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  1. Re:It's not a choice on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: -1, Troll

    So what if it were a choice?

  2. Re:Nintendo, Beyond Good and Evil. on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    Zelda games aren't adventures? My childhood memories- heck, any memory I have about Zelda games tell me to disagree with that statement.

  3. Re:NetHack on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    Comprehending. Try it. Also context.

  4. Re:NetHack on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    The imagination needed, or rather, willingness to put up with the lack of the great anchor that is known as graphics, might be too much strain for a ten year old. I do agree that NetHack and its companions (other text-based dungeon crawlers) are fantastic games and offer countless of unique experiences, but this is an ASCII dish usually served best to those who have had the opportunity to train themselves a little bit more in the areas of thought, language and patience.

  5. Seriously... on Xbox Live Indie Games Rating Manipulation · · Score: 2

    It's been what, twenty years of top downloaded/most votes lists, and we still can't make a fair system? Shiiit. Android market, the appstore, now this, they all suffer from the same flaws and drawbacks. Why can't some interface/social-schmocial people figure out a way to get this right?!

  6. Re:because it's not at all difficult... on Rock, Paper, Shotgun Call For Worldwide Game Release Dates · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You seriously think that if they could make more money by having global release dates, they wouldn't have done it already?

  7. Re:because it's not at all difficult... on Rock, Paper, Shotgun Call For Worldwide Game Release Dates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right. You undertake a multi-million project over the course of years and you can't sync logistics & legal? Come on, bullshit. The reason they release games on different dates now must be that they think they can make more money that way (money always is the reason).

  8. For those without the patience... on The Full Story Behind the Canonical vs. GNOME Drama · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those without the patience to read this article (which is much longer than I intended it to be when I started!), here are the headline points:

    -FreeDesktop.org is broken as a standards body
    -Mark Shuttleworth doesn’t understand how GNOME works
    -GNOME is not easy to understand
    -Deep mistrust has developed between Canonical, GNOME & KDE
    -Difficult people are prominent in each of these projects
    -Behind closed doors conversations are poison
    -For people to work together, they need to be in the same place

    Pulled from http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/03/11/lessons-learned/

  9. Re:Wall Street rules on The Companies Who Support Censoring the Internet · · Score: 1

    Change things from *inside* a democratic system? Great idea! How about... we all stop voting! Yeah, that'll show 'em! Lets cancel out their phony elections by not showing up en masse. But oh, wait, according to you, withholding your vote from a system you choose to not participate in because your moral standards don't allow you to is lazy.

  10. Re:Just point to the root.org paper on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    This shouldn't have been a reply. My bad.

  11. Just point to the root.org paper on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the article worth pointing to on the subject: http://rdist.root.org/2011/01/17/stuxnet-is-embarrassing-not-amazing/, not the bullshit linkbait threatpost.com(MERCIAL) "article".

  12. Most certainly so. on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    When students try to hide themselves behind a screen of digital hogwash I would instantly dismiss them. If you aren't interested in what the lecturer has to say, why even bother showing up? If you want to take notes, utilize far more superior tools: pen and paper. Beats the hell out of any not-taking utility on any laptop/tablet.

    Students should be actively engaged with lecturers, and not be dividing their time between them and their computer.

  13. Most certainly on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    If we're talking about lectures, most certainly so. I would dismiss any student trying to hide behind a screen of digital hogwash, if you're not interested in what someone is lecturing, why even bother showing up? If you want to make notes, bring a non-intrusive pen and paper. Beats the hell out of any tablet/laptop loaded with whatever note-taking utility.

  14. Re:1.2 million euro on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: -1

    The euro is an international currency, the Anglo-sphere can try to "regulate" language all they want, but it just looks foolish. There is a reason why we use euro/euros for different things: "This game costs twenty euro. I had a bill of fifty euro yesterday, but I spent most of it on clothing. Oh wait, I still have twenty euros in my pocket, I can pay for it!"

  15. 1.2 million euro on Assange Has Signed Book Deals Worth $1.5 Million+ · · Score: -1

    It's "euro", not "euros", unless he gets paid with 1.2 million coins.

  16. Re:Welcome back, kdawson on Remote Exim Exploit In the Wild · · Score: 2
  17. News? More like olds. on Remote Exim Exploit In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Welcome to a week ago. Oh, and security guys -are- picking up on it. Stop following companies/press and start following persons.

  18. Re:Don't use made up words on Bredolab Botnet Taken Down · · Score: 2, Informative

    This. For the love of tech news, spell-check your shit, slashdot.

  19. Re:In the End... on Why Microsoft? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who is this "we" you are speaking of? You and all the other Anonymous Cowards? You're called coward for a reason, you know. I know I wouldn't, just like I wouldn't assist most politicians, and dictators. If you want to force companies to change, you first have to change yourself.

  20. Re:Damn you slashdot on Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 3, Informative

    Useful info? That digitizor website included a useless "trivia" list to make the article seem bigger. Seem. Fine, if there has to be a news-post, link to the official debian.net post: http://news.debian.net/2010/08/16/happy-birthday-debian-2/

  21. Damn you slashdot on Happy 17th Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is there -any- possible reason for this ./ article to link to http://digitizor.com/2010/08/16/happy-17th-birthday-debian-and-some-interesting-history/ instead of linking to the _official_ birthday page: http://thank.debian.net/ Also, like kwebbles mentioned, it's really sad you sad to bring up Ubuntu. It's Debian's birthday, you insensitive clods.

  22. From the wikipedia discussion page on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    "Deolalikar's result is that "P (does not equal) NP (intersect) co-NP for Infinite Time Turing Machines". This is a special context - infinite time Turing machines are not the same thing as standard Turing machines, but are a kind of hypercomputer. Dcoetzee 09:07, 8 August 2010 (UTC)"

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:P_versus_NP_problem#Potential_Solution

  23. Re:Old content is interesting... on Major Flaws Found In Recent BitTorrent Study · · Score: 1

    Check if you get free Usenet access with your ISP, or purchase a Usenet account from time to time to download some of the older stuff. Although, even with 600+ days of retention, content falls through gaps.

    Keep on seeding/posting!

  24. Really? on Plone 3 Multimedia · · Score: 2, Funny

    An entire book on "how to upload on Plone".

    My mind is Plone.

  25. Re:Did I miss something? on Video Game Legends To Be Inducted Into Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    Tinfoil hat mode. I'm not even kidding, I have nothing but my suspicion.