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Isn’t it awesome that the Federal Government will soon control EVERY aspect of our healthcare?! Yayyyyyy for us!!!

/s

1 day ago on No shit: can fecal transplants save 14,000 lives a year?

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Wait… did the Microsoft rep really use the phrase, “nor will we be”?!

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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maybe, but that’s exactly what I use my old iPhone 3GS for. It’s basically an iTouch now. It’s great for music, normal apps over wifi, and older games, but not so great for new games…

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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I believe they’ve clarified that it’s only tied to your account, so you can still bring it to a friend’s house and install it to play while you’re there (by logging into their XBone with your credentials). Once you leave their house, that friend can’t play it without your account creds — but, they CAN then purchase the same game and play it without having to download it again since it’s already on their hard drive.

At least that’s how I understood their explanation…

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 1 reply

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Is your current plan less than $70 for the one phone?

If not, then you REALLY need to update your plan…

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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wouldn’t the graphics benefits of DDR5 strengthen the point that it should have been used on all of the new consoles instead of the standard DDR3?

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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Haven’t they already stated that the games will be tied to your account? So, if you have more than one XB1 in your house, you’ll simply install it on each of them using the same primary account.

I could be wrong, of course. The information is definitely murky right now! /shrug

3 days ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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That would be me.

4 days ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 16 recommends

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Perhaps; but, that doesn’t change the fact that he has the right idea here.

4 days ago on Senators blast Apple in hearing for keeping most profits overseas 4 recommends

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PS: it was great training, though!! LOL

5 days ago on Inside Fort Irwin, fake cities provide a training ground for real warfare

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I definitely hated JRTC more than NTC.

JRTC in July/August:
- It rained every damn day at 4pm, so the sun never came out long enough afterwards to dry anything out.
- I ran out of cigarettes on day 10.
- I witness my soon-to-be-relieved CO crying after he got half of our platoon “killed” in 20 minutes (by moving us INTO a stream bed that sat square in the middle of the lowest ground in the area.. DERP!).
- The crying CO proceeded to leave all of us who were “dead” on the edge of that streambed… for 36 hours.. without food and water.
- I got hit by lightning there (along with everyone else in my platoon)… hilltop perimeter in the mud + weapon + heavy rain + lightning + tree = REALLY bad f’n day.

Seriously, I marked Fort Polk off of my personal map of the US… screw that place.

5 days ago on Inside Fort Irwin, fake cities provide a training ground for real warfare 1 reply

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^^ attack data being both the most important and the least available requirement, of course.

18 days ago on Deter Cyber Theft Act aims to stop companies from profiting on cyber-espionage against the US

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What? Create annual reports that are essentially Cyber Damage Assessments encompassing EVERY ASPECT of both private and government Computer Network Operations (CNO)?

Gee, maybe because doing so is a Herculean task that would require more money, human resources, and a larger volume of data than any report ever drafted? Good luck collecting all of the data necessary to write such a report when we can’t even pass bills like CISPA to collect the attack metrics, let alone the attack specifics.

Yes, the problem is THAT large, complex, and widespread. While I would love to see such an assessment completed, the idea that it could be done annually and effectively is simply ridiculous given the total lack of all three requirements: money, human resources, and data.

18 days ago on Deter Cyber Theft Act aims to stop companies from profiting on cyber-espionage against the US 1 reply