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This must be what older generations felt like when music kept getting redefined by younger generations.

Here I am, screaming at my screen "Why can't you whipper snappers just leave it the way it is! I like the floppy disk icon! This is the devils work I tell you! You're going to ruin the internet!!"

On the bright side, I don't think EA could possibly be as bad at game production as they are at public relations.

Not with that attitude we wont, doctors.

> Under what regulation?

Unfortunately when it comes to the IRS, current laws and regulations are irrelevant. They prosecute retroactively and change the rules as they see fit to scare the public into compliance.

The fact that people are so quick to ask about IRS compliance with bitcoins is evidence of this. People feel an obligation to an entity they owe nothing to, because they are scared to death if they don't report a couple bitcoins, that FBI, secret service, or even ATF is going to break down their door and storm in with assault rifles.

The U.S government is going to have a tough time recruiting hackers if they keep asserting their right to assassinate them.

This sounds a lot like an idea some religious groups had, where they would sign up to adult websites and then charge back, with the goal to cause the merchant accounts charge back ratio to exceed 1%.

Don't think this worked out either.

After reading a little more its clear that my original post was incorrect.

Even the original tone of "crippling" hardware seems a little far fetched to me now, it seems like these cards are just optimized differently for specific tasks (gaming, or workstation).

Still would be nice if they could get their drivers working better under windows 7.

> Sure, there are ways around this, like buying a million rubber duckies in China, then shipping them to the US and selling them at carnivals. But -again- try to import a million of anything, and US Customs will want to know your name and SSN.

Importing and selling that volume of products also kind of defeats the purpose of running a drug cartel. Drug money is quick and easy, rubber ducky money, not so much (which is quite counter-intuitive if you ask me). At some point you will become more involved in the rubber ducky game, funded by drug money.

I didn't choose the duck life. The duck life chose me.

Maybe the configuration is a little different too.

If the professional counterpart is actually worse for gaming, perhaps its because the resources are allocated to supporting multiple displays instead? In that case, is it reasonable to consider this crippling the device?

For the past few months my GeForce 450 drivers have been acting up, and my computer was actually unusable until I disabled just about all hardware accelleration for the card.

Is it possible that the new drivers for this card are so unstable just because nVidia is trying to thwart this type of hack?

If that's the case, totally unacceptable to cripple my machine just because they want to prevent other people from altering their cards (which I will immediately begin to look into how to do myself now).

This article made me like him a lot.

It could apply to anything, I've heard of vegans who go as far as not using anti-bacterial soap because they don't want to kill the bacteria, or not eating honey because they consider the honey as stolen property belonging to the bees.

My point is in order to do something you wouldn't like done to you to something else, not out of necessity, but just because you feel like doing it, you may have missed an update or two from evolution's package manager.

That wouldn't fall under the umbrella of "just because you can". Just because you can means, you don't need to, but you do it anyway, because you can.

I'm also arguing that it is not necessary to be cruel to animals, even if you have to eat them. Beating and torturing a chicken doesn't provide any more protein than if you treated it humanely and slaughtered it in a quick and painless way.

You can even argue that being a part of our diet actually benefits the species as a whole. You don't see cows and chickens on an endangered species list, but you don't see them in the wild either.

To go even further, we will eventually have the ability to create synthetic meats that don't require us to slaughter animals.

Well, then we shouldn't have an income tax at all then.

If the rich aren't paying enough in taxes already, and the tax burden on the lower and middle class is already crushing them, then cutting their taxes means they will have more money to spend, which this guy says will create more jobs.

I think we can go one better though, if the rich are getting more money from increased consumer demand, then they are going to raise wages so that they can increase demand even more.

Why stop there? Cut taxes on the rich too, now they have doubled their profits, but why settle for that when they can raise their wages even higher, increasing even more demand on their products, creating even more jobs.

I wonder how many people I lost the moment I mentioned cutting taxes for the rich. I wonder how anyone can think its reasonable for the government to own you for x% (whatever tax bracket your in) of the time you work.

I like how they freak out about the services government did cut, but fail to notice that things like air force one, white house chefs, and other luxuries that cost millions of dollars, enjoyed by a few elite, are still in full swing.

The services they do cut, are the things they feel will extort the most people through emotional response, nothing close to the first things that could have been cut.

> How do you know animals are born with such rights (or if humans are, for that matter)

In my world, the only obligations anyone or anything has, are to defend yourself, and to treat others in the manner that you would want to be treated.

Exploiting a superiority over another species just because you can, in my opinion, is an indication of that one hasn't transcended inferior instincts.

All personal opinions of course, I could be wrong about everything.

Nobody and nothing gives you rights. You are born with them, and its up to you to assert them for yourself.

Nobody is obligated to protect your rights for you (and vice versa), but they can do so voluntarily.

Looking at it like this, it makes animal rights a matter of morality.

An animal cannot defend its own rights, so they depend on humans to voluntarily defend their rights for them. Nobody is obligated to do so, but its reasonable to believe the world would be a better place if we treated animals better.

My biggest fear would not be dying on Mars or on the way to it.

My biggest fear would be having the novelty wear off and coming to the realization that I just moved to a trailer park.. on mars.

It kind of does, "dress to impress", "fake it til you make it", are different ways of trying to manipulate other peoples perception of your abilities.

Instead people should dress to make themselves feel good about themselves, childen wearing a superhero cape aren't trying to make you think they're super heros, they wear it because it makes them feel like super heros, because when they look in a mirror, they think they look awesome.

When you find the perfect hat that makes you look awesome, there's a moment where all that matters is that bad ass person looking back at you in the mirror, who for that moment looks like the you that exceeds every standard you've ever set for yourself, who can do anything. You know other people would never think the same thing about the same person in that mirror, that's fine, this is your moment, not theirs. Every time you wear that hat, you get to experience a little bit more of that moment, even if everybody insists the hat looks ridiculous on you. They call you stubborn for wearing it, but the reality is in this case, you have transcended caring about what they think about you, when you wear that hat.

Are those clouds I see in that blurred image?

Are you teasing us with the prospect of 3d weather (perhaps by using radar data)?

If not that's cool, but if so, great idea.

Script kiddies have been doing it since at least the 90's.

This is typical when employees try to shake down their employer. They exaggerate their working conditions, and ignore the financial circumstances behind a companies actions.

The convenient thing about protesting government surveillance is you don't have to travel very far to protest.

> "I hate to disturb you when you’re playing SimCity,"

I really cannot believe they actually started the post with that line. The very reason they are in this PR nightmare is because people have been unable to play the game.

Too soon Lucy, too soon!

When time travel is achieved, many of us will need this when our future programmer selves come back to retaliate.

A lesson we can take from this is just because they are supposed to be security questions based on private and personal information, doesn't mean you should play along.

Why should the answer to where me and my spouse met really be where we met? Why couldn't my answer be where Lucille Ball met Ricky Ricardo? Why couldn't my childhood street address be Evergreen Terrace?

Add a layer of security by creating an entirely different alter ego with a whole history behind it, and use their birthday, maiden name, etc, instead of what somebody can look up in public records, or find out from people close to you.

> Ironic that this chapter fails to get its own point

but if there is no such thing as success, then surely there is no such thing as failure.

He nailed it.

I wonder if the tooth fairy will pay Rand more than minimum wage for pulling those teeth.

> When a text editor or spreadsheet requires an internet connection to run we call it innovation.

I would be raging if my text editor required an internet connection for me to access my local files. Al Capone rage even.