Anderson 317 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) 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 Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted February 28, 2017 Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 (edited) 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HMart 319 Posted March 1, 2017 Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 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. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted March 1, 2017 Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted April 21, 2017 Report Share Posted April 21, 2017 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted May 25, 2017 Report Share Posted May 25, 2017 (edited) 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 317 Posted July 23, 2017 Report Share Posted July 23, 2017 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 Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 317 Posted May 7, 2018 Report Share Posted May 7, 2018 World Press Photo of the Year 2018 - Venezuela https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2018/world-press-photo-year-winner/ronaldo-schemidt 1 Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted June 30, 2018 Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 (edited) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/27/troy_george_skinner_new_zealand_shot_by_mom/ Edited June 30, 2018 by kano Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted August 7, 2018 Report Share Posted August 7, 2018 https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/fcc-admits-it-was-never-actually-hacked/ Smells like corruption. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 317 Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 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 Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 317 Posted December 7, 2018 Report Share Posted December 7, 2018 https://www.voanews.com/a/who-road-traffic-crashes-are-leading-killer-of-children/4691065.html Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 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>m=bottom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted March 26, 2019 Report Share Posted March 26, 2019 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 317 Posted March 27, 2019 Report Share Posted March 27, 2019 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. Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted December 15, 2019 Report Share Posted December 15, 2019 (edited) https://www.cnet.com/news/free-4k-tv-with-an-antenna-is-almost-here/ Edited December 19, 2019 by kano Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted January 31, 2020 Report Share Posted January 31, 2020 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! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
STiFU 731 Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 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 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 317 Posted November 16, 2020 Report Share Posted November 16, 2020 (edited) 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 Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
kano 124 Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 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 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anderson 317 Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 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. Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to post Share on other sites
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