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Comment GSA and NTIA (Score 1) 117

The GSA should be held accountable for the solarwinds123 fiasco. They have sat on their hands for years spending billions (trillions?) and not really taking their supply chain seriously. Also worthy of mention is the NTIA's Software Transparency initiative:
  https://www.ntia.doc.gov/Softw...

Comment take a look at the RSA trade show floor map (Score 1) 62

You can get a pdf of the south expo floor plan here:
https://www.rsaconference.com/...

Exabeam booth was #555

So the adjacent booths may be part of the RSA coronavirus cluster:
Unisys, Thycotic, KnowBe4, Signal Sciences, Siemplify, were all within about 15 to 25 feet of the Exabeam booth.

Knowing whether the infection spread from that both is now just a waiting game.

Comment Where are the recipes? (Score 1) 655

I think one of the big hurdles to eating insects is a clean food supply.
Currently you can't just go to a shop and buy crickets for instance, and the ones in your basement are probably not sanitary.

Also, where are the recipes? How do you cook ants? How do you cook crickets? What parts are okay to eat, and what parts are just chitin?

I don't know enough about how to cook them, nor do I know what to cook them with.
It is not that we don't have the stomach for it, it's simply a matter of how to cook them and how to make them tasty.

I remember back in the 80s when escargot was considered disgusting, and when people would talk about eating sushi and others would interject 'but won't that make you sick?' the same with steak tartare. People get over the gross factor if they can try it and it's tasty, but they need to have a source that is readily available for them to jump on the bandwagon.

Comment They will need to make hardware stores illegal (Score 5, Informative) 551

It sounds like the police have never heard of PA Luty. http://thehomegunsmith.com/ check out some of the designs folks. You could make a MACHINE GUN that would be fully functional from nothing more than parts you bought at a hardware store. It would cost you about 200 bucks or so in tools and parts.

Comment It's okay guys (Score 1) 254

There hasn't been a good game out of Lucas Arts in years. SWTOR was a crapfest and nothing else came from them in recent memory that was remotely good. EA will create more craptastic star wars tie ins while watering down the brand and it will be like star trek games, they always come close but never really do it right.

Comment Re:This game is NOT pay to win (Score 1) 157

I just thought about an aspect of the game that has not been talked about much.

There are other upgrades other than purchasable ones.

Your specialties can be upgraded ONLY with Cert points.

Do understand, you cannot purchase cert points, however you can boost how fast you can acquire them (even effectively double them with a subscription).

So you can level your guy slow or fast depending on the certs.

the nice thing about this is you get a sense of progression with or without boosts.

to give an idea of the feel of boosts to xp gain I'll use a game to game comparison

a 50% boost is kind of like leveling in vanilla WoW compared to vanilla EQ
a 50% boost with a sub is like leveling in current WoW compared to vanilla EQ.

I hope this helps to clarify the pay to win fallacy.

Comment Re:LOve the game, hate the real money bullshit (Score 1) 157

you are so completely correct, they offered a game that was awesome for free, and gave you the option of grinding out weapons (which doesnt take inordinately long compared to let's say. . . vanguard or EQ2) or just buying them with real world money.

you can choose to buy or not buy, it's up to you, but you are not a weak target without paying which is totally fine.

sony did this one right

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