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Comment Re:Thatâ(TM)s funny (Score 4, Informative) 110

by kelarius (#58769460) Attached to: Target Experiences A 'Massive' Nationwide Cash Register Outage
The store I was at was just ringing everything up as "merchandise" and issuing a $5 discount for the hassle, as it would take 10-20 seconds for each scan to fail before they could enter the price of the item.

Also worth mentioning that the card machines were fine, it was a connection issue to their central inventory system that went down. They could scan an item, it would read the code and know what it was and how much it was, but the register wasn't able to update the inventory system.

Comment No surprise here (Score 4, Interesting) 548

by kelarius (#57986934) Attached to: Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble?
They've dumped hundreds of millions (billions?) into this franchise and produced 1 good movie, 2 mediocre movies, 2 mediocre TV shows, and 1 more or less bad movie, not to mention the controversy surrounding the games so far. I'm not surprised that Disney is looking to roll back their investment, it's been profitable but it wouldn't take too many more bad projects to kill off the brand. They're getting out while they're still ahead.

Comment Re:price (Score 1) 103

by kelarius (#57919356) Attached to: HP's Omen 15 is the First Gaming Laptop With a 240Hz Display
$1370 is pretty cheap actually for a RTX 2070 equipped 15.6" laptop, I spent a little more than $1000 for a GTX 1060 laptop of similar spec about 6 months ago, and that was still considered a decent deal. As for 240hz refresh on a 15.6" display, I don't know any gamers that would be able to use such a speed that are willing to play on such a small screen, so this is pretty much a gimmick.

Comment Re:Today's Decree (Score 1) 153

by kelarius (#57145236) Attached to: The Ampex Sign Is Coming Down

Hear ye! From this day forward, any monument or landmark unknown to Cultural Significance Minister Kalarius will have its status removed and any physical marker shall be decommissioned as soon as is logistically convenient. All current or future restoration projects are now cancelled to repair or renovate all monuments or landmarks that have been determined to look "worn and kinda crappy."

We must never change anything lest we trample all over someone's nostalgia! In any case, your examples could be (or are being) renovated and refurbished so that future generations can enjoy them, this is a bloody sign for a business that isn't even at that location anymore, I think the vast majority of people that drive on 101 aren't going to miss it. If it's so culturally significant, why doesn't someone pay to fix it up and move it to a museum?

Also, I kinda like the title, maybe I'll add it to my sig ;)

Comment Re:Cultural shortsightedness (Score 1) 153

by kelarius (#57142732) Attached to: The Ampex Sign Is Coming Down
I sure as hell didn't know what Ampex is, nor had I known anything about the sign, someone seems to have forgotten to tell the rest of the world about its cultural significance. A quick googling also showed that the sign looked worn and kinda crappy now so from an outsider's perspective, good riddance

Comment Re:Might take a while (Score 2) 307

by kelarius (#57130608) Attached to: Scientists Find Way To Make Mineral Which Can Remove CO2 From Atmosphere
It's actually worse, 1 ton of magnesite can sequester 1/2 ton of CO2, we are releasing 1200 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere EVERY SECOND of every day. I also question how much CO2 is created in making the magnesite, considering that it's sped up formation is due to polystyrene microspheres, which are in themselves a petroleum product. I imagine that to even make a dent, we'd have to be forming millions of tons of this stuff every day, and that's just not feasible.

Comment Re:Whoa (Score 1) 513

I disagree that this is a negotiating tactic, Apple has indicated through inaction for several years now that they don't really care that much about the professional market, who are really the only people that are going to care about the switchover. Switching to ARM allows Apple to merge the iOS and macOS platforms, easing development costs and grab more control over their environment. They've already made it clear that this is the path they want to take with products like the iPad Pro, if they could take that and expand it into a full iMac like experience, why wouldn't they?

Submission + - Valve Bans Developer After Employees Leave Fake User Reviews (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Insel Games, a Maltese developer of online multiplayer titles, has been banned from Steam and had all its titles removed from Valve's storefront after evidence surfaced that it was encouraging employees to manipulate user review scores on the service. Yesterday, redditor nuttinbutruth posted a purported leaked email from Insel Games' CEO encouraging employees to buy reimbursed copies of the game in order to leave a Steam review. "Of course I cannot force you to write a review (let alone tell you what to write)—but I should not have to," the email reads. "Neglecting the importance of reviews will ultimately cost jobs. If [Wild Busters] fails, Insel fails... and then we will all have no jobs next year."
In a message later in the day, Valve said it had investigated the claims in the Reddit post and "identified unacceptable behavior involving multiple Steam accounts controlled by the publisher of this game. The publisher appears to have used multiple Steam accounts to post positive reviews for their own games. This is a clear violation of our review policy and something we take very seriously." While Valve has ended its business relationship with Insel Games, users who previously purchased the company's games on Steam will still be able to use them.

Comment Re:My 0.02 (Score 1) 464

by kelarius (#55696391) Attached to: Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day

>Bitcoin is a recipe for epic financial disaster.

As surprisingly large as Bitcoin has become, it's still peanuts compared to anything that could affect the markets.

The tragedy will be at the individual level as the last of the greedy fools comes to the realization that they're the LAST of the fools, and have been left holding the bag.

Now... how long that takes, and how big the bag is when it happens... no idea. What I do know is I will have absolutely no sympathy for anyone losing their shirt when the crash comes. I will consider those people to have economically auto-Darwinated.

This, more than anything. Bitcoin hasn't penetrated into mainstream financial markets at all, so if/when it implodes it won't affect the market at large. What worries me is that Bitcoin Futures has the power to change that, it offers an in for investment bankers and hedge fund managers to start speculating in bitcoin, which given their penchant for greed and the current wild west regulatory situation in cryptocurrencies, could create a recipe for disaster.

Comment Re:Usefulness of Bitcoin? (Score 2) 464

by kelarius (#55695559) Attached to: Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day
You have to use an exchange like Coinbank or Bitfinex, they'll take your bitcoins and offer you whatever other currency. Thing is that these exchanges often have restrictions on when, how often, and how much you can exchange, often they have queues that you have to wait in to actually exchange your currency. If you're a new user, you can usually expect to wait a while to drop your bitcoin for some other currency, and you can usually expect to have a limit on the amount you're allowed to convert. The exchanges do this to help prevent a crash via a flash selloff, and to some extent it's successful, however eventually consumer faith in the future of the value on Bitcoin is going to drop off (I mean really, $17k?) and when that happens those same protections are going to make the crash all that much worse for people involved.

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