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• On the post: The Glorious History Of Video Game Panics

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 08:19pm

  I just got this new game Goat Simulator and I find myself outside eating grass and kicking the shit out of stuff everywhere and then randomly headbutting things as if I'm being controlled by an invisible third party hand.

• On the post: Appeals Court Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Software And An API; Declares APIs Copyrightable

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 06:44pm

  As a software developer, I weep for our trade.
  
  And that's just from the legal standpoint. Nevermind all the incompetent people that pass as developers.

• On the post: Lawsuit Against First US Copyright Trolls For Extortion Ends In Victory

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2014 @ 08:33pm

  What's with all the euphemistic names? US Copyright Group. Chamber of Commerce. US Patent Consortium. (I just made that last one up, I think). Why can't we have truth in naming! The Print Us Free Money Coalition. Or... Extortion From The Unwilling, LLC.

• On the post: NBC Insists Twitter Is Useless Because Not Enough People Tweeted During The Olympics… Which NBC Made Difficult To Watch Online

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2014 @ 05:22pm

  Of course I didn't tweet during the olympics. I work for a living! I watched what few highlights they had of curling on in the evening (because I couldn't get the full games like I wanted), and that was it. It's your own fucking fault NBC. It's not like people haven't been telling you this. I also don't tweet every time I have a bowel movement or eat a scone, nor every time I watch some mundane television program.

• On the post: Netflix Exploring Peer-To-Peer Delivery Just As Spotify Gets Ready To Kill Its Peer-To-Peer Streaming

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 03:33pm

  Re: Re: One long term truth in computing...

  The hitch is that people jumping on the cloud bandwagon seem to want to move everything to "the cloud"... Rather than think through what makes sense.
  
  Too busy hanging onto Buzzwords than to think through what makes more sense localized versus cloudicized.

• On the post: Patent Litigation Cost US Business About A Trillion Dollars In A Quarter Century, Outweighing Benefits

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2014 @ 03:31pm

  Ah yes, a trillion dollars freaking wasted. Better spent burnt in a fireplace for warmth than bogus litigation. Even if only 10% of that money would have wound up spent on real innovation... Hell, even just 1%... My god!

• On the post: DailyDirt: How Old Can People Get?

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 07:48pm

  Re:

  And just remember -- You're never too old to have the government treat you like a child!

• On the post: Square Enix: DRM Is Here To Stay

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 07:51pm

  Well the DRM does have a preventative effect...

  You know what your DRM has done, Square Enix? It's prevented me from being a customer. I don't pirate things -- I buy them. But I don't buy shit from people who plan to treat me like a criminal or cripple my purchase with shitty DRM. Just like I refuse to buy things from EA, Sony, and Ubisoft. So bite me. More money for the artists and developers I care about that don't equate me with a machine that shits dollar bills into their hands on demand.

• On the post: Tone Of Comments Affects Perception Of Online Article's Content

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2014 @ 08:37pm

  It really depends on a person's outlook on comments. It depends on if you can find any obvious bias in the story, any sources for data in the story, or any sources in the comments to prove the story is wrong or faulty. And on many sites, comments are youtube level failure. Like on reddit, which I browse from time to time, I always read the comments because undoubtedly somebody has posted a very good rebuttal of why the article or study is flawed or sensationalist, or somebody in the field explains in better terms why it is important or what the applications are. And then there's the bias of if you are reading about something in your own field. That's a lot of factors to control for, just right there!

• On the post: Prenda Actually Wins A Round; Order To Pay Back Settlements Tossed In Minnesota

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2014 @ 04:48pm

  Re: So what does count then?

  Well, since apparently lying to Congress under oath isn't perjury, I guess falsifying a signature on official court documents isn't either?
  
  At least... Provided you meet the following criteria:
  
  1) You are an Elite, or
  2) You are a Corporation, or
  3) You are a Lawyer, and
  4) You are not just a regular citizen

• On the post: DailyDirt: Are College Degrees Useless Now?

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2014 @ 03:54pm

  Re: Not for every career path

  I have to disagree. Setting aside the fact that most places won't look at your resume if you don't have a degree, I do feel there is a balance of school vs. real world experience. I have seen bad programmers that are self taught and that came from colleges. The good programmers in college were the ones who mostly started on that course well before they got to college, and don't just do programming for class, they also do it in their spare time for hobbies and tinkering and such.
  
  I find that I have learned a lot in the past 5 years on the job, but I find that what I learned in college (especially the six semesters of advanced math and various data structures and algorithms and software engineering and networking and operating system courses) has been very critical to my success in the field. It's all very subjective depending on what type of development you're doing and how much of your time is spent writing code versus doing R&D or algorithm development or fine-tuning or anything of that nature.
  
  Being a good developer is about more than just being able to sling code. (Almost) anybody can cut and hack a pile of shit together with some proverbial duct tape and baling wire. But there is also no substitute for real time, on the job training. It takes a very committed self taught person to follow good programming habits and procedures when tinkering by themselves versus the skillset of larger group collaboration efforts.

• On the post: Turkish Government Says Online Freedom Is Like Violence Against Women

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2014 @ 01:15pm

  So we're equating freedom of speech with beating women?
  
  I'd say this stupid campaign is done before it starts...

• On the post: Congressional Candidates From Both Major Parties Find Opposing The NSA Is A Worthwhile Campaign Platform

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2014 @ 03:46pm

  well...

  Congressman.
  Integrity.
  Honesty.
  
  Pick 1.
  
  Oh dear, I think I feel a political wind blowing...

• On the post: Not Cool: MPAA Joins The W3C

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2014 @ 09:29pm

  Wonderful. Just one step closer to device locked content becoming standard.
  
  "We're sorry, you only purchased this to play on your iPhone. You need to purchase it again to play it on your TV."

• On the post: The Joy Of Watching Comment Spammers Scramble To Try To Delete Links After Google Demoted Them

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2013 @ 08:35pm

  Re: Re: SO, Google policing that Mike approves of!

  "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

• On the post: Bic Loses Its Mind Over Parody Customer Service Letter

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2013 @ 08:31pm

  reminds me of a bastardized quote from Men in Black

  "No ma'am, we don't have a sense of humor that we're aware of."

• On the post: Newest Leak Shows NSA, GCHQ Infiltrated World Of Warcraft, Second Life

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2013 @ 09:52am

  I can see it now. The NSA on a multi-person and multi-year manhunt for the true identify of the illusive World of Warcraft moron known only as "Leeroy Jenkins".

• On the post: Witness In No Fly List Trial, Who Was Blocked From Flying To The Trial, Shows That DOJ Flat Out Lied In Court

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2013 @ 08:04am

  The list works as intended -- only important people with real social status, like Ted Kennedy, can clear themselves up.
  
  Move along, citizen. Nothing to see here.

• On the post: US TPP Negotiators Accused Of Bullying; Refusing To Budge On Ridiculous IP And Corporate Sovereignty Demands

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2013 @ 02:09pm

  all spellings intentional

  Hey now, they're just doing what their corporment goverlords want.
  
  Just not, you know, anything that we the people want.

• On the post: Insanity Rules In East Texas: Jury Finds Newegg Infringes On Ridiculous Encryption Patent

  

  vegetaman ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2013 @ 07:17am

  Is there a reason we cannot have a jury on a patent trial stocked with nothing but experts skilled in the art? It'd put a damper on this sort of stupidity right quick, I'd hope.

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