Recent content by Marudas

For people in the "its just a joke, get over it" camp: Yes, I too believe the statement was far from genuine. However, there are a few things to consider. Firstly, threats are not protected by freedom of speech. Whether or not you agree with that, that's how the law is currently read. As far as...

Even prior to the issue of how inmates need to be treated and who decides the level of treatment for each particular inmate, I see it as a failing that this man wasn't just executed. It's not an issue of mercy or compassion. Even if he miraculously did get reformed & paroled, he would never be...

I'm not at all opposed to the idea of Dark Souls having an even wider-reaching audience. I was a signature on the petition and now own Dark Souls on Steam. Thing is, the PC crowd made a ton of sense for DaS. For all kinds you can find in the PC gaming community, there is a large group of people...

The only reason any government has to get involved in the internet is for control. You don't exactly see congressmen traipsing around any other public gatherings, but the second something becomes big and has enough sway like the internet, they seek to interject. I'm an American and I'm honestly...

Sigh. Listen. I have 50 Megabits of downstream available to me. I have never been able to download at that speed. Ever. The fact of the matter is, anyone with the upload pipe to offer you, will have other traffic that taps into that pipe. Further than 25-35 Megabit upload, your only hope is...

This is really the patent office's fault at the end of the day, but people like this make me sick. Let me clarify though: Patents aren't a bad thing, but they need to be more specific, and instances of patent infringement should be obvious. When people see these Chineese knockoffs, they...

Survey Says...Bad Parenting. I mean really, he bought his 12 year old Call of Duty and gave him a subscription to go play online and then, what, never monitored his kid or asked about what he was doing ever again? Further it appears this very responsible citizen doesn't keep track of the...

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Let me explain why what he did was theoretically dangerous and why the rules are very specific. While compassion is good and all and jumping right on the he saved a man train is fine, think about the full situation of why they have a rule like "Don't go outside your zone". These Lifeguards...

When I heard about this freakout I noted a couple things. The first and unrelated to the actual discussion is, why do you need a Kickstarter to make a Youtube series? They aren't exactly expensive to make most of the time. Not that important though. Now, I do have to address one part of this...

My friend convinced me to get starwars and play with him, as he's a huge Star Wars fan. We played up to level 50, then both of us, not just me, decided that all in all the experience was...well, not entertaining. The story was the only really fun bit and the only thing that dragged us to 50...

Side note about the article and grabbing your battletag: Battletags are Non-exclusive, in the sense that as many people as there are players can have the same battletag. Its like Starcraft 2 ids, you get your name, and then you have a hidden Character Code (Like, Yourname.425, where Yourname...

Two things I wish didn't exist. Halo 4 and Mitt Romney. Yes, I know that's a controversial opinion. For what its worth, if i could only obliterate one, it would be the batshit insane Mormon looking to take up seat in the oval office. No, this doesn't mean I'm super in favor of Obama either...

I don't get it. Do they think the pirates are suddenly going to stop and decide to pay the artists this time around instead? It'll take them all of 5 minutes to either find another way to get to pirate bay, or another place to get their torrents. The thing about piracy, is the ones who...

Clearly we don't have enough legislation and need to add one of the PIPA/SOPA/ACTA/CISPA clones to make sure companies never walk away without every offending participant jailed in addition to massive fines. As far as the comment about Copyright law goes, from a technical perspective, this...