Comment Re: Ineffective advertising (Score 1) 149
Antec cases have the PSU at the bottom, or at least the fanciest ones do.
Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls 1262
Sonny Yatsen writes: Anita Sarkeesian, the creator of Tropes vs. Women — a video series exploring negative tropes and misogynistic depictions of women in video games — reports that she has been driven from her home after a series of extremely violent sexual threats made against her. Her videos have previously drawn criticism from many male gamers, often coupled with violent imagery or threats of violence. The Verge story linked has this to say: The threats against Sarkeesian have become a nasty backdrop to her entire project — and her life. If the trolls making them hoped for attention, they've gotten it. They've also inexorably linked criticism of her work, valid or not, with semi-delusional vigilantism, and arguably propelled Tropes vs. Women to its current level of visibility. If a major plank of your platform is that misogyny is a lie propagated by Sarkeesian and other "social justice warriors," it might help to not constantly prove it wrong.
Comment Re:Is this the missing "dark matter"? (Score 5, Informative) 85
No, the amount of missing matter is far to great to be contained in such small objects even if they were incredibly numerous.
Consider the entire mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be only 4% of the Moon's mass, and the Moon's mass is only 1/81 of the Earth's.
Dark matter, meanwhile, is thought to have a total mass more than 5 times greater than that of normal matter.
Comment Re:How Does This Affect Their Data Mining? (Score 1) 68
It may help them determine who exactly is using the browser in multiple users on one account scenarios.
Comment Re:Graphical terminal (Score 1) 68
What is the point of using remote resources when local resources are so cheap for non-businesses? The 60's model was based on the economic realities of computing being unaffordable for most people. That is not the case today.
Why do people who often don't even store 100GB of data on their own computers need everything sent into "the cloud"?
Comment Re:What a stupid fucking summary (Score 1) 133
All the blather about "public" and "private" as binary opposites leaves people with no ability to deal the reality of how these things overlap. Literally two sides of the same coin in this case, and in a growing number of cases.
Comment Re:xp 64bit (Score 1) 267
That OS has been unsupported for more than 4 years at this point.
Install Linux or get a new computer.
Comment Re:So what we learned is (Score 1) 51
It seems to me that the closest analogy to this test would be our sense of balance. Our reaction to tipping over is mostly unconsciously controlled and happens faster than our normal movements.
Balance is processed in the inner ear and eyes giving about a short a signal path as is possible for us.
EFF: US Gov't Bid To Alter Court Record in Jewel v. NSA 78
The EFF is only today able to release details of an attempt by the government to alter the historical record in the case brought by the EFF against the NSA in Jewel v. NSA. "On June 6, the court held a long hearing in Jewel in a crowded, open courtroom, widely covered by the press. We were even on the local TV news on two stations. At the end, the Judge ordered both sides to request a transcript since he ordered us to do additional briefing. But when it was over, the government secretly, and surprisingly sought permission to "remove" classified information from the transcript, and even indicated that it wanted to do so secretly, so the public could never even know that they had done so." As you'd expect of the EFF, they fought back with vigorous objections, and in the end the government did not get its way, instead deciding that it hadn't given away any classified information after all.
"The transcript of a court proceeding is the historical record of that event, what will exist and inform the public long after the persons involved are gone. The government's attempt to change this history was unprecedented. We could find no example of where a court had granted such a remedy or even where such a request had been made. This was another example of the government's attempt to shroud in secrecy both its own actions, as well as the challenges to those actions. We are pleased that the record of this attempt is now public. But should the situation recur, we will fight it as hard as we did this time."
Comment Re:They already have Netflix for games. (Score 1) 75
The reason the PS3's PS2 backwards compatibility was removed was cost-cutting, not technical issues as you seem to be implying.
Comment Re:Adblock got bought by a marketing company? (Score 1) 436
This is also the case with Ghostery.
Comment Re:I use both (Score 1) 436
Didn't Adblock only arise due to delays in getting Adblock Plus ported to Chrome? I don't see Adblock in Mozilla's addon offerings.
I used Adblock with Chrome until ABP became available and then I switched. Perhaps there was enough time lag and/or confusion for Adblock to remain popular on Chrome.
Comment Re:porn (Score 3, Funny) 208
This is just half a rack... I'm more of a full rack guy.
Comment Re:Simple, block all ads (Score 1) 97
I pasted the wrong link. Change to allow some ads by default was in 2011: http://slashdot.org/story/11/1...
Comment Re:Simple, block all ads (Score 2) 97
Ad Blocking software allows them to show and always has. And that is because they are unobtrusive and not annoying.
All of my browsers have some kind of ad-block technology in them. And the Google text ads show just fine, thank you.
False with regards to Adblock Plus. http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
