he seems pretty obvious he has fried his brain. Did this drub usage lead to his current situation? Seems very likely. We got paranoia, we got delusions. Using drugs doesn't make you addict.
I remember when designer drugs started raising there head in the late 80's. I took acid and MDA all the time then. My buddy started to get some "new" designer drug, my memory says it's what got called Special K later, but I've taken a lot of drugs, so I can't say if it was. But the point is, my buddy started getting really paranoid and delusional about shit after he kept taking the stuff. We got him to stop and he finally maybe got back to normal (only to turn in to a basehead later (freebase, before crack reared it's head). But it goes to show, you don't know what you are doing to yourself with these "designer" drugs, or using weird substances to get "high".
This first one was interesting but seriously; does Slashdot need to 're-blog' everything he says and does?
Since it keeps happening, I would say yes.
Look, dude is loony, most likely from the bathsalts he shoves up his butt. This is Reality TV at it's best, by not being on TV. If you can't understand why this appeals to us, then just ignore these stories. Very fucking easy to do.
You must be an American to write such an arrogant and ignorant statement. But that's okay, you get modded up by your fellow countrymen. USA #1, USA #1, Freedom, Freedom, Better in a US prison that in one of them foreign mudhuts. Freedom Freeeeeeeeedom.
You must be some other country that blames the US because you are too lazy to get your own shit in gear and find blaming others makes it seem like it's not your fault your country sucks.
So you hate China so much that you would prefer to live in a US prison? Being poor in the US is also quite unpleasant even if you are not one of the unlucky ones snared by the ubiquitous prison system.
WTF? I am poor. I live on $10k a year. I live check to check. I have no savings. I do have a place to live, I do have enough food to survive decently.
I am living decently. I can't complain. If i don't have enough food, there is food banks, places I can get meals. If I need clothes and don't want to use any of my own money on them, I can go to various places to get clothes free, or cheap.
I am poor and it is not unpleasant. Sure, sometimes it sucks, like i wish i could upgrade my video card, love to get a Wii U. Sheesh, even a Raspberry Pi is a big decision for me to buy (I'm planning on getting one), since I have to cut something out to put the money together.
I have never been in prison, but i have spend a little time in the local jail and I would rather be homeless on the streets then in jail/prison. I bet you'll find that over 90% of the people in prison would agree with me on that. (Yes, I am making that stat up, but it's based on that fact that jail sucks and no one really wants to be there.)
I think Sony will find less people will buy a PS4 (if this as implemented in it)
I very much doubt this. Gamers will buy whatever system has a better selection of games for it. Supposing for one second that this technology is implemented in the next iteration of the PlayStation (which I very much doubt anyways), do you not think companies like EA and Activision are going to heavily favor Sony consoles? Of course they will (unless of course the other consoles implement similar technologies, in which case your choice of console is a wash as far as this matter is concerned). Sony will be favored by the developers and gamers will follow the games and buy the Sony console.
This is all theoretical, though, because it's pretty unlikely Sony would do something like this. They had a similar patent before the PS3 came around, and that technology didn't exist there.
Almost every gamer i know doesn't sit on his collection. Sure, he keeps some games he really really likes, but will sell others to get new/used games to play. He will rent games to check them out. He likes to spend money, because he knows he can recoup some of the cost with trades/selling his old games. You take that away, and I know for a fact he's not going to be buying as many games. Since he won't be able to rent them, he won't be able to check them out, unless he knows someone that has them.
Me, I pirate stuff. I'm not stupid, I don't buy sight unseen. Game producers have made too many shitty games that should of never been made. But then I like my consoles for hacking and homebrew, I don't care about most games for the PS3 or 360, I got my PC for new games. I have never had a problem with not buying stuff, and just copying it from friends. Music, movies, etc. The person I mentioned above, he buys stuff. He wants to actually have a store copy of music, DVD's and games. Yet, he's the one who's going to get screwed over.
Time will tell what happens, but based on the video game market since it started, 2nt hand sales has always been a big thing.
