Grant that, a dosage of wifi-wavelength radio emissions of sufficiently high wattage and duration, aimed at his cranium, *would* cause this man some mental health issues.

But people like this neglect to consider a little something I like to call the "inverse square law." Not to mention multiple layers of sheetrock and other possible cladding on the domicile.

Recently in San Francisco I saw a sign on a house with the text "Electromagnetic Harassment" in a red circle-slash, with lightning bolt symbols around the head of a stick figure man that was falling backwards. Wish I'd taken a picture.

Here's the truth

"Listen up, maggots."

Being able to write computer programs does not make you special.

"You are not special."

Any idiot can write code.

"You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake."

Get over yourself.

"You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."

-narcc (412956)

-Tyler Durden

My, that's a frothy spew you're squirting all over /. today! It's obvious you're just yanking everybody's codpiece, with such choice gems as-

• "All it takes to turn a non-programmer into a programmer ... is experience"
• "the ones here who think themselves exceptional are the ones who didn't go to college yet somehow manage to work in the industry"
• "What a bunch of egomaniacs."
• "You are the 21st century equivalent of an auto-mechanic"

You didn't include yourself in the pool of morons you've defined as being programming-capable. It's not hard to deduce that you're not a coder and resent them all, or you ARE one but went to college and resent the rest because they didn't. Either way, your rage outstrips your ability to reason ... which makes clear you're really in the first bucket- not a developer, because you haven't got the patience or intelligence left to rebuild a carburetor.

I'm not for circumcision of any kind. Merely pointing out another kind of genital mutilation, to show that there's all kind of fucked-up belief systems that people use as excuse to control others.

Removal of the clitoral hood... is the equivalent to a male circumcision

Imagine what it feels like to be missing a non-optional part of your anatomy - one that protects the most sensitive hunk of flesh on your exterior anatomy, containing a high concentration of nerve endings.

Oh? They're both about the unconsented surgical alteration of a person's genitalia. And the GGP opened the subject, so I responded.

FGM is so completely horrific (the removal of the labia and clitoris, typically without anesthesia, often without sterile surgical equipment or environs), that it's worth mentioning in a thread about male circumcision... so to plant the image in more minds, towards ending its practice.

Imagine if somebody proposed the same thing for female infants. What would be the reaction?

In certain countries they do that, and the West refers to it as "female genital mutilation"

FGM involves removal of the clitoris, and the inner and outer labia to varying extents.

FGM is absolutely intended to deny females sexual pleasure; it's a prophylaxis of sorts against adultery. In actuality, it causes them pain for the rest of their lives.

In these cultures, the men often demand that their bride be cut in this way, otherwise they're undesirable.

I'm not sure that FGM and male circumcision are comparable. Circumcision came about during a time when hygiene was lax, awareness of causes of infection nonexistent.

Oh, you must be a hoot at parties! I bet you also are one of those that responds to annoyed friends with "that's not what I said..." and follows with a pedantic description of the technical and semantic nuances between words.

That's generally how geek parties go, mate.

So the images are not binary equivalent--do you really think that's what a court will consider?

If you'll recall NimbleBit's whine (http://is.gd/rJwkR7 ), to Zynga about Tiny Tower vs Dream Heights? The response (http://i.imgur.com/ajaYt.jpg ) was to show how NimbleBit had seemingly copied Corporation Inc, which looks itself to be a rip-off Sim Tower, and so on.

The lesson of the casual game industry is there's little originality. Thousands of games (perhaps tens of thousands now) leveraging, what, a couple of hundred game ideas across a few dozen genres?

When it comes down to lawsuits about copyrighted look, injunctions and other court-orders are the ordnance of the day. These things rarely end up in full-blown trials. It's all about intimidating competitors to change or quit. Or settle, as Vostu did with Zynga over their MegaCity clone of CityVille (in itself copied from many other game ideas): http://is.gd/XK1nnX

To me, this way of doing business is all one and the same with software patents.

'identical' ... 'similar' ... 'close' ... 'almost identical'

Pick one. I'm looking at the lawsuit PDF and seeing many differences. Similar ideas, but different expressions.

So you mean Zynga that copied EA's actual art files and exactly reproduced their interface design, correct?

A cursory review of the two games, side-by-side, reveals that this is not the case. Looking at the examples in the lawsuit PDF shows that they're not copies, but at worst reimaginings.

Your hate^H^H^H^H hyperbole has made you powerful.

MonoGame and its mobile cousins allow you to target numerous desktop and mobile platforms with a single codebase. CSharp is a pretty good language, and XNA plus OpenGL and Open AL give you much versatility in exploiting hardware features to obtain performance.

I work for a major game company. I've developed for the commercial desktop, mobile and console platforms.

For hitting many platforms in one effort, MonoGame is pretty good. It's probably not so well documented as others, and it's got bugs, but it's open source and worth a look. If i were to develop a gaming startup, MonoGame is at the top of my list for trials and experiments to prove out whether it can or can't do the job. From what i've done with it so far, it looks very promising.

Disabling Javascript doesn't eliminate FB ads. Try it. Turn off Javascript for all sites, clear cache, and load www.facebook.com.

I see ads, clickable ads that reach their destination. Looking at the page in the developer tools, there's no JS being executed (pause does nothing), and neither the Scripts nor the Resources tabs reveal anything resembling a script.

Further, all the ads link through the same base URI, what is likely a FB redirector script: https://www.facebook.com/ajax/emu/end.php. I've written ad software for websites that doesn't use a bit of JS, and it appears that FB is capable of doing the same.

Reenabling JS shows the ads have both the base URI AND a mousedown handler with function reference of a similar name: a.emuEvent1.fbEmuLink.image.fbEmuImage

Finally, advertisers and the agencies that put their ads on FB don't have to rely on FB for click metrics, it's normal practice to redirect through a third-party agency that counts ad clicks.

It's possible that this company didn't understand the incoming requests. I'd love to see their analysis of User-Agent signatures and client IP addresses.

...was my first thought, seeing "want button." Now I think this is probably just a way to hook up FBers with companies' products, another way of clicking on an ad.

Although, much of what's on Pinterest is about pining away for the things we can't afford...

how could seizing it possibly help the investigation?

I can't believe you really think that law enforcement investigations are only about gathering evidence and impartially serving justice?

Clearly, the point of the seizure was to interfere with the remailer, shut them down (albeit temporarily, likely), and maybe discover some forensic evidence that might be used to ensnare others.

Pre- and ex-judicial property seizures are always about fucking with the innocent-until-proven-guilty.

Some refer to it as "Rat Shack."

Whenever I visit one, it's usually in desperation for an electronic component or battery that I can't wait to order online from a cheaper source. I almost always beeline it for the proper store section, but that doesn't stop the sales droids from trying to (up)sell me on mobile phone equipment or contracts.