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Crowdfunding a campaign to ‘engulf Valve employees’ lives’(venturebeat.com)
2 points by ijk 12y ago|0 comments
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by ijk 12y ago
There's no corruption on the part of Kotaku described at that link. None. It's also excellent evidence that this is all about harassing Zoe Quinn and has nothing to do with ethics or journalism.
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by ijk 12y ago
Would you prefer the New York Times?[1] Or maybe The Washington Post?[2] And let's not pretend that anyone has any evidence of actual problems at Gawker, only disproven accusations. [1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/201
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The ultimate weapon against GamerGate time-wasters: a 1960s chat bot(newstatesman.com)
10 points by ijk 12y ago|4 comments
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by ijk 12y ago
> What I don't get is how they constantly counter-act the common rules on how to deal with trolls or stalkers. Actually, the general advice is to tell everyone: > Tell Everyone > Report the incident to law enforcement. Notif
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by ijk 12y ago
You're joking, right? KiA is an echo chamber repeating things that have already been debunked by the time they post them. Like the supposed ISIS bot thing that's currently trending there.
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The only guide to Gamergate you will ever need to read(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by ijk 12y ago|0 comments
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by ijk 12y ago
> There is no organized harassment happening A simple trawl of 8chan or the gamergate git repository says otherwise.
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by ijk 12y ago
"between 2009 and 2012, only 10 cyberstalking cases were prosecuted in [The United States]" [1] So the answer seems to be: pretty much. Threatening someone online is highly illegal [18 U.S. Code § 875 (c)], but prosecution is rare
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by ijk 12y ago
No, I didn't say that article itself is harassment. Just that it isn't as even-handed as it tries to appear. I just grabbed to Vox link because it was one of the more even-handed summaries from the more general news sites, regardl
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by ijk 12y ago
Well, Kain's article is a description of the exact kind of harassment campaign described in the original article. So the first sense I meant is that the contents of the article are the exact thing talked about. For the DMCA: "unve
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by ijk 12y ago
Oh look, an example of the exact thing the original article is talking about, down to the unsourced accusations of DMCA takedowns for censorship.
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by ijk 12y ago
Looking forward to experimenting with procedural geometry with this.
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by ijk 12y ago
My view is that it's theoretically possible to design interesting quicktime event system, but that it tends to mash your verb-space together. In general, you get a stronger message with a clearer relationship between the button the pla
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by ijk 12y ago
I'll go one further: Wasteland 2, obliquely referenced in the the article as a Kickstarter project, just came out. I haven't finished it yet, so I'm a bit close to it, but so far my personal opinion is that it's _better
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by ijk 12y ago
> The nice things about IA links is you can pretty reasonably assume that they won't suffer from link rot, right? The catch there being, the Internet Archive retroactively respects robots.txt that forbid crawling, so if someone ge
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by ijk 12y ago
Oddly, there are many more video games that use the 3.5 rules (D&D Online, Neverwinter Nights 2, etc.) and only one that uses the 4th Edition rules (Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale).
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by ijk 12y ago
> 1. It's telling that the images on their own site don't look anything like the cruel tricks they actually spring on users: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html I'm pretty sure tha
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by ijk 12y ago
> I would assume foliage is correlated to wealth Likely. Lawns have pretty much always been conspicuous consumption: Versailles is sometimes considered the source of the first modern lawn, as opposed to a pasture.
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by ijk 12y ago
While mercury poisoning has affected major ecosystems (it's not a good idea to eat fish you catch in the Great Lakes), it's limited to where the chemical actually is. I suspect the problem with radioactive waste is that it's
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Codewise, the most horrifying/amusing bit of .kkrieger is probably the insane metaprogramming to save 230 bytes of space: http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for-...
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by ijk 12y ago
Age of Empires on the PC did indeed have random map generation. Age of Kings also included the scripting language that let modders create their own scripts to generate new types of procedural maps. The cells from the random generation were
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by ijk 12y ago
Looking beyond Double Fine and Telltale, there are dozens of indie titles[1] and a thriving amateur scene. Of particular note are the Blackwell series, To The Moon, and Kentucky Route Zero. [1] http://www.gog.com/games&#x2F
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by ijk 12y ago
PSB stands for Photoshop Big: it's for Photoshop files larger than the arbitrary size of 30000x30000 pixels or 3 GB, whichever is smaller. PSB files can be up to 300,000 pixels wide. More information than you ever wanted about Adobe fi
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by ijk 12y ago
Implanted medical devices do seem like the ideal situation for wireless access, albeit you probably don't want to overburden the thing with features either.
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by ijk 12y ago
> Because this is the world we should want to live in? Where you must pay a member of the protection racket to mediate publishing knowledge of someone else's extreme wrongdoing? Might be useful to distinguish between the ideal and
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by ijk 12y ago
The trick is, of course, that it's nearly impossible to predict what will be useful to someone ahead of time. While you can probably sort out some of the spam, a comprehensive archiving project should probably avoid false positives whe
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by ijk 12y ago
Historically, the US Post office did have a Postal Savings System. [1] Several other countries still have similar systems. I'm not sure that the US post office is the best place to solve this problem right now, but it's not unprec
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by ijk 12y ago
> 30000 people dead every year, It's worse than that: the annual global estimates are 1.2 million dead, 50 million injured. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_motor_vehicle_c...
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by ijk 12y ago
Note, however, that suburbanization is a post-car phenomenon.

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