What if the car makers figured a way to lock cars to their original buyer. No 2nt hand car market. You can NOT sell your car after you buy it (and we know how much it loses value after you drive it away).
But it's worse then no 2nt hand market. What if your console breaks. You have to get a new one. All those games you already bought? No good anymore. They won't work on the new console.
Hmm, now that I'm thinking about it, I just figured some flaws.
It works when the machine isn't hooked up to the internet, but if you never hook the machine up to the internet, then it can NOT share the info of the game with the "cloud" so any other machine wouldn't know that it has been used. Unless they use a different type of bluray disk that you can write info on it after it's been mastered, without the internet there is no way to share the info.
Of course, Sony could make it so you have to update every game before you can play it, and that would require you connecting to the internet. Which they probably would have to do.
I don't know WHY our legal system is so faulty, but it is. NO ONE (and ONE includes any business) should be subjected to costs because someone else just happens to disagree. If someone sues YOU and in order to defend yourself, you need to hire attorney(s) at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars (which for some people can wipe them out, financially), wouldn't you want the other party to cover your costs?
Actually, I would think it should be a cause for a mistrial since the rich person is using unfair tactics against you. For example, lets say I was to be taken to court by one of the AA's. There is no way I could get a fair trial because I do NOT have the money they do. They can keep throwing money at the trial, delaying it, appealing it, etc way beyond what I, or any normal person could do. That isn't right. That is using money to buy the outcome you want.
Ahh, so you're saying that you should be allowed to do anything to anyone richer than you without legal consequences, because any legal action would be unfair against you. Unless your action made you richer than the other of course.
No, what i am saying is the rich corporations are unfairly using the courts high cost to win cases they shouldn't be winning, and because they know they can win by stretching out the cost, this is how they choose to fight in court. The big corporations will keep court cases going if they don't like the judgement, that's been in the news left and right. When they lose, they appeal it and drag it out.
It's an unfair advantage because they can buy the decisions they want, just by spending more money then the other person.
P.S. When I was a kid, I saw porn. It didn't "harm me." I'm a normal guy.
When I was a kid, I didn't see porn, and it harmed me. I didn't know much about sex, didn't understand how to please women, shit, I didn't even realize how women masturbated till I was much older. Porn at least would of gave me insight on the art of sex and how to help switch it from a self act, to a pleasing act for the other.
Of course, practice makes perfect, but who wants to have sex with a guy who only knows how to please himself? Besides hookers.
Well, now you decided if I'm being funny or insightful.
I have mod points, but where is the option for 'Informative - but a jerk'? Granted, it can be annoying to help someone when the answer to their question is a short Google search away... but the question there at the end seems unkind (at best). Lets keep things civil:)
No, I don't agree. If you are too fucking stupid to read up on the program you are using, then you get what you deserve. It's not like that info is hidden. Not to mention it's a fucking computer, why don't you make user accounts, and keep the porn and adult movies in an account he can NOT access? And don't put it in your regular account, I suggest you make one that you log in when you want to watch those movies/shows. Give the kid his own account, and then just give him access to the kids shows & movies. You can also lock the internet down on that account so he doesn't discover porn.
But honestly, it seems your knowledge of computers is meh, and the kid will probably be smarter then you on computers in 3 years. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I don't know WHY our legal system is so faulty, but it is. NO ONE (and ONE includes any business) should be subjected to costs because someone else just happens to disagree. If someone sues YOU and in order to defend yourself, you need to hire attorney(s) at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars (which for some people can wipe them out, financially), wouldn't you want the other party to cover your costs?
Actually, I would think it should be a cause for a mistrial since the rich person is using unfair tactics against you. For example, lets say I was to be taken to court by one of the AA's. There is no way I could get a fair trial because I do NOT have the money they do. They can keep throwing money at the trial, delaying it, appealing it, etc way beyond what I, or any normal person could do. That isn't right. That is using money to buy the outcome you want.
This would not only kill the 2nt hand market, it would kill the rental market. I think Sony will find less people will buy a PS4 (if this as implemented in it) since they can't sell old games, buy used games, or rent games. Sure, the Hardcore PS fans will still buy the PS4 and new games, but only they will.
