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  1. Duh? on Social Media's Role In Peer Pressure · · Score: 1

    Social media is exactly the same as AFK.

    News at, well, never.

  2. Re:Not the first time on Lenovo CEO Shares $3 Million Bonus With Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or the point was that it's silly to single out Apple.

  3. Re:I like the idea on Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tpb was raided due to a threat from USA regarding an embargo towards Sweden.

    So, well, if bloody Hollywood can put that type of pressure on a country, I believe a branch of the government can as well.

  4. Re:chess moves on Skype: Has Microsoft's $8.5B Spending Paid Off Yet? Can It Ever? · · Score: 2

    It certainly was.
    One of the main things which changed when Microsoft took over was that they started being in charge of all the supernodes.

    Before microsoft, anyone using skype could become a supernode, meaning, the places where most of the data goes through (co-ordinating the chats and voice at the very least).

    My first thought was that they destroyed the decentralized nature of skype, probably to be able to monitor everything much more easily.
    And lo and behold.

  5. Re:Out of jobs? on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That exactly mirrors my thoughts.

    In the future, either we get the federation or we get a dysmal place for all but a few which live in wonderful conditions.

    No real middle-ground.

  6. Re:OK, it's moderately amusing, but... on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pastafarians make fun of the archaic aspects primarily.
    They also attack special prvileges given out to religions.

    This attack is against religions requiring you to always wear some type of hat and thus people of that religion are allowed to take their photo with this hat.

    They find this to be wrong since other poeple are not allowed to use hats on the photo.

  7. Re:How? on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    T'Pol was actually the only character gowing through real growth.
    She really transitioned from the perfect Vulcan in an interesting way.

    The only thing that was fucked was the first contact episode.

  8. Re:Shades of Blake's 7 on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 3

    DS9 explored how no decision is ever morally perfect, even if the people performing them are well-meaning through and through.

    Even the dickish spy moves in the series are quite justified, and this includes the potential genocide of an entire species.

  9. Re:Proud? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    So, let's see, which country has been involved in the most number of deaths of other countries citizens the last 13 years?

  10. Re: Assange is a loser. on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or we could just bloody stop discriminating people in our own countries before preaching to others to stop.

    A societies worth is determined by how they treat it's least powerful members.

  11. Re:Want some fun ? on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    Varies in sweden dependant on the contract.
    But three months mutual is the standard.

  12. Re:Betteridge is actually wrong this time on Is Europe's Recession Really Over? · · Score: 2

    That was the beginning of bubble economics, yes.
    However, the eighties was when focus shifted from producing goods to just earning money.

    That is the true bubble problem, no real valie behind the percieved value.

  13. Great idea on Bill Gates Seeking Patent To Make Shakespeare Less Boring · · Score: 0

    This is great for kids who have a trouble memorising information from texts.
    I wasn't one of them.

    However, this means that instead of forcing you to memorize through text, you can memorize context through images, this really helps those who learns better by colors and so on.
    Basically, this is color-coding pages ut with even stronger visual sitmuli.

    Fantastic.

    However, trying to use this for literature would be moronic.

  14. Re:The problem is size limits on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 2

    The costs of good storage are still prohibitive.

  15. Re:With the right training, huh? on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    Actually, associative conditioning is EXTREMELY effective.
    There is a whole branch of psychology entirely based on just tricking someone with pleasant experiences mixed with bad ones.

    Also, every victim of rape will have problems with sex due to it (some get over it, many don't).

    However, it only works against particular things.
    Learning a person to be moral through associative conditioning is possible, most people understand morals (even psycopaths, they just don't get why it's important), and through indoctrination you could probably learn a psycopath to feel bad about not following a particular set of morals.

    Rehabilitation isn't the right word though, that assumes a base level to return to.

  16. Re:With the right training, huh? on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    It saved a whole bunch of american lives.
    It might even have saved a bunch of Japanese ones as well since they weren't close to surrendering.

  17. Re:Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    How do you define left/right?

    Liberal/conservative?
    Bigger state/smaller state?
    Peace/war?

    To me, the left believes that we should take care of each other since nurture is nice.
    The right believes that people get complacent and need to fight for themselves.

    Nazi Germany was a VERY nurturing society to everyone who fitted their ideals.

    They where also conservative as fuck.

    And very war-like.

    But the extreme right is anarchy, the extreme left is big brother.

  18. Re:Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 2

    This would be fine and dandy if the US was a secular state.
    Which it is not.

    The state and the church are very closely tied.

  19. Re:Meh on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    Unity and Gnome3 är pretty much crap which pretty much everyone runs away from.

    Sitting in MATE with openbox currently ;)

  20. Re:Yes and no on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    Especially locking you form classic.

    You save several pixels on each window through using the classic one.

  21. Electric cars are the future on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1

    Currently, buying electrical cars is mostly being part of supplying demand for something better.
    In reality, we need better batteries (especially charging and charge cycles, or, a good system where you can change batteries every five years or so combined with efficient recycling) and need better power sources in general (Thorium for instance) to support them.

  22. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sweden has some clean energy, but definitely not alls.
    Also, we aren't expanding nuclear power plants and a majority in our parliament are against expanding it (basically, all right-wing parties except one are for it, but since it's a core belief of one of them that it is wrong none of them can push the agenda farther along, the lefties are all against it and the racist party is ambivalent).

    In the winter, we import energy, mostly from polish and german coal.

  23. Re:Start Button in 8.1 is useless. on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    win+r

    fffs

  24. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Booth babes don't work well on straight geeks. on Are Booth Babes Going Away? (Video) · · Score: 1

    None of the definitions are very clear.

    But, yeah, dork is strictly a social term.
    Nerd is mostly about obsession in a, to the common man, uninteresting thing.
    Geek is a usually about the same.

    But those definitions would be fine to me.