"Donald Trump's former intelligence director John Ratcliffe" - an article leading with that almost made me spit take. Anyway, I can't really throw stones since back in the 70s as a teen I was all over Chariots of the Gods and Close Encounters was(and still is) one of my favourite movies, but your example of "proof" just because he appeared on Rogan and it was "verified" is just another in an endless stream of incidents that "no seriously, really happened, we're not crazy, there's proof". This has been going on since the end of WWII, and the various proofs just seem to quietly go away over the years. It's not because the government knows and is keeping secrets, it's not because aliens have a shockingly poor PR department - it's because there are real explanations for these events, from known government research they're trying to keep a lid on, to odd physical occurrences that are rare or easily misinterpreted, to issues with the people claiming the stories to outright lies. Sometimes combinations of all of the above. There are credible sources, but there are no aliens from another dimension sneaking around doing...something. The charming naivety of conspiracy theorists that humans are capable of maintaining a huge lie for generations while America voted in a dangling hemorrhoid called Trump has lost it's charm. People aren't that smart, they aren't that good. Generations of people from different countries keeping a dark secret because the religious establishment wouldn't take well to little green men? Please.

I can't help but wonder how many people posting self-righteously here about McJobs and the doings of various EvilCorps grabbed a McCafe this morning and are anxious about their cat fountain not hitting the next day delivery target yesterday. Without demand, this sort of stuff wouldn't be happening. Sorry, the rest of you, I''l let you get back to your Whole Foods Free Trade blend and artisanal sous vide omelette just dropped off from Starbucks...

It's part of the scientific process. If the current model doesn't answer all the data(such as has always been the case), you start to hypothesize systems that might fill in the missing pieces. It's throwing ideas against the wall and seeing what sticks. Despite what all the incredible arrogance of the armchair physicists have to say here, it's more than likely a problem with how it's being reported("Physicists have discovered a portal to the fifth dimension!") rather than degreed scientists being oh so much more stupid than the collective cynical genius of slashdot. Of course it's possible the relevant people are indeed fishing for public exposure and grants, I don't know, but keep in mind pretty much all of the major breakthroughs in scientific history started with a what-if that the general scientific community found nonsensical. Earth not the centre of the universe, Kepler physics, Newtonian physics, how disease is transmitted, evolution, relativity, quantum mechanics...

I was wading down the comments until I found "problem solving". It is absolutely, number one the most important yet weakest skill that we come across when interviewing for new positions. We tend to get advanced "telling me what you think I want to hear" as the most common skill, which is absolutely useless and actively destructive. Learning problem solving is a little tough to nail down perhaps since you can use it across multiple disciplines, coding included, but teach the kids this. When things go south, and they always do, be prepared, have a plan. It needs strong logic skills.

"what.. just not play them? " Umm...yes. Look, I'm sure it sucks to be prone to this. I have always found that certain combinations of refresh rates in some video games(I remember Stalker being a real problem for me) make me nauseous in under 5 minutes. I know feeling nauseous and having an attack aren't the same thing but we all have our crosses to bear. I can't even begin to imagine looking at the trailers for the game and not thinking that this might well be a risk - hmmm, wonder if I should check this out first? There's a common sense factor that should be involved - you need to pass responsibility completely to the publisher? What about people that have been mugged - might find some sequences disturbing. Should there be a boilerplate for that as well? Once almost drowned in a bathtub as a kid? Had a traumatic car accident? Just watch the trailers and apply a little common sense.

It gets asked, but nobody gives a sane answer. Even the supposed reason for it's introduction has been proven BS, there are plenty of arguments against, almost nobody *likes* it, they either hate it or shrug. I don't buy for a moment that getting rid of it would cause a shitstorm - we seemed to have survived Y2K with our shirts still on, and that was a hard target. This is where conspiracy theories spawn - is there someone behind the scenes making the topic go away every year? I mean, this isn't even *hard*, like why the US insists on sticking with imperial over metric despite the fact it's from their 1700 overlords. Simply. Stop. Doing it.

Please. He will weaponize the experience like the Brazilian president and use it to show it's not a big deal even with an old, overweight president. (Well, his ego will word that differently). You can't seriously believe this guy will learn anything positive from any experience, except as it benefits him.

