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So can Microsoft Sam.

You've got literally nothing backing up your position. I cited recent efforts to stop strong encryption in the UK that were shut down and I pointed out that your policies have not even been imposed in Iran and China.

To rebut me, you have childish insults.

You lose.

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Good day.

No, it wasn't a strawman because you just confirmed that is your position.

Your position is that the majority is ALWAYS right because... ?

So, I didn't strawman you... FUCKtard. You literally said I strawmanned you and then immediately contradicted yourself by adopting the position I had supposidly strawmanned you with... you are a moron.

You're too stupid to have this discussion. Its official.

Good day.

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So you too have reading comprehension issues? Listen, idiots... I have no problem with people disagreeing with me. Disagree all day and I'll be just fine with it. But fail to read my post and then respond to your illiterate interpretation of my posts and I'm going to call you on your illiteracy.

Take you for example. You are apparently under the impression that I "flew off the handle" because someone disagreed with me. Which is clearly idiotic since it is quite clear that I flew off the handle because the moron commenting on me didn't actually read my post at even a grade school level.

If you are literally at the level of "run spot run" then please do the internet a favor and do not comment.

Welcome to the internet.

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Good day, sir.

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Oh please, how batshit can you get FOSSie? Oh nice M$ BTW, you deserve a Linux Party!. Are you SERIOUSLY soooo fucking delusional that you think MSFT is gonna jump through all those hoops and go through all that bullshit for....what exactly? To attack your "precious" which is all but dead in the consumer space with the exception of the Google "Watch us pull a EEE on them dumb FOSSies" Android?

News Flash the NEW CEO IS NOT STEVE BALMER and therefor doesn't do things the old way. he sees no point in worrying about the copyrights and patents on a programming framework because hey! The value of a programming language is WHAT YOU BUILD WITH IT not what patents and copyrights you have on it! To everybody who isn't a batshit crazy FOSSie its obvious what he's doing, the more platforms a .NET application runs on the better and since Nadella seems to be heading into a more services and support direction this makes damned good business sense.

So you go back to living like its 1998 and its Billy Gates versus RMS and the rest of us will live in the 2010s,mmmkay?

I'm not going to ship them anywhere to do anything.

I'm suggesting that you simply scale back the subsidized housing. Do it slowly so there isn't a big shock. It took us a long time to get here, it is going to take a long time to get out of it.

Scale it back over 10 years or something. Lots of time. And have exceptions for people that really can't survive otherwise. But most people unless they are outright inferior to the rest of the active labor force... can support themselves. And for the record that should be about 90 percent of them.

A lot of them are going to realize they aren't going to be able to live where they're living. Some will move out to the periphery of the city. Some might talk to family members in other parts of the country and say "oh, maybe I'll start my new life over there." Others will take a chance in various places. They're not all going to move at once. Just a little bit at a time.

These are not children or cattle we're talking about here. I am not going to ship them anywhere. It is not my right to ship them. These are grown men and women. Adults. These are people we allow to vote.

If they're so stupid in your opinion that they are unable to solve rudimentary problems in their lives... then basically you're suggesting these people need to be institutionalized. That they must be given cradle to grave support by the rest of society because they're just too broken to be able to take care of themselves.

You made this rather stupid insinuation that I was shipping black people off to work on slave plantations. Well, ironically, you're the one suggesting that these same people are so stupid and inferior that you need to keep them in state institutions eating government jello for the rest of their lives like people with brain damage.

Am I racist for suggesting that grown men and women can take care of themselves or are you racist for saying they're inferior, unable to compete, and must be taken care of for the rest of their lives like children?

Kindly don't try that snarky shit with me again or I will rhetorically slap the shit out of you again.

You don't know me. You don't know what I believe. You don't know what I know.

All you did was project your own inherent racism onto me.
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Damn... posted the wrong thing at the end... stupid copy/paste:
meant to put this
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that name was referenced by someone else in regards to plague containment. Oh well. You got the point. :D

What clubbing are you talking about?

What clubbing are you talking about?

Sure it doesn't mean "bend over and give us all your personal information," like having to disclose your real name in a Google+ public profile in order to be allowed to comment on a YouTube video? Or perhaps it just means birthday.

Which brings me to a song by Bad Lip Reading with lyrics "Everybody poops and if they don't they're an Android and should be destroyed." This is sold on iTunes but also on Amazon, which also runs an Android app store. I'm not sure with which platform this song's theme fits. On the one hand, "Android [...] should be destroyed" fits in with the dream of Steve Jobs to go thermonuclear on Android. On the other hand, the implication that every other smartphone OS "poops" could be taken either way.

Can you explain the "fundamental" changes that happen in these games?

