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01 Aug 23:36
Dealing with your 6-months old backlog
by sharhalakis
image by Amanda
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01 Aug 23:35
phnuuby: beastlyart: Ahhh! My mom has the grey mugs, they’re...
Ahhh! My mom has the grey mugs, they’re so fucking cute. I didn’t know there was a whole series.
omg sooo cute
01 Aug 23:32
anonymous asked: is batman racist. probably yeah Yo, what could possibly be racist about a white...
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anonymous asked: is batman racist. probably yeah
Yo, what could possibly be racist about a white billionaire running around at night exacting vigilante violence?
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01 Aug 23:31
UPS launches 3D printing in San Diego, expanding to more US cities soon
by Chris Welch
UPS is where you go to ship packages, but if the company has its way, it could eventually become your primary destination for making 3D prints. Only they won't be getting delivered in those signature brown trucks; you'll need to visit a participating UPS Store for the newly announced 3D printing services. Six stores in San Diego will soon be equipped with a Stratasys uPrint SE Plus printer, and UPS says additional cities will join the fray "in the near future."
According to UPS, the company moved forward with 3D printing after a poll of small business owners revealed significant interest in such services. Specifically, "those needing to create prototypes, artistic renderings or promotional materials" were fans of the idea, and UPS says the Stratasys hardware offers a level of detail and sophistication that exceeds home 3D printers — like those being sold by Staples — and meets those demands. The new printing option is primarily being marketed to small businesses and startups, but retail customers can also take part. Staples voyaged into 3D printing internationally earlier this year but hasn't yet introduced similar capabilities for its US stores.
- Via Engadget
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01 Aug 23:31
Most Racist Song Ever Isn't Racist Says The Racist Band That Wrote It
Angry Asian Man called "Asian Girlz" quite possibly "the worst song I've ever heard," so you know it means business.
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01 Aug 23:29
Why Americans All Believe They Are 'Middle Class'
A taxonomy of how we talk about class and wealth in the United States today.
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01 Aug 23:29
Kindness Coins is a game by Arden Kehoe, Spider, Jordan...
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Kindness Coins is a game by Arden Kehoe, Spider, Jordan Battiston, and Michael Real about Nice Guys and relationships.
Download (Mac, Windows)
Why Try It: Cute character designs; subverts the trope of the Nice Guy and inverts typical romance narratives.
Time: Five minutes.
How to Play: Use the mouse to select dialogue choices to advance the story.
Author’s Notes: "you play as a person that a dating sim protagonist is trying to pick up"
More Info: You can read more of Arden Kehoe’s thoughts on writing the game, which go further into the topics of Nice Guys and the portrayal of romantic relationships in games.
Kindness Coins was made for the Pulse-Pounding, Heart-Stopping Dating Sim Jam, an event where participants created dating simulation games over the course of a weekend.
Traditionally, dating sims place the player in the role of a young person (usually a boy) with the goal of attracting one or more romantic interests. Kindness Coins subverts this trope by placing the player in the role of the object of a typical dating sim protagonist’s desire. This piece by Kim Moss further explores the problems with the ways that romantic and sexual relationships tend to be portrayed in games.
Kindness Coins was created using the the free, open-source software Ren’py.
01 Aug 23:28
"Glass covers! No more angst from the wasps." (Freiburg im...
"Glass covers! No more angst from the wasps." (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany)
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01 Aug 23:28
Laika: a hardware control platform for the Raspberry Pi
by clive
Laika is a modular add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that allows control of motors, switches, lamps, robots and more. There are plenty of great hardware control boards out there for the Raspberry Pi but we especially like this one because of the educational focus.There’s lots more information on what it can do and how you can use it on their Kickstarter page.
How a learning environment should look
In 2014 computing is coming back into the UK school curriculum. And whilst this makes many of us run outside at random intervals to do Snoopy’s Happy Dance we shouldn’t underestimate the challenges involved. Computing is effectively a brand new subject and there are currently few specialist teachers, so the easier we can make it to teach (and learn) computing in an accessible, engaging and creative way the better. This is especially true in primary school.
So anyone creating educational resources to go along with their hardware or software makes us happy and the Laika team are doing just that. Here they are running a robotics workshop at Highgate School in London.