Plus if Sony thinks they will go 4 years before they new machine is hacked to play backups, they are in for a rude awakening. My guess is Sony will have a huge target on their back this round.
And this attitude that Sony has towards it's customers helped me quit playing EQ2 after 6 years. There was NO way I was going to pay them any more money for anything.
Simply get a group of tough guys together, wait for him after work, drag him into an alley and make him understand. Works every time.
I was thinking mafia style. Take part of the fingers till he gets the picture. It might make a few fingers shorter, but sooner or later he'll figure it out or quit.
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I would bet that it's just a power supply that died. It's a great excuse to buy a new computer, but all in all, I'd give it a 90% chance it's the power supply that died.
Alcool doesn't wreck cars, peopl do.
Spelling doesn't make you look stupid, but spelling errors do.
Driving drunk is ALWAYS wrong.
Because it's defined that way, d'oh...
99% of gun owners do absolutely nothing wrong with their guns.
In many parts of the world, those 99% of gun owners do something wrong with their gun: owning it. (yes, in many parts of the world gun ownership itself is forbidden, except very few specific exceptions...)
STFU Seriously, STFU
smoking weed is cool, safe and "classic".
FTFY
In the US, the prison system is the solution to every problem. I always say that tourists should have a look inside our prisons to see what the real America is like. The New America is represented by a sadistic prison guard beating the shit out of an inmate for fun. Our culture is all about punishment and revenge and hurting people. A whole country full of angry, enthusiastic torturers who don't care what happens to anyone else but themselves.
Okay, question here. have you ever been in a USA Prison? Have you seen guards beating up prisoners? Or is this what you see on TV?
Because you sure seem it's this way, so I'm curious, do you know from experience?
Because I know a lot of people who did prison time, and I know what stories they have to tell. And their stories aren't matching up with yours.
Many punishments essentially mark a person for life, though. DUI is one of them. It's not in one's self interest to admit to a DUI, no matter how moral it might make you to do so.
Speaking of crimes that mark people for life, drug offenses. (including pot) Many examples put forward by the media where pot users who have been caught have lost permanent rights, such as running for certain offices...like president, which two recent self-admitted tokers have done. (and probably at least a dozen non-admitting, I'd only believe that Nixon never inhaled, frankly...and maybe LBJ)
Felonies mark people for life, misdemeanors don't. Unless someone is stupid enough to let people make a deal about misdemeanors.
I would like to extend the mandate for drone killings to people who decide that people should be killed because they're irritating.
You irritate me.
As someone who knows many drug addicts and used to be one himself over 15 years ago: John McAfee's blog is not the writing of a drug addict. Either he is as clear from drugs as he says he is or he has someone else write the stuff for him.
No, he's probably not a drug addict. But he seems pretty obvious he has fried his brain. Did this drub usage lead to his current situation? Seems very likely. We got paranoia, we got delusions. Using drugs doesn't make you addict.
I remember when designer drugs started raising there head in the late 80's. I took acid and MDA all the time then. My buddy started to get some "new" designer drug, my memory says it's what got called Special K later, but I've taken a lot of drugs, so I can't say if it was. But the point is, my buddy started getting really paranoid and delusional about shit after he kept taking the stuff. We got him to stop and he finally maybe got back to normal (only to turn in to a basehead later (freebase, before crack reared it's head). But it goes to show, you don't know what you are doing to yourself with these "designer" drugs, or using weird substances to get "high".
This first one was interesting but seriously; does Slashdot need to 're-blog' everything he says and does?
Since it keeps happening, I would say yes.
Look, dude is loony, most likely from the bathsalts he shoves up his butt. This is Reality TV at it's best, by not being on TV. If you can't understand why this appeals to us, then just ignore these stories. Very fucking easy to do.
. And the thing about sociopaths? They never change.
The age of jailbait doesn't seem to change either. Must be a connection.
>So, let me get this straight. ...
"Gaygirlie",
I want a straight Gay Girl also...
>> Chinese generic laptops very cheap here
Plus they come preloaded with spyware.
