...and whaddya know, I open Steam juuuuust after the comment to check, and as if to vindicate me I see the GUTS editor and other fun stuff for TL2 were released. (Sorry my comments ended up becoming a whole big TL2 ad, just saying.)
Yeah, looks like they might not be so worried about those security issues after all. Or maybe they only come in play when you turn your free non-WebGL'd Windows Blue into Windows Blue Super-Clouditized And Also Actually Plays Games Edition with monthly subscription.
...but seriously--long side rant follows--their Windows 8 insolence motivated me to get a laptop and make it Arch Linux-only (I have a desktop with Windows 7 and Arch in some crude tandem dualboot way, but I wanted to try non-secure-boot EFI and GPT and also see how the laptop would work with Linux and such), so I guess I won't have to worry about that. I got Wine and managed to massage it to play Terraria and Torchlight II with not too much strangeness (the Steam Cloud'd Torchlight II characters I played over on Windows played nicely on Wine), and I'm having fun (with scattered annoyances) trying to build a 64-bit simulated processor in Verilator there, and ultimately to turn that into something with a GUI and "monitor" in a window that runs my own interpretation of POSIX. That should be fun.
I dunno if the US gov is that eager for evidence, but I do think that Iran's would love something like this to free them from hoping a US Navy ship rescues their seafarers.
In related news, The Pirate Bay is now formally refusing to take further donations for its airborne drone server plan. A London spokesman for the website said, "We've got more than enough capacity and redundancy now!", as he laughed mischievously and looked up towards the quadrocopter-filled sky. Paramount did not take our calls for comment.
Oh, and by that time, well after the prior boneheaded overhaul turned it from user-submitted stories to media-submitted (which in turn was after the 09 F9 censorship crap), it was basically a place where people tried to add me as a friend because I had "game" in my name (I knew this because of all the other Friends named *game* almost all my inviters had). In short, people were friend-collecting, and maybe doing some other important stuff that I wouldn't know because I was bored of digg and not visiting often by then anyway.
The last time digg did one of its boneheaded overhauls (back in August 2012?) it became a pinterest lookalike that IIRC required (not merely allowed, as bad as that already is) a facebook account just to log in. I quickly did the export old account data thinger they supplied that time; I've yet to make any use of that data, but at least I still have it cooped(sp?) up somewhere.
Anyway, the real story here is that anyone would still care about, much less report on, digg. It's long dead and longer buried by its own hand. Lay a Rose (nyuk nyuk, get it? Because Kevin) on the grave if you like; it ain't moving but by the mightiest of necromancy.
This is too wonderful for words to describe:
Dell, Hurd, Icahn, Ballmer, Ellison, all in one place?
Let them have a meeting and use a mini-nuke on the place.
I like this idea, except the "mini" part. Super-size it, lest they survive and lich out on us (can you even imagine how dangerous a lichform CEO can be!? They can freeze, teleport, and make business deals!).
"Export control", just like DRM, deprives good citizens from the ideas of their own peers, while still allowing malicious types with connections and know-how to have the controlled ideas anyway.
Both forms of idea control fight a smarter enemy...by making non-enemies even dumber.
The internet is veiled in darkness. The Pirate Bay servers stop, the DRM is wild, and the Wayback Machine begins to rot. The users wait, their only hope, an About box....
Adobe Photoshop v. X.0
(C) 200X Adobe
H4X3D by Wizlab
'When the internet is in darkness Four Wizards will come....'
After a long LAN party, four bearded programmers arrive, each holding a LAPTOP.
Yeah, I think he still works there; but it feels more like he's on an advisory marketer post than anything, and like any power he has within Google is dwarfed or obviated by Larry Page and the Real Name nuts. As far as I can tell, (re?)opening a YouTube account would require a Google- profile, and even if that doesn't require a Real Name at all it would unnecessarily tie social media to the service to inflate its perceived influence and success, the same way Microsoft ties IE to Windows. (One more reason to Baby Bell Google.)
Why do you think the ITU approved that DPI standard? It's not like those prices would be due to proper market pricing and not massive subsidization of user data.
Of course that assumes they didn't actually want their invoice price to be $20/month, so they could raie retail internet prices and do even more deep pocket introspection of their own.
Wait 'til they study RPG character creation. By extrapolation from the Wicked findings and my female mage frequency, they'll conclude I'm the chair of glaad and late to the next board meeting.
Unfortunately, Google Glass can only augment reality as seen through the glasses; it can't actually place labeled boxes around the wearer or other wearers nearby.
Slashdot Mirror
Rival emergency services, united by phone pumber. Maybe Capcom can make a fighting game of this.
...and whaddya know, I open Steam juuuuust after the comment to check, and as if to vindicate me I see the GUTS editor and other fun stuff for TL2 were released. (Sorry my comments ended up becoming a whole big TL2 ad, just saying.)
