Serial number generation. They have to be wholly unique, and they have to be large enough to be secure. Sort of like, well, crypto tokens. To elaborate: these serial numbers are usually pre-generated in large lots and distributed to digital stores. Get a large enough run on demand, and those lots get used up, and the…

I’m pretty sure one of the first thing the soldiers of the Revolutionary War did was to build statues of King George and all the symbols and trappings of British Rule for, like, ‘historical’ purposes, too. In fact, I’m also reasonably certain WWII veterans were only to happy to build monuments to Imperial Japan in…

The only real instance of election tampering was done by the Postmaster General, on behalf and at the request of Donald Trump, by attempting to make millions of mail-in votes (ie, predominantly not Republican voters) disappear or be delayed long enough to prevent them from being counted. It literally doesn’t get more…

That is, in a nutshell, what they’re all terrified of. And if America’s real history (and its present) shows us anything, it’s that angered Americans are bloodthirsty and ruthless when provoked. Which is why wealthy Republicans are desperately scrambling to redirect all that festering rage they’ve kept simmering for a…

A couple things that were also dangerous: speaking out against the King, and taking up arms against the King. And yet, many thousands of people did it, were willing to *DIE* for it.

I can’t think of a better encapsulation of it.

All part of the ‘Kemp Plan’ — Keep America White.

US history is filled with lots of (less-than) half truths like that. What’s being taught about American history now is only just starting to expand into something resembling a more cohesive story that includes some of the most repugnant parts of “God-Fearing America” that fragile, white conservative America would like…

“We can’t use this because it’s not certified by the oversight committee.”
 — Olympic swimmers

If they’re going to bar athletes from competing because they had some weed (in whatever manner they choose to partake of it), then, yes, they should bar them from having alcohol, cigarettes, aspirin, etc, etc. Hell, they shouldn’t even be allowed to ingest water! Talk about a performance-enhancing substance!

Yeah, this whole thing reeks of self-righteous ignorant bullshit. Weed is not, nor has it EVER been, a ‘performance enhancing’ substance. Water, ie proper hydration, has a greater impact on an athlete’s performance. Should we start barring athletes from competing because they drink water??

...and who wants to bet the people making this decision totally aren’t (read: totally are) ‘Women have no bodily autonomy’ crowd, acting punitively against a woman who defied them and their demand that society bow to their belief (that’s also a bunch of hypocritical bullshit).

That’s about what I would have expected for smells, ie unpleasant.

You presume, after decades of using some 3rd party UI tools, that the developers on staff even know how to do that sort of thing anymore.

A justice system that excels at INjustice isn’t worth respecting. If the man had even a shred of humanity in him, Cosby would have voluntarily remained behind bars for his sentence. And if he doesn’t even have a shred of humanity, why is society bothering to treat him like one? We put feral animals down, not coddle…

It’s not that space doesn’t have a smell. Space isn’t a true vacuum, just closest thing (that we know of) to one in the universe. Particles we use to smell are so dilute and spread out in space that that they’d be beyond our sense of smell’s ability to detect. But if you could collect up a cubic lightyear of material,…

Let’s be honest — people shouldn’t be eating hotdogs either.

There are ways in-game advertising could be done that would otherwise be fine. Those, however, are *NOT* going to be the way this will be used. Sorry, I mean abused. Because ‘monetize everything’ -- like stupidity -- has no limits.

Yup. There’s *ZERO* question that monuments, murals, and the like of not-white people are going to be defaced and vandalized by raging-racist white Americans. The only question is if the people doing it will be caught on camera and properly punished or disappear back into the whitebread shadows that spawned them.

PH level has improved. Kotaku will remember this...