McAfee anti-virus?
... Being born here was the dumbest thing I've ever done and remaining here when I could leave is even dumber.
Wow, it was your choice to be born here? I didn't get a choice, I was you know, born where my parents were.
Don't worry about remaining here being dumb, it's obvious that you are pretty stupid already.
You must be an American to write such an arrogant and ignorant statement. But that's okay, you get modded up by your fellow countrymen. USA #1, USA #1, Freedom, Freedom, Better in a US prison that in one of them foreign mudhuts. Freedom Freeeeeeeeedom.
You must be some other country that blames the US because you are too lazy to get your own shit in gear and find blaming others makes it seem like it's not your fault your country sucks.
So you hate China so much that you would prefer to live in a US prison? Being poor in the US is also quite unpleasant even if you are not one of the unlucky ones snared by the ubiquitous prison system.
WTF? I am poor. I live on $10k a year. I live check to check. I have no savings. I do have a place to live, I do have enough food to survive decently.
I am living decently. I can't complain. If i don't have enough food, there is food banks, places I can get meals. If I need clothes and don't want to use any of my own money on them, I can go to various places to get clothes free, or cheap.
I am poor and it is not unpleasant. Sure, sometimes it sucks, like i wish i could upgrade my video card, love to get a Wii U. Sheesh, even a Raspberry Pi is a big decision for me to buy (I'm planning on getting one), since I have to cut something out to put the money together.
I have never been in prison, but i have spend a little time in the local jail and I would rather be homeless on the streets then in jail/prison. I bet you'll find that over 90% of the people in prison would agree with me on that. (Yes, I am making that stat up, but it's based on that fact that jail sucks and no one really wants to be there.)
I very much doubt this. Gamers will buy whatever system has a better selection of games for it. Supposing for one second that this technology is implemented in the next iteration of the PlayStation (which I very much doubt anyways), do you not think companies like EA and Activision are going to heavily favor Sony consoles? Of course they will (unless of course the other consoles implement similar technologies, in which case your choice of console is a wash as far as this matter is concerned). Sony will be favored by the developers and gamers will follow the games and buy the Sony console.
This is all theoretical, though, because it's pretty unlikely Sony would do something like this. They had a similar patent before the PS3 came around, and that technology didn't exist there.
Almost every gamer i know doesn't sit on his collection. Sure, he keeps some games he really really likes, but will sell others to get new/used games to play. He will rent games to check them out. He likes to spend money, because he knows he can recoup some of the cost with trades/selling his old games. You take that away, and I know for a fact he's not going to be buying as many games. Since he won't be able to rent them, he won't be able to check them out, unless he knows someone that has them.
Me, I pirate stuff. I'm not stupid, I don't buy sight unseen. Game producers have made too many shitty games that should of never been made. But then I like my consoles for hacking and homebrew, I don't care about most games for the PS3 or 360, I got my PC for new games. I have never had a problem with not buying stuff, and just copying it from friends. Music, movies, etc. The person I mentioned above, he buys stuff. He wants to actually have a store copy of music, DVD's and games. Yet, he's the one who's going to get screwed over.
Time will tell what happens, but based on the video game market since it started, 2nt hand sales has always been a big thing.
What if the car makers figured a way to lock cars to their original buyer. No 2nt hand car market. You can NOT sell your car after you buy it (and we know how much it loses value after you drive it away).
But it's worse then no 2nt hand market. What if your console breaks. You have to get a new one. All those games you already bought? No good anymore. They won't work on the new console.
Hmm, now that I'm thinking about it, I just figured some flaws.
It works when the machine isn't hooked up to the internet, but if you never hook the machine up to the internet, then it can NOT share the info of the game with the "cloud" so any other machine wouldn't know that it has been used. Unless they use a different type of bluray disk that you can write info on it after it's been mastered, without the internet there is no way to share the info.
Of course, Sony could make it so you have to update every game before you can play it, and that would require you connecting to the internet. Which they probably would have to do.
