“The subtext of some of these objections, that the gaming industry does not need to change, troubles…”
“The subtext of some of these objections, that the gaming industry does not need to change, troubles me much more. Historically, the majority culture in America telling a minority culture “can’t you just pipe down and let us keep things the way they are?” has led to some darker chapters in our country’s history.”
iPad Hacker and “Troll” Weev Is Now a Straight-Up White Supremacist
iPad Hacker and “Troll” Weev Is Now a Straight-Up White Supremacist:
Four years ago, Andrew “Weev” Aurenheimer poked an easy hole in Apple’s iPad security, exposed the information of 114,000 users, and embarrassed both that company and AT&T. He spent a year in prison before his sentence was tossed out, becoming a hacker hero in the process—and also, apparently, a neo-Nazi.
PS: The line from Trolololol lolz racism and actual racism is non-existent. Surprise!
Why Windows 10?
So Anil Dash figured out why Windows is skipping from 8 to 10: Bad programmers everywhere.
It turns out that people who write programs that aren’t compatible with Windows 95 or 98 write code to throw an exception and stop their programs from running on those old systems. Only they’re not checking for the OS’s version numbers, they’re checking to see if the OS name starts with “Windows 9” to lazily cover both 95 and 98. Oops.
“But there was actually a sense of something even more troubling — a loss of control….”
“But there was actually a sense of something even more troubling — a loss of control. Journalists don’t often say this out loud, but we do think there’s an element of art to what we do. And what do most artists want, as much if not more than money? Creative control. But permeating almost every session was a sense of desperation — at regaining some kind of control over how we connect and impact with our audience. The homepages that newsrooms have sunk countless dollars and person-hours into upgrading are already dying a rapid death. Increasingly, story traffic depends on the whim of the swipes — with faceless folks in the bowels of Silicon Valley, at Google and increasingly at the social media giants of Twitter and especially Facebook, exerting an inordinate amount of power. If there was one word that I heard more than “viral” at the ONA, it was “algorithm.” Facebook has completed coded the way that millions of would-be news consumers get information, and no one knows how to crack it.”
– Looking for the soul of journalism’s new machines at ONA2014.