I forsee a more lucrative deep Web market niche popping up as well.

Because NuTrek/Kelvinverse/whatever isn’t about Star Trek; it’s about wearing a Star Trek mask and shouting lines from the series as loud as they can until gaping yokels are charmed enough by the familiar elements to toss change into a novelty Spock lunchbox.

I thought it was pretty strange when I first heard it. Of course Takei is a well-known gay activist, but Trek is also pretty well-known for avoiding LGBT issues (at least in the main series), and Generations confirmed that the character had at least one heterosexual relationship and had a daughter.

Fucking Tom Cruise. He’s crazy as shit but is absolutely fascinating to watch!

Those same people who love to whine about the Electoral College (“but whyyyy can’t it just be one person, one vote”) lean heavily on its existence to allow them to vote with their precious consciences instead of their fucking brains.

Let’s hope this doesn’t happen in November with Bernie supporters (I’m one of them) voting for Jill Stein as a protest candidate.

It’s like I was dodging meme landmines, couldn’t laugh at anything funny because they were sandwich by 2007 era YouTube poop bullshit. Good I keep getting burned by Kotaku animation recommendations.

Windows 10 didn’t install itself, ya dingus. It was just Windows updates. Should’ve installed them and rebooted prior to streaming. I’m assuming he has an SSD so it would’ve been a couple minutes tops for the install and reboot.

Nice post there, mate. However, let me remind you that custom-content servers have been a thing since Quake 1 times (maybe even earlier?). It was pretty much a norm to connect to a CS1.6 server, have the game download its custom content to your PC, and only THEN to get and play the game.

I think SnapMap would be at its most interesting if real modding was also included. Like, if you could make custom assets for Doom then use those assets to make levels it’d be both extremely flexible and accessible. People with more technical expertise would be able to make full-blown mods, total conversions, and the…

At this point in my life, I hate Nintendo. And I hate that I hate Nintendo. I grew up on Nintendo. I ate up everything they released and literally skipped school to go to Toys R Us to play the Super Mario 64.

So effectively if Hillary is the nominee as she likely will be, your nonvote will be passive vote for Trump. Strategic voting is your friend. A hell of a lot of Canadians strategic voted to ensure Harper wasn’t elected again... they wanted NDP, Green, Bloc, but they voted Liberal to ensure the greater threat was…

I’m sorry, but even as a technologist, I cannot help but feel despair when reading this story. Yes, some good may come of it. More likely, we’ll find ourselves fighting unexpected and unexplained biological agents within the next few decades, as this technology trickles down to those that wish to do us harm...as well…

Unfortunately, this article does not address the scientific issues of the complications of gene editing. There is no discussion of pleiotropy, polygenic traits, or epigenetics. A lot of older philosophical topics are brought up, but there is no scientific discussion regarding why we will “have to” accept genetic…

“He also warned that it may produce an intolerance of disability”

I can barely even find the words to describe how shortsighted this piece is. I can only assume you’ve literally never once seen or read any science fiction. Ever.

Looking over the comments here, I see many of the opinion that this will lead to a more stratified society. This will probably happen if, in order of importance:

He concludes somewhat hopefully, “I suspect Star Trek is more likely than Mad Max. We have never yet failed to become richer; as a species, our lives have always gotten better.” But at the same time, you could have a Star Trek world in which most people are incredibly poor, because there’s no demand for their labor.

You're forgetting what works for the vast majority of the wealthy: