Comment: I wish them (Score 1) 551
Good fucking luck.
Comment: Re:Okaaaay... (Score 1) 83
It's really jarring to use someone else's computer to browse the web. I'm running Opera with an extensive content blocker, and whitespace removal. I forget how loud the vanilla web is.
Comment: Possible solution (Score 1) 230
Could steganography be the answer?
Comment: Doubt it. (Score 1) 737
Have we all forgotten that, much like Star Trek movies, every other version of Windows sucks? 2000 was great, ME was terrible, XP was great, Vista was terrible, 7 is great, 8 is terrible. The next iteration will probably drop all that live tile bullshit and we'll be back on track.
Comment: Re:I thought it was well known (Score 1) 299
Issue 11 began with heterosexual sex, and after that, included the line, "You're exact words were, 'shoot it in my twat.'"
Subtle!
Is Eccentric Sven Olaf Kamphius To Blame For Spamhaus DDoS? 133
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timothy
from the well-be-does-have-sort-of-a-guilty-look dept.
from the well-be-does-have-sort-of-a-guilty-look dept.
RougeFemme writes "Sven Olaf Kamphius, self-described 'Internet freedom fighter,' is reportedly at the center of the investigation into this week's alleged cyber-attack against Spamhaus, a group that fights Internet spam. Mr. Kamphius became incensed when Spamhaus blacklisted two companies that he runs, including Cyberbunker, a company that, earlier this week, claimed be under attack from Dutch swat teams. Though he initially solicited support for a DDoS against Spamhaus, he now disavows any direct role in the cyberattack, which threatened to slow some web traffic to a crawl."
Comment: Re:Just imagine if copyright had reasonable limits (Score 1) 196
you don't 'lose money' if you take a while to make a movie.
This isn't even remotely close to true. Movies can live or die by current trends. It's hard enough to predict what people are going to want in a year, let alone X amount of time it takes to render effects on an old PC.
soon, we won't even need real actors or real scenes.
This is a nightmarish fantasy. I want to connect emotionally with the people in the movie. Even in some explosion-filled Michael Bay movie, I'd rather root for a flesh-and-blood generic action guy than some sort of simulation.
While it can make for interesting experiments, one thing we shouldn't automate is artistic endeavors.
Comment: Re:We have done long duration missions before. (Score 1) 145
Yes, brothers! Our faith will carry us into the stars!
For the God Emperor of Mankind! FOR THE IMPERIUM!!
Comment: Re:SimCity, a DRM game to stay away from (Score 1) 280
When's the last time you were off line for any significant amount of time?
Comment: Re:Supply and demand? (Score 1) 308
You don't seem to understand that the theaters are at the mercy of the studios.
Comment: Re:I Met Stan Lee (Score 1) 57
...how much (at least in 1975) credit he was willing to share with Jack Kirby, co-creator of many of those same superheroes. It was a bit of a shock to read that after working with Jack to come up with the character of Galactus, the planet eating superfoe, and deciding what needed to be drawn on the pages, that Jack had, of his own volition and invention, introduced the "required" herald for the big guy, a character we've come to know as Silver Surfer.
Kirby was consistently mistreated at Marvel, and wasn't allowed to characterize the Silver Surfer the way he wanted. Stan Lee may be very personable, but that's because he's been cultivating that for forty years. Kirby deserves way more credit in the world of comic books than Lee does. Read "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story". Pretty much everyone involved (except Kirby, actually) comes off as an asshole.
Comment: Re:Easy way to solve robots taking jobs (Score 1) 540
Even something as simple as telling a child that you can make yourself smarter just like you can make yourself stronger makes a huge difference in how they perceive themselves and the world.
"...We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experence carries its lesson."
Comment: Re:It's not difficulty, it's creativity that matte (Score 1) 308
Minecraft... [is] not "hard" in the sense that you will fail a lot
...what game were you playing? On several occasions I've had a surprise Creeper ruin my day. And there is nothing more frustrating than dying underground with an inventory full of ore, golden apples, and your diamond pickaxe and running back only to either die again, or find that your items are just plain gone.
Comment: I get it (Score 1) 148
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Mantrid42
(#40138603)
Attached to: Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test
On the road, hell is other people.
Comment: Make something good (Score 1) 663
My friend pirated a copy before The Avengers came out. He watched it, then he went and saw it in a theater. Twice.
If you build it, they will come.