Holy shit this guy is clearly on the ball and has been following it closely. I definitely fell (or was pushed?) into one of those camps, due to the vehement whinging, whining, ranting, raving, accusations, shaming and what have you from camp #3 I kind of felt pushed into camp #4 with a bit of camp #2.

To make it clear, I'm not specifically 'pro' gamergate- but I am one of the people who was initially quite taken aback by the swath of remarks and insults coming in the general way of gamers or people who aren't extremely left.

It seemed when this whole thing went down originally, to EVEN ASK QUESTIONS, even politely (!) regarding the circumstances of it all, meant you were suddenly labelled a misogynist piece of.... by a whole plethora of well,.. frankly, extreme, white knight, SJW types. There's either "with us" or "sexist piece of garbage"

I found that (and still do) extremely frustrating, confronting and annoying. I wouldn't say I'm against rights of anyone at all â" but I do believe the politically correct / SJW movement has gone to a point where anything you do, you feel as if you're doing something wrong, or being a terrible person. This relentless shouting down of people, has some (many?) on the defensive, I honestly feel this is a primary factor in why GG lasted so long and why the "pro-GG" kept on with it, not necessarily as initiators of attacks but infact feeling the need to defend themselves of accusations of being ghastly people.

To add fuel to the fire, the terribly worded, clickbait garbage article by Leigh Alexander "gamers are dead" and the hashtag it spurned "#describeagamerin4words" being a relentless barrage of horrible insults "manbaby" comments and what have you from again, the SJW types, it's no wonder a whole huge heap of people who identify as gamers (as do I) got on the defensive and effectively "joined gamergate" in camp #4 (with boogie) as they felt opressed. Once on the defensive and identifying with gamergate in some way, bam, you're again, being labelled as garbage and further comments come at you, hence this huge separation.

I've taken to unfollowing good friends / muting good friends on twitter and even blocking some people on twitter because of this relentless onslaught of anti-gg rhetoric. It's ridiculous. Also, the vast vast majority of the gamergate discussion now appears to be mostly now coming primarily from the anti-GG'ers shouting from the rooftops, spamming twitter, spamming articles and endlessly raving how bad GG is, yet to me it seems the majority of it has fizzled out from the 'pro' side.

As I've said candidly, I think I'm just sick of being preached to, good message or not, it's relentless, annoying and constantly shouting it will achieve nothing, my twitter feed has become a nightmare of endless womens rights tweets (which is not a bad thing, IN MODERATION) but people in camp #3, many -have become total zealots, incapable of having a day go by without ridiculing sexism in general, yeah sexism is bad, but fuck me gently, spamming about it daily ain't gonna solve it.

I attempted to comment on a GG news article recently, outlining how the article was not only one sided but managed to say (as usual!) there's only 2 camps (unlike your far more logical analysis of the people involved in this)
The article effectively said it consisted of the scummy manbaby people and "those in the right". Of course my post on the article was rejected. Which is just further censorship along the "with us, or mysoginist garbage and against us" attitude, it's incredibly tiring.
http://i.imgur.com/mSxhW9e.png

Thank you for seeing there are more than 2 damn sides to this entire thing. Honestly based on the tweets I read, civil conversations I had (with women in the pro camp!) I am not in any way convinced the vast majority of GG was abusing people, I think it was a tiny fraction of people to be honest. Furthermore, while not condoning abuse here, but people with their "back up" on both sides, becoming defensive are more likely to say irrational things. It's just a giant internet shouting match now.

Ultimately, I'm _EXTREMELY_ over GG, both sides of it. Like I don't think I've ever been more frustrated by anything on the internet ever and I'm eager for it to stop.

I'm gonna risk it this time and not post anonymously, let's see what kind of backlash I get long term, ideally it should be 0.

I've even considered going back to Apple, I never ever thought I'd type that sentence, yet here we are.
Google continue to make decisions best for them, not their users of late. If it's not that, it's the design team fiddling with something which doesn't need adjusting, making it worse.

It's been at least 2 or 3 years since I've read an article and thought "wow google is amazing, they are the best, a shining beacon of what a company should be, just incredible" (I really used to think that!)

We get it.

The Americans don't like DST. Fuck knows why, maybe not smart enough to figure out how to change a clock? Perhaps you live in a rural area and you're a farmer or something? Christ fuck only knows but the rest of the world has to deal with this idiot topic every year.

From Australia, all the 'civilised' states love the shit out of it.
I get to finish work with an hours more sunlight, period. I'm not even an outdoor person and I like it. If you have kids, dogs, hobbies, exercise routines, gardens to maintain, shopping to do, socialising and a fucking plethora of other activities, summer is vastly superior with an extra hour sunlight (yes, I know it's not an "extra hour" but it's an extra hour I can use.
I have no issue with it being slightly darker in the morning, when I'm in the shower or on public transport on my way to work, or eating breakfast. I can't COMMIT to anything in the morning, because I have to get to work (or some of us school or whatever) - but I do like when I finish, I see a bit more of the world.

