"New Study Fails To Show That Violent Video Games Diminish Prosocial Behavior"

Gee... the study failed?

In related news, New Study Fails To Show That Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese.

Researchers plan to conduct further studies in the hope that sooner or later one of then won't Fail.

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Let's complete the job and prohibit all speech. I mean, what the hell, right? It's all just a bunch of noise. I demand silence!

No, no, not all speech - Just corporate speech. Big difference there.

I'll accept that corporations have HUMAN rights when they can reflect on the death of their "children" in a Bhopal-like disaster, while rotting away inside a cage for "life". Until then, yes, I do demand silence from them.

Yeah we would be better off without fire. I grant its astonishing capabilities: the sharpening sticks, cooking food, keeping us warm, lighting the darkness, the convenience of GPS and much more. But the fire's benefits are relatively modest compared with the terrifying dangers it brings.

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Hey now, if they only inflicted their crazy on themselves, I would agree with you.

Unfortunately, they also seem to like raping Western female reporters. How many does this make in the past year? I can NAME three, and seem to recall a couple more. From "We want democracy, let's rape journalists!" to "yay, we won, let's rape journalists!", and now to "we don't like the self-imposed perversion of democracy we got, send more journalists for us to rape!"

But of course, they don't limit themselves to just reporters, oh goodness no! With an average of 23 rapes a fucking day (not sure if I meant that as a pun or not), in the middle of a crowded public place, well now - They'd soon run out of female reporters crazy enough to visit their little hellhole.

Rabid dogs don't deserve democracy, they deserve to have someone put them down for the good of us all.

1) Why does this not count as illegal collusion within an industry group? That they decided to announce it as a unified decision provides de facto proof that they conspired to deprive their customers of choice. If my itty bitty company made a similar joint announcement with one of our biggest competitors in the region, half a dozen state AGs would have us in court before the newsprint dried on the initial announcement.

2) I make use of these usurious parasites' services because it lets me conveniently move my money from place to place without worrying about the security of either cash or my real bank accounts, and I can essentially do all my spending with one tidy itemized monthly bill. If I can no longer use Visa to purchase the goods and services I want, I no longer have a reason to use Visa at all.

And a bonus thought, for good measure - For those talking about the NSA or Bitcoin - This involves regional protection of content, a favor to Hollywood, nothing more and nothing less. At least direct your vitriol in the right direction, folks.

Yeah, this guy couldn't make it past the third sentence without tagging himself as technologically illiterate. I can't believe he tried to cite GPS as a benefit of the internet.

I fundamentally agree with you ten-million percent.... but to be fair critical systems connected to the internet is not a an easily solved technological problem.... and that's because it's not a technological problem at all. It's a people problem. If you can figure out a fix for people problems then there's about a half-dozen Nobel Prizes soon to arrive at your doorstep.

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Snowden didn't make you look bad by revealing your little games both at home and abroad. You made us look bad by pulling this shit in the first place.

Cut it out and give Snowden the hero's welcome home he deserves.

No wonder Debian was insecure. Seven would have been a lot more random than four.

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In-car apps just plain suck. Please spare us the horror, Ford, and just give us a good flexible tablet dock in the middle of the console.

Buy a TomTom, or Garmin, or Magellan nav system. Clean, easy to use, minimalist while providing the information you need to drive (and usually the option to add lots more layers of info for non-driving use, if you really want it).

Now compare that to any in-dash OEM GPS (not simply one licensed from the big three mentioned above). Oh, sure, they'll show your car moving on a map, but good luck doing something as advanced and obscure as, say, entering an address you want to go to, without taking the six-hour prep course and clicking through three or more "You must not use this while driving! You agree to not hold Chrysler responsible if you die in a horrible fiery wreck because the GPS lied to you! You will go to church this Sunday!" warning/disclaimer screens.


And don't even get me started on the actual "entertainment" part of their crapware. A $50 standalone DVD player blows the pants off the crap Detroit seems to think we want. Really, why shouldn't I have a 10-band equalizer on the steering wheel, but it makes me visually navigate a touch-menu to change the radio station?


/ Warning for the just-plain-impaired: This post may contain hyperbole and traces of nuts.

I really hate working with lazy stupid programmers who were hired only to fill out an HR racial preference checklist. Nothing is more demoralizing than working with a shiftless, smelly, untalented "winner" of the racial preference lottery.

Y'know, of all the jobs I see filled with useless people, I honestly have never seen that effect in programming.

I've met plenty of coders who the rest of us would all do better if they surfed for porn all day; I've met coders who, once they corner you somewhere will talk your ear off until you feel the need to stick a pencil through your (or their) skull; I've met plenty of coders who have no concept of 9-to-5 (and I can't claim I do so well at that one myself).

But overall, I've always seen programming as one of those fields that requires just too much rigor and discipline to even appeal to the "real" slackers. Love it or hate it, rock at it or suck at it, programming is hard.

I'm pretty sure the ads come free of charge.

Sweet! Where do I sign up to have them display my ads on your desktop for free?

Note: Sometimes "free" still means "less than zero".

Didn't even RTFS, eh?

I am sure you old-timers who predate this usage probably still complain about this. Frankly, you would serve the planet better if, instead of your pendantry over this one use of this word

No doubt you will have great success in explaining to that group of nice young Somalian men who just boarded your cruise ship that you have no issue with their unauthorized copying and distribution of your ship's manifest. They will certainly recognize your wisdom and give you a free pair of knock-off Nikes as compensation for your wit.

Visual Studio and other products have free versions now, so TechNet subscription is mostly outdated service.

Translation: "I have no clue what Technet does".

Visual studio? Try virtually every Microsoft product ever created, available for download and legal for running without further licensing so long as you use them for intentionally-vague "development" purposes.


Bad move all around, Microsoft. On the one hand, I don't really care, because I have the last 15 or so years worth of physically mailed MSDN discs, and if you cared about selling from your back-catalog, you'd still offer XP for retail. On the other hand - You want me giving the latest and greatest version of your toys a spin, because what amuses me to write my next internal app for today, my company will pick up a few hundred thousand in licenses to legally deploy it next year.

But hey, just keep pushing Win8 and the cloud, and pulling stunts like this, and then wonder why no one seems to write apps for your platforms anymore.