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  1. Free Alan Gross on Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm sure the United States would be more willing to consider ending the embargo if Alan Gross was freed from prison. It doesn't help relations when you imprison a USAID contractor for being a spy. His only crime was he was connecting a Jewish community to the internet.

  2. Not in Macedonia? on Who Is Buried In the Largest Tomb Ever Found In Northern Greece? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How are the Macedonians going to assert their cultural identity now that a significant Alexander the Great related site was found in Northern Greece and not in their country?

  3. Re:The death of leniency on U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras · · Score: 1

    How is this any different than dash cams on police cars? Police regularly give out warnings while being filmed without any repercussions.

  4. Re:Does it come on Century-Old Drug Reverses Signs of Autism In Mice · · Score: 1

    Or the does the vaccine itself cancel out the effects of autism vaccine? Would it even be worth getting?

  5. Child Support on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1

    How would this 'adventurous human woman' collect from the dead(beat) dad?

  6. Re:Any worse than elsewhere? on Dozens of Reported Plagiarism Incidents On Coursera's Free Online Courses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's little incentive not to cheat in this setting though. The repercussions for cheating at traditional schools are significant in that there are real career and financial ramifications. Here you're simply kicked out of a free online program where you likely can just re-enroll under another name.

    Until cheating is dealt with in a satisfactory manner, I don't see how these online offerings will ever be a credible alternative to traditional schooling.

  7. I guess that's why Wikipedia uses it on their logo.

  8. The most recent Star Wars movie on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek? · · Score: -1

    The movie might have been a quasi-reboot but it was still pretty good. Then you can point out how it was actually a sequel and you'd be willing to show them how that could be.

  9. Zero Day DLC on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have no problem with $60 games or even DLC. The problem I have is $60 games with zero day DLC (like Mass Effect 3). It's obvious that many developers are starting to use it to discreetly jack up the price of the core game. Then to add insult to injury, they claim it was never intended to be part of the core game despite the files already being physically on the disk.

    If developers were just honest, I wouldn't have much of a problem with the practice. Instead, they're trying to play us for idiots.

  10. Cookies on Paywalled NYT Now Has 300,000 Online Subscribers · · Score: 1

    I wonder how effective these paywalls would be if more people realized you can simply clear your cookies to bypass it.

  11. Re:Helmets on Gears of War 3 Released · · Score: 1

    There's another crack about it in the second game where they basically said they couldn't see snipers as well with one on.

  12. Re:Siezed? on Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court · · Score: 1

    I before E except after C... Oh wait. Damn English!

  13. Will it be in English? on $1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Coming To Jordan · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of the appeal of park would be lost to Trekkies if the park just catered to Arabic speaking tourists. At the same time though, it's in an Arabic speaking country so it seems kind of odd for it be in English.

    I guess it'll have to be bi-lingual in absence of universal translators. This situation just seems kind of odd to me in that American franchise would have a theme park catering to it in another part of the world.

  14. Re:The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt. on Judge Blasts Prosecution of Alleged NSA Leaker · · Score: 1

    Well at least the Tea Party is striving to turn the US in to Somalia...a country with no government.

  15. Re:dumb fuck on US Citizen Visiting Thailand Arrested For Blog Posting · · Score: 2

    Except it looks like he made the post 4 years ago while in the United States. Just making a critical statement about a country then getting arrested for it years down the road while visiting isn't a very good precedent. I'm sure since this guy is a US citizen, the State Department will work something out though.

  16. Re:What's after 360? on Microsoft Recruiting For Next-Gen Console Development · · Score: 1

    They could just go with the Xbox 3G (3rd Generation!). Hey, it worked for Apple.

  17. Re:Its not the speed that is the problem. on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 1

    High speed rail would need its own right-of-way. The current tracks would not support 250 mph. Like Amtrek had to reinforce the tracks in the Northeast for the Acela line which only goes a bit over 100 mph.

  18. Re:Blizzard Entertainment on Blizzard Launches Third WoW Expansion, Cataclysm · · Score: 1

    If they just released next week, it wouldn't conflict with most universities' finals schedule. As it is, this is painful trying to study for finals and write papers when Cataclysm just came out.

  19. Re:Why didn't TheDirt.com respond? on Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website · · Score: 1

    More than likely the papers were not properly served. So they probably never knew they were being sued.

  20. Re:As a Tester on Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Wireless Controller · · Score: 1

    That time it took to address the "complaints" probably came from trying to circumvent an existing patent.

  21. Re:Modular on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think you'd have a different perspective on trailers if you lived in the South. They're all over the place due to how cheap they are. They're meant to used on a more temporary basis but people continue to use them as their permanent homes. As a result most trailers are in poor condition and would literally fall apart if you attempted to move them. At that point they're just an eyesore and detract from everything around them (including property values)... That's the real reason they're not allowed in most cities.

    Modular Homes are completely different and are meant to be used as permanent structures, hence they have no axles. Due to how controlled the factory environment is, you'll often times get a better quality modular house than you would a conventionally built one.

  22. Re:I'm pissed on SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In general, what kills most MMOs is releasing too soon. If they release too early and ruin their first impressions with people, there is really no way for them recover. They need subscribers since box sales can only do so much. This is also the key reason why you're seeing fewer MMOs and more delays these days.

  23. Re:New Starcraft Unit on Blizzard Shows Off Diablo III Archivist Class, WoW Dance-Off · · Score: 1

    For some reason, I came into this year thinking the Tauren Space Marine would be impossible to top... I was wrong.

  24. Can you change the battery? on Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think that's the question people want to know.

  25. Re:Nothing to do with flying on H.A.W.X. Brings New Perspective To Tom Clancy Series · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's just an Ace Combat clone. Nothing more, nothing less.