I can't speak for the hundreds of thousands of historical explorers that braved new and dangerous lands for...well, mostly money and power...but I'm pretty sure they didn't answer an ad like he's offering. Even contemporary astronauts, pilots and scientists have a fairly strong sense of self-preservation and don't go into a project with the understanding they won't come out the other side. The man is an idiot who is asking for the ultimate sacrifice so his name can be emblazoned on the pantheon of the historically relevant.

I don't know if this was meant to be a laugh or not, but it's definitely related. Mental health isn't an on/off switch, it comes in nothing but shades of grey, and yup UFO sightings are definitely related to the cultural psyche. Drone prevalence probably helps as well. Bottom line I use is: if ghosts/UFOs/Bigfoot were real, tangible things, the insane ubiquity of phones with cameras should already have answered all those mysteries. Nope.

Yep, not only that, but the package delivery system is brain dead as well, handling everything like a 90G linux package update from 15 years ago. It's astounding the level of their incompetence especially since they knew this would be a hit. I waited until the next day assuming it might be a bit better, it took me about 4 hours. Bonus points for looping 30 seconds of mind melting elevator music the entire time with no way to disable I could see. As a comparison, on the same system I downloaded and installed the entire Death Stranding in about 10 minutes. For anyone who still has this ahead of them, a pro tip I got from Steam was to kill the installer when the blue bar comes up and nothing seems to be happening. That puts you in "repair" mode when you restart it, it behaves like a proper installer then, showing you progress. Christ.

They are helping create and support a lot of amazing artistic projects, in fact I'm finding it increasingly difficult to justify my Netflix account(I tend to put it on hold every year or so) but Prime has some really amazing shows. I think it's less about artistic and more about the ownership mentality - when they show The Expanse, they certainly have approval over it but it's actually produced by Alcon. Same for other shows like The Boys, etc - they essentially contract out the work. With games, they appear to want complete ownership over it (possible driven by long term IP hopes?). To pull that off, you have to hire a lot of the right people, near the top, and worse: *listen to them*. That's hard for a lot of big corporations. Add to that even the "best" game dev leaders are riddled with a history of hit and miss.

I think there was a period where responsible journalism was thriving. Yes, back in the Victorian era the rags were little more than Penny Dreadfuls and the established newspapers towed party lines. However around the Depression I feel there was a thriving journalism that questioned the status quo, asked difficult questions and fought for the misrepresented. Even prior to that newspapers were founded on speaking up for the repressed. Nowadays, though, that is characterized as "radically leftist", and frankly leads to your suggested perspective where every view is either left or right but most importantly propaganda. If everything is propaganda then we might as well pack up public opinion and crawl back into our matrix tubs of goo. Sorry, I don't buy that when Woodward and Bernstein were digging into the Watergate story and the Boston Globe's Spotlight team were peeling back the layers covering up the catholic church pederasty scandals that this was propaganda in action. It was good old fashioned journalism fighting for the truth to be revealed. I can't be that cynical.

I get your point, but do you think the future holds a secure internet where everybody follows best practices? Perhaps it's just cynicism but I don't think that will ever happen, there's simply too much corporate pressure for profits over revenue-free costs like maintaining security.

RAM is there to be used. A lot. If you spent money on a computer you want to squeeze every possible usage out of the hardware. I'm constantly baffled by people obsessively tracking every time an app goes beyond what they consider to be "necessary" to get the job done - I want every app, everywhere, to utilize all of my hardware absolutely to the max *in a resource friendly fashion*. Back in the days of XP, yup, memory gobblers were a serious problem but since Win 7 Windows isn't really all that bad for memory caching, maybe not up there with Linux based systems, but quite usable. You use a decent OS that handles requests for resources well, you're fine, and you'll get things done faster. It would also be helpful if people didn't post titles that are misleading, as you've done here.

I realize there isn't always a way to avoid these things, but I just find it humourous that in the console gaming media world, this week ended with all sorts of buzz about how awesome Ghost of Tshushima is on PS4(and will be compatible on PS5), and Microsoft news is dominated about the death of something. Well played, Sony.