I don't know WHY our legal system is so faulty, but it is. NO ONE (and ONE includes any business) should be subjected to costs because someone else just happens to disagree. If someone sues YOU and in order to defend yourself, you need to hire attorney(s) at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars (which for some people can wipe them out, financially), wouldn't you want the other party to cover your costs?
Actually, I would think it should be a cause for a mistrial since the rich person is using unfair tactics against you. For example, lets say I was to be taken to court by one of the AA's. There is no way I could get a fair trial because I do NOT have the money they do. They can keep throwing money at the trial, delaying it, appealing it, etc way beyond what I, or any normal person could do. That isn't right. That is using money to buy the outcome you want.
Ahh, so you're saying that you should be allowed to do anything to anyone richer than you without legal consequences, because any legal action would be unfair against you. Unless your action made you richer than the other of course.
No, what i am saying is the rich corporations are unfairly using the courts high cost to win cases they shouldn't be winning, and because they know they can win by stretching out the cost, this is how they choose to fight in court. The big corporations will keep court cases going if they don't like the judgement, that's been in the news left and right. When they lose, they appeal it and drag it out.
It's an unfair advantage because they can buy the decisions they want, just by spending more money then the other person.
ib4 the amiga arrives
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P.S. When I was a kid, I saw porn. It didn't "harm me." I'm a normal guy.
When I was a kid, I didn't see porn, and it harmed me. I didn't know much about sex, didn't understand how to please women, shit, I didn't even realize how women masturbated till I was much older. Porn at least would of gave me insight on the art of sex and how to help switch it from a self act, to a pleasing act for the other.
Of course, practice makes perfect, but who wants to have sex with a guy who only knows how to please himself? Besides hookers.
Well, now you decided if I'm being funny or insightful.
Next thing you know it's a gunfight in the kindergarten class.
And it will get blamed on video games!
I have mod points, but where is the option for 'Informative - but a jerk'? Granted, it can be annoying to help someone when the answer to their question is a short Google search away... but the question there at the end seems unkind (at best). Lets keep things civil :)
No, I don't agree. If you are too fucking stupid to read up on the program you are using, then you get what you deserve. It's not like that info is hidden. Not to mention it's a fucking computer, why don't you make user accounts, and keep the porn and adult movies in an account he can NOT access? And don't put it in your regular account, I suggest you make one that you log in when you want to watch those movies/shows. Give the kid his own account, and then just give him access to the kids shows & movies. You can also lock the internet down on that account so he doesn't discover porn.
But honestly, it seems your knowledge of computers is meh, and the kid will probably be smarter then you on computers in 3 years. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I don't know WHY our legal system is so faulty, but it is. NO ONE (and ONE includes any business) should be subjected to costs because someone else just happens to disagree. If someone sues YOU and in order to defend yourself, you need to hire attorney(s) at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars (which for some people can wipe them out, financially), wouldn't you want the other party to cover your costs?
Actually, I would think it should be a cause for a mistrial since the rich person is using unfair tactics against you. For example, lets say I was to be taken to court by one of the AA's. There is no way I could get a fair trial because I do NOT have the money they do. They can keep throwing money at the trial, delaying it, appealing it, etc way beyond what I, or any normal person could do. That isn't right. That is using money to buy the outcome you want.
This would not only kill the 2nt hand market, it would kill the rental market. I think Sony will find less people will buy a PS4 (if this as implemented in it) since they can't sell old games, buy used games, or rent games. Sure, the Hardcore PS fans will still buy the PS4 and new games, but only they will.
Plus if Sony thinks they will go 4 years before they new machine is hacked to play backups, they are in for a rude awakening. My guess is Sony will have a huge target on their back this round.
And this attitude that Sony has towards it's customers helped me quit playing EQ2 after 6 years. There was NO way I was going to pay them any more money for anything.
the groggy feeling of being drugged the night before, or that knowing your daughter doesn't have a problem doing stuff like this to you.
Simply get a group of tough guys together, wait for him after work, drag him into an alley and make him understand. Works every time.
I was thinking mafia style. Take part of the fingers till he gets the picture. It might make a few fingers shorter, but sooner or later he'll figure it out or quit.