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In what can only be described as a sign of the times, the World Health Organization has recognized a new kind of mental health condition. "Play the game, everybody play the game"
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You mean like First-Person-Shooter Syndrome?
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I am actually amazed at "gaming". We used to be addicted for a time, to donky kong and the like as young adults but now I see guys in their 50s bringing in their gaming machines for various repairs. They are married and will alienate themselves from their families to play these games. Absolutely bizarre.
I can't tell you how glad I am that this alternate reality is lost on me and my family.
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I have to admit, I still like a game of Tetris now and again. I must spend maybe 5 minutes a year playing it. I guess I must be addicted to it.
This space for rent
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I loved Tempest. Didn't like any of the other arcade games.
As for computer games...I never got out of level one* in "The Pawn", and haven't touched a game since.
*Actually, I didn't even get far enough into it to know whether it had "levels" as such.
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Wow, having all your hobbies include your family must be...tiresome.
Good for you though, I guess, but if it really bothers you THAT much maybe you should refuse to perform repairs on principle. You know, so that they have to spend more time with their families.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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They really didn't finish their diagnostic bullshit analysis:
Playing game on the cell phone that is permanently adhered to one or the other of their paws.
Why do I sense a costly treatment regimen just a short distance down the road? Possibly a +3 to their Billing Abilities?
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modified 28-Dec-17 8:40am.
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Perhaps they would prefer the youth going out in the streets, forming real gangs instead of Warcraft guilds and shooting real stuff instead of pixels.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Do you actually read the content of the link you are posting?
Where does it say the gamer did shoot? It says he was unarmed and framed by some other dude.
And it is actually very telling about the idiot mirkans because they have so many guns, the cops are scared and jumpy to shoot at everything that moves.
Unless you mean the cops were gamers too? This would be the only explanation in this context.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I mean the stupid @sshole who sent the SWAT team to the victim's house. Granted, the SWAT team could have reacted better, but they wouldn't have been there without said @sshole's phone call.
IMO, this was the moral equivalent of pointing a gun at someone, in the expectation that a third party would pull the trigger.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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"Why do companies with little or no real security experience think they know their environment better than anyone else?" Everything must be fine as they haven't been hacked yet?
Or if they have been hacked, they must be fine now?
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I think it's more about not knowing what they don't know.
If they were smart they'd run an actuarial analysis on this stuff to make a budget determination. Companies already do exactly this before running a recall when a product fault is found.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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What does 2018 hold for developers? What trends will change the way they work? TNW spoke to developers across a number of segments, and asked what they thought next year would bring. And if not, you're obviously not a "real" developer
Must.
unroll.
eyes.
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High volume, longer tweets, and growth of embedded content all fed into decision. What made them think it might be worthwhile in the first place?
OK, 63 characters. Maybe I should include a few hash tags there?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What made them think it might be worthwhile in the first place?
I could guess something, but then we should go to the soapbox    
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The WattUp Mid Field transmitter refills batteries from 3 feet away. Now you can do those Frankenstein's lab scenes while charging your laptop
But "WattUp"? guh.
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In a new study, MIT researchers have developed a novel approach to analyzing time series data sets using a new algorithm, termed state-space multitaper time-frequency analysis (SS-MT). "Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future"
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Interesting.. I work with a time-series data system; will have to look into this more.
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The era of "moving fast and breaking things" is over. Time to "slow down and take stock of what's broken." "Make it right"
OK, probably solely a Canadian reference there. Sorry, but in my defense - my brain is on holidays.
Maybe it will be back in the new year.
Of course, that assumes it was ever with me.
Maybe I've been reading too much philosophy lately.
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Mine just stops by for a visit now and then before it saunters off again.
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Attackers can use sound waves to interfere with a hard drive's normal mode of operation, creating a temporary or permanent denial of state (DoS) that could be used to prevent CCTV systems from recording video footage or freeze computers dealing with critical operations. Mental note: do not turn up to 11
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11... either you understand it or you don't, and if it has to be explained... well, don't bother.
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Do the sound waves have to be played in dubly?
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More than three decades ago, Apple unveiled the Apple Lisa. It turned out to be one of the biggest flops of Apple, selling only 10,000 units; Apple spent a mammoth $150 million on R&D. Are they taking pull requests?
Great news for all those 68000 not doing anything these days.
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