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Posted by tomman

If you excuse me, I'll be busy trying to find which dicks I have to suck in Japan so I can get any CrazyBus arranges out there for the next Comiket. Or the M3, I'm not picky.

Posted by "talbain"
As it turns out, the people who benefit the most from "the past is in the past" are always the dominant group. History is weaponized via forgetfulness, via traditionalist thought and nostalgia for an age that never existed.

You blaming those who are younger than you is very clearly a sign of your own traditionalist thinking, as if using a rotary phone has anything to do with being a functional member of society today.

Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6myUwP3wPfs

Japan was and is a deeply racist, deeply sexist nation, and a big part of that likely comes from their education system sugar-coating history for people. For some, "you can't know what you don't know" holds true, simply because it's very likely a history they were never made aware of. It's one of the most insulated nations and their own policies attempt to ensure that remains true into the foreseeable future.

I'd really prefer if they would start students in US high schools with Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but that's probably too much to ask.

One can safely assume the US government has no interest in empowering its people, given those currently running it.

Posted by BearOso

Even at an uncompressed 128kHz 24-bit rate that would be 91146 minutes of music. At ~3 minutes/song it would be 30382 songs. If you stored 10 different performances of each, that would still be 3038 original songs, which no band has ever achieved. Forgive me if I don't believe it.

Posted by Covarr
barely an inconvenience.

Posted by tomman
In this edition of "OH NO MOZILLA YOU DIDN'T~~!":

- Recent editions of Firefox come with a screenshot tool that unlike your trusty Print Screen key, can actually take full page screenshots without requiring to splice up partial shots on Paint (or your favorite equivalent). You can optionally upload the screenshot to Mozilla servers and share it with your friends or whatever. Except for the "optionally" bit: when you hit "Save" after taking the screenshot, it will NOT be saved to a .png file to your HDD as you would expect. No way Jose, that's not how things are done in the post-PC age! Firefox will first upload the screenshot to Mozilla (without your explicit consent!), THEN it will download it back to your PC. You can't make this shit up: Mozilla is uploading your screenshots (maybe with personal/confidential information) to their mothership without even bothering to tell you!

Posted by Nicholas Steel

You'll likely find they're dropping support for the function because Windows 10 v1809 supports the same Screenshot functionality (but without the Cloud shit), press Print Screen on the keyboard and drag/resize a box around whatever you want to screenshot and click the on-screen confirm button (Enter also works for confirmation). iirc you may need to enable the following setting if you upgraded from an older version of the O/S: PC Settings > Ease of Access > Keyboard > Print Screen Shortcut.

Posted by Screwtape
On the other hand, making that function the default and calling it "save" does feel deceptive. Selling out user's privacy in the name of short-term convenience is more Chrome's style.

Posted by Kawa
No can do. As with any board, activity is up to the users.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
I AM CALM!!!

Posted by Rew
Toshiba Satellite C55Dt-A, processor: AMD A6-5200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics, installed RAM: 2.00 GHz, 4.00 GB (3.45 GB usable), 64-bit operating system with x64-based processor.

That's what I found under device specifications. Is that what you needed to know?

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Now, civilian aviation, THAT was intentionally ended. The then-new FAA, charged with striking a balance between commercial and civilian aviation interests, decided that civilian interests were in the way of commercial interests and erected a series of regulations that were intended to force civilians to the ground.

Posted by SuperMikeMan
RIP the second bBoard, it will be missed

Posted by Nicholas Steel
If you want Mupen64+, just use Bizhawk and avoid the awful Front-End's for Mupen64+ as well as the clunky and very unintuitive RetroArch UI. RetroArch does not save anything to the HDD if you click the X in the toolbar (including save game data). That alone is plenty of reason to not use it.

Bizhawk will save to the HDD if you click the X.

Posted by sureanem
If Western carriers were to start employing security measures similar to the Israeli carrier El Al, an airline which is forced to take security much more seriously, wait times could probably be cut by around 80% for around 80% of passengers. Why isn't this done?

Posted by KoiMaxx

Haven't seen the movie yet but would really like to. I do have some apprehension though after my experience with Ghost in the Shell; hopefully it's not just all eye candy, but rather actually true to the source material (within reason).

Posted by sureanem

Not despite, because of.

The cultural factors are important. As they say in the video, rather than focusing on the weapons that could be used for an attack, they focus on the people who could use them. And that would probably be illegal in the US. However, informally, this already does happen at Western airports. If they'd formally adopt the practices of El Al, but with a lower threat model, they could skip the security screening for those who don't belong to any risk groups. It would be trivial to first check the passport biometrics and/or government databases, and only then carry out interviews and such for those from the higher risk groups. Same with the air marshals thing. If they'd have all people in, say, risk group 5 or above travel on some planes, it would be sufficient to have air marshals and such on those. It would also serve to decrease worst-case losses and incentives for most types of airline terrorism.

I don't agree with his assessment that Israeli airport security is inapplicable to the other airports in the world. Many elements of it certainly are. I mean, the IRA isn't active anymore, nor is the Red Army Faction. This is a matter of simple Bayesian statistics. If they'd just manage to sell people on it (or do it on the down-low), it would make air travel much less of a hassle for most people.

But they won't, because making air travel less of a hassle for most people isn't a goal. Sigh.

Posted by KoiMaxx
From my experience with the diversity of passengers you might encounter in a plane, there were times I honestly wished this were the case...

Posted by KoiMaxx

Posted by DonJon
otherwise you should be barred from flying, no tolerance from any kind of antisocial behavior on a plane

Unfortunately, sometimes they come out only as soon as the door is closed :-/

Posted by KoiMaxx

Posted by jimbo1qaz
I don't like how Retroarch closes the program when you press Esc I think only dialogs (and logically speaking, Retroarch's overlay menu) menus should close, not the entire program (without confirmation? I don't remember).

Dolphin asks for confirmation before closing, when you press Esc.

Yeah, I have run into a similar situations before, resulting in much frustration. Even just pausing the emu with a confirmation dialog would suffice.

Posted by tomman


I can't even use those 25MB: Movistar 3G network has been down for the entire weekend, and the 2G barely works for calls. The Movilnet 3G stick stopped working 2 weeks ago (connection drops before PPP gives me a IP). My EvDO flipphone data stopped working years ago due to mysterious reasons.

Sometimes DSL comes up for minutes at a time, sometimes it becomes mildly stable for hours... but most of the times is a unusability nightmare of endless modem desyncs, fucked up DL/UL speeds, and total instability guaranteed. The best I can do is to load sites as fast as I can while I get a link, then read them when the link dies (forget about uploading large files or seeding torrents with such painful packetloss rates). I'm glad I don't stream videos or play games or any of those so-called Web 3.0 first-world enterprises!

CANTV techs refuse to come to my block and take a look, despite learning that the local head tech actually lives right at my backyard (yes, really!). We gathered signatures among my neighbors (since CANTV now requires that for all blocks with mass faults to bring signatures in batches), but half of the neighbors didn't even bothered signing the document (despite my entire block -about 70 subscribers- being without service for one reason or another). They promised they would come... someday.

But all those telco failures (intentional or not) fit nicely into the commies' agenda to isolate us even further from the world...

In the meanwhile, here we are, still in danger of dropping off the Internets for good :/