For the binaries groups? Obsessive gotta-collect-all-the-media pirates, mostly.

My ISP doesn't have their own netnews server anymore. At first they farmed it out to a third party but still included the service, but then they dropped it entirely.

I've been looking around for a service that suits my needs, I don't need/want binaries and I don't want to have to pay whatever month to something like Giganews to help bankroll the piracy for everyone else.

You CAN post YouTube comments using the old pre google+ identity. You have to manually switch it to the old identity in settings. See that little icon with your name attached on the upper right of the YouTube main page? Click it and you can tell it to use the old identity. Every once in a while in the past they'd switch it back but they haven't done it in a while.

But we shouldn't have had to do that.

Microsoft IS worse than Sony, always has been. Some divisions of Sony might have a "minor" in evil, but Microsoft has a Double-major in evil, a Minor in evil and is professional chair throwing extend embrace extinguish brand evil.

So PC centric developers are holding games hostage as well, right?

You don't pay less, you "spend" less, there's a difference. PC gaming is some Ian in the UK or Ivan in Russia spending all his quid or rubles on a PC, and then pirating all his stuff instead of paying less for hardware and then having money for games.

Or you have the guys playing nothing but one map in something like CS/LoL over and over and over and then BRAGGING that they don't buy games.

And then some people wondering why the PC release of multi-platform releases is an afterthought.

Here, let me give you an anecdote, do you know how Gaijin the developers of war thunder finish funding that game's development? They did a console game that was basically a pre-test of War Thunder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They openly said that without that game, there would have been no War Thunder.

That's right you do, but it leads to:

Mods exist because BRICers and Second Worlders are too cheap to buy games. Gamers who play nothing but free mods are why the PC is an afterthought. Sure there may be a few patches as well, but mods are the favorite of gamers who care more about free-as-in-beer than anything else.

Servers are a continuing expense that cost money to run don't they? PC gamers pay for WoW or EVE subscriptions, right? So they're idiots too because all games should have free multiplayer? PS+ isn't just multiplayer, there are other benefits as well, besides, it's less than one game a year. $49.95. Yeah yeah, spend $$$ on an overpriced video card but $49.95 a year is too much to help pay for server costs.

What interface is that? Who gets to say an interface is wrong? Isn't choice of UI a good thing? Some people might prefer a certain UI some might prefer something different. After all there are mods that change the UI in PC games, isn't there? And if it's controls that you're actually referring to, who says I can't use different controls?

I don't do that, only idiot shooter and sports game only dudebro gamers do that.

While I wouldn't say that Windows is an OS for stupid people. I do think that just because one can game on a badly designed general purpose OS like Windows...doesn't mean one should.

Sure there's a reason. Gaming without Microsoft/Windows, at least if you go Sony or Nintendo. There's also the console exclusive games that have never had a PC release. And the consoles are designed specifically for gaming, you don't have to worry about AVG or whatever deciding it wants to run a scan when you're playing, you don't have to worry about the OS monitoring a print spooler, and all the other things Windows does that isn't gaming.

Console gaming is gaming without the hassle.

Besides, PC gamers only "think" they are the master race. PC gamers are actually the cheapskate piracy lovin bourgeois scum of gaming. Filthy PC gamers right there at the bottom with phone gamers and those filthy dudebro console gamers who only play shooters and sports games

They thought they had a reason, they were worried about a Linux exploit leading to easy piracy. Sure there was only "proof of concept" stuff, but they were worried about what "might" happen and took preventative steps.

There were also issues with trying to keep OtherOS working properly, after they let their maintainer go. There was a video output compatibility issue with Linux in one of firmwares just prior to 3.21 . IIRC it was 3.10. And we mustn't forget that the partition schemes weren't optimal in the first place. Either you have 10GB of OtherOS and the rest for GameOS (which somewhat cripples Linux) or you have 10GB to GameOS and the rest to Linux (which seriously cripples GameOS)

It most certainly was optional. You could keep the older firmware and Linux if you wanted, however since your PS3 was no longer "trusted", you lost access to PSN.

It was, at least some of the time, on some topics. You'd see "new distro release" posts within a couple hours of a new release.

As for why Slashdot isn't as timely you can blame either:

1. Dice

2. VA

3. Beta

4. The lack of a CowboyNeal option in polls.

5. the reduced number of Soviet russia, Natalie Portman and ??? Profit!, and "you must be new here" jokes.

Scully would never wear pink! Her robe's probably dark "suit blue" or black.

try:

"graphics card review -shop -buy"

But I just slapped "Evga GT750 review" into google and the first 3 sites are actual reviews, the 4th being Evga's own site.

Or they might be tailoring the results depending on the User-Agent, in my case: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0

I figure they do something like: "If User has Linux Browser User Agent then give priority to Linux related search results"

Explaining why GNU Screen is the first result when I search for "screen"

Only if you pay for the premium service. If not you get 160K, or 96K on mobile.

Amongst The C64GS's weaponry are, games, obscurity, no-keyboard, a Europe only release and fanatical devotion to Jack Tramiel.

Considering the basic hardware design that became the C64 was originally envisioned as a game console, there are TWO game consoles based on C64 technology.

The first being the Commodore Max/Ultimax of 1982 (that's right, it was released BEFORE the C64), basically a C64 with less RAM, no serial or user port, and a membrane keyboard. It was Japan only, but apparently at one time they were planning on releasing the thing more widely. What probably happened is that manufacturing costs of what became the full C64 came down and brought the machine into the price range of MAX. The C64 is fully compatible with MAX cartridges since it has an "Ultimax" mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The Other being the C64GS of 1990 that was mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Unlike the MAX it has the full RAM of a C64. This machine was Europe only, probably because Commodore survived longer in Europe thanks to the EU/UK protectionism that made it harder for Nintendo and Sega to sell their consoles at competitive prices. Thats probably also the reason this PET phone is Europe only for now. The current "commodore" being seen as European.

More likely it's the other way around.

General Kala, Flash Object approaching.

What do you mean Flash Object approaching, open fire, all weapons. Send out HTML5 with AJAX to bring back its body.

I stand corrected, but the "computer culture" of Sweden is pretty much the same as Finland, pirate parties and whatnot.

I wonder where I got the idea Notch and mojang was Finnish? Ahhh, his father's a Finn, must have seen that on wikipedia.