In single-player Tetris since 2001, infinite spin and playing forever made score attack trivial, and Ryan Davis of GameSpot wrote of infinite spin that "it actually breaks Tetris". It ended up changing the most common single-player game format to time to complete 40 lines. In multiplayer, the rules on when a T-Spin sends extra garbage to the other player have fluctuated ever since the rotation rules were revised in Tetris Worlds .

Can you explain the "fundamental" changes that happen in these games?

In single-player Tetris since 2001, infinite spin and playing forever made score attack trivial, and Ryan Davis of GameSpot wrote of infinite spin that "it actually breaks Tetris". It ended up changing the most common single-player game format to time to complete 40 lines. In multiplayer, the rules on when a T-Spin sends extra garbage to the other player have fluctuated ever since the rotation rules were revised in Tetris Worlds .

That's not what this post was whining about. it was whining about women specifically being discriminated against.

A point which is stupid because they're really not. They're just treated like everyone else and some women don't like that. They want to be treated better.

And that's fine... if they accept declare themselves a protected class. Male chivalry will of course provide them the protection they desire.

But that comes with a price. Women need to make a choice as to what they want their position in society to be...

Do they want to be equals and thus ineligible for special treatment.

Or do they want to be a protected class and therefore unable to claim discrimination when excluded from highly competitive male interests.

For example... take sports. Should women compete against men in the Olympics or professional sports?

Here like elsewhere, women have to make the choice of whether they want to be protected or afforded equality. Women currently have made the choice that they want to be protected in sports. They have their own distinct Olympic medals and competitions. They don't compete against men in sports. Women cannot claim discrimination when not permitted to join male competitions for this reason.

Its either/or.

You either compete and play by the same rules with no special consideration or quarter given... no mercy... no hesitation... no remorse.

Or you're a protected class and any admittance you have to anything we protect you from happens at our discretion.

Just that simple. End of discussion. End of line. Choose.

I'll just let wonka break it down:
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There's no economic theory required. The cost is a reflection of labor and resources required to deliver a good or service plus a profit to reward the people that actually provide it.

If the prices are higher then there are two things that can cause the price to be higher.

1. The costs are actually higher which would mean less efficient because it would require more labor or more resources.

2. More profit taking or profit margin. There are theories regarding this point but I'll refrain from doing that because you're apparently allergic to economic theory... which I would point out renders you incapable of having this discussion. But I'll try to humor you anyway.

Point is... if its variable 1... aka resources... you're not more efficient. And even if its variable 2 you're still not more efficient because your system is leaking resources to middle men or facilitators.

So no. Even with that absurd attempt to dismiss all economic theory as a last ditch attempt to save a utterly doomed argument... you still lose.

Checkmate.

*takes the opponent's king*

Good day, sir.

I'll let Wonka break it down... because its awesome. :)
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I cite a fact that contradicts your argument and you say I have a problem with reality?

Illogical and stupid.

You lose by default.
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As to what it said, it obviously did. It said there were more fires now and that that was the result of more CO2... as evidence they of course cited more fires now than then and did not point out that there have been big changes in the ways our forests are managed between time T1 and T2.

This implies there was no significant change which since I live here and have watched it I can tell you with first hand knowledge that there was a big change.

As to fancy words, there isn't a single word in the english language that impresses me. Rather, you'd have to construct hundreds of complex concepts together in a way that was both intellectually stimulating and asthetically harmonious to actually impress me. You've done neither. Your arguments thus far have been little more then pointing at the sun and denying its existence and then dropping the same word over and over again while assuming that that would somehow lead weight to the idiocy. And beyond that the construction of your sentences has not been especially impressive thus rendering any claim to linguistic superiority moot.

Look, you're either 10 years old or an idiot... either way, good day, sir.

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Tetris Worlds has a plot: block creatures trying to escape their dying planet through portals unlocked by high scores in Tetris. Too bad The Tetris Company had to screw it up by using Tetris Worlds to launch infinite spin as a new official rule of Tetris.

This is why I stopped being a PC gamer in the late '90s. All I wanted was a better Tetris. What I got was a better bouncing ball demo.

You're not gonna get a better Tetris. The Tetris Company has made infinite spin the law for over a decade now, and providers of alternatives will be prosecuted.

It's their future (and their past thirty years), not mine. Just tossing in a reference to one of the longstanding repeating acts on everybody's favorite radio variety show.

You mean like the infinite spin that has been a standard rule in Tetris since 2001?

I made a point, I backed my point up with evidence. You responded with contradiction, no evidence, and stupid insults.

You lose.

Good day, sir.
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Maybe they'll explain to TV producers that facial recognition software doesn't work by showing each face it's checking.

