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nerdcityon Open tabs are cognitive spaces

My open bar tab agrees.

nerdcityon The people owned the web, tech giants stole it. This is how we take it back

Trump derangement syndrome in full effect. Nobody cared until the link was made to the Trump campaign benefitting from analytics research. Now it's an issue.

nerdcityon The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff is getting cheaper

Most of the stuff we need is more highly regulated than the other stuff...

nerdcityon Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

Oh. Not the esports organization.

nerdcityon Day of the Tentacle Remastered

It was certainly different, but I wouldn't say the original art style was 'destroyed' due to the fact the at any time in the game you can switch back to the original style. It's not exactly destroyed if its RIGHT THERE.

I think with DotT there is less room for that kind of art upheaval though, because, frankly, the art already looks good. It still holds up very well today, expecially if you run in SCUMMVM in turn on some graphics filters.

nerdcityon Day of the Tentacle Remastered

As someone who has the original game CDs and played through each of those games at least 10 times over the years, the BEST part of these remasters, IMO, is the added developer commentary. I really, really enjoyed playing through the Monkey Island and Grim Fandango remakes and hearing Tim and crew's thoughts, remembrances, jokes, etc around the development and production of the games, the music, the characters, etc. Really added something new and special to the playthroughs of games that I know like the back of my hand, like old friends.

nerdcityon Pentagon admits it has deployed military spy drones over the U.S

>any use of military drones for civil authorities had to be approved by the Secretary of Defense

Gee, what oversight. I'm sure they'll be denying approvals left and right.

nerdcityon Apple’s FBI battle is just the beginning of a reality check for the tech sector

>We're talking about homeland defense here, the Islamic State is on the rise

I can taste your sweet fear from here.

nerdcityon Apple’s FBI battle is just the beginning of a reality check for the tech sector

Encryption is a reality check for the government. It's not going away, even if they outlaw it.

nerdcityon Is France's AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap?

Blank Keycaps is the way.

nerdcityon iOS 9.3 Preview

#webosneverforget

nerdcityon David Bowie Has Died

Anyone else remember BowieNet? The man had his own ISP back in 98, for crying out loud...

A true visionary of an artist. He really understood technology, and what changes would be wrought by it for people, the arts, social systems, the music business, etc.

Dance, magic dance, Mr. Bowie. Dance, magic dance.

nerdcityon How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street

Big Bird was supposed to be the child viewer's avatar.

nerdcityon Japanese Government Workers Wary of My Number Cards as ID

>“It’s been decided by the government as a whole, so our job is just to go ahead with it,” said an official at the personnel affairs division.

This sentiment makes me feel ill...

nerdcityon Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review

>I think the biggest problem was that nobody took it seriously

There was that one guy, who got the tattoo...

nerdcityon Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal

Who fights for the User?

nerdcityon Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached

>I know that they are rife with corporate subsidies and targeted protectionism of politically favored domestic industries but it is better than the alternative.

The alternative of actual free trade, free from meddling governmental interference, without corporate subsidies and targeted protectionism?

nerdcityon How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames

Because taxes are innately moral...

nerdcityon Reviewing Steve Yegge's Prediction Record

Poor Palm :(

nerdcityon Is Angular 2.0 ready?

Enyo was/is an amazing web component framework, but I think the whole HP webOS debacle pretty much scared people away from adopting it, due to uncertainties about it's future ownership and development. I believe it's still in use in the LG webOS TV SDK, at least.

nerdcityon Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to Local Police

I'm just noting that the timing coincides with an upward usage of cctv and public surveillance.

nerdcityon Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to Local Police

http://qz.com/326086/the-places-in-the-world-that-have-a-bur...

In 2011, France went even further, forbidding concealment of people’s face in public—through a burqa, niqab (a version of the veil that leaves a slot for a woman’s eyes), but also masks or balaclavas

http://www.connexionfrance.com/cctv-video-surveillance-prote...

President Sarkozy wants 2011 to be the year that "vidéoprotection" goes mainstream, and has set a target of 60,000 cameras watching public spaces around the country by the end of this year, up from the current 20,000.

nerdcityon Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to Local Police

People asking for body cameras on all police, whether net benefit or not, need to understand everything that is coming with it. That includes automatic facial identification of everyone. Police will simply no longer have to ask for ID. Obscuring your face is already being made illegal... (see: burqa bans)

nerdcityon Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer

Then they just can just "order" another one. We're talking government here. Declaring faster computers by government fiat is already a dumb idea.

nerdcityon Surrender fiscal sovereignty in return for bailout, Merkel tells Tsipras

Fiscal sovereignty was already surrendered when the adopted the Euro in the first place.

nerdcityon Understanding Linux CPU stats

Why not describe each element in the actual order that top actually presents them, from left to right, instead of jumping around? #flow