shit game + shit graphics = shit game

shit game + costly graphics = shit game

spend more time on the game instead of figuring out how to bleed kids dry with subscriptions and microtransactions, or encouraging addictive and gambling-like behavior with loot crates and card packs, or leaking out incomplete games and then asking for more cash for DLC. Oh and maybe for once when you have to backpedal on dumbass plans because of overwhelming outrage from your fanbase, actually use the word SORRY in your white-text-on-black-background non-apology apology.

Nobody was claiming it was new. The article simply said that the word was chosen as word of the year.

Okay, I'll bite.

If you can't already trust your current product/manufacturer to not spy on you, what on earth makes you think you could trust that they're telling the truth when you've turned some switch "off" that it really is actually off?

We've had countless companies lie about shit before and they've gotten away with an "oops" before - no apology, no repercussions. There's absolutely nothing preventing companies not giving a single fuck about this.

Here's an idea.

Let's make higher-level corporate positions that are eligible for bonus above a certain threshold be somewhat responsible. For them to receive their bonus, they have to sign an agreement that if there's ever any wrongdoing, financial or criminal punishment, that they will have to be partially responsible. If any giant corporation gets hit with a fine, it means virtually nothing because corporate entities absorb even the largest fines with a few days profit. And 'the public' feel like justice hasn't been served because no actual people have been held responsible for these fundamentally human decisions/mistakes.

Imagine if there was a $200 million dollar judgement against Facebook and every person who got a bonus over say, $500,000 at Facebook had to pay a pro-rata amount of that fine. That'd sting the pockets of those whose job ought to come with the responsibility to own up to those mistakes. If engineers can go to jail for fucking up the design of a bridge, why can't people with corporate responsibility be held accountable too. If there's a criminal punishment, congrats you signed up to receive your million dollar bonus the last three years, looks like you'll have to spend 6 months in federal prison along with a dozen other management-level coworkers that also received a big bonus. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Don't want to ever risk going to jail or being fined? Then you don't get that ridiculous bonus or golden parachute.

This is just me spitballing but I'm sure if anybody spent more than five minutes typing out a post, they could polish it up.

"It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.

Diana Moon Glampers loaded the gun again. She aimed it at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds to get their handicaps back on.

There's something frustrating and sad about this article but I'm afraid I can't remember what it is. Felt like a doozy though.

Cost me around $30-$50 a pop (in 1976 dollars). With Ticketmaster, prices almost immediately doubled - and have continued to rise at a rate significantly higher than inflation could ever explain

Inflation calculator says $30-$50 in 1976 dollars is $126-$210 dollars now. Tickets for Guns n' Roses current tour range from $155 to $280 for front row pit (standing area directly in front of the stage) tickets. Pretty sure inflation explains most, if not all of that. Ticketing middlemen suck for sure and they add their cut to the top of the pile, but inflation plays a much bigger role than you're leading us to believe.

"seal" is the Japanese word for "sticker" - it is a foreign loan word from English - it comes from the seal (sticker) that is usually found on an item you purchase. If you buy an item that comes in a box, it usually has a round adhesive sticker or similar that 'seals' the box, showing you it hasn't been opened before.

Doesn't this describe almost every job?

I mean, I generally agree with the article. But the article seems a little... self-aggrandising, doesn't it? As if to say "hey, we're just as important as doctors and engineers!"
The thing is... I kinda agree - programmers are very important and their actions can have serious consequences if done poorly or incorrectly. But like... plenty of other jobs are just like that too.

If the person stocking the shelves at your local grocery store doesn't clear out the expired stock, or maintain proper hygiene around fresh food, they could easily contribute to someone getting sick or spreading bacteria or a virus.

If the person selling gear at a bicycle store doesn't realize the wheel or frame is broken, or that a frame has been recalled due to a defect, they could easily contribute to someone being seriously injured.

If a school teacher ignores serious bullying or doesn't fact check the information they're teaching or doesn't make sure their students properly know how to do proper calculations, they could easily contribute to a serious mistake made by the student some time in the future.

If a salesperson helps someone get a loan approved when they've very much shown in all likelihood that they probably can't afford the monthly payments or that the loan is predatory in nature, they could easily contribute to that person's life taking a serious financial turn for the worse - and we all know how stressful and desperate people can get when they can't make ends meet.

Yes, programmers need to be aware of their moral compass - but so does everybody else to varying levels, pretty much. Generally speaking, just - don't be a dick, don't be apathetic and use some common sense. That'd go a long way for pretty much anybody in any situation.

Using the word "repair" is bullshit at best. It doesn't fix anything. The connection is still severed, it simply and ever-so-lightly reconnects because of a combination of luck and the weak magnetic attraction present. This is practically a shitty, ill-imagined magsafe connector except much, much weaker and probably dangerous. If one of my power cables gets severed, I want to know about it so I can fix it properly, re-establish integrity to the cable so that a light breeze doesn't have it dropping in and out every three seconds, and not have the actual wires exposed. I don't want to have it re-attach with only the slightest of magnetic attraction, only connected by pure luck that whatever severed the connection in the first place just so happened to leave the two ends within three millimeters of each other.

If a tree falls in the middle of the forest and there's nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound?

If a story is posted on Slashdot and an editor doesn't edit it, is the editor really an editor?

hashtag existentialism

Which make it so you can only sell new cars if you're a car dealership.

Just curious... is there anything that prevents Tesla from classifying their cars as "used" but simply providing all the benefits of a new car purchase? For example in one previous country I lived in, if the seller is a business (as opposed to a private seller), government laws provide the buyer with a 30-day warranty period with any purchase of a used item, however new items are required by law to come with a minimum of a 1-year warranty. However there is nothing preventing a business from providing longer warranty periods for either used or new items. If a business wants to sell a used toaster and provide a 2-year warranty on it, they can.

If Tesla sells their car as "used" but offers warranty terms identical to a new car, would that work? I'm assuming not, but would like to know what legislators threw into the law to prevent such a workaround.

Wait a minute... since when were you allowed to smile in a passport photo?

I had to resubmit my passport application once because the photo provided apparently involved a smirk. Really not kidding.

It always seem to be that the most frustrating and/or ridiculous computer stories have something to do with printers.

One personal experience I will never forget had to do with a Canon multifunctional I purchased. It was a printer/flatbed scanner and was pretty good at both. But one day it simply stopped reading the cartridge. It gave a message that I needed to insert a cartridge even though one was in there. Replaced it with a new cartridge just in case but still wouldn't recognize it.

I thought to myself "well, the scanner still works very well and it's really fast so at least I can use it as a scanner, right?"

Wrong. The printer would remain in 'flashing light error' mode and would not allow me to dismiss it in anyway whatsoever, preventing me from ever using it as a scanner. Seemed like a waste of a perfectly good scanner.

okay, I give up.

The summary says it doesn't have a steering wheel. The picture in the linked article shows a steering wheel. What?

The charity "has apologized to its users and has informed them that their email addresses, usernames and an encrypted version of their passwords had been exposed in the data leak," according to The Stack. "It has assured members that no sensitive or financial information was accessed."

Dear groups, companies and corporations: Just because you think or say your users' email addresses and usernames are not considered sensitive information does not mean your users do not consider it sensitive information.

Feel free to publicly post all the private email addresses and usernames you use on websites if you think it's not sensitive.