Bard wrote on Mar 26, 2018, 11:10:
There's really one thing I want to know.

What was the disinformation?

Should be easy enough to supply the actual posts - because in my experience Russia has been publicising information from Wikileaks documentation - which has a 100% correct 100% of the time track record - through things like RT.

I'd like to know if we're seeing those sort of things - which would be rightly dubbed information, or if we're seeing nonsense - which would be disinformation.

Right now I've been seeing all sorts of claims, but I've yet to see examples of the actual posts.

I sure HAVE seen misinformation during the election - but from a PR company Hillary's camp hired that did a very poor job covering their tracks (buying up lapsed domains, failing to successfully anonymise the domain transfers, creating junk fed clickbait sites, then publicising attack stuff against Trump that was literally fake news that somehow got trended in Facebook despite Alexa showing the sites had zero traffic...)

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 20, 2018, 12:02:

@Beamer
The main reason plane flight is safer today is because of federal regulations.

Bub wrote on Mar 9, 2018, 07:45:
FYI - use a small SSD as your boot drive (around 20-30Gb), where Win 10 resides, then top it off with any files. Win 10 updates need at least 8GB free space or it will not install, so it will just nag you every time you boot up to make space.

rawbelly wrote on Feb 27, 2018, 22:17:
Dang, I really wanna play this game more but dang I don't wanna play this game more.

eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 15, 2018, 11:07:

Turd Ferguson wrote on Feb 15, 2018, 10:46:
If more ppl would vote with their wallet, we would not have this kind of issue, however, having a label "loot box alert" attached to the game would be a small step in recognizing that this mechanic is a problem.

The crux of the problem is this entire scummy fake currency system big publishers (but really, mainly EA, Activision and Ubisoft) have setup. There is a reason lootboxes are considered gambling, since you often can't even pay for them with direct money transfer, there is always 1 more step involved which detaches you from the payment, and especially for younger people this is a huge problem. And just like casinos give you chips for money, EA gives you fake money for real money that THEN lets you buy loot boxes. Why are casinos gambling if loot boxes aren't?

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Feb 15, 2018, 09:28:

Nimh wrote on Feb 15, 2018, 08:13:

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Feb 15, 2018, 08:04:

Nimh wrote on Feb 15, 2018, 07:47:
The Agile manifesto has ruined silicon valley. Testing? Pffft.. ship now, patch later.

Uh, test-driven development is kind of integral to Agile.

Yup, tested by the consumer.

A) Again, Test-Driven Development (TDD) is integral to Agile methodologies. Typically, TDD (in Agile or otherwise) loops tightly and iteratively between writing tests until production code fails, and writing code until it passes tests again. TDD isn't perfect, but it's generally agreed to be superior to the alternative of having graduated phases of design, implementation, and testing, wherein testing doesn't happen until after you're ostensibly done implementing the software.

B) Apple's software engineering practices are still very 90s big corporation-y, according to my colleagues who are former Apple engineers. That means low test-coverage, heavy middle management overhead, and fixed designs and deadlines. In other words, the embodiment of practices that the Agile Manifesto sought to fight against.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Feb 15, 2018, 08:04:

Nimh wrote on Feb 15, 2018, 07:47:
The Agile manifesto has ruined silicon valley. Testing? Pffft.. ship now, patch later.

Uh, test-driven development is kind of integral to Agile.

Ant wrote on Feb 13, 2018, 02:43:
Again? Blizzard must be desperate.

Cutter wrote on Feb 12, 2018, 12:22:
Gee, a misogynist mulsim? Why, how odd! A muslim who likes to spread fear? Stranger still! Really? That seems just so bizarre coming from the "religion of peace" because you just never ever hear of that happening otherwise.

And of course he was welcome into Canada with open arms by Canada's liberals. And given millions of dollars to boot because no actual real Canadians need help here obviously. I so fucking hate Canada's traitors liberals.

MT Silver wrote on Jan 26, 2018, 21:11:
I find it quite disturbing how many of you think this is okay. Blizzard is literally ordering surveillance on their own players OUTSIDE of the game to detect "toxicity". They're going to read your Twitter or Facebook or your Vlogs on youtube and make a moral determination on whether you deserve to be their customer or not.
Reverse the situation and imagine if it was Facebook who were probing Overwatch chatlogs to determine if you deserve to exist on their service. This shit gives me the creeps.

It doesn't even make any sense to check social media in the first place. If you can't tell someone is "toxic" from their actions in-game then you have no justification to ban them, period.

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 21, 2018, 19:50:
Maybe the New England Patriots will finally win a Super Bowl.