> Problem is that nothing can replace FB.

And nothing of value was lost.

Go ahead and keep giving your data to companies so they can profit from it.

Until companies learn to respect my privacy they will have my disrespect.

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> I don't really see how they think they can prevent people

That's easy:

Only cowards use censorship.

It is obnoxious that someone can publish their results without providing the code & data available for independent verification.

When are we going to return to the _proper_ scientific process & analysis?

How does Mozilla even have a plan to change this broken symptom of "everything behind a paywall" ?

> I know he catches some flak for this, but Stephen Hawking has it right.

No he doesn't.

In 10 years you will have proof that a) we are not alone, b) they look very similar to us, c) our fear of _them_ keeps them away as they know the true human potential whereas we are still ignorant & blind.

Cool to see HTML5 becoming almost complete for game dev.

How people handling pseudo-realtime TCP/UDP packets (networking) in HTML5 ?

Do you have a source/link for that citation? Curious what and when the analyst said it.

I never knew you being ignorant about Intuition was so funny.

One more person who doesn't understand their wife. :-(

> The problem with using words like belief and faith is that they have ugly connotations.
I'm sorry you are unable to read and understand a dictionary. You might want to try it sometime.

> A belief is simply a state in which someone holds a premise to be true.
No wonder you are confused: Belief != State.

You DO realize that many people hold inconstant beliefs at the same time, right?

> Every definition of religion I have ever seen relates a system of beliefs with a supernatural and spiritual component.
I was NOT talking about pseudo-religion.

If you really don't understand the purpose and reason _why_ religion exists in the first place then stop pretending that you do based on a sample size of 1. If you think it is "only about a system of supernatural" then you really need to get out and study & interact more with those that _practice_ that religion. You might actually _learn_ something instead of pretending that you "already know."

> Um, ignorance means a lack of accurate knowledge.
That is only ONE definition and it is pretty _incomplete_ one. You could STILL have accurate knowledge and still be ignorant. i.e. Scientists "know" gravity exists but are STILL ignorant as to its cause, its speed, etc.

The SECOND definition is: Ignorance: a state of NOT KNOWING, as in "without knowledge".
i.e.
Science is completely ignorant about After-Death and a many great other things. Science places hard boundaries on the DOMAIN of Truth. There are some things it will NEVER know. i.e. What was the state of the existence of the universe BEFORE the Big Bang. What happens after this Universe is gone? etc.

> Religion is about holding onto beliefs based on faith, not going out and discovering justifications for those beliefs.
Like I said, you really are ignorant about understand the purpose of True Religion. We already discussed pseudo-religion.

If you don't DO anything with your beliefs they are just that: beliefs.

Faith is the principle in which you are motived to LIVE BY your beliefs.

If you never _prove_ your beliefs then what was the _purpose_ of having them in the first place again?? You're simply a sheeple blinding believing what everybody else tells you without actually stopping to THINK _why_ you have/need them in the first place. As in, apply some critical thinking to the ultimate truth: "Know Thyself". Are you able to comprehend?

Lastly, to bring this back on topic, you still have not shown how it is possible to have Truth With Belief(s). The OP originally " Science is not about belief and faith" which is total nonsense. Nothing you have said demonstrates otherwise.

>> That is why _mind_ NOT space is the final frontier. Space is finite. The Mind is infinite.
> This is just silly.
There is a term for someone who brushing something off simply because they don't understand it: An Idiot.

If you are unable to grasp such basics no wonder you're ignorant about religion. I would recommend you take up lucid dreaming and/or meditation and discover just how much, much more you really are then simply assuming reality is only about time-space.

i.e.
You are in for a rude awakening after you dead and realize the truth that your Mind is not constrained by time nor space. I could only hope you are given the opportunity/experience of an NDE to see how closed-mind you are but I seriously doubt an ignorant atheist would understand the first thing about consciousness.

His famous paper "Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players who suit muds"
      http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm
incorrectly assumes that the taxonomy MUST include kilers. "Old-Skool" MUDs like Eve allow PKing as a fundamental game design. Modern games do not. Modern game design is heavily driven by anti-griefing because most players don't find griefing to be fun _for_ them (those _doing_ the PKing definitely find a sense of adrenaline.) See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griefer

I think you find most players these days are more interested in cooperation then competition hence dynamic spawn rates, heavily instanced world (so miners can't ninja loot your ore), etc.

Does Richard understand modern game design?

> Science is not about belief and faith.

FALSE.

1. You can't have truth without belief(s).

2. If you have beliefs you have faith, else you wouldn't have those beliefs in the first place.

> Science is not a religion.
That depends on how you define "religion". True Religion is living the lifestyle necessary to prove your beliefs. Scientists do that day in, day out. The pseudo-religion that passes is "one man telling another man what he _must_ do (in order to understand God)". In contradistinction Spirituality is "one man telling another man what he _could_ do (in order to understand God)."

As soon as Science _dictates_ how a person can understand truth it has become a religion.

Science is _only_ ONE of the TWO way of acquiring truth. It is a darn good system, but it is an _incomplete_ system.

Technically Science is NOT a system of acquiring truth but about removing ignorance. (A quite successful masculine path as everyone is aware of.)

The other system IS a way of acquiring truth. Since it is the feminine path it is no wonder most men chose to remain ignorant and blindly ignore it.

> Even if we can't sort this out now, we may be able to in the future.
That is why _mind_ NOT space is the final frontier. Space is finite. The Mind is infinite.

Riiiiight, because no one ever counterfeits hard currency, never used it to buy off politicians, never laundered, never dumped, never hoarded, never used it to bribe people, never used it to pay soldiers to murder people, etc.

Just in case you don't get it: A _digital_ NOR a _physical_ currency is NOT immune to the many (government & private) abuses. That is, there are MANY issues with money ... namely its design and mis-implementation.

* http://mises.org/books/whathasgovernmentdone.pdf
* http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul124.html
* http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/problems.html
* http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Money-Its-Not-About/dp/0984502009

When are you going to stop being delusional that some magical pseudo-authority figure is the answer to everyone's perceived problems?

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Agreed about the bullshit marketing.

They should be measuring the _worst_ case of battery life while running FurMark or Prime95 -- constant GPU usage and constant CPU usage.

You _do_ realize my Titan has 6 GB of RAM, right? Why the smeg should the OS simply invalidate _all_ of the GPU RAM when clearly there is enough??

That's idiotic design.

> it's changed just a bit...

What, from one long grind to a lesser grind?

Have the "gopher" quests radically changed?
  * Go fetch X items
  * Go kill Y until Z drops
  * Go talk to npc W
  * Escort A
  * Carpet bomb B
  * Defend D

WoW is _still_ a toy NOT a game. i.e. There is no way to "win" at WoW.

I'd rather play a real game with proper closure such as L4D, TF2, Path of Exile, Torchlight 2, Borderlands 2, Tomb Raider (2013), etc.

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