I like how it's phrased as "downloading of the weapon".

Until it can fire a bullet, it's not a fucking weapon. When it's a series of scribbles on a piece of paper, it's not a fucking weapon.

It depends. Do you also dislike authority figures? If so, you at the very least probably have oppositional defiance disorder. :)

Agreed. I definitely didn't mean to suggest there were only the two extremes. As I mentioned, they're different ends of a spectrum and there's a lot of in-between. I was merely pointing out that they would most likely be aiming at the "imperceptible" with "asperger's" more than serious cases that need real and possibly almost constant attention. At best, maybe some of those who are slightly more impacted by it, to the point that it's noticeable, even. In which case, I just don't see why this whole thing is much of a deal. There are tons of people who have (whether they merely claim to -- which is a pet peeve of mine -- or are actually diagnosed) mild forms of autism/asperger's who are already gainfully employed in very demanding and complex careers and don't think a thing of it.

The article was very light, but I don't get much impression that they're looking to hire people that would require them to really go out of there way to productively employ them. More that they're planning to hire already very functioning people who may have some quirks, but not need special attention. I admit that it's a cynical assumption and I'd be glad to be proved wrong by their actual practices. :)

Yet, everyone says you're needlessly paranoid and delusional because you have concerns about your data and your privacy...

The article gives no indication that they're looking to hire low-functioning autistics. They're hiring high-functioning autistics. Most likely people you would work next to on a daily basis and never know there was anything "wrong" with them until they told you they had autism (or, my bet, asperger's) over lunch one day. We're talking "yeah, I have a hard time grasping sarcasm, sometimes" guys more than "I am afraid of chairs and mirrors" guys.

It depends. There's "autistic", where (and I'm not trying to be insensitive with my description, here) someone may be wearing protective gear, rocking/spinning, groaning a lot and freak out if there is any noise or light and who are literally unable to communicate with their family in any manner beyond gesturing . . . and then there are the Slashdot hipsters who have taken to the trend of self-diagnosing with Asperger's over the last five years, because they are occasionally "socially awkward penguin" or "are really obsessive about something and detail oriented".

The article makes it pretty clear that they're talking about "socially awkward" Asperger's people (presumably legitimately so and not those climbing on board the label, because they took an online quiz) and not the ones who have actual communication issues and have difficulty functioning within their home, much less in a professional environment performing QA functions.

I have friends who have autistic children, so I really hope my description of the first case isn't made out to be cruel. In my (limited, as an outsider) experience, it is pretty accurate of the lower ends of the Autism spectrum.

If you really want to improve the perception of the Yahoo! brand, you need to make HardGay an official part of your company's imaging. Why this didn't happen years ago, I have no idea!

HardGay Goes To Yahoo!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSD8edviajE

Yes, according to the live stream on GiantBomb, Microsoft's console will implement a "used fee". When you play a game, you will have to install it completely to the hard drive and it will be locked to that user account. If you want someone else to play it, they will have to pay a fee of an unknown amount.

This now only fucks over the used market, but fucks over people lending games to their friends... worse, even their most loyal customers. If you pre-order games for full price so you can play them on launch day and never sell your games back to the used market and never buy used games, you are still fucked if you, say, have a family of four and not only you, but your kids and wife enjoy playing games. Figure ten bucks per account per game? Now that $65 (with tax) game is suddenly $95 or more. And that's before you've bought the $40 worth of DLC.

I'd like to be optimistic and say this all sounds like an incredible boon for the future of PC gaming, but the vast majority of consumers don't give a fuck, don't know a fuck, and will just let themselves get rolled.

This is the first time I've cared about or enjoyed a piece of Onion content in more than half a decade. Thank you, SternisheFan!

I don't think you understand how the market works.

Five billion dollars profit each year for the last several years isn't good -- it's "stagnation". :P

From what I've seen, Flickr is where you post your photos mostly for yourself. It's a storage service, primarily. I mean, it's not like people are spending their time socializing and perusing Flickr unless they're specifically looking for something and Google Image Search has landed them there.

Tumblr is not a photo storage service and is primarily used for people to dump images of stupid shit that doesn't belong to them and doesn't really have much in the way of social features, either.

I really don't see any relation between the two, other than they're both on the internet and both are spelled stupidly.

Let's be honest, here...

The type of person who uses Tumblr is also the type of person who _already_ has a Yahoo! account and spends half their day logged in here playing Puzzle Pirates or some shit.

Really? The few times I've been unlucky enough to stumble upon a Tumblr page, I don't see anything fucking social about it whatsoever. it's just someone spewing shit into a feed with no comments or discussions or anything. It's just a place to dump your stupid shit and link people to because . . . I guess they're supposed to give a fuck about your stupid shit.

If the people who use Tumblr are "technically literate", I'd hate to see what people who aren't produce...

And if you don't willingly give it up, you're paranoid and/or a terrorist.

I would rather pay for services than give up my personal information, but you'll notice nobody allows that. They'd all rather spam you with ads and sell your personal data than just directly trade you a service for a buck.

I've never actually spent any time at Tumblr and didn't realize it was "popular" until this whole "the guy who created it is a certified genius blah blah blah" thing started being hyped in the media in the past few months.

As best I understand, it is a streaming-twitter sort of thing, but that is not actually used for interaction or new content or anything. It is pretty much just used for people to link or post other people's content to in their own stream that other people can view or subscribe to or something.

I guess the best comparison might be "an even shittier Pintrest"... and about as dumb.

The only thing stupider than a company trying to chase a trend that has a clear finite time for relevance is chasing a trend that is only really a hot trend in its own mind.

Apparently they have a bunch of users (well, tens of millions -- nothing absolutely astonishing or anything), so I guess the real purchase here is a mix of "durp durp Tumblr is a hip brand and will rub off on us in the mind of the public" and "we want to market shit to teens with emo hair and tight pants who are about to grow their fist pube".

It reminds me a lot of Dell trying to be cool by buying Alienware, when most people saw Alienware as expensive stupid shit for suckers and Dell didn't see an ounce of "cool" rub off on them for their effort.

Here's a pretty good example of a Tumblr "blog":

http://aarontothekyle.tumblr.com/