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  1. Re: Set Top Box going nowhere on Intel Streaming Media Service Faces An Uphill Battle for Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    And the 15 year old gamer living in their parents' basement is not the primary demographic for the new Xbox.

    It is 25-35 year olds.

  2. Re: Deal breaker on Microsoft Confirms Xbox One's Phone Home Requirement, Game Resale Rules · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yep, good thing the Wii U does 1080p, has mature content, has effectively the same controller setup, doesn't have a monthly subscription, and doesn't require me to put up with ANY of this bullshit.

  3. And Assange is a witch... Not sure where he is going with that analogy.

  4. Re: FTA on Oculus VR Co-founder Andrew Reisse Killed In Auto Collision · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, with the large drug trade, these kinds of gang related shootouts are regular occurances in some parts of the U.S. And frankly, I would still prefer they not chase these kinds of perps.

    For the most part, gang violence only affects gangs and our gun rights, while high-speed chases move that danger to places where people like this engineer can get caught up in it.

  5. silly on Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ideas? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think there are lots of smart people helping those that fewer people care about (there are no groups that need help that nobody does), you just don't hear about it because they don't get invited to the White House.

  6. Re: What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    And destruction of evidence is a pretty damn serious crime.

  7. Re: If I learned anything from Asheron's Call 2 on Blizzard's Unannounced 'Titan' MMO Rebooted, Development Team Reduced · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Runeescap is actually one a more aggressive development cycle than the one you describe, which is why it still has millions of players (the vast majority fairly new) despite being over 12 years old.

  8. Re: Internet connection on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It wasn't otherwise the whole internet would have become classified. The Chinese stole it off one of the classified networks (like SIPRNet), which the DoD has known to be compromised for quite some time. Because of this, really sensitive things aren't kept on it, only mildly sensitive things. If the article implies more, it is sensationalism.

  9. Re: Okay, who's the moron? on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 2

    It wasn't otherwise the whole internet would have become classified. The Chinese stole it off one of the classified networks (like SIPRNet), which the DoD has known to be compromised for quite some time. Because of this, really sensitive things aren't kept on it.

  10. Re:Well now on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    You are purposefully misrepresenting the arguments.

    People in public are screaming about how they want control over their own privacy (posting in a public forum means I allow that information and opinion to be public, instead of, say, Google choosing what should be public or private about me) not that they want absolute privacy (asinine interpretation of the vernacular, but one you've chosen to use as an assertion to fit your contradiction).

  11. Re: Make metal ilegal too... on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think what you mean is that they stopped being part of Australia's culture when more restrictive ownership laws were passed in the 1980s. Handgun shooting was a wildly popular sport in Australia from the 1950s up until that time.

  12. Re: Make metal ilegal too... on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 4, Informative

    Comparing crime statistics and claiming the differences are due to gun policies is misleading and downright deceitful.

    Ireland doesn't have a multi billion dollar per year drug trade across open borders with Mexico, which is important considering the vast, vast majority of gun related homicides in the U.S. are directly related to gang violence stemming from organised crime.

    A reasonable and fair comparison is between the U.S. and Russia, who also has the same sorts of crime problems. The difference is that Russia has some of the strictest gun laws on earth. Their gun homicide rates (depending in source) are also higher than those in the U.S.

  13. Punishment on First Government Lawsuit Against a Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    I would say that pulling out innards from a tiny hole for coyotes to eat (a la Blue Duck) would not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

  14. Cue conspiracies on Missile Test Creates Huge Expanding Halo of Light Over Hawaii · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cue conspiracy theories about alien technology and/or chemtrails in 3... 2... 1...

  15. Re:what mcafee is good for: on John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground · · Score: 1

    If you read the last Q&A with McAfee, he describes what essentially amounts to a 30k$ roadside bribe, followed by a whole bunch of bullshit and charges filed by vengeful local policemen that didn't get the money they wanted.

  16. Re:what mcafee is good for: on John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Clearly, you've never spent much time out of the U.S. If you've never been pulled over by police in a hispanic country for being white, and threatened with jail time for no crime if you didn't bribe them away, you can't talk about conspiracies or paranoia.

  17. Re: Well... on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice straw man, but no, I meant people not wanting to take responsibility for their own actions and own well being. The people preferring to relying on their nanny government to restrict how much soda they can buy. Pansies.

  18. Re: Well... on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 0

    I'm wondering *who* they were polling. 1000 pansy NYC'ers are not representative of the majority of Americans.

  19. Re: Matter of time on Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics · · Score: 1

    And that seems to apply to software as well. Like many things, software is just a medium for designs and ideas, implemented in math at some levels (usually abstracted away from the designer).

    Not all that different than hardware... though the implications might be.

  20. Re: Not just for putting holes in paper on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 4, Informative

    I guess the article didn't point out that this isn't a novel idea or new invention, this is just the first commercial application of a technology already developed and in use by militaries (at least the U.S.) for both large and small arms.

  21. Re: zero evidence on World Press Photo Winner Accused of Photoshopping · · Score: 2

    "In the post-process toning and balancing of the uneven light in the alleyway, I developed the raw file with different density to use the natural light instead of dodging and burning. In effect to recreate what the eye sees and get a larger dynamic range"

    From the contest: " The content of the image must not be altered. Only retouching which conforms to the currently accepted standards in the industry is allowed."

    It seems lighting isn't the issue, so much as the accusation of image splicing.

  22. Re: Minor observations on World Press Photo Winner Accused of Photoshopping · · Score: 5, Informative

    The photographer has already explained the lat the photos have been retouched to affect lighting and dynamic range, he just didn't do what he was accused of, which was splicing different images together.

  23. Re:Regulation of tools? on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter at all. Casting bullets from old lead tire weights is nearly free, and is a popular pastime for most people that shoot large caliber handguns (.44 magnum, .50 AE, etc).

    All it takes is a propane torch, a small crucible, and one of hundreds of bullet moulds in various shapes/calibers.

  24. Re: Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    That is because it is really hard to walk guns across the border from NZ to Australia. Mostly because of an ocean. Not hard to smuggle thinks like... drugs... from Mexico to the US.

  25. Obvious on Ask Slashdot: What If We Don't Run Out of Oil? · · Score: 1

    Unless we find a way to sink as much carbon as we extract and convert to CO2, it should be obvious what would happen. More AGW.