I am continually baffled how many Americans dislike DST. Perhaps it's just a vocal minority of whiners on slashdot? Maybe a large amount of US citizens also love it?
I wish the clocks were forward an hour or two ALL year round, not just summer.
(Face it, we're not going to convince the world that a normal workday should be 8 till 4, so let's just fiddle with the clocks to emulate it)

Loving DST right now, will continue to always.

Perhaps some kind of large reserves of stuff were the final nail in the coffin? Don't we have several mammoth cO2 reserves around the planet, right on the verge of finally letting go?

Yes yes it should be fucking silly you see, you're bang on - but the reality is, it's not silly. The fact it's up for debate to be discussed and it's a "thing" for people to come out, clearly shows there's a necessity to create awareness.

There was a time it was "silly" to not wear a hairpiece because you were bald, you had to conform, fit in and pretend you have hair. Now, bald people exist, no one gives a shit, there's 0 stigma attached to baldness or eyewear and what have you.

Until there's no stigma about someone saying they're gay, then these things need to continue, very good of high profile people to do this for others.
I look forward to a day where some random celeb says "I'm gay" and /virtually/ everyone goes? yeah? so ...

I've personally reverted to pattern based passwords now, they feel quite ingenious to me and simple to type but none the less they are probably not ideally secure. They are a breeze to input and get past idiot systems though
Example

Try typing that, I can do it in about 1 second.
I shouldn't have to do that though and if you asked me to verbally recite my password to you, or type it into an android keypad or something not laid out identically to a standard PC 101? Yeah, I'd have trouble :/

The specs are ok, they aren't flagship. Also IIRC the screen is kinda crappy?

I'm so sick of these goddamned articles, insisting I need FDGHN$@%YFSDG#$T#62532@..1..sdg..FGT34#$% as a password or horsebatterystaplegoatsehamburgerlolsixtynineomelette?

Tell me internet, tell me, how many compromised accounts over the past decade have been from poor passwords, OR how many have been compromised due to the site / service in question having a security hole / unpatched exploit run on it and tell me even further how many are due to social engineering?

I'm more than willing to bet that over 95% of all compromised accounts on any system(s) in the entire world is due to those 2 things and not the complexity of the password and frankly, I'm sick of having to have monstorously complex or awkward passwords in some environments which are almost deliberately difficulty to remember.

4.8" is right on the edge of usability for me. I can literally notice the difference from a 4.8" Galaxy S3 to the 4.9" Galaxy S4.

I can not and will not go larger, I like being able to "1 hand" my phone.
It's a shame because most flagship phones are going far larger than 5" now :/ it just doesn't suit my needs

Give me a beast phone, awesome specs, high res, high quality OLED screen, 4.8" and I'll be happy. In the meantime, sticking with my S3

No, society needs to rethink the purpose of creating so many humans.

Have you SEEN the fucking changes google have made? Holy your damned horses sonny.
Google Maps is now a complete and utter abortion, it's slower and lacking some seriously fantastic features of the old one.

The google introduction of the "priority inbox" auto filtering my email was great. THEN the dipshits decided to split my email into 4 tabs? Why? Who the hell wants that. I now have to run in 'legacy' mode to disable the 4 tabbed inboxes. I had no issues with the priority inbox which was,.. change!
We're only resistant to unnecessary change, for the sake of change. Which google feels compelled to do.

They need to do this because they can't just fire their UI people and the UI people need to "look busy" and "innovate". Fact is email is virtually an "appliance" now and it shouldn't be damn well fiddled with.

Can you please back this up with some facts, figures, articles? Interesting post but I'm not honestly sure I'm sold here?

If they could, why wouldn't they?

Seems a possibility at least, it's going to buy them anywhere from 25 to 50% bandwidth reductions once adopted. Admittedly only for customers with a modern machine / software to decode it but we may see the adoption of it quicker than we saw the switch from mpeg2 to mpeg4.

audiophile ! = videophile
Also if anything, a proper videophile would likely agree with the GP.

Wifi specs are just bullshit, always have been.
54mbit wifi
theoretical maximum 6.75MB/s
theoretical maximum, allowing for the standard /10 instead of /8 overhead rule: 5.4MB/s
actual maximum attained speeds, over years and years of multiple networks/ cards / laptops / routers /location. 2.9 / 3.0MB/s

It's only gotten worse for me, the higher the spec goes.
If they claim 4.6Gbps I'd probably believe it might do 20 -> 40MB/s, actual, genuine, sustained transfers. Maybe.