I always thought of it more as a throbber, the same as if the app were to display Lindsay Lohan doesn't change facial expressions during recognition.

Linguo dead?

My GF loves to hunt. So now I have a reason to join her! She can hunt the deer and I can kill the drones!

Is Tetris, where infinite spin is the rule, really a game anymore? In fact, Tetris has been solved.

Tetris isn't a reflex game. Infinite spin has been the rule since about 2001.

Patrolling and trying the bestselling author ridin' dirty...

Don't forget about YTMND.

Of course, there are a couple instances of APNG usage there. i.e. Double Ravebow

Didn't they solve this problem on TNG? All you need to do to cope with a coolant leak is have everybody roll energetically under the descending emergency door that's sealing the affected area off.

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(in case it isn't obvious, that link is loud, obnoxious and on a loop.)

What the fuck is a Duck blur?

It's what you see when morphine makes the holy known. Then the Taco Nazi snatches you away.

You're goddamn right....

Thanks for the meme, QT!

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First of all a public service announcement: To everyone that writes "M$" in 2013...This...Is...YOU! and this is what everyone sees and instantly dismisses when you write that lame ass M$ in 2013. You could write the most brilliant post in the history of Slashdot but a good 80%+ will NEVER read it because they see M$ and think "douchebag" and move on. So don't waste your time unless you want people posting your group photo as the very next post.

Second of all lets get something VERY clear for those that don't seem to understand how these things work, okay? ALL OPERATING SYSTEMS that would be what we consider "modern" are some of the most complex pieces of software EVER written, we are talking millions of LOC in the kernel alone and thousands of little sub-programs that ALL have to work in concert to give the user the illusion that its all one program that "just works". Is Linux even close to immune? Not only is that a big NO but to even suggest it is is a symptom of what is known as "magical thinking" such as "If you buy (product X) then you will magically be safe!". We in IT have seen magical thinking used to sell everything from OSes to firewalls to routers and reality will blow holes in that lie every single time.

So if Linux is vulnerable why don't we see Linux attacks in the news? We do only they are called "Android attacks" and in fact its predicted that later in the year Android will reach the one million infected mark which considering that Android isn't even a decade old is pretty impressive.

Look its actually VERY simple, and evidence has bore this out time and time again. Criminals ARE LAZY and want to do the least amount of work for the biggest bang so they want to go after the biggest targets to yield the most infections they possibly can. I mean writing a OS/2 virus today would probably be the most trivial thing in the world yet you don't see anybody doing it, why? Because the fact is even though eComstation still sells OS/2 there are too few using it to make it a juicy target. But the malware writers WILL go where the targets are, used to be it was always Windows, then Vista bombs and everyone in the press starts talking about how Mac adoption is climbing, what happens? Mac Guardian and Mac Defender. Android phones and tablets explode in usage, what happens? Thousands of Android malware released weekly.

So anybody who thinks their OS is gonna magically protect them from malware because "(product X) doesn't get bugs!" is merely deluding themselves with magical thinking. There are even articles that helpfully helpfully explain this and point out how switching platforms just for the sake of magical thinking (in the article OSX for Linux but you can insert any from and to in there and it still fits) just doesn't work. Be it Linux, Mac, or Windows you can find plenty of bugs, I could spend 5 minutes and cover this page in reports of bugs for all 3, I already listed the 2 biggest Mac bugs of recent memory, TFA is a Windows bug, and just off the top of my head there was the KDELook theme bug and the infected Quake 3 that was served up by most repos for a year and a half on Linux. NO OS is safe, NO OS is immune, and if you are gonna claim security by obscurity is actual security you might as well run Win95 or BeOS because hey, there aren't any bugs circulating targeting those OSes either.

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Why would there be lines several days AFTER the phones went on sale?

I seem to remember there being long lines for Xbox 360 and Wii months later, to the point where people were auctioning off just the console's packaging so that other people could pretend that they managed to score one.

Awww...did the poor wittle FOSSie fail to find even a SINGLE CITATION to line up with his delusions? While I can easily provide multiple citations to back myself up? See that is what happens when one has REALITY on one's side, we don't have to call people names like shill, we can just provide proof to back up our assertions! And HOW is their assertion bogus? Because it doesn't fit in with your fairy dust plans? Welcome to REALITY! Do you have ANY proof their numbers are wrong? that wikipedia's numbers are wrong? Anything at all besides 'Linux is teh leet so it must be teh popular!"

But lets face it Alex, we ALL know the truth by now, your wittle name calling, you inability to back up a single thing you say with citations, your constant moving the goalposts, I think everyone here can plainly see that this is YOU and this is your impotent nerd rage

Tell me Alex, which one looks most like you? I bet the one in the beanie, yep right about your speed.

