Titanfall 2 still is amazing. it still stands up, even today, to all us wanna be mech warriors out there. I'm not sure how much it would cost to "remaster" it to the latest game engines and platforms, but if they're not going to do that, it might be a killer way to bring it back to the masses... 10 years later.

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

Till we have our Y2K moment... That they plead all us old guys to come back and debug their AI code.

In terms from XKCD, It's definitely a way to see it. Although as the world evolves, we as a society collectively view these places to be the new town square.

https://about.fb.com/news/2019...

Well is it, or isn't it? I don't know how to think of it other than false advertising. You're providing your data and in turn not receiving the services that you in turn traded for.

And the likeliest explanation is things connected with the GDPR "right to be forgotten":

https://mashable.com/article/c...

Can we also think of it instead of destroying them, that they were mashing them together? As soon as I saw the crusher, they're probably saying that this thing does all these things, which pretty much the previous iPad did too.

An unpopular way to look at it, but aren't there any pros to rising CO2 emissions (I understand the Cons) but isn't another affect is higher crop yields, higher plant growth (possibly in the rainforests), NASA published an article that basically said it's making the earth greener for now.

From the article:

Green leaves use energy from sunlight through photosynthesis to chemically combine carbon dioxide drawn in from the air with water and nutrients tapped from the ground to produce sugars, which are the main source of food, fiber and fuel for life on Earth. Studies have shown that increased concentrations of carbon dioxide increase photosynthesis, spurring plant growth.

While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change. The gas, which traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere, has been increasing since the industrial age due to the burning of oil, gas, coal and wood for energy and is continuing to reach concentrations not seen in at least 500,000 years. The impacts of climate change include global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and sea ice as well as more severe weather events.

Which right? Do you mean the right to manufacture or sell alcohol? Because drinking it was still legal (if you were considering that the right.)

"On January 17, 1920, 100 years ago, America officially went dry. Prohibition, embodied in the US Constitution's 18th Amendment, banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. Yet it remained legal to drink, and alcohol was widely available throughout Prohibition, which ended in 1933."

https://www.bu.edu/articles/20....

Freaking semantics, am I right?

If you stick with a PIN, law enforcement would also be stuck under the proposed system. iPhones with PIN codes are actually hard to hack by guessing randomly.

I put in 32 GB of DDR4 3200 RAM for $100 in my desktop. There's really no reason not to do it if you can swing an extra fifty bucks over 16 GB even though, yeah, 32 GB is overkill.

The hidden issue with the MAX was the lack of adequate pilot training. Nothing I say is meant to vindicate or defend Boeing. But much of the growth are in foreign low-cost airlines that save money on maintenance and pilot training. (An improper activation of MCAS would mimic a runaway trim, which is a condition that all pilots are supposed to recognize right away, and the solution is the same: turn off the automatic stabilizer trim.)

The MAX crash on Lion Air was caused by a defective AOA sensor. The part was known to be bad, and supposedly replaced before the final flight. The flight before the doomed one saw the MCAS trigger but the crew knew how to deal with the problem. They turned off the trim system and continued to the destination. However, the crew of the doomed airplane kept on fighting MCAS instead of turning off the trim system.

The Ethiopian Air incident saw the crew react properly by turning off the electronic trim system when MCAS activated. However, the crew accidentally got their airplane flying too fast so they were unable to manually trim their plane up. The last thing they did was to turn on the electronic trim system again hoping to use it to trim up, but MCAS fired again and killed everyone.

Again, Boeing really fucked up. Using only one AOA sensor? Allowing the system to trigger an unlimited number of dives? Giving the system the power to almost fully deflect the horizontal stabilizer? Hiding MCAS from pilots? All of that was incorrect. But Lion Air wouldn't have happened if the defective AOA sensor was correctly replaced.

The airplane in question is a 737-800, not the MAX. The plane basically went straight down into the ground. MCAS would have caused a rollercoaster pattern because the system only activates for a few seconds at a time. I can't even imagine what would cause a plane in cruise to dive straight down like that.

FIDO2 might meet your requirement.
https://fidoalliance.org/how-f...

What is .xyz?

Hype.

"So why this hype? Because the cryptocurrency space, at heart, is simply a giant ponzi scheme where the only way early participants make money is if there are further suckers entering the space. The only âoeutilityâ for a cryptocurrency (outside criminal transactions and financial frauds) is what someone else will pay for it and anything to pretend a possible real-word utility exists to help find new suckers."

https://www.usenix.org/publica...