Posts by auburnman

Re: Darkness. No Parents.

Not just PC games. Arkham City was borderline unplayable shortly after release on PS3 due to some insane slowdown if you tripped certain conditions (Gliding too long, using fast travel? Can't remember now but it was fairly easy to fall foul of.) Luckily a prompt patch fixed it, but putting up with this sort of day 1 bullshit appears to be par for the course now.

Re: I hope Doom is due out well into 2Q2016

The people who still want to play DOOM are already playing DOOM. The original is still being supported with hi-res texture packs, top notch map packs and mods by the community.

The 'modern' era graphic DOOM games can't hold a candle to them, especially when they discard the original virtue of throwing you straight into the action for various cutscenes with various people you don't care about gurning at the camera, trying to lay down story rationales more complicated than 'Kill all the baddies.'

"Which means they are essentially piggybacking on the work of others?"

If they are (making no judgement here) Google will have a hard time doing anything about it. They can't make Google search harder to access without shooting the golden goose that's made them billions over all these years, and I don't think they want to open the can of worms that any sort of lawsuit around profiting off the work of others would bring (people in glass houses and all that.)

Re: Cortana lived a VERY

As I understood it voice recognition is not quite ready to be standalone with the oomph available on portable devices, although this information might be out of date. But if you were serious about using it as a personal assistant you'd have to tolerate Siri/Cortana/whatever having network access if only to answer questions like "Find out when the local B&Q shuts tonight".

Everyone gets blocked on Twitter, I'm talking about a single account being blocked multiple times triggering a flag. If one guy blocks you, he might just be a bellend who doesn't want to hear an opinion from outside his echo chamber. If ten people block you in a month, someone at Twitter needs to take a look at what you're posting.

Re: Advice for Government

I don't know, then you'd have to trust them to keep food in date and in stock...

Re: Observations

The bot can't be engine powered if it's intended to go into buildings and rescue people. And I'm just speculating but I would imagine the engine wouldn't be able to scale up & down in power supply fast enough for the balance adjustments needed to stay upright on two legs.

Re: In which country? And why?

I think the docs would have to be official secrets rather than just confidential by convention before leaking them in and of itself would be a crime. However as has been noted already, by offering payment for copies of the documents Wikileaks have created an opening where you could argue criminality on corruption or bribery laws (depending on the specifics of the case if there were ever such a leak.) Even if the offender weren't in the relevant jurisdiction, they could be hassled with extradition requests or limits on travel.

Re: As Ive said before

"If you arent [sic] doing anything wrong you dont[sic] have anything to worry about - I havent[sic] got an issue with the NSA or MI-whatever slurping any data related to me as Im [sic] not engaged in anything illegal."

Yes you are, you just don't know it. There are so many laws on the books across the world that someone somewhere can get you for something. That's why it's important that the authorities don't have detailed records on everyone, otherwise an agent with authority (a human being like anyone else) can decide to go through your history to try and make your life hell if they take a dislike to you.

"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."*

*Give me his browser history and he is totally fucked.

That's why it needs to be a scaled response:

On the Whitelist > Straight through -

not on Whitelist > Challenge of some description -

Fail challenge > No connection.

The problem will arise when bad actors get hold of voice recognition software that can beat the challenge and/or certain scams are profitable enough to justify using 3rd world call centres "Hello this is Microsoft calling we have detected a problem with your computer".

Couldn't they develop the tools to allow the Mozillaphone to run Android apps? Roll their own or licence what BlackBerry came up with (I'm sure BB would love the cash.)

Re: It doesn't matter...until it does

Yeah I made an absolute hash of reading those charts. Mea culpa.

Re: interest on what?

I do mean interest on national debt, which is a separate problem, but also a concrete measurable example of why time is money and why tax delaying is such a problem.

Re: The other way

Yeah they've had this for years. Reducing left turns (or turns that don't cross incoming traffic in your country) will inherently increase right turns (turns that DO cross incoming traffic in your country). This just sounds to me like a recipe for INCREASING vehicle collisions unless you're talking about only applying it at a tiny subset of junctions that are cycle accident blackspots* (and even then you'd be better off addressing the problem at the location.)

*queue someone informing that this is exactly what is suggested and that I didn't RTFA

Re: Cancelled

I was of the impression that Kickstarter was only for projects that aimed to make something for their backers i.e. prepaid sales transactions, not seeking donations. They probably got punted for being on the wrong platform.

Re: Shy Tory

That could be what's causing the errors then; if you put me in a simulacrum of the real polling booth/situation, with a polling slip reasonably equivalent to the real one, but it's not the actual vote and there are no real consequences for whatever I write, I'd be fairly tempted to tick UKIP/BNP/whatever for a laugh.

Yes but then the joke wouldn't work unless they had coincidentally ordered a ton of lemons.

Re: Automatic bricking...

"If the USB device tied to your wrist is removed the encryption key for the hard drive is dropped"

You could probably tie <security action of your choice> to something more innocuous like when the system detects a device has been removed from the headphone jack. That way you could trip the switch by backing away from the computer with your hands up (assuming a reasonably sturdy set of phones round your neck.

Re: MBR

Agree; it feels almost like a White Hat has gone over to the dark side...