baffling thing is why delete the old account in the first place...

they're actually pretty good games that have much more to them than many other games.

the open world nature enables you to do many things though.

I mean, I played THROUGH gta V and .. well. I don't remember where killing some bitches happened. is it that you can go to the strip club and shoot people there? or on the street? like you can shoot the men there as well?

I do remember going to the fucking psychiatrist in the game with the family and the fucking yoga minigame.

are they going to ban all open world games from now on? skyrim too, since you can murder women in it?

the problem really is that the people making decisions to ban games don't play them. and the people complaining about the violence don't play them either. like a certain femi troll who picks pieces from games and mispresents them totally - even mispresenting the moral choices given to the player! like, a game has a choice to do bad or good and then saying that it rewards and forces the bad behavior. ...saddest thing is that those fucks aren't even trying to censor the games for the sake of children, they're just making careers out of bitching about them. maybe it's just because unemployment is such a problem.

if anything it's less controversial than gta1. gta1 rewarded driving over monks.

so far I haven't seen any real number about how much the breach actually _cost_ in money to Sony. some extra work for some staff sure.. but they're on salary anyways.

so why not ignore the issue? it's not like the breach apparently has lead to documents enabling modchips on ps4 or something like that either.

I'm pretty sure you would find it hard to prosecute some taxi driver just because he drove some murderer around after a murder... or drove someone to a "commonly known drug location"(piratebay). by the analogy the taxi driver should have performed a search on the client for bloody knives or drugs as normal procedure - or that the isp should start banning people for using WOW update or other torrents.

anyways, it's EU wide attitude that the isp shouldn't be looking at your packets and email. it's criminal to do so, so why would another protocol be ok? you got complaints about some crime you think that happened YOU TAKE IT TO THE FUCKING POLICE and not ask some service provider to bill some random guy.

the chip has no concept of what a lambda calculus is. the chip doesn't know, doesn't care. what causes the chip to be what it is, is the human coding it.

most singularity preachers have no idea about AI. it doesn't people from being "robot-human counselors" or shit like that though, as a form of new age shit.

I'm not saying it's impossible to create really intelligent machines, just that we as a species have no idea how to actually make it a reality right now and nobody working in the field has either. all we have is machines that _humans_ use to do things. humans are the motivator and designer - humans are the designers even if they use complex computing algorithms to come up with the optimal design. it's still the human. it's still a human operating watson, a human decided to use it in playing jeopardy. so technically speaking, we're about as far from creating our robot overlords as we are from creating super human overlords - or rather, we're much more close to creating super human overlords or super intelligent wheelchair brains than mechanical/electronical versions - and pretty far from that as well.

so far NOBODY has shown any advancement why we would be close to singularity today than 40 years ago. except today we know that we're pretty fucking far from it.

true intelligence just happens to be a pretty damn complex beast and we can't make even make fake microbes the size of houses.

adblock doesn't affect viewcounts, as long as you viewed it.

it will however affect ad views(money paid to youtube channels).

the viewcount is all - all mobile clients, all other clients(tv's etc) - all. i don't recall seeing a video ad anytime when viewing on ios with only safari for example(the video plays out-browser). they're still "views" though. the views isn't just a start of the stream either. even with adblock if you view a video, it will count as a view and work as a view in their recommendation algorithms which are important for "professional" youtubers to get visibility.

and what other video is even close?

it wouldn't be so sad if in living in the west already didn't mean paying taxes to the media companies on stuff like recordable media based on the assumption that you're going to do something illegal with it. like, in some western countries there's an assumption that a photocopier is used to copy pages from books so you need to pay per page if the copier is in an institution. it's fucking ridiculous. if I'm living in the west I'm already shilling out so much to whoever is the top radio play for the year that I should be fucking allowed to copy what I want at my own leisure.

like, first the artist representatives want a cut of my money I use to buy hard drives and then they fucking bitch that Spotify doesn't pay them for one listener as much as a radio play to 10 000 people pays. fucking dickwads unable to do maths when it doesn't suite them and always wanting more free money while every year they have thousands of more recording artists to split the money with - how the fuck would the money per artist go up when the number of artists explodes? as per movies, am I supposed to watch more and more movies per year too?!?

