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  1. Re:The day wasn't the best choice. on Why So Much Coverage Of Amazon Prime Day? The Incentives, Of Course (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Over here you get only paid once a month, normally at the end of the month. I did not know it is still common to be paid every other week in the U.S.A.

  2. Re: Not really on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    As long as Germany is part of the European Union this is simply no going to happen. Touching the speed limit on the Autobahn ends the career of every politican.

  3. Re:too much package management on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 1

    On a lot of servers at customer sites emacs is not installed. vi on the other hand is available on every *nix server I have ever encountered. So at least for config editing I'm often forced to use vi.

  4. Re:Wake up on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    Care to share a source for that urban legend?

  5. Re:Awesome on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I cannot find that one. Can you provide a link?

  6. Re:Interesting on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    No need to check the WayBack(tm) machine if you are referring to this interview.

  7. Re:You can decide to ..... on How the Cool Stuff At CES Will Ruin Your Life · · Score: 1

    As long as you have other ways to appreciate your time spent alive then sure. At some point though, there's no point trying to argue. Like I said before about Steam, it has certain obvious online requirements, but considering all of my electronic devices are online 100% of the time anyway, I don't see that as a problem. Plus, you can play in offline mode, or crack the DRM if you really wish.

    I have to do long train rides. I would have buyed D3 if I could play it on the train. But Mobile coverage is nowhere near that point.

  8. Re:Scrap them all on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 1

    You can watch the counting process. You could be one of the people who count the votes.

  9. Re:LMGTFY on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Heavy-Duty, Full-Home Surge Protection? · · Score: 1

    clicking your link yields zero results for me.

  10. Re:Accountability on Why You Can't Dump Java (Even Though You Want To) · · Score: 1

    It's much easier inside your home; if some stranger is inside your home and you shoot him dead, it's pretty hard for prosecutors to argue that you instigated it or whatever; your story that the person broke in and threatened your life is hard to argue with.

    So should I be afraid to be invited to someone else's house, because he could decide to "stand his ground" and shoot me? This argument is BS.

  11. Lots of Multimedia! on British Schoolkids To Be Taught Computer Coding · · Score: 1
    ICT should also be taught by embedding interactive and multimedia technology across every subject, according to Intellect - which believes technology businesses could play a role here to help teachers make the best use of relevant equipment by supporting training.

    Yeah that's how l learned CS too...

  12. Re:Agreed on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    I dont use caps lock. not even for line long names of constants. I don't think I ever used it.

  13. Cartridge size on UK Courts Rule Nintendo DS R4 Cards Illegal · · Score: 1

    I would have never bought as DS if it wasn't for the R4. If they would sell the games on much smaller cartridges I might use them. But at that size it's such a hassle to carry multiple games around. I probably would not like a lot of smaller cartridges either because I would lose them ;). Mutliple games on a SD card is just the perfect way of storing a lot games.

  14. Single Sign On on Passwords That Are Simple — and Safe(?) · · Score: 1

    Simply use a Single Sign On mechanism. Be it Kerberos, a solution that fills your password (passlogix.com), .... You only need remember one password (or better a PIN to your smarcard) and have strong password for all your applications.

  15. Re:Caps Lock Key on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    99% of the time you have to enter serials, they get capitalized automatically.

  16. Re:There are two ways to do it on Free-To-Play Switch Going Well For D&D Online · · Score: 1

    To me DDO seems to be closer to you second, "evil", example. You have to pay to get "Adventure Packs" which give you, as I get it, access to content you otherwise can't access.

  17. Subscribe - unsubscribe on Free-To-Play Switch Going Well For D&D Online · · Score: 1

    What I don't get: Suppose you have been a subscriber for 3 months. While you are subscribed you have access to all adventure packs etc. Now when you unsubscribe do you lose access to all the content even though you spent 45$ on the game? In contrast when you buy the adventure packs via micro-transactions, do you gain access for ever?

  18. Re:Oh this is an easy one. on Are Micro-Transactions the Future of Online Game Business Models? · · Score: 1

    I bought them, but I hated them and myself for doing it.

    That's exactly how you show 'em you don't like what they are doing! Very smart!

  19. Guildwars Nightfall on Torture in Games · · Score: 1

    In Guildwars Nightfall they had to change a NPCs name because people were offended by torture. That's why a Corsair Prisoner in the training area became a Sunspear Volunteer. The Corsairs are your enemies, while Sunspears are your friends obviously. http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sunspear_Volunteer http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Corsair_Prisoner

  20. Re:Also on Torture in Games · · Score: 1

    If killing someone meant they had to walk back for a couple minutes and caused them no permanent harm at all, I imagine it wouldn't be such a big deal.

    Don't forget that it wears down your cloth if you get killed.

  21. sounds convenient on IBM's But-I-Only-Got-The-Soup Patent · · Score: 1

    Is it patent worthy? I don't know. But I sure like to such a device in restaurants. It really gets messy when you are at a table with >10 friends. It's really a hassle to hand 10 credit cards to the waiter. It never happens that everyone ( or even most of the people ) have cash. Picking your items on a touch screen, enter a tip percentage, swipe your card - sounds really convenient to me.

  22. Re:Cheaters on US Army To Invest $50 Million In Game Development · · Score: 1

    Either the majority of our military is stupid (and they have tests to prevent that)

    you made my day.

  23. Re:15 minutes? on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    Even though my (work) computer takes less than 10 minutes to boot, it takes ages to run all the logon scripts. Than, if I start Outlook it takes another 5 minutes before I can do anything else.

  24. Re:Dot... on Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2000 Woman study computer science because Finland rewrites its constitution?

  25. Obligatory comment on The Art of Extreme Napping · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our sleeping overlords.