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  1. Remember, if you can't win, censor on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can't win, censor.

    If you don't like reality, do what you can to disrupt the language.

    If people lack the ability to communicate an idea, you've already won.

    If emojis are meant to be speech, then this is ludicrous. If they are not, then this is petty and dumb. There's no excuse for this kind of shit.

  2. Re:Has Nintendo not heard of smartphones? on Nintendo NX Is a Portable Console With Detachable Controllers, Says Report (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    > overground children

    When we all know underworld children make for better Potions Of Youth.

  3. Quick, post a 15 step workaround on reddit on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Find a 15 step workaround on reddit
    Find the downvoted comment that has a 16th step that is vital and left out, but got democracied down by fools.
    Perform all the steps
    Test with wireshark to be sure it worked
    Discover a 17th step
    Perform that, post it as reply so randos can downvote it

    Or maybe just install an OS that doesn't fucking hate you.

  4. Re:"syntactic sugar" except for OOP on C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Pointers aren't inherently unsafe. They represent reality and offer speed. These two things will always have use, and safety is just doing the right damned thing with your code.

  5. Re:Country? [Re:As a C programmer] on C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Who cares? Are you implying those controllers should be written in assembly? I'm not sure where your post is going.

    C fucking rules. Interpreted drools!

  6. Popular Wireless Keyboards From HP, Toshiba and Others Don't Use Wire, Can Be Easily Snooped On

    I know it's a popular joke, but it's absolutely real. If you are mildly concerned, wire beats crypto wireless, because you can implement crypto wrong a million ways, and implementing a wire wrong is not that common. Meanwhile, versus adversaries that can read the wire somehow, you'd want a wired crypto keyboard, which I'm not aware of existing.

  7. Is there really a need for this? on MIT Developed A Movie Screen That Brings Glasses-Free 3D To All Seats (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this will be a hard sell for movie theaters. Many spent a lot of money on the polarized 3D tech, and that's pretty much just a really expensive projection solution. Some viewers (like me) love 3D, and will pay a premium. But some do not, and cannot watch 3D because they get headaches. Mostly when you see a movie with these folks you just see the 2D one, but in some cases they will just go ahead and rig up special glasses (two left or two right lenses).

    With some solution like this, they will definitely be ill unless they wear like an eyepatch. That's absolutely silly.

    Are there a bunch of people for whom the 3D polarized glasses are specifically an issue? Those deliver a very compelling 3D experience to anyone.

    I think this tech would be way cooler on a monitor or television, I dunno.

  8. Re:TFA is not terribly clear... on Suspect Required To Unlock iPhone Using Touch ID in Second Federal Case (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Whenever this gets brought up on the "social" media, it gets downvoted or otherwise silenced. The convenience of the fingerprint seems to blind people to the fact that it is fundamentally terrible at security. A password or passphrase is the way to go.

    I mean, if a bad guy has access to you and your phone, he doesn't need your permission or even your life to unlock a phone with the fingerprint. The fact that it is also more secure against governments should not be surprising, because it is more secure to use a password against ANY adversary.

  9. Isn't the internet in Latvia good too? on Google Fiber Reminds People It's a 'Real Business' (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't really believe they are a real business. I mean, in the sense that, if you live in those places, you can get amazing fiber, and then everyone else suddenly shifts to compete, sure. It's real.

    But I don't live there. I *do* live in suburbs just outside of a city, a major metropolitan area. But no google fiber. Because their total deploy is so damned low, my area could reasonably be next (so in the next couple years) or very far out (long enough not to matter).

    So to me, no, they aren't real. No one I talk to in real life has google fiber. It may as well be a European nation with good internet- it's got about the same level of meaning to me.

  10. Re:plot to brainwash kids into attacking pearl har on Pokemon Go Doubles Nintendo's Stock Price (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    For the swarm!

  11. Re:Unforseen? on Pokemon Go Doubles Nintendo's Stock Price (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, it depends on what's on the screen of the headset. But in general, you are correct. More importantly, they are completely different. VR will have use in gaming, experience-based scenarios, and design. AR will have applications in daily life, and possibly in industry.

  12. Re:Until apple gets all peace warrior on Army Special Operations Command Ditching Android For iPhone, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Usually there's a lot more to it than that. There's usually support contracts, etc.

  13. Re:Isn't there something in Apple's EULA about thi on Army Special Operations Command Ditching Android For iPhone, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Status: BRN

  14. Re:XBox 1: jumped shark, shark ate it on Microsoft's New Xbox One S Will Go On Sale On August 2 -- Will You Buy One? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So if that's your restriction, then you're obviously not interested in online gaming on the console. You don't NEED to talk to the net for most (any?) single player games. But the process doesn't change much: you still have to patch the OS with an OS patch included on the disk, etc. The big advantage is that you can leave the console around for a year and it will work immediately when you turn it on, without it begging for new ads or whatever.

  15. Re:XBox 1: jumped shark, shark ate it on Microsoft's New Xbox One S Will Go On Sale On August 2 -- Will You Buy One? (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > you can actually play a game when you stick a disk in

    This x1000.

    You have to give ALL THE FUCKS to get a current gen console working. Playing a modern console game is as much or more drama as playing a modern PC game.

