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  1. Re:Happy and satisfied on Monkey Island Creator Slams Corporate Control Over Game Publishing · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure your Android phone speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, and has the grail already.

  2. How to avoid Apple lock-in in one easy step on Monkey Island Creator Slams Corporate Control Over Game Publishing · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How to avoid Apple lock-in in one easy step:

    1. Don't go through Apple.

    Really, vendors shouldn't have any control over any of their services and be forced to whatever a whiny geek whines about. How dare stores control what they choose the sell, how much they sell it for, and how they sell it?!?

  3. Re:Has everyone forgotten... on Lawrence Lessig Reviews The Social Network · · Score: 1

    "he built-up Facebook by being mean, cut-throat, and ruthless."

    This is the ideal hero of the free market and its god, The Invisible Hand.

  4. Re:Cool! on Brooklyn Father And Son Launch Homemade Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Oh but it does have "hip" value, otherwise you wouldn't be trotting it out and saying it isn't hip.

    It's hip to hate on Apple. I hate to break it to you, but you're a hipster too.

  5. Re:Theft? on Software Theft a Problem For Actual Thieves, Too · · Score: 1

    They have been deprived of the right to control (re)production of their work, in other words their copyright.

  6. Re:Yeah, right on Software Theft a Problem For Actual Thieves, Too · · Score: 1

    Of course slashbots know that there is more than one meaning to piracy which is why they can pick the one least appropriate to the topic.

  7. Re:Nope on EVs In the Spotlight At West Coast Green Conference · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope you meant mph.

    I know SI units are all the rage, but you have to remember to change the numbers when you change the units. 60 km/h is all of 36mph.

  8. Re:Growth? What? on Animal Farms Are Pumping Up Superbugs · · Score: 1

    Probably by supplementing their immune system so less energy is devoted to fighting or recovering from sickness and more can be directed into muscle growth. A sick animal isn't going to pack on weight like a "healthy" one. Just stressing some animals can weight loss.

  9. Re:Smart Sound on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if everyone torrents everything they watch having new things to torrent wouldn't be a problem either, since there wouldn't be any.

    It's like the people who won't get their kids vaccinated because they know about herd immunity. Get enough freeloaders and it stops working.

    So for the remaining people who do watch TV they need to make the commercials even more attention grabbing to compensate, making them even more annoying. So hats off to you, freeloading AC, for making commercials even more annoying.

  10. Re:Bit Mental on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that unemployment is more important than genocides? We shouldn't be worried about unemployment when there are genocides.

    And why do cops care about burglaries when there are homicides? Isn't solving homicides more important than property crimes?

    Why does X do Y when Z is more important?

  11. Re:Fragmentation? No. on Amazon Building Its Own Android App Market? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a travesty that stores get to set the prices for anything that they sell! And they get to choose what they sell! In the name of freedom we must force stores to sell what we want them to sell and at the price we want to sell it at!

  12. Re:yuck on Facebook, Skype Getting Really Friendly · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is /., Skype is, dare I say it, I dare, fashionable. /. has a raging hate-on for anything deemed fashionable. Except for being fashionable by hating anything else that's fashionable. That sort of fashionable is A-OK.

  13. Re:The hand of Godel? on Hawking: No 'Theory of Everything' · · Score: 1

    .999... = 1

    Hilarity ensues.

  14. Re:recommendations? on Safety Commission To Rule On Safety of Rulers In Science Kits · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you can find a copy, most likely digital and illegal as the physical version is rather rare bordering on non-existent, The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments has a lot of experiments that can be done with household items or other relatively common components.

    "Many of the experiments contained in the book are now considered highly dangerous for unsupervised children, and would not appear in a modern children's chemistry book." from Wikipedia.

  15. Re:Openfietskaart.nl on Almost-Satnav For Cycling · · Score: 1

    But, but, it has OPEN Data! Not just data, open data!

    And /shifty_eyes disruptive technology! That's gotta be all subversive! Down with the man, man!

  16. Re:The apple backlash is going to be amazing one d on Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    Though I feel /. as a medium is insufficient to accurately portray the reactions of the Droidbois et al. when they realize that they are just as trendy and fashionable as their despised foe, the Apple Fanboi.

  17. Re:More Bias Please on Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans · · Score: 1

    It's an Apple story posted by Taco.

    Of course there's going to be bias. Someone's still bitter about the whole Nomad thing.

  18. Re:It's about the market's they serve on Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans · · Score: 1

    If only iTunes would have an option that left all the files where they were...

  19. Re:The apple backlash is going to be amazing one d on Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans · · Score: 1

    It's super hip to not be fashionable, and to make an effort to be seen not being fashionable, so the super hip have to go to great pains to clearly define some other group as being fashionable.

    Imagine the horror of a super hipster when they realize that they are fashionable in their bashing of the 'fashionable' group that they defined.

       

  20. Re:Oh really on WikiLeaks Insiders Resign · · Score: 1

    'round these here parts if you ain't paranoid, you're sheeple. You don't want to be sheeple, do ya?

  21. Re:As someone whose income depends on the PS3... on PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released · · Score: 1

    "As someone who believes what you buy is YOURS, I find your disdain for freedom to be extremely distasteful."

    If you believe that then doesn't it follow that something isn't yours until you buy it, yet you admit to pirating?

  22. Re:Good job! on Man Gets 12-Year Jail Sentence For Planting Child Porn On Enemy's Computer · · Score: 1

    Even better for them since they exercised restraint while the suspect was not yet proven innocent.

  23. Re:They'll just ask for charity... on iPads On American Campuses? Maybe Next Year · · Score: 1

    "Atleast with MS, you can run what you want, but with iPads? http://www.businessinsider.com/latest-app-store-rejection-outrage-apple-rejects-app-that-teaches-kids-to-program-2010-4 [businessinsider.com]"

    The rules said they'd reject this type of app and they rejected it??!?!?1 I'm outraged!!!!1!!

  24. Re:wait what? on Stallman Crashes Talk, Fights 'War On Sharing' · · Score: 1

    It's called an example.

    More food for less work meant more "leisure" time. Preventing children from spending all their time in the factory gave them the time necessary to be educated. "A major one is having the time to be educated." directly preceding the section.

  25. Re:GNU/Stallman on Stallman Crashes Talk, Fights 'War On Sharing' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One could understand an argument of "Why Software Freedom is Important", "Apple is crap!" is too shallow for anything but simple agreement or disagreement.

    "they will listen to you, agree with you, then buy Apple anyway" that's called the "nod politely and slowly back away" maneuver.