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Comment: Re:Wow, just wow. (Score 2, Insightful) 262

OR, the lame-ass trolls need to grow up.

Sure, trolls need to grow up (I know i need to grow up and I like to do my fair share of trolling), but to expect everyone else to change is stupid. This is the internet, this is how it is. You get trolls, fanboys and corporate shrills in forums. If you want to moderate your forums, cool, have fun. But to bitch about it ruining stuff? Really? You just told the trolls that they won by publicly bitching about them.

 

Comment: Senior or Senile Fellow? (Score 1) 280

Apparently it doesn't mean what you think. It doesn't mean senile old person who needs to die and leave the thinking to the younger people. Obvious, by his statement, that is what you think, but apparently dude is supposed to be popular with the rest of the people in his academy and won some important votes by other "senior" follows to become one himself.

Does he know what he is talking about? No. I at first thought it said Senator because when it comes to tech, they know nothing, but apparently it's a dude who should know. But maybe I'm wrong, maybe in the last year they improved the internet in the USA to where I had a choice and I could use fiber optic if I wanted, after all, I'm in a big tech city, Seattle. Pretty much living in the downtown of that city, less then a mile from the city center. Still hardly any choices.

Comment: Re:...The Prisoner (Score 3, Interesting) 203

by Nyder (#44039089) Attached to: How To Block the NSA From Your Friends List

Prisoner: What do you want?
        Two: Information.
        Prisoner: Whose side are you on?
        Two: That would be telling.... We want information...information...information!
        Prisoner: You won't get it!
        Two: By hook or by crook, we will.
        Prisoner: Who are you?
        Two: The new Number Two.
        Prisoner: Who is Number One?
        Two: You are Number Six.
        Prisoner: I am not a number; I am a free man!
        Two: [Laughter]

Comment: Re:Privacy concerns are over stated. (Score 1) 203

by Nyder (#44039037) Attached to: How To Block the NSA From Your Friends List

I grab a coffee near every work day on lunch, and the cashiers practically get pissed at me for not signing up for that gas stations "club", since I'd get a free coffee after five. I tried explaining to them I don't need them tracking me via scanning my card so I can save $1.50 a week, but they don't seem to understand. Instead now, I just tell them I'm an asshole. It's much more simple, and they only ask me half the time now.

They are pissed at you because you leave a crappy tip.

Comment: Re:Isn't he getting.... (Score 1) 244

by Nyder (#44003577) Attached to: Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator

...too old for this shit?

All kidding aside, he's pretty aged, I can't really see him faithfully doing the Terminator as he was back in the 80's and 90's. I mean yeah, make-up and CG and all, but even then.

All the big action stars of the 80's that keep on putting out movies, even though they are old as fuck, needs to stop. Serious, it's as bad as watching Mick Jagger dance around for the last decade. There is a time to stop, and it's in your 50's.

Not saying they can't still do movies, they can. But as action stars? No.

Comment: you will die (Score 2) 297

by Nyder (#43996621) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time?

Let's be real here. Work was your escape from life. And now that the work isn't there, you are scared of life. Nothing anyone suggests is going to be good for you.

You don't want to hear about hobbies and family, so that suggests that you don't have any hobbies and don't find them interesting. As for family, you worked to hide from them. So what sort of things do you really want? I mean, obviously you could try to find another job, or volunteer. Except that isn't what you want to hear.

Look, you will probably become a drunk or druggy and die in a few years. It's okay, some people are just one track minded and can't think beyond what they have been doing for the last 25 years.

I'll tell you what, life isn't that bad, it's the people in it that suck, can't escape that. But you can blow them up, or stab them with a sword online. If that doesn't make life a bit sweeter, I don't know what could. Oh, yes I do. Start smoking weed. It's a gateway drug.

Comment: Re:But is it permanent? (Score 1) 159

by Nyder (#43981927) Attached to: Video Gamers See the World Differently

The first few layers of the visual cortex are highly malleable. Wear a set of glasses that flip the world upside down (or angle the field of view by 10 degrees) and the system will adapt within a couple of days - the user will see the world as normal.

But also - when the user stops wearing the glasses the system quickly adapts back.

With all this fluidity, I suspect that a gamer's heightened sense of perception will dissipate if they stop playing games. At a guess this would probably take about 6 weeks.

If maybe the brain wasn't processing what you see. I doubt the eyes react quicker, it's probably the brain reacts quicker. Why? Because of the practice. So the skill could get rusty if you don't use it everyday, but it's possible that once you gain the skill, you use it.

So basically I don't agree with your assumption and me, not being an expert (but a long time gamer), I'm going with my assumption.

Comment: Probably won't prevent police brutality (Score 3, Insightful) 161

by Nyder (#43969625) Attached to: UK Police Now Double As CCTV Cameras

Police wear the cameras on the front of their stab vests and after attending an incident download the footage captured onto a computer where if needs be it can be transferred onto a DVD to be presented as evidence in court.

Seems that since it's all in the police hands, they can make it disappear pretty quick also. So unless they have no way of tampering/deleting the video in the camera, my guess is they will just delete what makes them look bad.

Comment: Re:Insurance Policy? (Score 1) 293

by Nyder (#43968939) Attached to: Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info

...

Also what good is the Dev SW for a PS4 or XBone without the hardware? We already know what the HW will be like, does anyone give a shit what SW the consoles will use? The people who could make use of it, developers; already have their Dev kits in hand.

Console hackers would love access to the Dev SW. While sure, it's not the hardware, it might show possible bugs they can use to gain access to the machine.

Plus when they do figure out how to run homebrew on it, a lot of times the first public (internal releases usually for the scene) "dev kits" are based, or hacked Dev SW.

Comment: Re:What is wrong with these folks? (Score 5, Insightful) 171

by Nyder (#43930547) Attached to: Amazon: Publishers Strong-Armed Us On E-Books

Because it works. Most people buy into it. Why should I pay $20+ for a BluRay? ....

I'm going to point out that when DVD's were newish, they were $20 new. And you are getting a much higher quality video in Bluray format then you are in DVD format. Give it 10 more years or 4k movies becoming popular to see the price of Bluray movies going down. VHS movies used to cost alot when new also, way back when.

And oddly enough, what you could do is buy a cheaper DVD version of a movie, then download a bluray version to watch. Sure, it's not legal, but you are paying what you feel the movie is worth, just not as much as they want.

Comment: Re:Better Idea (Score 1) 400

by Nyder (#43930463) Attached to: Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft

Well said. I think people who pitch "linux is free" have at best some (indeed free) Linux machines at home or work but never worked in enterprise-grade server software business, nor do they know much about it.

When you pirate, all software is free. argg!!!!

Tech support? That shit ain't free. You got to pay for it, one way or another.

Comment: Re:Never Heard of Office 360 (Score 1) 400

by Nyder (#43930345) Attached to: Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft

What you want, then, is a Coleco ADAM.

If you booted the ADAM up without a game cartridge, it loaded up its word processor, and you could print to the attached printer.

If you had a casette tape in the machine when it booted- it would run the casette.

And if you had a game cartridge in during boot time, you could play the game.

If the Coleco ADAM was created today, they would of patented all those features.

Comment: Re:seems all the politicos are in favor (Score 1) 568

by Nyder (#43930277) Attached to: The NSA: Never Not Watching

This is why I'm in favor of states' rights.

Obama and Bush are both good people. ...

I was cool with the first sentence, but you totally threw me with the second one.

Bush was NOT a good person. He was a douche, warmonger & oil puppetman.

Obama? Don't think so, we are losing more rights under him then the warmonger before him.

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