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Comment Re:Bring on the comments... (Score 1) 247

by Brian (#46112391) Attached to: Red Team, Blue Team: the Only Woman On the Team
I don't know. She talks about it being sort of 'taboo', well guess what? I'm 30 now, and in highschool when I was learning this shit, it was still "stupid nerd bullshit" (much 'safer' today - and she is 21? or was when she started at this place) Guess what? I dug deep and followed my passion anyway, because fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. It's not like taking computer courses in highschool makes you some sort of fucking alpha, lol.

Comment Re:Oh for crying out loud (Score 1) 325

by Brian (#44972029) Attached to: Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws
No, he didn't. You are either being deliberately misleading or you're not understanding. Statement 1: Email systems need to read email messages to make the system work Statement 2: Email systems also need to read the email to do ads. There's no statement 3 that links up "they need ads to make the system work"

Submission + - GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Ignore or Don't Care About ESRB Ratings

Submitted by Deathspawner
Deathspawner writes: Grand Theft Auto V has proven itself to be GOTY material, and has even managed to break a sales record already. But aside from that, the game has also become one of the most "adult" oriented games ever released, with torture, drug use and sex prevalent not long after beginning the game. Many would believe that such things would deter most parents from picking the game up for their young children — but not so. In an anonymous editorial at Kotaku written by a video game store employee, it's being said that out of the ~1,000 copies sold in the first week, at least 10% of them went to parents accompanied by a child. Clearly, this could be interpreted as a problem. Techgage adds that this is one of the biggest problems facing gaming today. In one breath, many parents criticize video games for being so violent, and in the next, they're saying "thanks" at the counter after picking up these very games for their kids. While ESRB ratings and other warnings about violent games for kids have good reason to exist, there are still many who ignore them, aren't aware to them, or simply don't care about their warnings.

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