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Comment Re:My review (Score 3, Insightful) 148

Snarky assholes make snarky comments, go figure!
There is nothing wrong with watching a movie just for laughs and to relax, not every movie has to be watched so that you can prove how much of a intellectual you are. If you did not like the movie that's cool, no reason to be a dick about it.
If you watched this movie thinking it was going to be anything more than what you found, your the dumb ass, it was more than obvious.

Comment Re:My review (Score 2) 148

I am 43 and I still like the Seth Rogan juvenile films myself, I knew it would be funny stupid and it was, no surprise there.
But I will say I thought the whole film was twice as funny just because when they make fun of Kim Jong-un I just get this mental picture of Kim getting very upset somewhere and demanding they remove this movie from the internets!

Comment Re:LOL ... (Score 1) 224

I been playing online games since DOOM (yes online via dialup BBS) and I have never cheated, not even a macro, I think its cheating. I loose to cheaters all the time. But the day I start cheating is he day I will just quit. I got better shit to do that let my PC play the game for me while sit back and think I am cleaver, I would rather just go do something productive that probably should have been doing anyway.

Comment Re: Good luck with that. (Score 1) 558

The problem with a credit cars is that it is not smart enough to handle assigning a different transaction number per swipe.
The fact we still use a system that has a couple numbers on a card that anyone can write down once and use until you notice there is a problem is dumb and the reason that selling people stolen credit card numbers happen so much. You may get the money back, but there is a hassle involved, the banks end up paying more, and just up their rates to make up for it, so everyone pays for a shitty system now.
There is no reason with todays technology I can not assign a transaction number from my account for each payment that is good once, or maybe even mothy to the same payee until I revoke it.
So it is not that credit cards are a hassle, they are just out dated, you can use something more secure that is also very easy to handle and keep up with on your phone.

Comment Re:What makes you think (Score 2) 174

It does not require the same path through the internet, but you wont be able to use one ISP's connection from packets coming back from the source of other connections IP address. you have to use one connection or the other, you could change your connections and restart you game, but the game will not let you change IP's during gameplay.
This whole idea had lots of issues anyway, if both connections suck, you should just get a good connections, if you want to play games, a wireless internet solution is just not right for you.
Pay for a good internet connection for gaming, I hear kids all day on server complain about their parents got on the internet and are watching Netflix and their ping went to shit, well the parents pay for the connection, so maybe you need to move a lawn once a month and just buy your own.
I know it is possible to have 2 cable modem in one house, and each will not effect the others bandwidth etc..

Comment Re:If the merger happens CNN must be spunoff. (Score 1) 63

Not to mention HBO, it has some of the most political shows on TV. Bill Maher, VICE, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
They run tons of political documentaries, Movies and Mini Series that cover lots of political issues with in the themes of those movies.
Letting Fox News take that over is crazy.

Comment You sure its Time Waner? (Score 5, Interesting) 38

You need to change the subject, no where does it state that Time Warner sold anything.
TW Telecom was not a part of Time Warner anymore, it was broken off years ago, the name changed from Time Warner Telecom to TW Telecom so they could keep some brand recognition, but they could no longer use the Time Warner name. The news announcement states that TW Telecom was bought by Level3, so stating that Time Warner sold its telecom business seems wrong to me. Unless maybe Time Warner still owned some of the company, since Time Warner itself no longer is part of Time Warner Cable either, they were broke apart years ago also, so that Time Warner is mostly all just media holdings, like movies and magazines.
Either way, I am pretty sure your title for the article is WRONG.

Comment Re:Liability (Score 0) 474

This does not mean by simply having WIFI turned on like this is might not make it easier for someone to hack in to your local network via a weakness in the modem, or for that matter be able to simple overwhelm the cable modem cpu with traffic, even if bandwidth is kept separate it still adds to the node bandwidth on the neighborhood that you are on.