..so that's why their contributions are mainly from the bay area? nope.

if they can afford the skillset there, they can afford it anywhere. cheaper to relocate them to almost anywhere than to relocate them from all over the globe to bay area anyways - central London might be an exception.

except, that they're defining the necessary skillset as living in the bay area for dining in the bay area etc . to shill for moar money at banquets and what have you. what kind of work did you think they do ? ? their number one job, the one that they justify to themselves the 100k+ paychecks is simply gathering more money.

you know what a non-profit really means? it means spending the money on the personnel & expenses, not saving it. and yes they should put the money they have in the bank in the banner and a calculation "with our current expenses we can run only for 20 years, we desperately need your money". and then update that next year, maybe the number goes down maybe not. the least they could do would be to be honest about how desperate the situation is. it's not like the donators are donating to the fucking retirement fund, at least most of the donation makers think they're putting money to be used for server costs/b which at a situation where the money is accumulating at such a rate is far from the truth...

it just makes easily for a sometimes good plot. nothing more about it.

however were not any closer to real, self aware and acting, AI now than we were 20 years ago.

talking shit about "singularity" being right over the corner is stuff best left for hipster cafes. we only have fairly simplistic choice machines available now and there's no clear path to self aware AI and far less a route to build an evil scheming plotting AI.

and if one actually READS THE FUCKING ASIMOV BOOKS about self aware robots and such is that they're mostly about how people will not like to be lead by a machine even if the machine is GOOD for them in every possible way(the other ones are just detective stories that use the robot acting rules as plot devices).

it would be much more for the day to worry about scenario described in a short story "A logic named Joe". basically, in that a helper artificial intelligence system gets it's limits removed, so you can ask it for instructions to do anything from how to kill your neighbor without getting caught to how to get some person to have sex with you or how to steal billions of money without getting caught. why? because that story has a plausible AI. the AI itself doesn't have any motive in that story, it just tells people answers to their questions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

Joe is very tomorrow and today short story, truly visionary. I highly recommend reading it since it's pretty short and a staple in scifi history. it's very today since people are asking google already that kind of questions - and it was published in 1946 - and most importantly the AI isn't some genie like in many other stories of robots and AI from the era.

I'm not saying real AI is unattainable, with motives and all that. but I find it much more plausible that we have some bioengineered neo humans before that - and most probably, some AI's which look after the other AI's plans.

are you trolling or just fucking stupid? the point is that this breaks it down from being plastic anymore - not mechanical breaking down, which is how the plastic ends up in the guts in the first place.

you seriously don't understand the difference between something biodegrading/getting turned into different molecyles and something mechanically getting chewed up into small particles?

just disabling said post would do the same effect.

if you did that, then twitter wouldn't have any posts left at all.

and you know what kind of people would volunteer to do the voting in the proposal? fucking dickwads. it's not like a normal twitter user wants to spend his/her time moderating the service.

what's the point of saying such in the article though?
is the article just trolling? since if the observed thing is defined like that you can "observe ftl" with a point and shoot.

there's plenty of other commercial uses for drones apart from delivery.

mapping etc. a whole lot more feasible commercial uses than delivery.

and maybe the electricity for the drone delivery is 20 cents - but they still haven't figured out how they could make them fly in an environment they don't control.

dunno about that, I recall locally in Finland there being a rule about them having to check the id for bigger than something like ~150 euro purchases(even write down the ending of the social security code) when made with cards(that rule being from the local payment processor doing the billin for visa, master, local bankcards etc).

bars check regularly id for card use there too, because of card thefts, even if using pincode(bars are the easiest place to eavesdrop the pincode on the card too).

seems like the american rules are just made for copying and stealing credit cards(as is sticking to magnetic cards). just like self service tills.

I'm sorry to inform but they forgot about that about the time they started switching around the names.

which was around the same time it got more popular than the old version.