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  1. True gamers use big enough and near enough screens as to cover their entire FoV.

  2. Re:The Nobel Prize Committee blew it on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    And where does the buck stop in this argument?

    At the elephants, obviously.

    Otherwise it would be Nobels all the way down. And while the money is infinitely divisible, the awards themselves would have an infinite cost.

    Unless you give really tiny, tiny awards.

    But that would be cheap for such a noble organization.

  3. Re:Hum on Ebola Vaccine Trials Forcing Tough Choices · · Score: 1

    Dear AC, if you under fourteen years old nor drunk/high right now, and at any point in your life ask yourself the following question: "Could it be possible that this makes no sense to me because I'm stupid?" Be safe in the knowledge that the answer to your quandary is a resounding "Oh my fucking God! YES!"

  4. Re:Gallons per mile? on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 becomes Windows 8 becomes Windows 8.1.

    How does your theory explain that same series but going backwards from 7?

  5. Re:metric you insensitive clod! on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    As much as I like to bash American units they aren't really the issue here.

    How is "miles/gallon" wronger compared to "gallons/mile" than "gallons/mile" to "l/km"?

  6. Re:So what they are saying... on US Says It Can Hack Foreign Servers Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    Surely they don't expect special treatment?

    You do know that US is short for USA and that the A is for America, right?

  7. Re:so what? on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 1

    A thousand times that.

    Over and over again we read variants of "I don't like X, but I want X to validate me. Thus, I demand X to change."

  8. Re:both poles are at record level high... on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 1

    My more humane side hopes you are being sarcastic.

    My cynic side suspects you aren't, and isn't disappointed.

  9. Re:And then... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 4, Informative

    The correct way to shape that joke is to omit the "Polo".

  10. Re:So the Italians win the latest round ... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's "Discovery by a civilized man", so Norsemen mustn't count.

    Essentially, to discover a continent you apparently need:
    1 - To be white.
    2 - A cup of tea. (ideally, with biscuits)
    3 - A towel.

  11. Re:Native Americans anyone? on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because of the subconscious "us" vs "them".

    To think of the discovery as "The moment Americans and Europeans met for the first time" requires a very objective and open mind. And we know that way of thinking isn't common because otherwise there wouldn't be wars.

    I believe the main reason is that thinking in "us vs them" terms is evolutionary superior to "we are all one humanity" unless there's a third party involved. Or, in other words, had there been an enemy to humanity other than itself, man would be friend to man.

  12. Re:Coming soon on UK Copyright Reforms Legalize Back-Ups, Protect Parody · · Score: 1

    I don't think the public needs any more parodies of media distribution services.

  13. Re:I have a Supra, and it's true on Which Cars Get the Most Traffic Tickets? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I get messed with the cops at least every other time I take my 94 Supra out. It isn't fun. The worst is being tailgated by a county cop. Going through a town or two and they are still on your ass sucks. Not that I'm doing anything wrong, but it's still the annoyance because you know they are going to pop you for SOMETHING.

    I have a follow-up question. When you go over a cross slope, with the country cop following you for no reason, for how many seconds does your Supra not touch the road?

  14. Re:The question is : WHICH million people? on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    So you're suggesting to escalate our attack from "robotic soldier invasion" to full blown "biological warfare"?

    Do we even have a big enough trebuchet?

  15. Re:Scratches Head on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    I think you and Mr. Musk don't share the same definition for : "genetically diverse".

  16. FTL! Dwarf Fortress! Dead or Alive! on Tetris To Be Made Into a Live Action Film · · Score: 1

    So many other games that would make better live action films...

  17. An ignorant population on The Executive Order That Redefines Data Collection · · Score: 0

    It's amazing the kind of silly alchemy you can pull off after managing to keep your population ignorant.

  18. Re:Dollars mean nothing on Analyzing Silk Road 2.0 · · Score: 2

    "No legal supply raises price of goods."

    I don't think that gonna make the news at 11.

  19. Re:Average price? on Analyzing Silk Road 2.0 · · Score: 1

    There's is a bit on information to extract from that:
    "The system isn't being used to only do major, hundreds of dollars, deals."

    And also:
    "On average, buyers are way past the free shipping minimum amount".

  20. Re:Finally on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 3, Funny

    However, unlike death, taxes come more than once.

  21. Customers using drones. on DHL Goes Live With 'Parcelcopter' Drone Delivery Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    "In December, Amazon announced it intends to deliver packages to customers using drones."

    Up to that point, if you were using drones you had to do your shopping in EBay.

  22. Re:How about giving Tibet back to the Tibetans? on China Eager To Send Its Own Mission To Mars In the Wake of Mangalyaan · · Score: 1

    How about the sapiens sapiens giving Europe back to the neanderthalensis?

    Or is it too late for that too.

  23. Re:Obligatory quote/s on Where Whistleblowers End Up Working · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good job, pat yourselves on the back and suck each other's cocks.

    I don't believe they are talking about that particular use of Whistleblowers.

  24. Re:RFID chips on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't work. It would interfere with th***CARRIER LOST***

  25. As in the movies on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 1

    Have you seen Memento?