Comment I call BS (Score 4, Insightful) 343

The fact they like to make it sound like they need to invest so badly in bandwidth is BS, only the last mile to the home is so expensive, and with them dropping all analog channel to the home that frees up lots of DOCIS bandwidth going forward so that should help allot. They do need to spend allot of money to drop SDV and go completely digital but they still put that off because they love to rebuild the whole network every couple years on the edge anyway.
But all the backhaul and backbone fiber connections have been getting increasingly cheaper, most routers had a max interface speed of 10Gbit's, but with 100 Gbit interfaces becoming more common, and the fact that all DWDM optical gear are seeing jumps from 10 Gbit per lambda to 100Gbits per lambda by just swapping out some hardware that is not free but still utilize the same physical fiber but basically make it 10X more for a small upgrade cost.
I am convinced they only cry about bandwidth costs because that is what they really sell now, and are afraid that its just going to keep getting cheaper and cheaper, which it is.

Comment Re:SteamBox just got really interesting (Score 1) 106

They have been talking about this for awhile now actually, nothing new here other than it is now available.
Sure beats the hell out of buying games for the PC and again on my consoles, that I really only use when I travel.
Some games that you play on the PC do not play well with a controller for console like gaming, but I guess that is where the Steam controller comes in.

Comment Re:Just more bullshit (Score 1) 410

Think of the power of a cable company like Comcast, once they buy Time Warner they will be the biggest internet deliverer in the country, they will basically be able to charge upstream companies huge deals to give them access to customers at higher speeds. These companies already make billions a year they still cry like they are hurting to deliver the bandwidth people pay them for, and they are given monopolies in areas because of citizen owned right aways.
This all sounds bad to me.

Comment I could not agree more, there are som real issue w (Score 1) 245

I started playing APB back when it was first release by RTW and was a 50$ boxed game with a monthly subscription (or something like that), I have always loved the concept of APB and the way you could customize your characters was really done great. The beginning bones of this game was done very well, to me, the original team behind APB seemed to really have their shit together, the game had some bugs, but it was very new, and I always felt like the possibilities were endless if they same team had been given more time on this game.
RTW went bankrupt and shutdown APB Sept 2010, so it sat around for awhile until K2 Networks (G1 or Gamers First) bought the game and re-launched April 2011, I was very excited just to play again honestly, and I still play the game allot, but G1 has done almost nothing to make the actual game better, no new city maps, no little fixes like queues to get in full districts or any other game fundamentals that could be very improved over the years on but never touched. Instead nothing but new cars and car kits, and new weapons.
For awhile the bought weapons were not that much of a deal, if you leveled up the in game weapons were just as good, but now they just don't care anymore and release just about anything for money, lately they seem desperate..

Here is the worst part of this, the most OP weapons are only gotten in a random chanced win in Joker Boxes, they sell the Joker Boxes on the Armas market place, its an in game website you can buy these Joker Boxes for G1C or "C1 Currency" that you buy for real money, each Joker Box is 99 G1C, but the smallest amount for G1C you can buy is 400 G1C for 5$ or you can buy a 25 pack of Joker Boxes for 1980 G1C or about 25$. I know lots of younger kids that spend several hundreds just trying to get a OP gun, I do not see the difference in this from gambling myself, and I am surprised I have never seen a article about the down right shitty ways of sucking the money out of kids in these games G1 does.

So basically G1 just sucks the life out of these games until they kill it in my mind, and only new content for items they sell.
I know I should not even still play the game, but I truly like the game, even thou half the people in this game are cheaters, it was a good game at its core and that credit should totally go to the original creators of the game

Comment Certification of Privacy? (Score 1) 371

I have always felt like someone should create a Privacy stamp of approval or a way to certify that a product adheres to certain hardware specs regarding privacy.
Being approved by this group would allot you to stamp your product was found secure by a 3rd party group like this.
A product would have to use a mini relay or something like that to physically disconnect the connections from the camera and microphone of any device when its not in use, and when in use show that the connections are made with a LED light that is hard wired to the same relay, with no way to bypass in software.
You may use a physical shutter for the camera and some way to disconnect only the microphone, but have a 3rd party certify this would go a long way to have open security cameras in a room in my house etc, something I would never do with a security company able to watch you 24/7, but if when they watched a red light lit up very bright and could not be bypassed might work.

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