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  1. Re:Well yes... on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    now now, no one wants to destroy the Canadian healthcare system

  2. you know on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    One thing's for sure. This won't help her depression.

  3. Re:Microsoft...Worry? on Xbox Live Class Action Being Investigated · · Score: 1

    I should hope they wouldn't hire Cochran--- he's been dead for 4 years, and bringing a mouldered corpse into the courtroom probably won't endear them to a judge or jury.

  4. Re:EA on EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean Roster Updates for Madden at the cost of a full game?

  5. Re:NOT Ironic!! on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Okay, now THAT is ironic.

  6. Re:Their names are J.delanoy and Mike.lifeguard on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    As a long time goon, to be fair, you can be banned for quite a few things that aren't specifically against the rules.

  7. Re:this is not a huge problem on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    You know as well as I do, that as soon as you did 1., one of the nerds on wikipedia would AfD it for the subject being non-notable: which it would be without mentioning the murder. Anyway, it's nice that people are in favor of the killers having a "normal life." Now, can we grant the same to the victim?

  8. Re:NOT Ironic!! on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? It's just as ironic as rain on your wedding day, a no smoking sign on your cigarette break, or 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.* * that is to say, not ironic in the least

  9. Well on Geocities Shutting Down Today · · Score: 1

    I still remember back when you didn't have to have a domain to be taken seriously. Magazines would list informative websites that were hosted on geocities. More often than not, though, you'd wind up at a page written by a wannabe anarchist or a script kiddie. This page would look horrible, have some 50kb .wav greeting you, and almost always have a black or .gif background. Yes, that includes my own geocities page from back in 96. Yes, geocities. You were terrible. But we'll miss you anyway. This post best viewed in Netscape Navigator. Under construction. 010013 hits and counting! Part of the kuribo post webring.

  10. Let me get this straight... on FCC Begins Crafting Net Neutrality Regulations · · Score: 1

    It's not okay for "That damn Obama to take away muh guns!" But it IS okay for the government to give ISPs the power to strip away peoples' choice of what they want to do on the internet? I'll never understand Republicans.

  11. Well, if nothing else... on Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone · · Score: 2, Funny

    This would make the World of Warcraft forums even more illegible.

  12. So wait... on Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You mean people actually still think that web-based, free emails are secure?

  13. Everyone will think this is great... on Gardeners Told to Give Exhausted Bees an Energy Drink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until we start wondering why our honey is giving us a crazed, caffeine-infused high. Remember, honey is basically bee vomit. Also, if Red Bull gives you wings, what does it give bees?

  14. Re:Predictable much? on Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus · · Score: 1

    Why not? It's been working for McAfee for 20 years now. I mean, the amount of fearmongering that the antivirus industry has perpetrated is staggering. True, they do it because it works--- Look at how the Freedom Act got passed after the 9/11 and terrorism fearmongering. If you make people afraid, and offer them a solution, many will meekly follow.

  15. So some guy wrote an article about... on Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    something changing his browser settings? And this made /. today? Is it THAT slow a news day in IT? Hell, if I wrote an article everytime something tried to change my browser settings, or install some search engine toolbar, I'd have to quit my job because I'd be writing articles all day.

  16. The real problem is that replay value is dead on 100 Million Used Games Traded Each Year In the US · · Score: 1

    Seriously, if I pay $50 for a game that takes me five hours to complete, I'm not just going to play through it again to unlock some shitty artwork. I want REAL meat and potatoes for my money, and more so if I'm going to keep playing it. I'm looking at you, The Simpsons Game. Sure, it's a couple years old, but I paid $50 for it when it first came out. The controls made the game nearly unplayable, but hell, the script was funny, so I persisted. I beat the game, and now it's been sitting on a shelf ever since. The point is that unlocking the stupid "cliches" and other assorted crap wasn't enough to make me ever want to play that game again. And this is an increasing attitude with game developers. To charge full price for a game that takes me only a couple of hours to beat, and then add "replay" value by telling me to spend a few more minutes collecting stupid crap so I can see lame sketches of the characters they made. Along with the attitude that it's okay to ship games out with insane bugs (lol Sims 3) as long as you plan on patching it later, game developers are taking their market for granted.

  17. Re:Tinfoil isn't just for Jiffy Pop anymore on US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no one ever saw those movies.

  18. Re:Russia-Japan issue on The Origins of Video Game Names · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think that a culture that sells used schoolgirl panties out of vending machines (or anywhere, really) and makes video games where you have to seduce underage girls... well, I don't think hating the Russians is their biggest problem.

  19. I never thought I'd be justified in saying this, on The Origins of Video Game Names · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But my GOD. TLDR, much? And half of it is either pointless speculation, or stuff like "I don't actually KNOW the origin of..." Must be a slow news day in IT.

  20. Re:Sorry... on RIAA Wants To Bar Jammie From Making Objections · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet their briefcases are filled with old newspapers, too.

  21. Re:No surprise on Sotomayor's Position On Copyright Damages · · Score: 1

    28 out of 50? That's barely a majority. So, because 56% of the people who took contributions from the RIAA were Republican, the Democrats aren't in their pockets? Dude, 44% of the people who took contributions from them were Democrats.

  22. Re:From the article on CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't forget that part of their goal is expelling the souls of dead aliens from our bodies. Which is, of course, the true definition of sanity, not having dead alien souls in you.

  23. Know what woulda helped 3D Realms stay in business on 3D Realms Sued Over Failed Duke Nukem Forever Plans · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If they had actually released a game or two in the last 13 years. :(

  24. Re:April Fool on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    It's both real and fake, therefore it is a paradox. Doc Brown warned us about this. :( See y'all on the other side. :(

  25. Re:If you don't like it on Feds Demand Prison For Guns N' Roses Uploader · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can't boycott music sales. If you do, and the entire industry takes a financial hit, then they'll just claim piracy is on the upswing and causing them to take a financial hit. Kinda like how piracy is totally to blame for the entertainment industry's problems now, and not the fact that it keeps cranking out the same tired crap, or the fact that the economy is tanking and taking peoples' entertainment budget into the toilet with it.