You can read more about Laika here and if you’d like to get hold of one for yourself or for your school then their Kickstarter has just a few days left to run. We think that Laika has great educational potential but of course you don’t have to be in school to start learning.
A Laika-Pi powered rover wandering the icy wastes of Europa, the smallest of the Galilean moons.
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01 Aug 23:27
Comics A.M. - Boston Comic Con Expected to Draw 15,000
Postponed due to Boston Marathon bombings, Boston Comic Con returns this weekend! Denis Kitchen talks Kitchen Sink Press! The most-reproduced cartoon in "New Yorker" history! Plus much more!
01 Aug 23:26
"There are no Jack Kerouacs or Holden Caulfields for girls. Literary girls don’t take road-trips to..."
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- It’s Frustratingly Rare to Find a Novel About Women That’s Not About Love - Kelsey McKinney - The Atlantic (via oditor)
There are no Jack Kerouacs or Holden Caulfields for girls. Literary girls don’t take road-trips to find themselves; they take trips to find men.
"Great" books, as defined by the Western canon, didn’t contain female protagonists I could admire. In fact, they barely contained female protagonists at all.
”- It’s Frustratingly Rare to Find a Novel About Women That’s Not About Love - Kelsey McKinney - The Atlantic (via oditor)
01 Aug 23:26
Sailor Moon Shines In Wild 'Doom 2′ Mod [Video]
by Caleb Goellner
As one of the most popular manga and anime characters of all time, Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon has naturally received scores of video games adaptations released across all manner of consoles over the years. The bad news? Not all of them made it to North America despite the fact that they star a team of magical teens who cut through evil with the same efficiency as most Power Rangers and X-Men lineups. So what’s a fan to do when Sailor Moon RPGs, fighting games, arcade style side scrollers and other options don’t make it across the Pacific? Well, make a Doom 2 mod, of course!
As seen in YouTube user BankaiIchigo12345‘s video capture, somebody took a lot of time arming Sailor Moon with her most famous signature weapons and attacks as opposed to, say, just having her carry a BFG around. The environment hasn’t been completely reskinned in this mod, but it does pack a lot of Sailor Scout posters and appropriately themed power-ups. The only real point of dissonance comes from the bad guys. Most of them are classic Doom monsters, but it kind looks like she also fights… Vegetas? Who die and turn into anime girls? I seriously don’t recognize the foe with the spiky blue hair. In any case, I think I to take this mod for a spin now.
[Via Kotaku]
01 Aug 23:24
Lawsuit: SWAT Officers Dragged 10-Year-Old from Bathtub, Made Him Stand Naked Next to 4-Year-Old Sister, Terrorized Family | Alternet
by hodad
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The events unfolded as Georgeia, her husband, William; and her stepfather, Mark Staymates were watching television in their living room as Georgia's sick mother, Darlene, slept upstairs at 7 p.m. on Dec. 7, 2010. They suddenly heard a loud explosion and saw bright lights, "as if grenades were going off," the complaint states.
Pittsburgh Police SWAT officers wearing helmets and facemasks then broke and "stormed through" the front and back doors of the home, according to the complaint.
Those officers allegedly never identified themselves, pointed assault rifles at the family, shouted obscenities and destroyed their property.
Although the team purportedly sought to arrest William for quarreling with a drunk, off-duty police officer at a local veterans club early that morning, the family says that their "terrorization" continued for another 45 minutes after William was apprehended.
The officers threw to the floor, kicked and handcuffed Georgeia, her stepfather and her adult son Billy. They also injured Mark's shoulder and forced Billy to lie face down in broken glass, according to the complaint.
When Georgeia pleaded repeatedly that she had young children in the house, at least one officer allegedly stated, "You think you can get one of ours, and we won't get one of yours?"
The family says the police proceeded to drag Georgeia's 10-year-old son Trentino violently from the bathtub, injuring his ankles. They allegedly then made the boy stand naked at gunpoint next to his 4-year-old sister Briseis.
Officers have continued to harass and threaten the family since the raid, telling them "that's how we do things here" and that they should move out of Pittsburgh, the complaint states.