    First, hook up the box, plug it in.
    Second, turn it on. You probably need to configure it.
    Third, tell it how to talk to your wifi, using the wifi password.
    Fourth, create or login with some console specific account, with a console specific user name and password. You'll probably need email access. You may need a credit card here too, depending.
    Fifth, ensure that the console has all the current advertisements to show you. It won't work unless it can download all the fresh advertisements, so this is hundreds of megabytes. There may also be a code update in here that makes it incompatible with something, hey, who knows. If you lose power during this mandatory step, be sure to RMA your brick. After five to nine business days you'll get another one that you can repeat this whole process for ALL of your games.
    Sixth, insert the disk.
    Seventh, install some portions of the disk to the hard drive.
    Eighth, patch the disk derived program with whatever the hell is needed for it, which is also a lot of data. Some of it may also be ads.
    Ninth, you can now play. Until any of these things change, of course, in which case you'll have to adjust your credit card information, your login password, your wifi password, or more likely download another OS patch or Application patch. Or if the servers are down because the game is more than three years old, just go ahead and stop worrying about ever playing it again.
    Oh, and tenth, be sure to carefully monitor disk usage! You'll run out quickly unless you bought the biggest dude or don't play a lot of games. If you are close on space, you can probably get away with a USB drive or something, so be sure to plug that fucker in too.

    This is about as much drama as maintaining a computer, for something far more transient. I get that the gameplay experience of online play is great, but holy moly what a bunch of junk. And remember- most of this is true of fully single player games too. If you are playing, say, just Super Mario, you get to skip steps three and eight only. Step five, the OS patch needed to play the game, still happens, it just happens AFTER you put the disk in. It's still totally absurd. The only time you can boot up a console and have a game come up within three minutes is if you like, just played it yesterday.

    Feels so bad.

  16. > VP is literally the most meaningless position in our government

    40 years ago there was also:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    So that's pretty important. Unless you figure Trump couldn't *possibly* do anything that would end up with him impeached.

  17. > It is possible that Trump is really doing this to put a final nail in the coffin of the Republicans as a Democratic "operative".

    You could pick WAY worse than this guy. This piece slams him (and plenty more will too), but that would happen whomever he picked. Christie, you got the bridge thing, Newt you got the divorcing the wife with cancer thing, etc.

    Every politician in contention for VP will have something to be fried on- remember when Quayle went with the spelling on the card for "potato" as "potatoe"? People didn't stop talking about that until halfway through the Clinton administration, he was The Dumb Guy.

    This thing where good men are attacked endlessly for fictional vices has achieved its end effect of clearing the way for men with many serious vices to run, because the attacks and claims are the same in both cases.

    In this vein- once everyone in the center bought that McCain was waging a "war on women", and Romney's strict insistence on adequate female representation in his potential administration became part of a "war on women" ("binders of women")- once every Republican had to bear the brunt of being a sexist, even if not, all that did was remove the social cost of ACTUALLY being a sexist. Far too much wolf-crying from the left to attack men on the faults they don't have, has removed the incentive to not just run men who actually DO have those faults.

    Anyway, if you were trying to sink the candidacy, there are much more screwed up candidates to pick. But no one will bother researching whatever Sessions or whomever did anymore, because now the decision has (apparently) been made. The same will be true of the Democrats soon enough.

  18. Re:POKEMON DEFLECT READERS FROM COMMENTS on Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    > Nobody on /. cares about Pokemon.

    Oh get real, this game is huge.

  19. Re:Nintendo continues to lead while others follow on Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Comparing it to Miitomo is a fucking joke. That was some interactive social experiment crap. This is goddamned pokemon.

    If Nintendo wanted to make apps, they would need to use one of their actual franchises. That doesn't mean they have to make Mobile Mario (though they could!), or ANY *existing* franchise (though they should!). But it does mean that they need fantasy characters in a fantasy world, not more stupid Mii bullshit.

  20. Re:And Google (Niantic) is just loving the data... on Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    > NSA or some other intelligence agency, to trick people

    "Sir, we've found that there's clusters of pokemon players at the dratini spawns. What could this mean?"
    "We're aware soldier. Word from the top is that they'll have fully evolved dragonites within a week."

  21. Ok Cowguy, here's your chance. Tell us what drones say, or what we say, or whatever. This is it, your big chance!

  22. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    C++ doesn't address the "goto fail" issue at all.

    If you have a list of things, each of which needs to be undone, and if a failure at any stage means you need to unwind the things prior to that, then "goto fail" is correct.

  23. There soon will be.

    https://support.pokemongo.nian...

    Right now, they only take reports for gyms that represent a physical danger, but once the initial push is over, they'll be able to take out gyms that don't meet their requirements, such as churches that are now houses.

  24. Re:I don't understand these warnings. on Cops Warn Pokemon Go Players: Please Don't Trespass To Catch 'em All (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    > you can't use nearby to get closer than about 70 ft

    I think you are empirically incorrect. I'll just keep doing my thing that finds me pokemon though.

    Note that it actually displays where it THINKS you are on the map. If that's wrong, obviously the location data will refer to the incorrect spot. Control for that as you hunt.

  25. > the security at our campus has had to tell people to leave our campus after 10pm

    What a pussy college. The one I drive to doesn't have a stick up its ass.

    > Is there not a way to fence off private property?

    It's called a "fence".

    But to answer your question, the pokemon don't really spawn on private property to any great degree. It's not a strict thing, because that would take more effort, but they clearly have tried to put pokemon spawns in areas such that they can be reached on public property.