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My open bar tab agrees.

Trump derangement syndrome in full effect. Nobody cared until the link was made to the Trump campaign benefitting from analytics research. Now it's an issue.

Most of the stuff we need is more highly regulated than the other stuff...

Oh. Not the esports organization.

It was certainly different, but I wouldn't say the original art style was 'destroyed' due to the fact the at any time in the game you can switch back to the original style. It's not exactly destroyed if its RIGHT THERE.

I think with DotT there is less room for that kind of art upheaval though, because, frankly, the art already looks good. It still holds up very well today, expecially if you run in SCUMMVM in turn on some graphics filters.

As someone who has the original game CDs and played through each of those games at least 10 times over the years, the BEST part of these remasters, IMO, is the added developer commentary. I really, really enjoyed playing through the Monkey Island and Grim Fandango remakes and hearing Tim and crew's thoughts, remembrances, jokes, etc around the development and production of the games, the music, the characters, etc. Really added something new and special to the playthroughs of games that I know like the back of my hand, like old friends.

any use of military drones for civil authorities had to be approved by the Secretary of Defense

Gee, what oversight. I'm sure they'll be denying approvals left and right.

We're talking about homeland defense here, the Islamic State is on the rise

I can taste your sweet fear from here.

Encryption is a reality check for the government. It's not going away, even if they outlaw it.

Blank Keycaps is the way.

#webosneverforget

Anyone else remember BowieNet? The man had his own ISP back in 98, for crying out loud...

A true visionary of an artist. He really understood technology, and what changes would be wrought by it for people, the arts, social systems, the music business, etc.

Dance, magic dance, Mr. Bowie. Dance, magic dance.

Big Bird was supposed to be the child viewer's avatar.

“It’s been decided by the government as a whole, so our job is just to go ahead with it,” said an official at the personnel affairs division.

This sentiment makes me feel ill...

I think the biggest problem was that nobody took it seriously

There was that one guy, who got the tattoo...

Who fights for the User?

I know that they are rife with corporate subsidies and targeted protectionism of politically favored domestic industries but it is better than the alternative.

The alternative of actual free trade, free from meddling governmental interference, without corporate subsidies and targeted protectionism?

Because taxes are innately moral...

Poor Palm :(

Enyo was/is an amazing web component framework, but I think the whole HP webOS debacle pretty much scared people away from adopting it, due to uncertainties about it's future ownership and development. I believe it's still in use in the LG webOS TV SDK, at least.

I'm just noting that the timing coincides with an upward usage of cctv and public surveillance.

http://qz.com/326086/the-places-in-the-world-that-have-a-bur...

In 2011, France went even further, forbidding concealment of people’s face in public—through a burqa, niqab (a version of the veil that leaves a slot for a woman’s eyes), but also masks or balaclavas

http://www.connexionfrance.com/cctv-video-surveillance-prote...

President Sarkozy wants 2011 to be the year that "vidéoprotection" goes mainstream, and has set a target of 60,000 cameras watching public spaces around the country by the end of this year, up from the current 20,000.

People asking for body cameras on all police, whether net benefit or not, need to understand everything that is coming with it. That includes automatic facial identification of everyone. Police will simply no longer have to ask for ID. Obscuring your face is already being made illegal... (see: burqa bans)

Then they just can just "order" another one. We're talking government here. Declaring faster computers by government fiat is already a dumb idea.

Fiscal sovereignty was already surrendered when the adopted the Euro in the first place.

Why not describe each element in the actual order that top actually presents them, from left to right, instead of jumping around? #flow