Comment: wholesome family fun for the whole coven! (Score 1) 143
Yeah, constantly being accused of a Satanistic suicide cult had no negative impact on D&D.
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Comment: Re:Zombies versus Predators (Score 1) 236
I personally have never killed anything larger than a bug in my life; I suspect a lot of other people haven't either. I've never had to, because there have always been other people who are willing to do those unpleasant tasks for me, in exchange for modest amounts of money.
You're safe; I'm sure in our dystopian zombie future, the phones will still need sanitizing.
Comment: Bobby Tables to the rescue! Again. (Score 1) 143
Just make some glasses with some cryptic incantation on them, and all the sudden, WE'RE ALL FREE AGAIN!
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Comment: Re:First Fascist! (Score 1) 39
'Proof' (and derivatives thereof) means almost nothing when related to Pudge, no matter how tangentially. Much like 'lie' means... I don't even know what, when related to Pudge.
Comment: WTF (Score 1) 1
WTF is this shit?
Comment: CHA (Score 1) 251
Conventional LASERs can't hit anything over the horizon, tactically they're useless. The Navy isn't stupid, therefore they've obviously secretly learned how to bend a multi-megawatt LASER beam. Maybe they've developed mirror-carrier drones.
Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option 101
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timothy
from the better-late-than-never dept.
from the better-late-than-never dept.
AmiMoJo writes Twitter announced that its abuse-report system, which was recently refined to simplify and shorten the reporting process, has now expanded to allow users to report content such as self-harm incidents and "the sharing of private and confidential information" (aka doxing). The announcement, posted by Twitter Vice President of User Services Tina Bhatnagar, explained that December's report-process update was met with a "tripling" of the site's abuse support staff, which has led to a quintupling of abuse report processing. Chat logs recently revealed how Twitter is used by small groups to create vast harassment campaigns, thanks to sock puppet account and relative anonymity.
Comment: measure once, cut twice, WHOOPS (Score 1) 222
HAN SHOT FIRST ....errr, I mean.... whether Deckard is a replicant is left AMBIGUOUS!
Comment: Re:Old School Kermit (Score 1) 460
I have several SATA to IDE adapters with card, and my experience reading has been miserable. Better off if you can find an old external case, or best to cable it up like described above.
Microsoft's Goals For Their New Web Rendering Engine 166
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Soulskill
from the learning-from-mistakes dept.
from the learning-from-mistakes dept.
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has put up a post about explaining what they wanted to accomplish when they started working on Project Spartan, the new web browser that will ship with Windows 10. They say some things you wouldn't expect to hear from Microsoft: "We needed a plan to make it easy for Web developers to build compatible sites regardless of which browser they develop first for. We needed a plan which ensured that our customers have a good experience regardless of whether they browse the head or tail of the Web. We needed a plan which gave enterprise customers a highly backward compatible browser regardless of how quickly we pushed forward with modern HTML5 features." They also explain how they decided against using WebKit so they wouldn't contribute to "a monoculture on the Web."
Comment: Re:First Fascist! (Score 1) 39
You are a prohibitionist. As such you are illogical, irrational, arrogant, and totally unreasonable.
Most people do not have a problem with the jackboot of authority, so long as it is on their feet rather than their neck.
Comment: Re:First Fascist! (Score 1) 39
Once again you are proving pudge right
This is the worst crime of all.
Comment: Tell a story of progress (Score 1) 698
Among the stories of your life, family and other things, also tell a story of progress. Tell of things that we enjoy today that didn't exist when you were a child. How did those things come to be?
I am very sorry to hear of your impending death and the pain it will bring to your family.
Maybe also tell a cautionary tale for when she is an adult. The world has had dark episodes of history before. And it could again, but on a much larger scale. What lessons can be learned from the past to prevent it happening again?
I am very sorry to hear of your impending death and the pain it will bring to your family.
Maybe also tell a cautionary tale for when she is an adult. The world has had dark episodes of history before. And it could again, but on a much larger scale. What lessons can be learned from the past to prevent it happening again?
The Groups Behind Making Distributed Solar Power Harder To Adopt 366
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Soulskill
from the sunsetting-the-sun dept.
from the sunsetting-the-sun dept.
Lucas123 writes: Distributed rooftop solar is a threat not only to fossil fuel power generation, but also to the profits of monopolistic model of utilities. While the overall amount of electrical capacity represented by distributed solar power remains miniscule for now, it's quickly becoming one of leading sources of new energy deployment. As adoption grows, fossil fuel interests and utilities are succeeding in pushing anti-net metering legislation, which places surcharges on customers who deploy rooftop solar power and sell unused power back to their utility through the power grid. Other state legislation is aimed at reducing tax credits for households or businesses installing solar or allows utilities to buy back unused power at a reduced rate, while reselling it at the full retail price.
Comment: Re:New patent strategy (Score 2) 101
new patent = (existing process) x ["with a computer" | "on the internet" | "with a 3D printer" | "in a box" | "with a fox" | "via drone" | "in virtual reality" | "with methane micro-lasers" | "in an app" | "with more cowbell" | "with an AI" | "dipped in liquid nitrogen" | "using fiber optics" | "facilitated by nanobots" | "using MEMS" | "meme enhanced"]