Yeah, looks like they might not be so worried about those security issues after all. Or maybe they only come in play when you turn your free non-WebGL'd Windows Blue into Windows Blue Super-Clouditized And Also Actually Plays Games Edition with monthly subscription.
...but seriously--long side rant follows--their Windows 8 insolence motivated me to get a laptop and make it Arch Linux-only (I have a desktop with Windows 7 and Arch in some crude tandem dualboot way, but I wanted to try non-secure-boot EFI and GPT and also see how the laptop would work with Linux and such), so I guess I won't have to worry about that. I got Wine and managed to massage it to play Terraria and Torchlight II with not too much strangeness (the Steam Cloud'd Torchlight II characters I played over on Windows played nicely on Wine), and I'm having fun (with scattered annoyances) trying to build a 64-bit simulated processor in Verilator there, and ultimately to turn that into something with a GUI and "monitor" in a window that runs my own interpretation of POSIX. That should be fun.
Nice work@round. Now I just need to stop my browser's text editor from ch@nging the words into m@ilto links.
I dunno if the US gov is that eager for evidence, but I do think that Iran's would love something like this to free them from hoping a US Navy ship rescues their seafarers.
In related news, The Pirate Bay is now formally refusing to take further donations for its airborne drone server plan. A London spokesman for the website said, "We've got more than enough capacity and redundancy now!", as he laughed mischievously and looked up towards the quadrocopter-filled sky. Paramount did not take our calls for comment.
Yay! They'll finally stop those **AA groups from sending extortive legal threats over song downloads! ...wait, why are you looking at me like that?
Oh, and by that time, well after the prior boneheaded overhaul turned it from user-submitted stories to media-submitted (which in turn was after the 09 F9 censorship crap), it was basically a place where people tried to add me as a friend because I had "game" in my name (I knew this because of all the other Friends named *game* almost all my inviters had). In short, people were friend-collecting, and maybe doing some other important stuff that I wouldn't know because I was bored of digg and not visiting often by then anyway.
The last time digg did one of its boneheaded overhauls (back in August 2012?) it became a pinterest lookalike that IIRC required (not merely allowed, as bad as that already is) a facebook account just to log in. I quickly did the export old account data thinger they supplied that time; I've yet to make any use of that data, but at least I still have it cooped(sp?) up somewhere.
Anyway, the real story here is that anyone would still care about, much less report on, digg. It's long dead and longer buried by its own hand. Lay a Rose (nyuk nyuk, get it? Because Kevin) on the grave if you like; it ain't moving but by the mightiest of necromancy.
I like this idea, except the "mini" part. Super-size it, lest they survive and lich out on us (can you even imagine how dangerous a lichform CEO can be!? They can freeze, teleport, and make business deals!).
Yeah, have we seen the US's military contracts and cost overruns? Shit, I'm glad they only spent $60k on this!
...or "Google Keeps On (Not) 'Keep'-ing On".
"Export control", just like DRM, deprives good citizens from the ideas of their own peers, while still allowing malicious types with connections and know-how to have the controlled ideas anyway.
Both forms of idea control fight a smarter enemy...by making non-enemies even dumber.
The internet is veiled in darkness. The Pirate Bay servers stop, the DRM is wild, and the Wayback Machine begins to rot. The users wait, their only hope, an About box....
Adobe Photoshop v. X.0
(C) 200X Adobe
H4X3D by Wizlab
'When the internet is in darkness Four Wizards will come....'
After a long LAN party, four bearded programmers arrive, each holding a LAPTOP.
Yeah, I think he still works there; but it feels more like he's on an advisory marketer post than anything, and like any power he has within Google is dwarfed or obviated by Larry Page and the Real Name nuts. As far as I can tell, (re?)opening a YouTube account would require a Google- profile, and even if that doesn't require a Real Name at all it would unnecessarily tie social media to the service to inflate its perceived influence and success, the same way Microsoft ties IE to Windows. (One more reason to Baby Bell Google.)
*raise.
Why do you think the ITU approved that DPI standard? It's not like those prices would be due to proper market pricing and not massive subsidization of user data.
Of course that assumes they didn't actually want their invoice price to be $20/month, so they could raie retail internet prices and do even more deep pocket introspection of their own.
That's funny, I always thought Buddha taught and followed the Noble Eightinch Path.
Don't worry. They'll eventually (air)crack the code for a proper name and find one they can (n)map their system to.
TPB scored a win for transparency. They lost their case, but forced EHCR to publicly make that bizarre statement to justify it.
You could say that no-LAN is StarCraft 2's Heart of the DRM.
Wait 'til they study RPG character creation. By extrapolation from the Wicked findings and my female mage frequency, they'll conclude I'm the chair of glaad and late to the next board meeting.
Not to be confused with the NSA, which never plagiarizes--because when they write your dossier, they always know who to cite!
Unfortunately, Google Glass can only augment reality as seen through the glasses; it can't actually place labeled boxes around the wearer or other wearers nearby.
God damn it, don't give Dice Holdings any ideas!!!