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  1. Re:No. on Will Your Video Game Collection Appreciate Over Time? · · Score: 1

    $31 a game is huge. particularly considering I can get all of those games and more and play them on an emulator for free.
    It obviously only got that high because of hype, you can by 99% of SNES games (including the ones actually worth money) for less than that.

  2. Re:depends on what you're going into on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 2

    I think I disagree. The point ot Math in CS is not to memorize a bunch of formulas that you might use in a program, or even to be able to derive a few yourself. The point of Math in CS is that CS is Math and Math is CS, every aspect of CS is governed by Math that you should understand. On their surface there does not seem to be much Math on a banking app, but it is there. Encryption, efficiency, performance, and just CS in general is all Math.

  3. Re:Postapocoliptic Nightmare on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    "Lead, it just tastes good" - Romans

  4. Re:Market forces at work... on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 2

    But the ones who buy GMO seed are having no difficulties, it is ones who do not that go bankrupt.

  5. Re:Postapocoliptic Nightmare on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That it still to be seen. From what I understand Japan, one of the more technically advanced countries on Earth btw, you need many and longitudinal studies (a scientific viewpoint). They are waiting a few generations to see what happens to the rest of us.

    In this instance it is Japan that is taking the reasonable and scientific route. We are taking the profit before before everything route.

  6. Re:One suggestion on UN Debates Rules Surrounding Killer Robots · · Score: 1

    Well if you had a nuclear powered robot, you might want to make it a stealth nuclear powered robot so that the enemy do not know where to aim the rockets.

    And it could just as easily be a marine robot, and I am pretty certain that stealth nuclear subs exist.

  7. Re:Want to Avoid this problem on Nasdaq Fined $10M Over Facebook IPO Failures · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because before going public FB was totally not about the money.

  8. Re:How do you value a "FaceBook"? on Nasdaq Fined $10M Over Facebook IPO Failures · · Score: 1

    Apparently, you just value them at whatever the hell they tell you to.

  9. Re:Reperformance hole on Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites · · Score: 1

    Well it would obviously have to follow the trend of always online, upload everything to a server.

  10. Re:Reperformance hole on Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites · · Score: 1

    And what makes you think that they will not have Youtube like (but 100 times more advanced) software that monitors all consumer recording devices?
    And what makes you think that the government does not listen to every single word you utter in public, if not also in private?

  11. Re:War Profits on Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites · · Score: 2

    No, SuperTechnoNerd is right.
    The world is different now. The consumer recording VCR, or DVD "backup" regulations and software are simply something that could never be invented in this society. Corporations are on the lookout for inventions and laws and would take control away from them and they are 100% in a position to stop every single one.

    In 20 years not only will there not new a more freeing inventions that invalidate labels or take control away from them, but it is likely that it will be impossible to pirate a song, movie, or game.

  12. Re:Really? on Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites · · Score: 0

    +1 Insightful

  13. "Ready to Program with Java" on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    Great simple IDE.
    Lacking loads of industry standards, but all those features that come in fully features IDEs are just way to confusing to add on top of learning coding for the first time.

  14. Re:Ah, yes! on Cockroaches Evolving To Avoid Roach Motels · · Score: 2

    I have not run into a IDer who did not accept that some breeds of dogs, for example, were not crafted identically to the way they are now by God, however many thousand of years ago they think the world was created.

  15. Re:Fear Mongering on Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter · · Score: 1

    "For sure the Third Reich would have called it terrorism."

    But they would've been completely wrong. Most words actually have useful definition, just most people are not literate enough to know them.

    Attacking a state's power/military/police/politicians in the open and/or head to head is absolutely not terrorism. Terrorism is attacking civilians to try and change the government. It is the use of fear instead of guile or strength to win.

  16. Re:Fear Mongering on Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter · · Score: 1

    From skimming the article I got the impression that they stated that random civilians will continue to die until the troops are called home.
    That is a textbook case of terrorism.

  17. Re:They took it seriously? on First Government Lawsuit Against a Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    But it is not a problem to competent people. Sure, I am all for the government protecting its citizens in this manner. But someone is going to scam that money out of the people who actually fall for it; There is no saving people from themselves.

  18. Re:Hand wring much? on The Canadian Government's War On Science · · Score: 2

    How is it any more criminal than forcing your citizens to tell you basically everything about themselves. Just because my government wants to know where I live, what my sexual preference is, and how much money I make, does not mean that I should be legally bound to tell them. It is not like they actually make policy decisions based on the greater good or peoples opinions anyways.

  19. Re:How quickly can they de-crap their products? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 2

    No, it is objectively worse than it used to be.
    It is even worse than Unity, though I think Windows 8 beats them both.

  20. Re:How quickly can they de-crap their products? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 0

    It does not matter how crappy Google gets, it will still be Google and Yahoo with still be Yahoo. Look at Firefox, it takes at least 3 years for people to abandon a completely crappy app that used to be good for something that is better.

    Yahoo would simultaneously have to revolutionized emailing, while Google rapidly sinks to utter crap, and you would still only see 1/3-1/2 market share transfer over the preceding couple years.

  21. Re:Not so great summary on Motion To Delay Sanctions Against Prenda Lawyers Denied · · Score: 2

    If I were the judges here I would not be worrying about his obviously lacking morals as much as his completely lacking law competency.

  22. Re: Separate issues on Motion To Delay Sanctions Against Prenda Lawyers Denied · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if this is that same illegal downloading that this lawyer is into revealing, then you cannot really condone that publically as a judge.

  23. Re:More shady business on Motion To Delay Sanctions Against Prenda Lawyers Denied · · Score: 1

    Because you are not supposed to pretend to be on one side and actually want the other to win. You are even allowed to represent yourself if you really want to, because the lawyer is supposed to be very interested in helping you as much as possible, even beyond the bounds of the law as it pertains to some other random person I even think (A lawyer is not supposed to squeal on you and tell the authorities that you admitted guilt to some crime).

    So there is loads of interest here, just not any "conflict of".

  24. Re:"7+ days of battery life" on After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs · · Score: 1

    You mean the airplane? You mean the airplane that has a fuel economy of about 100 mpg(per person)? Which is about 5-10 times what a car gets.

  25. Re:"7+ days of battery life" on After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs · · Score: 1

    But it is being called a smartWATCH and it absolutely sucks at being a watch.