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  1. Re:I don't have a beef with one on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying you are, but your post did read like a lot like an advertisement.

  2. Re:uhhh... on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 2

    Actually, using a single menu at the top makes it so that it is always in the same place, as opposed to floating, and having possibly several of them out at once, all taking up screen real estate. I'm not necessarily saying that makes it universally better (though I happen to prefer it), but saying that it is entirely form over function just because you don't like it and can't be bothered to see the function is disingenuous.

  3. Re:Whatever -- Smarts and Work Ethic Come First on Ask Slashdot: Getting a Tech Job With Skills But No Formal Degree? · · Score: 1

    Oh no, however will he afford his third Ferrari now that he's unemployed?

  4. Re:And the customers will lose money in the end... on GAME Australia Now Also In Administration · · Score: 1

    Actually, Blizzard is stepping in and issuing refunds to players who buy the game online tonight and submit their preorder receipt.

    http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/14/blizzard-fixing-game-australias-mess-giving-diablo-3-to-those/

  5. Re:Stocks are, in part, based on future growth on Tim Cook Prefers Settling To Suing and Has a Huge Quarter · · Score: 1

    I suspect some government contractors would not appreciate you suggesting that their sales somehow mean less because they were made to the government and paid for with taxes.

  6. Re:Huge Quarter? on Tim Cook Prefers Settling To Suing and Has a Huge Quarter · · Score: 1

    This is how I read that initially. I was very confused until I read the summary.

  7. Re:Time delay - info from the future? on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 1

    Assuming you know enough information to determine that a particle has been disentangled (and I think that this is the case), then you have faster-than-light transmission of information.

    I'm not a physicist, but the way I understand it, there's no way to tell if a particle is entangled without observing and comparing both particles.

  8. Re:OK I'm confuzzled. on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Copyright is a complex issue with many applications and rules, and even in this thread there appears to be very little agreement as to which parts, if any, do or should apply here, and whether one or both parties are doing something wrong. To ask whether all of Slashdot is for or against copyright is a gross simplification in several ways.

  9. Re:One question. on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    It isn't like he's mute, you know. He just doesn't really talk on stage, during the act.

  10. Re:Interesting times we live in... on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 2

    So what, live underground and grow your own mushrooms?

    Modern life doesn't lend itself to avoiding carcinogens in any realistic fashion unless one is ready to become a hermit.

    And those mushrooms are probably known to the state of California to cause cancer.

  11. Re:Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 1

    Spoofing the Ninja Turtles is like spoofing Austin Powers. The source material itself was a spoof.

  12. Re:Did I miss... on Vast Web of Dark Matter Mapped · · Score: 1

    They're just measuring the known affects of dark matter, as opposed to measuring the dark matter itself.

  13. Re:Alamo Drafthouses are the model of the future on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 2

    The Arclight Theater in Hollywood (also there are 3 others in/around LA) is also very good, for similar reasons. And they do reserved seating, which is awesome.

  14. Warranty on EFF Asks To Make Jailbreaking Legal For All Devices · · Score: 1

    I don't know how much difference the legality will make when jailbreaking will continue to void your warranty/ violate the ToS/EULA for whatever you're jailbreaking. I really doubt breaking the law is the reason most people don't mod their Xboxes, for example.

  15. Re:Suggestion on Theologian Attempts Censorship After Losing Public Debate · · Score: 3, Funny

    Crucifixion? Could be worse. Could be stabbed. Crucifixion at least gets you out in the open air.

    Always look on the bright side of life!

  16. Re:Free market fairy on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    Yes, like the last time it was applied, from 1875-1913 in the USA. You know, the time where the US went from being a colonial backwater to an industrial superpower.

    IIRC, the only ones that worked out well for were the corporations and their executives. The workers and environment didn't make out so well.

  17. Re:Fools on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    OR, I could go and steal some park benches. I believe people are stealing what they can't buy.

    Or maybe you could just buy some park benches?

  18. Re:First step (or post) on Ask Slashdot: How to Exploit Post-Cataract Ultraviolet Vision? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ultragirl. I didn't even click the links yet, because I already know that only females are gifted with vision in or near the ultraviolet part of the spectrum.

    although I'm not sure a middle-aged suburbanite dad should don purple tights and cape to become a crime-fighter!"

    You need to take some remedial biology lessons, I think.

  19. Re:Lame! on Android Tricorder Killed By CBS · · Score: 2

    Like Apple, they have the ability, but IIRC the only circumstances under which it has been used were to remove malware that made its way into the Andriod store.

  20. Re:Give away 1 or 1,000,000,000 on Amazon App Store 'Rotten To the Core,' Says Dev · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's software. It cost nothing to duplicate. You get exposure.

    Quit whining.

    According to the RIAA and MPAA, that's 101,491 lost sales.

  21. Re:Google "Apophenia" to learn about these aliens on Mysterious Object Found In Seabed · · Score: 2

    So you're saying that we should discount any and every strange pattern or bit of data we find, simply because it's probably nothing? Probably the last 200 years of science would like to disagree with that sentiment. I, for one, would very much like to know what it is, even if it turns out to be an odd rock formation.

  22. Re:Horseshit on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    So if a bunch of people in your chosen profession commit murder, should we start treating all members of your profession like potential murderers?

  23. Re:Gives lawyers everywhere a bad name. on Bitcoin Trademark Troll Now Sending Bogus DMCA Takedowns · · Score: 1

    Today, in news, Michael Pascazi was launched into the sun by a unanimous vote of the worlds population, on charges of being a complete douche.

    If we make a habit of this, we probably have enough complete douches here to keep the sun going for a few million extra years. Not to mention what this would do for our population issues...

  24. Re:Faked? on The Stanford Prisoner Experiment - 40 Years On · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should check out the book The Wave, which is a fictionalized telling of a real experiment conducted by a high school teacher to help his students understand how something like the Holocaust could happen without anybody stepping in to stop it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(novel)

  25. Re:How about making cigarettes illegal instead? on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 1

    Actually, the tobacco lobby is one of the reasons that marijuana is illegal. Cannabis is relatively easy to grow, compared with tobacco. It had the potential to damage the profitability of the early US's two major cash crops, tobacco and cotton. Corporate pandering is far from a new phenomenon.