No, you're thinking of Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced "'Throatwobbler Mangrove").

Heinrich Bimmler? From Minehead? I have no idea why the TSA would be interested in him. After all, he wasn't the head of the Gestapo for 10 years... I mean, 5 years... I mean never.

You gotta cook the beef somehow.

Ok, well, maybe not "gotta"...

Split screens can often be confusing (being distracted by another player's screen portion and missing something on your screen portion).

And that's why I will always regard split-screen console gaming as overrated and hopefully to never be resurrected.

"Hey, dude, where are you going? You're stuck on a wall!"

"Bullshit, I'm running my ass off. No, wait, I'm looking at the wrong half of the screen."

So I despise split-screen because I'm terribad at it.

Think of it as unplanned pen testing. Kinda like how rape is unplanned sex.

For companies, they're basically pirate ships populated by people who think of themselves as laws unto themselves, as glorious buccaneers .

Ok. Who else read this sentence and visualized the Crimson Permanent Assurance sailing the Bounding Main (Street)?

I had to smile, even though the real topic is depressing as hell.

You don't believe in "chilling effects?" Threats regarding non-disclosure often include themselves in their subject matter... "you can't disclose X, Y, and Z, and you also can't disclose that you can't disclose X, Y, and Z"... and the threat can be sufficiently onerous to be credible.

I think you overrate the intimidating power of nominally legitimate instruments of judicial power, and underestimate the power of simply dragging someone through the courts for years on end. The process is its own punishment, and the threat of the process is quite often enough.

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.

-- Nineteen Eighty-Four

Clueless troll is clueless. And also punctuates poorly.

So "this one is deterministic" seems like a weak complaint.

By your standards, this PRNG isn't so bad.

"Now" is an expensive luxury. Don't be surprised it's priced rather luxuriously.

All of that means that you're buying your discounted hardware with your personal information and your willing agreement to be another statistic in their advertising numbers.

I suspect that's a fair trade for a lot of people, considering how little they actually value their privacy.

Fallout New Vegas has a man-portable 25mm automatic grenade launcher. It has an on-screen display scrolling what looks like code while the weapon is firing.

The code? It's a piece of BASH scripting. With a crippling syntax error ("if" without closing "fi").

If this was the height of alternate-history pre-war embedded software technology, I can understand why derelict car engines can explode in a nuclear explosion.