01 Aug 23:22
Books: Newswire: That "Boston Bomber" issue of Rolling Stone actually sold pretty well, despite all the boycotts
by Marah Eakin
Unsurprisingly, that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev issue of Rolling Stonewas a sales hit for the magazine. Adweek reports that retail sales of the magazine jumped 102 percent above what the magazine normally does at stores like Target and Walgreens, despite some stores refusing to sell the issue. That 102 percent jump didn’t account for huge, huge sales, though, with the Magazine Information Network reporting just 13,232 copies of the magazine sold by 1,420 retailers. If those are stellar newsstand sales figures, then maybe Rolling Stone should put self-portraits of alleged bombers on the cover more often.
As Adweek notes, only about five percent of Rolling Stone’s circulation comes from retail sales. One of Rolling Stone’s other controversial issues, a 1970 issue featuring killer Charles Manson on the cover, went on to win a National Magazine Award.
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01 Aug 23:22
In UK, Google Glass To Be Banned While Driving
by timothy
RockDoctor writes "Stuff magazine, a gadget oriented mag, is reporting that the UK's Department for Transport is planning to ban drivers from using Google Glass, using the same law (1988 Road Traffic Act) that is used to ban drivers from using hand-held mobile phones. While there are obvious parallels between the distraction potential of the mobile phone and of Glass, there are arguments in the other direction that the speech-control aspects of Glass could make it less distracting than, say, a touch-screen SatNav. So, to ban Glass while driving or not? Typical fines for using a mobile phone while driving are £60 cash plus three penalty points on the driving license; the points expire three years after the offence and if you accumulate 12 points then you've lost your license. Repeat offenders may experience higher fines and/ or more points. Around a million people have received the penalty since the mobile phone ban was introduced in 2003." 
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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01 Aug 23:16
Edward Snowden is now a gimmick to sell security software
by Adrianne Jeffries
"Is your organization Edward Snowden-proof?"
That's the kind of line cybersecurity software makers have been pushing in the months since contractor Edward Snowden published internal data from the National Security Agency. Snowden's leaks were damaging to the government, but the private sector also took the lesson to heart. Most large companies have some kind of sensitive data, and Snowden is their worst nightmare: the high-level techie gone rogue.
Insider attacks account for about 20 percent of cyberattacks, according to industry reports, including a 2011 survey conducted by CSO Magazine. Though they may be rarer than threats from outside hackers, they tend to be the most costly. Firms that had to deal with insiders who turned report greater disruption to critical systems, loss of proprietary information, and harm to their reputation, in addition to higher monetary damages.
The specter of Snowden is haunting the private sector
With all this in mind, the specter of Snowden is haunting private companies. Increasingly, workers in security operations centers — the IT hubs in large enterprises that deal with security — are being asked to monitor for insider threats. At the same time, security software makers are peddling their wares by dropping the whistleblower's name.
A cardboard cutout of Snowden greets visitors at the beginning of the sponsor hall at this week’s Black Hat security conference, put there by FileTrek, a security firm that tracks all files that enter and exit a company’s system. In August, the cloud security software maker HyTrust will host a webinar on "Filling the Snowden Hole." Last week, the subject line of an email blasted out by the trade publication SearchSecurity.com read, "Why an Edward Snowden incident could happen to you," which one industry veteran told The Verge was "little more than ambulance chasing."
During a talk at Black Hat called "Combating the Insider Threat at the FBI," Patrick Reidy, the former chief information security officer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, outlined his research on threats from "an authorized user, doing authorized things, for malicious purposes." Malicious insiders account for about 19 percent of cyber attacks at the FBI, but those incidents were about twice as costly as all the attacks by outsiders.
The best way to combat these threats is to know everything about your employees, Reidy said, especially past firing and hiring history and, of course, what data they're supposed to be accessing. The next preventative move is to set up a system to carefully monitor when data enters and leaves the company system and watch for anomalies. There are software tools that can help prevent insider leaks, he said, but many tools marketed this way are ineffective.
Snowden was not a typical insider threat
Companies do have good reason to fear threats coming from inside the building, but the data show that Snowden was not a typical insider threat. His job as an infrastructure analyst granted him a lot of access, while only about 1.5 percent of espionage cases are privileged users. He was standing up for a cause he believed in, while most malicious insiders are mercenary. The fear of an "Edward Snowden incident" is prompting more companies to lock down their internal operations, but he's not the type of person they should be worried about. We're not entering an era of vigilante data liberators who must be kept in check by expensive software. The real insider threat is the same as it always was — mostly low-level employees just trying to make a buck on the side. And, again, even the fanciest software is going to have a hard time preventing that.
