Eye contact. Focus. Coherency. Body Language. Actual conversational interaction.

I'd say having a hood space to make it look more like a traditional pickup could actually serve a double purpose: Reduce the culture shock of such a radical redesign, and be a place for additional storage. Perhaps a tool box that would free up the bed for a bulkier load.

I'd also like to know what the load weight limits would be presumed to be. Would they go with the standard 1/2 ton, like the 1500 Silverados or F-150's, or would they be beefing up the suspension to compete with the 2500's or F-250's in the 3/4 ton arena.

Well designed GUIs are great when you need to get something basic going quick, but they lack the power that one can get out of the CLI when you know what you're doing with them. For instance, when I set up CISCO routers through the CLI, I can use my network documentation to get it and the firewall configured and throwing packets around in about 2 minutes per machine, mostly waiting on the hardware to catch up. When I was configuring my Ubiquiti router for the first time through its GUI, it took me a bit longer to find where in the tabs the options I was looking for could be set. About 7 minutes each device to configure them through the GUI (since the router wasn't laid out the same as the switch interface, and the AP interface was a completely different layout altogether). On subsequent config setups I just enabled the SSH interface though the GUI first and used the CLI via SSH to run scripts and get the router/switch up in only a few minutes. The Access Points, however, don't have any CLI available; they require an encrypted web connection through their GUI from a designated control computer.

Not to worry. It's just 007 protecting us from the Goldeneye Device

Hint: Goldeneye mission 1 on the N64

You must be new here... wait... you're UID is 6 Digits. Did you buy it off of someone or is it senility affecting your judgement? /. has always been a news aggregater, only the focused subjects have changed from strictly Tech to anything tangentially related to tech. As such, dupes and stale stories have always been a thing.

You're absolutely certain they spelled it "Don" and not "Dawn"? I agree that Don would be a strange name for a girl. Dawn, not so much.

You missed April Fool's day by a week. Try to keep up.

If not anymore, it used to. There's a reason that there was the term "Slashdot Effect" and people would say a site was "slashdotted." It spawned by the fact that if a website was featured in an article on this site, it often couldn't handle the influx of traffic from /. users and would wind up effectively DDOSed by the traffic. I remember times when ArseTechnica and Wired were even brought down by a major /. feature that lured users by the thousands.

Now... not so much. Now even the hottest topics only get a few hundred comments at best. Out of context I don't think the current numbers would warrant the interest of a troll network. If you take the historical influence that /. has had on the web just by considering the aforementioned /. effect into account though, I can see where it would be worth posting a few permanent trolls to gauge the current political temperature of the site's users.

Ahh...youth. There was once a time, the ancient times, the times before Dice, where this type of article was the norm on the site. You see, Slashdot used to have the catchphrase "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" in which all things Tech, Online Security, Gaming, Music Piracy, and Nerd Hobby related dominated the headlines and you never really saw anything about Politics...

Then 9/11/2001 happened and drove a political wedge into the headlines as the Owners back then felt the, probably justifiable, need to put the infamous event on the front page. Ever since that dark day the site has been slowly pandering more and more to the political theaters. Then the site was sold to Dice and more and more articles were pushed to the front page not because of the technical content, but because it was determined that those topics would be hot and generate several hundred comments... even if the article itself was dibble.

And now... here we are.

Because between the "yesterday" referenced in the article when they "turned it on for the first time" and the "now" when the article was written there wasn't enough time to use the machine in any form or function, right? It's just sitting there...idle...like a giant fucking paperweight and does absolutely fucking nothing. Or maybe there might actually be enough time in the 12 - 24 hrs that differentiates "yesterday" from "today" that they could have spun up some simulations that they had ready to go.

BTW... It's the Article, not the editors, that specified the so called contradiction that really doesn't fucking exist you disingenuous fuck.

Not to be a Debbie Downer... but Obsidian is on Microsoft's radar for acquisition to be an XBox exclusive studio; so that may not be a viable future plan for Bethesda. One Source of many.

12 years ago I did a few rounds as an election tech in GA shortly after they first started using the electronic machines. Back then the machines had the capability to each print out a record of votes counted with a built-in printer that had memory independent from the unit's main memory. This was done so there was still a way to retrieve the votes from the machine both as a fail-safe if the machine became disabled as well as an audit trail in case of discrepancies. It was a matter of procedure that the precincts had to generate the "receipt" print-out from each machine and send them into the county Board of Elections office with the memory card and stack of tokens so the officials could make sure there was at least a card for each vote according to the printed totals. While they did that, I was inserting the memory card and dialing up the Secretary of State server for the uploads.

FTFY you disingenuous prick. I am neither Democrat nor Republican. They both need to die, preferably in a smelter bath. It's become a blame game and no solutions are being discussed. I don't give a fuck who's fault this shit show is anymore, because now it's both of y'all's fault, and it needs to fucking stop.

Well... there go all my backups!

As opposed to what? A Switch? Nintendo's not quite there yet for me. The choice for console gaming is limited. I'm also a PC gamer as well. I want the platforms that afford the greatest freedoms of movement between them. Right now, Sony has the least being downright locked down, and Microsoft has the most being able to integrate with a Win10 PC as well as being able to have some games where gamers from PC and X-Bone can play together. So, yeah: I chose fair to middling option over the piss poor ones, simply because there's no "good" option out there; let alone perfect.