Bill Stickers is innocent

The Ouya is okay for today, but it'll be decidedly shoddy in five years' time

That's what wii said about the last budget console wii saw, but for a while, wii ended up seeing it printing money.

By contrast, fellow Pakistani physicist A.Q. Khan, who played a key role in developing the country's nuclear bomb and later confessed to spreading nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, is considered a national hero

Khaaan!!!

When the drone loses communication for a length of time it is programmed to return to base and land unless it reestablishes communications and receives alternate orders. But it uses GPS to find out where the base is.

The drone knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the drone from a position where it is to a position where it isn't and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't.

In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the drone is and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the drone must also know where it was. The drone guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the drone has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

It's legal to hire someone else to do pretty much anything you can legally do yourself

You can give yourself a handjob, but you can't hire a hooker to do the same.

The definition of Tetris changed in 2001 with the introduction of infinite spin (explanation) and T-spin triples (explanation), among other changes that "actually break[] Tetris" according to a review by Ryan Davis of GameSpot. So have you been playing old Tetris or modern Tetris for the past decade?

The definition of Tetris changed in 2001 with the introduction of infinite spin (explanation) and T-spin triples (explanation), among other changes that "actually break[] Tetris" according to a review by Ryan Davis of GameSpot. So have you been playing old Tetris or modern Tetris for the past decade?

that one jehova's witness who raises their hand is all like WTF is a birthday, actually learns something (at school, crazy!!) when it's explained to them that, hey, most of your classmates celebrate their birthdays.

Slashdot previously reported on that story. It's not that Jehovah's Witnesses don't know what a birthday party is. The Hebrew Scriptures and the Greek Scriptures each depict a birthday party. It's just that the mindset that leads people to celebrate birthdays tends to be correlated with sin in three ways.

First, both mentions of birthday celebrations in the Bible involve the birthday boy having someone killed (Genesis 40:20-22; Mark 6:21-27).

Second, a lot of parents throw lavish parties when their kids reach certain milestones, such as 10 (double digits!), 15 (quinceañera parties in Spanish-speaking countries), 16 ("sweet 16" parties, the anglophone equivalent to quinceañera parties), or 21 (often involving getting "drunk with wine, in which there is debauchery" as Paul warned). These parties cost a lot of money that the parents may not really be able to spare, and such conspicuous consumption amounts to boasting that one's parents are rich. A birthday is like an anus in that everyone has one, but not everybody needs to flaunt it.

Third, gift-giving holidays encourage parents and others to hold back gifts until one specific day of the year, rather than giving gifts when they are most needed.

Not including a birthday in a test is a way to keep test takers from associating a situation with profligate spending, beheadings without due process, and holding back, and having those associations distract the test taker from the reading comprehension issue being tested. It also keeps people's minds wandering to cases where "birthday" is German for "bend over [and take it up the behind]".

Not as much of a poke as a BANG BANG!

..but it is nice to dream.

The problem with your guidelines is that companies like Best Buy prey on the one thing most /.ers here fail to comprehend: Technological Illiteracy. Best Buy isn't interested in selling the top of the line products or having exclusive things. All they want is to take advantage of people that are upgrading their Pre-2000 computer for a new POS9001 with the extended warranty... Which will be needed because the POS9004 will be out next month and the 9001 model will break down a week into using it. So they do what they do in order to make a fast sale to people who have no idea what they are getting into as far as quality or don't realize that 90+% of computer problems can be solved with a Google search. (or no Windows on the PC to begin with for those Apple/Linux zealots here). This also holds true to Radio Shack and any other big box store like Wal Mart.

A great example is how Best Buy was hoping people would be dumb enough to spend over a thousand dollars for a HDMI cable. If you knew absolute shit about electronics or were not a /.er, you may fall for their trap because of how they hype it up and make it sound like you will get better quality picture/sound. Another example, and why Circuit City failed, is how Circuit City tried to charge people ~$30 to get backwards compatibility on their new XBox 360. (Yes it is a YTMND, but the advertisement is 100% legit)

While what you are saying is true, it would be very difficult for Best Buy to do this. To them: It is more cost effective to have some kid in HS to work on a PC for $60/hr or an extra $30 at point of sale than to hire a professional who may want more than minimum wage to work on junk... To which, the pro may not in good conscience sell.

Some steps toward the mass-market ARM desktop are being taken. First, stick out your tongue, close your lips gently over it, and blow. Second, load this page and sing along. You just made a raspberry and sang an approximation of pi.

But more seriously, as Google TV and Android merge, there won't really be a difference between a "smart TV" and an ARM powered all-in-one PC.