@jaredbusch said in Do you think Sony will ever do anything with The Wheel of Time:

Branching off from the announcement about the LoTR series, I dug up the news from earlier this year about the Wheel of Time rights getting bought by Sony.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/the-wheel-of-time-series-is-one-step-closer-to-your-television/

oh been years since i read that but it was a classic. i am just wondering why they bought it...

The best part of this announcement is this here.
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To me, this means that they are working with Christopher and we will see something, likely from the Silmarillion notes (published or unpublished) that happens in the 60 years between Hobbit and Fellowship.

They will have to keep it between the two in order to bring in a wider audience.

Going back to the 1st or 2nd age stories will lose a lot of people and they could just do something without the LoTR IP attached.

I just like apples, what can I say?

@dashrender said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

@scottalanmiller said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

@dashrender said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

@scottalanmiller said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

@dustinb3403 said in US DOJ Continues Its Attack on User Privacy:

Rosenstein also said

"...People want to secure their houses, but they still need to get in and out. Same issue here."

Not even close, those people are welcome to come and go in their damn house. You on the other hand might get shot in the face if you just walk into someone's house uninvited.

People can still get in and out of their phone. I don't have to give my door key to the DoJ.

Yeah - I'm trying to come up with a physical example to compare to digital security - but I'm coming up blank.

Doors aren't bad. You lock your door, the DoJ is an intruder, the key company does not send copies of your keys to the DoJ.

It's really not good enough. The DOJ can hack your door with lock picks or just bust it down.

I suppose a better example would be a universal garage door opener that only the government is supposed to have, but of course, once the bad guys know about that, they will keep hacking the government until they steal one of those universal door openers. Secure keys for encryption would be the same. The government is as leaky as a cauldron, there's almost no chance they could keep keys like this from the hackers. Then instantly everyone would be vulnerable.

Everyone that uses a mainstream OS or device that operates anywhere in the world that has any operations within the US. Yup

@zachary715 said in Congressional Pharmacist Accidentally Tells That Some Congresspeople Have Alzheimer's!:

It's fairly common knowledge (speculation) that one of our Senators has Alzheimber's, Dementia, or something of the like, yet somehow this knowledge wasn't enough to get him dethroned during his most recent election. When you've been there long enough and have some clout, people just get scared of losing that power and with it losing money for your state.

That's because voter's tend to be sheep that'll vote for the person they've always voted for.

Remember the comedy about it with Eddie Murphy?

This is what we keep telling ourselves, at least 😉

From what I gather, they're working on a much smaller one that can be easily tossed into a bag with your laptop.

@nerdydad said in Windows Console Colour Scheme Changing:

@travisdh1 said in Windows Console Colour Scheme Changing:

They hit it with an ugly stick. I've always had an easier time reading from a darker background.

Oh buddy, that was done long before this when they came out with windows 1.*. 😉

Got that right! 😄

It was all formal, no education.

@nerdydad said in Is a $200 Wireless Oculus Rift Coming Next Year?:

How about a virtually assembled congress? This is already being considered today in many states so that the congress-people can get back into touch with their constituents. It also increases safety for the government as all of your eggs are not in one basket, in Congress.

LOL - that will be the day.

We have some and always turn off the 3D. It's annoying and silly. It's neat that they can do it, but the novelty lasts like two minutes then it is just awful. It kills the battery, too. These gimmicks never seem to do anything to improve games, they just take the focus away from making something interesting. 3D is good, but this weird two inch handheld 3D was just bizarre.

Comcast, Charter, AT&T, Verizon, and such all all shit companies when it comes to customer service. this is a fact.

But while she was given bad information, she is a damned lawyer. She should know better than to think you can get a contract changed for another person without proof of power of attorney.

I mean FFS, there is a reason she has a PoA for her father. That is so she can legally perform actions that hold legal weight. This is not a hard concept.

The other example in that article was also someone that did not have the PoA documents.

/Sigh 😞

Maybe for the best, need to teach people not to trust their phones.