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01 Aug 23:16
Bouncing Cow will always seem inadequate from now on
by djempirical
jwz.
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01 Aug 23:15
Papers, Please - a Dystopian Document Thriller - launches on August 8 on Steam, GOG and the Humble Store for $10, on both PC and Mac. Pre-orders are live right now.
The game has players take on the exciting role of an immigration inspector in the early 1980s at the border of the fictional communist state Arstotzka, which has just ended a six-year war with its neighbor, Kolechia. Players must feel out discrepancies in documents from people asking to cross, some of whom are terrorists, spies and smugglers, and some of whom are kind old grannies wanting to see their families.
Papers, Please made its way through Steam Greenlight in May as part of the system's first "mini round" of games. The gameplay offers a twist on classic espionage mechanics, creator Lucas Pope told us in June:
"I was inspired originally by my trips through airport immigration in the last few years .... Instead of playing the cool spy protagonist that slips through a checkpoint unsuspected, you can be the hard-ass inspector that casts their skeptical eye at every grandmother trodding through. That sort of role reversal sounded fun to me and I thought others might like it, too."
Papers, Please has 20 different endings in Story mode, based on the decisions players make each day as immigration inspector, though a "unique save system" allows for easy replays of any days. One ending unlocks Endless mode, which offers three game types and four rule sets built around an endless stream of travelers, complete with online leaderboards on Steam.
Papers, Please legally enters Steam, Humble, GOG on August 8
by Jessica Conditt
Papers, Please - a Dystopian Document Thriller - launches on August 8 on Steam, GOG and the Humble Store for $10, on both PC and Mac. Pre-orders are live right now.
The game has players take on the exciting role of an immigration inspector in the early 1980s at the border of the fictional communist state Arstotzka, which has just ended a six-year war with its neighbor, Kolechia. Players must feel out discrepancies in documents from people asking to cross, some of whom are terrorists, spies and smugglers, and some of whom are kind old grannies wanting to see their families.
Papers, Please made its way through Steam Greenlight in May as part of the system's first "mini round" of games. The gameplay offers a twist on classic espionage mechanics, creator Lucas Pope told us in June:
"I was inspired originally by my trips through airport immigration in the last few years .... Instead of playing the cool spy protagonist that slips through a checkpoint unsuspected, you can be the hard-ass inspector that casts their skeptical eye at every grandmother trodding through. That sort of role reversal sounded fun to me and I thought others might like it, too."
Papers, Please has 20 different endings in Story mode, based on the decisions players make each day as immigration inspector, though a "unique save system" allows for easy replays of any days. One ending unlocks Endless mode, which offers three game types and four rule sets built around an endless stream of travelers, complete with online leaderboards on Steam.
Papers, Please legally enters Steam, Humble, GOG on August 8 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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01 Aug 23:13
Asshole Awarded For Asshole Behavior By Business Community Leaders
PHILADELPHIA—At a ceremony held in the Hilton Hotel banquet hall Wednesday evening, noted local asshole Mark Thorton, 54, was recognized by his asshole peers in the business community with an award honoring his illustrious career of distinguished as...
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01 Aug 23:13
Yale Officially Declares 'Nonconsensual Sex' Not That Big A Deal
by hodad
The word "rape" does not factor into Yale's new report on how the university is handling sexual misconduct; instead, the act is described as "nonconsensual sex," and it's usually punishable by "written reprimand." (Sometimes rapists have to spend some time thinking about respect!) According to the report, five of the six people Yale identified as nonconsensual sex-havers over the past six months either graduated without much stress or will be returning to campus in the fall.
01 Aug 03:18
Prominent streamer Vinesauce recently broadcast some The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time footage to his fans, but with a twist: Link had been replaced with Sonic the Hedgehog.
[Thanks, BPMΩ.]
Bizarre Ocarina of Time mod replaces Link with Sonic the Hedgehog
by David Hinkle
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Prominent streamer Vinesauce recently broadcast some The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time footage to his fans, but with a twist: Link had been replaced with Sonic the Hedgehog.
[Thanks, BPMΩ.]
Bizarre Ocarina of Time mod replaces Link with Sonic the Hedgehog originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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