Are you talking about CLANG or about Oculus. Oculus indeed used the kickstarter’s money to build a prototype and get bought by facebook. The people who took the bulk of the risk got a prototype piece of equipment and the people that took very little of the risk became overnight millionaires. Yes, the letter of the…

100% loss of your investment with the possibility of no return whatsoever a substantial fraction of the time is not a tiny amount of risk - its a huge amount of risk. Just because you bought a few shares in a company for chump change doesn’t mean as an investment it was a small amount of risk compared to a few shares…

No, Clang which ran out of funding because what they wanted to build was overly ambitious.

Exactly. They took all the risk and got a consolation prize. I’m not interested in buying tons of risk for a totebag.

My favorite example is CLANG.

That is in fact THE argument. Kickstarter is only legitimately any good to people whose idea is so intrinsically risky and expensive that the people who came up with the idea aren’t capable of shouldering it themselves and there’s no bank or publisher in the world who would back them. Anyone else has access to…

Yeah but the trusted platform in your pc might decide to never run that particular os again.

When that happens I won’t. Because my corporate lawyers will be calling theirs.

Entirely at the mercy of enemies who just won’t finish the job, while you continue to kill them and accept heavy losses of your own civilians. Two state solution would be great. Neither side will accept it.

I’m sure you have a better solution. One that will work this time. Please continue with what you see as a perfectly reasonable solution for Israel. Telling the soldiers to not distinguish between targets and bombing out apartment complexes and power plants until nothing is left standing. I’m sure that someday the…

“No country in the world would allow rockets to be fired at them indefinitely.”

Really? Israel does.


No, I don’t think they should send in solid snake. I think they should CAPITULATE. Accept that they’ve lost the war. That against guerilla actors they simply can’t effectively defend themselves. That the longer they…

THIS ^^^^

Guys are getting off easy. Buy a new console. Make a new account. Quit acting like they are going to inactivate your stolen copy of Windows Vista.

Microsoft does not have to authenticate the software you are running if you are in breach of contract with them - its a service they provide at will and they aren’t your slaves. I don’t know how anyone assumes they can breach their contracts without consequence to their software licenses when the last 30 or 40 years…

How is it destroyed? Is there a thermite chip? I think it means that software that was licensed to these guys will no longer authenticate and they won’t sell them any more. Its basically something you never owned in the first place will not be leased to you in the future - akin to your apartment lease not being…

I thought the Xbox required the internet connection and an xbox live account. They can cancel your xbox live account pretty much at will, does the machine not become useless at that point when you can’t authenticate any of your purchases?

You think your PC can’t be bricked remotely?

You’re right. Since they are unwilling to finish the job (for whatever reason - probably to hold on to some minute shred of moral credibility / not create internal discord), lets just call it mass murder instead. Better? I certainly call what the Palestinians do terrorism, so seems fair - I don’t consider them to sit…

So, you’re in the camp that believes Israel can do no evil because it does one positive thing. Ok. Good for you. Not very nuanced. Ignorant of the reality of the situation and basically propaganda, but whatever. Yes, I agree. Israel has been too restrained up until this point. Walking a tightrope between defending the…

I’m not saying you are. Me, I’m just terminally sick of hearing about it. I know, first world problems. But my whole life I don’t think a week has gone by I haven’t had to hear some more bad news about the conflict in the middle east, and I’m just so sick of being told I/we need to support Israel or support the…

I don’t think Israel has any moral high ground left to stand on. This does not mean I support Hamas. I think they are both morally destitute (as nation-states / groups of leaders and followers) and as I’ve taken heat elsewhere, I don’t care what happen to either of them (as large groups of what are essentially humans…