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[Anderson]

Anyone survived a Samsung Galaxy explosion?

 

New game in the World of Darkness: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/en/white-wolf-partners-with-focus-home-interactive-for-a-video-game-adaptation-of-the-world-of-darkness-storyteller-game-werewolf-the-apocalypse/

Edited January 19, 2017 by Anderson

[kano]

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2017/01/31/cryptkeeper_cooked/

 

Holy crap batman. With bugs like this, the government doesn't even need to push for back doors in encryption.

[kano]

https://consumerist.com/2017/02/27/fcc-chair-faces-blowback-over-decision-to-undo-isp-privacy-rule/

 

People often look at me funny or get offended when I say that I hate this country. This article provides a perfect demonstration of why I feel the way that I do. And its just the tip of the iceberg. By the age of 33, I'm tired of the human race in general, and I am no longer interested in prolonging my personal existence any more than absolutely necessary. There is no point in e.g. working out in order to extend my life, when I don't feel like sticking around for another sixty years to see just how bad things will continue to get, anyway. Really, I hope I drop dead inside of a decade.

Edited February 28, 2017 by kano

[HMart]

I hope you are kidding there Kano but if not i can only recommend that you stop reading the news and find a hobby that makes you forget that stuff, i'm speaking from experience that decision helped me.

[kano]

Nope, I stand by what I said. Due to the never-ending pursuit of more money and power, the businesses and the bribe-taking puppets who run this country have robbed us of more of our freedoms just within the past twenty years than during the century which preceded that length of time.

 

Ever since computers and the web went mainstream, this place has been hurtling towards totalitarianism, full speed ahead.

[kano]

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/03/07/wikileaks-publishes-1000s-of-documents-it-says-reveal-the-cias-tools-to-break-into-cell-phones.html

 

Oh boy, here we go again! What is fascinating is the idea that they can't classify the cyber weapons, because the moment an agent deploys one of those cyber weapons on a target, he has broken the rules.

[kano]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/20/bose_sued_privacy/

 

This is kind of disturbing, but not really a big deal. There are plenty of other brands to choose from that sound just as good, sometimes for a lower price too. If you don't want what you are listening to to be monitored, you can just use a different brand.

 

This is in contrast to the PC game industry, where I can't just install and play a game by myself anymore without having an online service forcefully crammed up my ass whether I want it or not.

[kano]

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170522/14444337423/boston-globe-blocks-readers-using-privacy-modes-browsers.shtml#comments

 

Websites even being able to detect whether I am in private browsing mode or not is a bug in the web browser, and should be fixed.

Edited May 25, 2017 by kano

[Anderson]

Japan population deficit:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-mystery-of-why-japanese-people-are-having-so-few-babies/ar-AAovlDf?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280

[kano]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/09/us_government_texas_shooting_iphone_backdoor/

 

Here we go again! If only authorities could get into that phone, they would discover the secret schematics to build a time machine, at which point they could then go back in time and prevent the attack from happening in the first place. Or more likely, it's just people capitalizing on a tragedy to push an agenda, when the fact that the device is encrypted played no role whatsoever in the events that took place. Hobbling encryption would not have stopped this attack, nor will it stop the next one.

 

This guy was allowed to buy guns in spite of violent behavior. They let this guy slip through the cracks, as they so regularly do.

[kano]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/attverizon-lobbyists-to-aggressively-sue-states-that-enact-net-neutrality/

 

 

"Broadband providers have worked hard over the past 20 years to deploy ever more sophisticated, faster and higher-capacity networks, and uphold net neutrality protections for all," USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter wrote. "To continue this important work, there is no question we will aggressively challenge state or municipal attempts to fracture the federal regulatory structure that made all this progress possible."

 

I don't think I've ever seen so much bullshit packed into one paragraph.

[Anderson]

World Press Photo of the Year 2018 - Venezuela

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2018/world-press-photo-year-winner/ronaldo-schemidt

[kano]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/27/troy_george_skinner_new_zealand_shot_by_mom/

Edited June 30, 2018 by kano

[kano]

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/fcc-admits-it-was-never-actually-hacked/

 

Smells like corruption.

[Anderson]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/332276/Video_How_developers_can_collaborate_and_manage_conflict.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=gamasutra&fbclid=IwAR1sIx0fHRyY27P0oJaW1A5BMHDbnU65W9XvK3V0wA05S7lw46RmkBre0p4

[Anderson]

https://www.voanews.com/a/who-road-traffic-crashes-are-leading-killer-of-children/4691065.html

[kano]

Here we see an example of powerful people doing whatever it takes (with impunity) to get their way. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/fake-americans-dominated-the-net-neutrality-debate.html?gtm=bottom&gtm=bottom

[kano]

https://mashable.com/article/shooting-live-stream-christchurch/#SnFNvmjBbaqg

 

If we purge the video from the Internet completely, it will bring the victims back to life.

 

err...

 

If we purge the video from the Internet completely, it will prevent a tragedy like this from happening again.

 

Okay, so that one's not particularly likely either.

[Anderson]

https://mashable.com/article/shooting-live-stream-christchurch/#SnFNvmjBbaqg

 

If we purge the video from the Internet completely, it will bring the victims back to life.

 

err...

 

If we purge the video from the Internet completely, it will prevent a tragedy like this from happening again.

 

Okay, so that one's not particularly likely either.

I guess they are trying to avoid giving credits to the perpetrators.

[kano]

https://www.cnet.com/news/free-4k-tv-with-an-antenna-is-almost-here/

Edited December 19, 2019 by kano

[kano]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/31/practice_fusion_opioids/

 

It's like something out of a dystopian cyberpunk novel, except it's in real life!

[STiFU]

Incredibly detailed article about how to render a frame in Rise of the Tomb Raider. I will have to study the bloom shader in more detail for inclusion in TDM.

https://sudonull.com/post/3405

[Anderson]

Suppose that MOBA's, MMORPG-ers and other gambling, Skinner Box reliant games don't count.

https://gamasutra.com/view/news/373766/Oxford_University_study_finds_positive_link_between_playing_games_and_wellbeing.php

Edited November 16, 2020 by Anderson

[kano]

https://www.howtogeek.com/186954/bypass-quora-login-and-see-all-answers/

This is an example of how the Internet as it exists today "sucks my spider-balls". (for those who don't get that, it's an Angry Video Game Nerd reference)

Maybe I want to read some information on a sensitive subject without logging in with digital Stalker numero uno, a.k.a Google, or their right-hand man, a.k.a Fecesbook keeping a log of everything that I have ever researched online. Btw who gave these bastards (Google and Facebook) permission to integrate themselves into literally every website on the planet? Most of the time Google's and Facebook's tracking code just silently runs in the background, draining the user's battery faster, wasting his bandwidth, and compromising his privacy, but this new trend of actively interrupting users like me who know all about what the aforementioned companies do, and demanding that we sign in in order to continue reading is really unsettling. I guess if things go as planned, you won't be able to use the Internet at all without being logged into one of these parasites.

 

Rant over.

 

AVGN reference taken from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99l5ddWisgM

[Anderson]

15 hours ago, kano said:

https://www.howtogeek.com/186954/bypass-quora-login-and-see-all-answers/

This is an example of how the Internet as it exists today "sucks my spider-balls". (for those who don't get that, it's an Angry Video Game Nerd reference)

Maybe I want to read some information on a sensitive subject without logging in with digital Stalker numero uno, a.k.a Google, or their right-hand man, a.k.a Fecesbook keeping a log of everything that I have ever researched online. Btw who gave these bastards (Google and Facebook) permission to integrate themselves into literally every website on the planet? Most of the time Google's and Facebook's tracking code just silently runs in the background, draining the user's battery faster, wasting his bandwidth, and compromising his privacy, but this new trend of actively interrupting users like me who know all about what the aforementioned companies do, and demanding that we sign in in order to continue reading is really unsettling. I guess if things go as planned, you won't be able to use the Internet at all without being logged into one of these parasites.

 

Rant over.

 

AVGN reference taken from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99l5ddWisgM

Well, it's true. They're selling our data and making us poorer and poorer every day. The irony is that the concept of privacy appeared in the US. Now, the EU leads the most courageous efforts to defend our privacy and personal data.