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Comment Re:He also didn't think of those that loved him (Score 1) 194

by Slackus (#47349481) Attached to: The Internet's Own Boy

APK, when I see comments like this from people regarding suicides, it tells me immediately that the person making these comments has never felt suicidal. Never been so utterly and completely depressed that death seems the better option at the time. You simply cannot understand this if you have never experienced the feeling.

The tragedy is that many who do don't make it through the experience. I am glad that I didn't go through with it at that point in my life when it seemed the best option... Although, to be honest, it was really only further self-doubt that delayed taking the final plunge long enough for things to start to turn around.

It is a tragedy that Aaron Shwartz didn't make it through for things to start getting better, but there is certainly blame to be shared in his case... We ALL, as a society as a whole, failed Aaron imo.

Parent, +1. You can spot someone that has no experience or knowledge of clinical depression a mile away.

Comment Re:P/E ratio of 106 (Score 2) 535

by Slackus (#46583513) Attached to: Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion
FTFA: "This includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock (valued at $1.6 billion based on the average closing price of the 20 trading days preceding March 21, 2014 of $69.35 per share). The agreement also provides for an additional $300 million earn-out in cash and stock based on the achievement of certain milestones."

Comment Re:Just use IPV6 (Score 1) 338

by Slackus (#43652909) Attached to: BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT
The main reason in my opinion most ISPs are not fully migrated to IPv6 is because there are MANY inhouse and 3rd party apps that ISPs use for monitoring, operations, business etc that do not support IPv6 yet. It not just a matter of upgrading the routing infrastructure to support IPv6, they have to uplift most if not all of their operational tools as well, which all adds up to millions.
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Submission + - Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c (0x10c.com)

Submitted by silentbrad
silentbrad writes: As announced last month, Notch — creator of Minecraft — is working on a sandbox space game (no, not the Mars Effect April Fools joke, though it's similar). "The game [0x10c] is still extremely early in development, but like we did with Minecraft, we expect to release it early and let the players help me shape the game as it grows. The cost of the game is still undecided, but it's likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in. Single player won't have any recurring fees. ... The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish. Full specifications of the CPU will be released shortly, so the more programatically advanced of you can get a head start."

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