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Comment Re:SubjectIsSubject (Score 1) 521

by amazingxkcd on Monday May 14, 2018 @10:55AM (#56608322) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux?

wish I had mod points to mod this up.

Comment Sherman Antitrust Act? (Score 1) 79

by amazingxkcd on Friday April 27, 2018 @09:08AM (#56512853) Attached to: Sprint, T-Mobile Aiming To Reach Merger Deal Next Week

This would be considered for review by the Feds due to the Antitrust act, right?

Comment Not a malicious ad? (Score 1) 220

by amazingxkcd on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:48PM (#56465871) Attached to: Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta

Any italians here able to comment on how pasta empowers their conversational gesticulars?

Comment Re:Didn't work on CNN just now (Score 1) 88

by amazingxkcd on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:11PM (#56458447) Attached to: Chrome 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Content Blocked By Default

already exists https://adnauseam.io/

Comment Re:We successfully fought BLINK (Score 2) 88

by amazingxkcd on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:35AM (#56457617) Attached to: Chrome 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Content Blocked By Default

or just browse the internet with Lynx. Who needs fancy schmancy looking symbols & signs these days?

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 661

by amazingxkcd on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:52AM (#56423811) Attached to: Reddit Continues To Protect Racist Language In Favor of Free Speech

Haven't touched reddit in years, but is SRS still around? Because if so, then it's hypocritical to be banning FPH & CT while still leaving SRS up & free to run amok

Comment "Re-interpreting laws" (Score 1) 177

by amazingxkcd on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:08PM (#56393685) Attached to: SpaceX Can't Broadcast Earth Images Because of a Murky License

How convenient, just in the nick of time to grab more money!

Comment Go outside! (Score 5, Funny) 338

by amazingxkcd on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:21AM (#56386933) Attached to: Despite Having Unprecedented Access To Technology, Generation Z Is Already Bored

Damn kids, get back on my lawn so I can kick you off

Comment Well... (Score -1) 208

by amazingxkcd on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:02AM (#56379647) Attached to: US' Proposed China Tariffs Would Target Robotics, Satellites

This isn't going to stop the Chinese at all, just makes it more of a nuisance

Comment The most powerful... (Score -1) 1

by amazingxkcd on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @09:39PM (#33889650) Attached to: Sisters Stage Combat Tournament To Find Men To Date

Can they defeat Slashdot?

Submission + - Valve Announces DotA 2 (gameinformer.com)

Submitted by RulerOf on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @02:57PM

RulerOf writes: Just over a year after hiring IceFrog, the lead developer of the wildly popular DotA Allstars mod for Warcraft III, and the speculation surrounding Valve's recent trademark filing for the "DotA" name, Valve has officially announced DotA 2.

Gameplay of DotA 2 is being ported exactly from the current DotA Allstars and includes every hero, but vast improvements are being made to the game including VoIP, a coaching system, in-game rewards, and AI that takes over for disconnected players. Lastly, it all runs on top of the Source engine.

GameInformer's website appears to be struggling right now though, as they had an exclusive on this story.

Valve's Battle Against Cheaters 336

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 19, 2010 @04:13AM from the busting-punks dept.

wjousts writes "IEEE Spectrum takes a look behind the scenes at Valve's on-going efforts to battle cheaters in online games: 'Cheating is a superserious threat,' says [Steam's lead engineer, John] Cook. 'Cheating is more of a serious threat than piracy.' The company combats this with its own Valve Anti-Cheat System, which a user consents to install in the Steam subscriber agreement. Cook says the software gets around anti-virus programs by handling all the operations that require administrator access to the user's machine. So, how important is preventing cheating? How much privacy are you willing to sacrifice in the interests of a level playing field? 'Valve also looks for changes within the player's computer processor's memory, which might indicate that cheat code is running.'"

Comment Re:FIRST NIGGEr (Score -1, Offtopic) 233

by amazingxkcd on Thursday January 07, 2010 @09:50AM (#30681674) Attached to: 2010 Bug Plagues Germany

stop trolling, you insensitive clod!

2010 Bug Plagues Germany 233

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 07, 2010 @09:47AM from the well-that-was-ten-years-late dept.

krou writes "According the Guardian, some 30 million chip and pin cards in Germany have been affected by a programming failure, which saw the microchips in cards unable to recognize the year change. The bug has left millions of credit and debit card users unable to withdraw money or make purchases, and has stranded many on holiday. French card manufacturer Gemalto accepted responsibility for the fault, 'which it is estimated will cost €300m (£270m) to rectify.' They claim cards in other countries made by Gemalto are unaffected."

Comment Re:Friends (Score 0) 504

by amazingxkcd on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @04:52PM (#30660380) Attached to: Best Buy $39.95 "Optimization" At Best a Waste of Money

Oh course, this is a scam. Think about, smart people build their own pc, such as in my case, and manage all their tweaking themselves. These major retail centers, esp Best Buy are tailored for the dummies who do not have a clue about anything, and yet go there because Best Buy seems smart. The one exception is mircocenter, for which i had great deals with (i7-920 for $200) because they specialise with those who know and that they can cather for the dummies.

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