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Submission + - Oculus Has No Plans to Block Virtual Reality Porn (variety.com)

schwit1 writes: Facebook-owned Oculus VR has no plans to prevent the adult entertainment industry from using its Rift virtual reality headset, which is scheduled to launch as a consumer product within the first quarter of 2016, according to Oculus founder Palmer Luckey.

Asked about plans to block any X-rated content or apps during a panel at the first Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Luckey responded: "The rift is an open platform. We don't control what software can run on it," adding: "And that's a big deal."

Luckey's remarks stood out as most of his fellow panelists tried to dodge controversial questions around topics like adult entertainment as well as motion sickness and other side effects of using virtual reality headsets.

Comment Re:Good one - how about a second verse (Score 2) 64

Allah and God and Jesus and Yaweh are all the same self-hating guy.

Ermm they are not. In all 3 monotheistic religions, 'God' is qualitatively different.
The oldest Hebrew has a monotheistic God with NO recognized prophet.
The Christians have a tripart God as 3 identities, the total of which is a monotheistic god that also predates itself.
The newest - Allah who is further removed from 'man', is based on the Hebrew God (the first 4 books of the Hebrew bible) and comes with a prophet.

(I don't believe any of this btw)

Comment Re:Dr Feelgood (Score 1) 110

Although when you start reading some sites, those Veterans who are restricted to 4x5mg daily are in greater need. They are some who buy from the black market. One of the problems they've found is that some Oxy is mixed with plastics to slow uptake, so they tend to take more than prescribed for pain relief, consequently run out before they can get more on prescription. Coming down is not fun for them and so they seek alt. sources.

Submission + - Navy's new laser weapon: Hype or reality? (thebulletin.org)

Lasrick writes: MIT's Subrata Ghoshroy deconstructs the Navy's recent claim of successful testing with the Laser Weapon System. It seems the test videos released to the press in December were nothing more than a dog and pony show with scaled-down expectations so as to appear successful: 'When they couldn’t get a laser lightweight enough to fit on a ship while still being powerful enough to burn through the metal skin of an incoming nuclear missile, they simply changed their goal to something akin to puncturing the side of an Iranian rubber dinghy.' Ghoshroy is an entertaining writer who is an 'old hand' in the laser research industry. He gives a explanation here of the history of laser weapons, and how the search for 'SWAP' continues: 'At the end of the day, good beam quality and good SWAP—size, weight and power—still determine the success or failure of a given laser weapon, and we’re just not anywhere near meeting all those requirements simultaneously.'

Comment Re:Just hope (Score 1) 119

Thanks for your response. The problem with the majority of Android based smart TV is that the updates are custom written by a software company in Hong Kong. For some reason they have crippled enough of the OS to stop certain apps from working. Netflix is one of them and that's why I asked.
The reason for why I've been modded down is that there is a rogue mod out there and has been modding down me and others for no good reason.

Submission + - Candy Crush on Windows 10 installs (pcauthority.com.au)

Whiteox writes: Are games bloat? A PC news aggregator has reported that Candy Crush Saga will be installed all Windows 10 desktops. Is this the beginning of bloatware for the new OS? For that matter, how many Slashdotters out there regard 'free' games like this just the tip of the iceberg?

Comment Re:Is slashdot all-in on the genderwagon? (Score 1) 776

You're right. There is a continuum of men and women and I love women somewhere along this continuum but hate others further up or down the line. The discussion becomes pointless for that reason alone. I am empathetic towards men and women if they are hurt through no fault of their own, by circumstance, injustice and so on, but this is not a forum topic.

Comment Re:This will be a historic mission. (Score 1) 190

University of Teheran designed a Solar Challenger car a few years back. It didn't arrive in Australia in time for the race. There was a lot of disappointment by many here and overseas. The story we heard was that the car was loaded on a transport, but arrived at a non-Aust. destination then got sent back. Then the whole thing was hushed up and never spoken of again.
About a week before the start of the race, I googled some of the team members and found a few entries in a German forum on solar development, asking for a source for specific parts. I even emailed the organizers of the Solar Challenge who were expecting the team and car to show up soon. Images and a short video from the Uni website were available at the time and it looked like a serious contender.
The timing of the event sort of clashed with the political events at the time. There was a period where Iran was seen as having relative freedoms and its academic work was being recognized. Politically, they were at a turning point (or the western world saw it at that) and various commentaries and sanctions turned them away.
As far as science was concerned, this was not a good development and due to this, the project got canned - or I think it did.
http://www.ut.ac.ir/en/content...

Comment Used.... (Score 2) 241

This submission (as some of the others recently) are there to troll slashdotters. We're being used as THEY know that there'll be factions and fanbois sprouting stuff about their favourite OS. It's a matter of respect and there is little of that around any more.

Comment Re:And now for a real question (Score 1) 214

MS doesn't care about your (or my) hardware, just all the Drones out there. They are estimating 1 billion devices. You, me and many others are just an insignificant piece of fly droppings on their windows. It's everyone else out there that will buy the new devices or upgrade for 'free' and the myriad apps they are convincing the developers to move over to the Win 10 store that they are counting on.

Comment Re:Greedy Corporation (Score 0) 214

you're an asshole

If you are going to correct English, then note that an ass is a small donkey. An ass HOLE is any hole in a donkey i.e. nasal, aural, oral, anal, vaginal and urethral.
So if you are going to say 'ass hole' then you are not being specific enough.
Presumably you mean the anal hole of an ass? In that case the correction should be: you're an anal hole of an ass.
If however you mean a colloquial term for a human anus, then it should be you're an arsehole.
Otherwise: "you're an arse hole of an ass." if you don't want to cause any confusion for the reader.

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