How could you NOT accidentally step on and kick a knee high camera that close? I'm really surprised nobody accidentally destroyed it and had to exchange information with the guy, you know, to replace it, or something.

So it's not that Apple's stuff is easier to use and the top 20% can afford more, it's about feelings...

The only thing you need to reach that demographic are naked tits on a screen.

esports are dirt cheap to produce, like reality TV shows and pop music. Don't ask anyone to take it seriously.

That was terrible, I just watched two kids play a video game for ten minutes and one of them cried.

Anyone could do this, if not now, certainly in ten years. There is really nothing preventing a smartphone in a GPS mount from doing this, though I can't think of any benefit to someone doing it.

I don't understand the problem. Maybe I will someday, because there doesn't seem to be a practical way to avoid this. It's like taking pictures or video in public. Is the answer to have maximum data retention laws? That apply to every level of government... only?

We have that here, the moderation system hides what you were replying to so you have to quote it.

Who, the hell, said anything about Windows OR Linux besides you? OpenSSL runs on everything.
Do you really think we shouldn't hold OpenSSL, or any open source software to a higher standard, "because Microsoft"?

. ... are your parents OK with you using the Internet all by yourself?

Most people should grow out of that at what, eight years old when they learn how to play most games themselves?

I understand why people would rather watch things than participate because of the risk, expense, or physical exertion, but why are we making video games that intimidate wider and wider ranges of people?

By all means, please invent a sport involving motorcycles on ice with chainsaws, but not another real time strategy game that people are afraid to play. Computers shouldn't harbor exclusivity.

First, I think Germans under the Stasi would have traded us all their national security/law enforcement & intelligence folks for all ours today in a heartbeat, and if you think otherwise you are stark raving mad. Intelligence isn't evil, getting arrested for dissent is, regardless how you're found out.

What the hell are you talking about, his goal was to amend the Freedom Act. The Senate passed the unmodified House version days later. This is right out of Senator Paul's mouth days ago. http://www.paul.senate.gov/new...

"Tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection. The bill will ultimately pass but we always look for silver linings. I think the bill may be replacing one form of bulk collection with another, but the government after this bill passes will no longer collect your phone records. My concern is that the phone companies still may do the same thing.

Currently, my understanding is the N.S.A. Is at the phone company sucking up the phone records and sending them to Utah. My concern is under the new program, that the records will still be sucked up into N.S.A. Computers but the computers will be at the phone company, not in Utah. "

So there is some big concern about the NSA having your datas, but nobody gives a shit about the phone/email/whatever company not having any restrictions on use or distribution of "your" data in the first place. What is wrong here.

Citation?

http://www.paul.senate.gov/new...
"We went to the court, the Second Court of Appeals, the highest court in the land just below the Supreme Court, said that what they are doing is illegal, but we don't yet have a ruling on whether it's Constitutional. One of my fears about the bill that we're going to pass, the sort of in-between step that some think it may be better, is that it will moot the case. "

Update... besides HIPAA there's... what?

At least you're on the right track because the constitutional angle is just crap.

My biggest problem with all this is when people throw around words like freedom, liberty, constitution because they are too mentally lazy to admit we don't really have much in the way of privacy protection laws and the Constitution doesn't actually go there. So each and every time I hear "fourth amendment" instead of "privacy" I tune out a little more from this spying debate.

Terrorism is defined by the US military roughly as violence or threats of violence driven by religious, ideological or political reasons.

An attack on a strategic building like a command and control center doesn't fit any more than your average serial killing spree does.

It does't have anything to do with who is involved, and it's not simply "scaring people". Terrorism is a label we use to describe a type of conflict that we didn't have another a good word for. Not everything ISIS does is "terrorism", but that shouldn't change how anyone regards them. Don't get hung up on labels...

Use the left lane?

Heh Heh.

"You SHOULD roll your own encryption, and you can't be too careful so don't forget to make your own PRNG too." -- Well Funded Intelligence Agency

I made that up. But you know it's true.

Are you even aware that there are businesses outside of hi-tech industries, or business functions that are not obviously hi-tech?
No, you're not classic IT, but you're not far from it either.

Who deals with ediscovery software, your legal or generic OS/networking IT?
Payroll software, is that your HR or OS/networking IT?
ERP, accounting, marketing, sales, business intelligence, customer support, etc.

Are all those teams equally equipped with tech-ninjas or has every facet of the company that doesn't deal with making visual effects been outsourced too?
How is your company NOT full of technical consultants and contractors?
What about other businesses, logistics, fraud, risk, billing, patient records, photography, blah blah blah blah... these are not all on the same page in the technical spectrum.

Fucking developers, I swear. The fact you even know what Linux is makes you such an outlier and you don't even know it.
Technology benefits more than just companies that "make great visual effects" ... I should have just said that and saved a lot of typing.
The problem is even if more business leaders understood technology, the solutions are just awful.

To hell with STEM, lets start pushing business, economics, and leadership training for everyone, there's clearly a supply problem here...