I don't think Casey (handmade hero) has anything to do with these guys. He's been streaming for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week since mid/late 2014.

His goal is to teach people how to build a game from scratch in C without an engine or much reliance on libraries. His stream is extremely informative and fun to watch, it feels like pair programming most of the time.

You can also pre-order the game (he's estimating 2 years to completion) which will give you access to the source code nightly to follow along.

An added bonus to watching the stream live (8pm PST) is that he does almost an hour of Q&A after each stream discussing ideas, explaining things anyone didn't get, next steps, etc.

I highly recommend starting his streams from the beginning if game programming interests you. There's a community already porting the code to Linux/OSX (which he intends to do later on as well).

This AC needs modding up. The real problem with a robotic army is that the soldiers are safe and war becomes an easy go-to solution whereas constituents tend to get pissed and fail to re-elect people they think are spilling blood for no reason. Making war cheap, in the shed blood sense, is a very bad idea.

Fair 1) Just another four letter F word. 2) ....

How much would you pay for a copy of Windows 3.1? I'm no Microsoft shill -- I don't even use Windows -- but the people paying for Windows today aren't paying for something that was laid down on a disc 20 years ago. They're paying for ongoing updates, bug fixes, increased functionality, wholly different functionality, etc. etc. That Alanis Morrisette song "Isn't It Ironic" -- it's just as grammatically fucked up as it ever was despite being out there for the last 20 years.

Same with me -- I rarely listen to music while driving these days. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks. I remember as a teen riding around with my Grandpa being annoyed at him listening to AM talk radio rather than playing music. Now I'm doing essentially the same thing, just with better technology.

Radio Lab did an interesting show on Fritz Haber -- his work resulted in commercial fertilizer without which we'd probably have five or six billion fewer people on the planet because you can't mine guano forever at a rate faster than it is replaced, but he also pioneered one of the most gruesome weapons out there. It's a very strange tale.

Radio Lab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/...

Commercial fertilizer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Guano: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

This is true. When I was a kid in the 80s (teen years), I bought lots of records and CDs. By my late 20s (late 90s), that had dwindled considerably, more so in my 30s, and now that I'm in my late 40s, I basically buy no music. Maybe a song per year on average, if that much. I don't engage in filesharing.

So the $30 or $40 I spend per year on Pandora for an ad free account, which I use probably less than 10 hours per month, is comprised in part of money I would never have given the music industry in the absence of something like Pandora. Note, it isn't that Pandora caused me stop buying music -- I had already stopped more than a decade before I started listening to Pandora. For the music industry, whatever they get out of my Pandora usage should be considered pure gravy that they wouldn't have gotten if Pandora or something like it did not exist.

I have a paid pandora account. After about a month of liking and disliking stuff, the "station" became very good -- now, a year after starting it, I hear a song I don't like maybe once in two hours.

With radio, going off my recollection from the bad old days, I mostly heard ads and music I didn't like and maybe a song or two I wanted to listen to once per hour.

As for the price Pandora is paying, is anyone asking whether Spotify is paying too much? Anyone with a song Pandora is playing has something like 100 years or whatever ridiculous term copyrights last, to milk it. If it gto a million plays per year, that's $100k for one song. $1M for ten songs. A high school graduate can expect to make $1.2M in an entire lifetime: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/...

I agree with almost all of this, and it seems you have a real interest in protecting the interests of the little guy so to speak, but #16 wholly runs against that grain. If you take out the teeth from civil lawsuits, you empower Ford to never stop making Pintos, or fertilizer manufacturers to blow up as many neighborhoods as they want. This would be a massive form of corporate welfare that would benefit large monied interests and make regular people incapable of striking back in any meaningful manner.

In this state, it is illegal to keep a license plate for over eight years.

It looks like that changed as of January 2015.

You're not required to replace your plates every 7 years. Instead, when a vehicle changes ownership, the new owner will need to replace the plates.

I rented for a long time -- ten years -- and recently "bought" a house. The fact is, most people borrow the money to get a house, I know I did. So in the first instance, I was renting a property directly, but the second is like renting money to buy a property. In the second instance, there's a whole lot of extra maintenance issues that aren't included in the monthly payment either and so I figure I'm paying roughly double to rent the money to buy a house than I paid to rent a (very nice waterfront) apartment. Obviously there are reasons I felt it was worth it when I rented the money to buy this house, but I'll be honest, those reasons seem less valid over time. Especially after a plumber leaves you a $2000 bill (yes, I had the inspection).

I know it is against the rules to RTFA, but sometimes it is worth it:

Email encryption first became available to the public in 1991, when Phil Zimmermann released a free program called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, on the Internet. ... The U.S. government subsequently investigated Zimmermann for violating arms trafficking laws because high-powered encryption was subject to export restrictions.

In 1997, Koch attended a talk by free software evangelist Richard Stallman, who was visiting Germany. Stallman urged the crowd to write their own version of PGP. "We can't export it, but if you write it, we can import it," he said.

Inspired, Koch decided to try. "I figured I can do it," he recalled. He had some time between consulting projects. Within a few months, he released an initial version of the software he called Gnu Privacy Guard, a play on PGP and an homage to Stallman's free Gnu operating system.

As a side point, Stallman is endlessly criticized around here, laughed at, etc. But he inspired Koch to do something really important and that should be recognized a little bit. Obviously Koch deserves massive praise (and funding) because he did all the work, but it also struck me how important philosophical and moral principles can be in making the world a better place because they can inspire people to do the work.

Other than that, what should I know about who this guy is? Because the summary (which is, I'm told, also the article) tells me nothing.

2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw

2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMeH7wqOwXA

That's interesting history. In the American Colonies prior to the revolution, juries would often find defendants not guilty of unpopular laws, but you are correct, the verdicts had no effect on the law, which remained the same.

I feel I should be more clear about the point I was trying to make above -- jury nullification in the United States falls largely into two categories, a pre-revolutionary predisposition to stick it to King George, and something I didn't mention but happened plenty in the South, a hesitance to convict whites of violence against blacks.

In either case, jury nullification is likely only when a populace is on the verge of rebellion and the crimes are seen more as political issues rather than real crimes (pre-revolution example), or when the law runs up against deep seated widely accepted cultural prejudices (civil rights example).

For geeks though, to think that JN would apply in a file sharing case, or one in which a reporter uses the <a> tag to link to private materials other people hacked, or any of the many computer or data related litigation topics we see here, is pure fantasy because 1) we are nowhere close to any sort of open rebellion and if we were, it probably wouldn't have much to do with the digital world; and 2) geeks are far from being wholly accepted as part of the cultural norm, and as much as we've taken ownership of the terms "geek" and "nerd", most non-geek people don't, deep in their heart, see those labels as a badge of honor.

Yes, there are jocks who call themselves "football geeks" but it's all sort of tongue in cheek and they've certainly never experienced the derision most people hold for us just barely bubbling under the surface. And even if it isn't derision, just try talking about something interesting or exciting to a geek, to anyone else, and you get at best a sort of forbearance, like they'll accept your annoying characteristics so they can get help with their computers. In most localities, geeks aren't going to get the whole-hearted undying support of the wider community. We can get toleration, and perhaps be thanked at times (though I think people forget just how much technology does for them), but that's it, and what that means is, jury nullification on geek issues will not happen.

Jury Nullification is how many of the founding fathers got away with violating various tax rules and stuff the Great Britain was trying to enforce ....

That said, JN comes up in just about every time slashdot covers a trial. The chance that any person will be blessed with JN is probably less than winning the Powerball lottery twice in a row. It just doesn't happen.