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  1. Re:Football is the same on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me more like after1972 no-one ran, since jogging was invented.

  2. Re:communism = forced economy on Game Retailers Hurting Themselves With Digital Distribution · · Score: 4, Informative

    Right, because before Marx, there was no government intervention in economies. I'm guessing you're from the USA by the casual way you throw the term "Communist" around.

  3. Re:New, poorly understood media, are scary on The Real Story Behind Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, name a subject where mainstream public discourse is thoughtful and reasonable... It's not just the new and scary things, it seems like people just pick opinions on everything based on what their gut feeling and social circles tell them they should feel like about it and "discussion" in the media is several people like this beating each other over the head. There's no give and take, the issues don't even matter, it's proving the other guy wrong that's important.

  4. What? on Online Storage For Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    So basically what we have here is a lawyer asking, by proxy, for legal advice on Slashdot. ???

  5. Re:Why re-imagine? on Re-imagined Silent Hill Announced · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't try to leverage an old product and rape the memories of the fans of the original.

    At least they're pretty honest about it: Silent hill: Shattered Memories

  6. Re:Action Points? Oh no. on Legends of Zork Goes Live · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yea, it's not exactly cheap, but then it's not meant to be played for hours on end, either. You can use a maximum of 2 "potions" per 7 days, so that means max. 400 extra AP a week per character, or a bit under 7 dollars a week, depending on how many "coconuts" you buy at once. Again, not cheap for a game, but unless you have multiple characters up the wazoo, it's not going to end up being quite as bad as it would appear at first, if only because playtime is limited.

  7. Re:We should heavily promote adblocking on Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets · · Score: 1

    What's your endgame here? I get blocking ads because they annoy you personally, but why do you care whether others see ads or not? If you were suggesting a campaign to advertise the Adblock Firefox extension, that might be a sneaky way to increase the install base of Firefox, but I don't see the use otherwise.

  8. Re:Only 40Gb/month? on Time Warner Expanding Internet Transfer Caps To New Markets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here in civilized Northern Europe, I don't even know anyone who has a transfer cap. Somehow the ISPs seem to stay in business.

  9. Re:Baaa Humbug on Sheep Herding LED Art · · Score: 1

    Some viral ad agency has too much of a budget, rather. Not that this likely took all that much money, but I'm pretty sure it's a fake. It's a Samsung ad, and even if it were possible to get sheep to walk in formation like that, there's no reason to go to all that trouble for an ad when a bit of CGI will suffice.

  10. Re:The damndest thing with these stories today on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    Mod parent off topic! Since when did TFA have anything to do with the discussion on Slashdot?

  11. Re:"Waffle & Bluster"?! on The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to take their humour disinhibitor pills.

  12. Re:So ... on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 2, Funny

    So are we getting a new mod option to go with this? Something like "Achievement Whore"?

  13. Re:Why is this funny? on Hints of a Link Between Autism and Vinyl Flooring · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does it increase autism though, if not through environmental factors brought on by poverty?

  14. Re:Repent now, the end is near on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 2, Informative

    I haven't seen anyone sane saying the world will end, or even that humans will rapidly go extinct, just that climate change will cause many changes, potentially threatening food production, water supplies, causing political destabilization etc, generally changing much of the world as we know it. In other words, what's being said is things could get quite difficult.

  15. who knows on CIA Expert Decries E-Voting Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe there was tampering, maybe there wasn't. The CIA isn't exactly a source I would trust not to put out false information to further their own agenda.

  16. Re:Misdirection on Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rumour has it there's a non-Microsoft OS available for PCs, as well. In fact, I heard something about them having some kind of "year of the desktop" promotion and giving it out for free. I can't remember what it's called, maybe someone here can help...

  17. Re:Use that waste heat! on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 1

    Why, you convert the heat energy back into electricity, of course, and use it to power the servers!

  18. Re:FIRST Robotics on How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science? · · Score: 1

    What about a FIRST post team?

  19. Re:Fry on Europe Is Testing 12.5 Gbps Wireless · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, SchrÃdinger's cat observes YOU!

  20. Irony? on Amazon Uses DMCA To Restrict Ebook Purchases · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ironically, the purpose of the script is to make the Kindle more useful to its users.

    Nothing ironic about it. Amazon doesn't want the Kindle to be more useful than they've designed it to be. They've spent a great deal of money and effort making this platform, they don't want to have to compete with other people selling books for the thing.

  21. Re:Um, what? on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hence "off his meds".

  22. Re:I'm working on the Nixon script myself... on ISS's Node 3 Might Be Named "Colbert" · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for mod points!

  23. Re:Seriously? on ISS's Node 3 Might Be Named "Colbert" · · Score: 1

    Colbert, and Colbert fans, are doing the same thing only in the political/media spectrum and throwing it in the face of the right-wing.

    And that's why NASA would be wise to not name the node after him, just as they would be wise not to name the node "O'Reilly" or "Limbaugh" or what have you.

  24. Re:Not just - or primarily - games that this affec on Does a Game Have To Fail To Get a Real Ending? · · Score: 1

    Who goes to see "major releases" for the story, anyway?

  25. Re:5th Amendment on US District Ct. Says Defendant Must Provide Decrypted Data · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Also if the defendant is not required to provide the encryption key/password, but an unencrypted copy, what's to keep them from providing a "sanitized" copy - how do you check if it's the same bunch of files if you can't see the encrypted data?