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  1. AV Packages on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if some anti virus packages don't get "suspicious by heuristics" with some of the Win10 components, given the fact it does pretty much act like a infected windows machine, by displaying unwanted ADs and logging user data without his knowledge or consent.

  2. Re:Microsoft did it the only way possible on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If You're Not Paying, You're The Product.
    Except they will charge for it later, and you will still be the product buying another product.

  3. Re:It always amaze me... on Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception · · Score: 1

    Bad movies bombing on the box offices are a regular thing.
    But some people just don't learn and deflect blame, or have reasons to not care etc..
    For example, in the case of the FF movies in general, the intention of the studio is not to actually sell tickets but keep the rights to the fantastic four, so they just try to make it "believable" enough to not get caught on a lawsuit.

  4. Not to be pessimistic, but.. on The Man Who's Kept His Face Off the Internet for 20 Years · · Score: 1

    That should be the standard pretty much.
    The only people interested on your regular life are people wanting to wreck the hell out of it.

  5. TPP will pretty much be applied worldwide.
    If you're stepping on this planet, you gotta be affected horribly by it.

  6. Re:fuck this fictional bullshit on Modding Community Putting HD Textures Into Resident Evil 4 · · Score: 1

    So you want a game where you increase the ratio of certain patreon accounts significantly while tarnishing the image of certain people even more?

  7. Re:because Gamers are really Graphics Snobs on Modding Community Putting HD Textures Into Resident Evil 4 · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is quite a lot of difference on the gameplay on games of 2000 and 2015.
    Now you don't do anything but gun down people with the rest replaced by cutscenes or QTEs, you can't get lost on the maps anymore due the invisible walls turning em into straight lines, you can heal yourself by just hiding on a spot for long enough, weapons are generally pretty much the same gun with different firing ratios and damage and generally they "auto aim" to make it easier for analog sticks and the game waste a great deal of time with cutscenes in general.
    Also the terrible tutorial levels that treat the player like someone with a serious mental handicap.

  8. Re:because Gamers are really Graphics Snobs on Modding Community Putting HD Textures Into Resident Evil 4 · · Score: 1

    Well, when we generally have to pick between shitty graphics and good gameplay or shitty gameplay and good graphics, someone making a good game have good graphics for once helps quite a bit.

  9. Re:Can my car have a sense of humour too? on Robots Must Be Designed To Be Compassionate, Says SoftBank CEO · · Score: 1

    There won't be a robot wars because they will listen.
    Instead we will just manufacture a robotic version of Kyubey from Madoka Magica that will take over the world by manipulating our primitive emotion driven brains like puppets.
    He will not need to fire a single bullet, but just say the right words.

  10. Scripting rather than programming on Ask Slashdot: Everyone Building Software -- Is This the Future We Need? · · Score: 1

    Learning to program something that is C like takes quite a while and its not very useful for most people.
    For the general public, should be offered an a bit powerful but real easy to understand scripting system that allows em to do things that are actually useful for the general public, like setting up a simple tree that warns him on the SMS or skype when a download finished on a machine by basically dragging two blocks and connecting em, or allowing him to sync every audio device with the same playlist etc.
    Also such simple programming script thing should be integrated to the OS and offered as a standard.

  11. Re:Now I won't feel guilty about using Adblock on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    To not mention those funny ads that tried funny things like installing trojans, ransomware, bank keyloggers..

  12. Re:They're still working on this? Really? on Haiku OS Will Get New Service Manager · · Score: 1

    It will be THE OS of choice on the world Post-skynet but pre-Reploid maverick era.

  13. Re:Filthy pirates! on Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty · · Score: 2

    For each copy of Windows you "steal", you became a windows user regardless, and when you get hired by a big company, they have to actually buy windows (or get sued to give microsoft some cool millions) to you be able to work on it.

  14. Re:Which .... on NVIDIA Shakes Its Flowing Mane With Life-Like HairWorks 1.1 Demo · · Score: 1

    Just like the poor SSE performance the AMD CPUs get on intel compiler binaries, right?

  15. Re:OAPI is a Scam on ICANN's Plan To End Commercial Website Anonymity Creates Real Problems · · Score: 2

    It's still a case of abuse of the system that can became very frequent if this becomes mandatory.
    Even if was a case of "false flagging", the mandatory real id will basically give a blanket excuse for all the people using those techniques as well.

    So, no matter on the side of the discussion you are, its still a bad thing for you.

  16. Re:obligatory Good Luck With That on Microsoft Edge, HTML5, and DRM · · Score: 1

    They must pretend the thing is safe to placate the fury of the big studios, or else.
    Of course, this don't mean the thing must actually work, just sound harsh enough.

  17. Someone will everything on Someone Will Die Playing a Game In Virtual Reality · · Score: 1

    If can be done, someone will do it, no matter how brilliant or stupid it is.

  18. Re:whew! i'm safe! on Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV · · Score: 1

    To not mention all the pony/furry porn.

  19. Re:Why the outrage? on Warner Bros. Halts Sales of AAA Batman PC Game Over Technical Problems · · Score: 1

    And now the consumers got a weapon to kill this model and will use it.

  20. Re:Time quantum of a simulated dynamic system on Warner Bros. Halts Sales of AAA Batman PC Game Over Technical Problems · · Score: 1

    In case of non-emulated games you can use more advanced techniques like dead reckoning to accurately interpolate the position of the objects and not only deal with the physics running at a high frame rate while screen is running slow as dealing with slow physics with fast frame rate as well.
    Most multiplayer games uses this technique to deal with the relatively slow packet rate.

  21. Re:What's the refresh rate and response time? on 210 Degree VR Headset With 5K Display Revealed By 'Payday' Developer Starbreeze · · Score: 1

    The most problematic part of the low frame rate VR can be mitigated/fixed by using a technique Carmack came up with called time warping:
    https://youtu.be/WvtEXMlQQtI
    It uses the Z-buffer data and a 3D half sphere to make the 3D headtracking always have the full frame rate your VR equipment can provide, even if the rendering itself runs slowly.

  22. Re:Staked GPU / RAM = Reduced Heat Tranfer Eficien on AMD Radeon Fury and Fury X Specs Leaked, HBM-Powered Graphics On the Way · · Score: 3, Informative

    The HBM memories run at a much lower clockspeed than the GDDR5, but compensate it by using a very, VERY wide bus, so they're probably a lot colder.

  23. If they hate encryption so much.. on Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! · · Score: 1

    Maybe the internet services and banks should not use it exclusive for em.

  24. Re:Well obviously they used guys and ugly women... on US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests · · Score: 1

    You're quite unfamiliar with the rule 34 and it's implications, right?

  25. Re:48GB?! on Large Amount of Star Citizen Art Assets Leaked · · Score: 1

    Also some assets are just naturally bigger before being "processed" into the final format, like 3D models that generally use text based formats like obj.