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  1. Re:Meh. Who cares? on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    Which would happen if customers weren't excited. You can't have milk cash from no one.

  2. Re:Probably will screw it up again on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 2

    Diablo 3 had a pretty sharp drop off.
    Most people weren't happy with it.

  3. Re:World of Hobbitcraft on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    Having children is like running an Inn full of drunk crazy midgets who won't pay their bills.

  4. Re:WoW for PS4 and Xbox Durango?!?!? on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    It's not a bad game design. I mean, some people could do it poorly. but the idea that creating that is and of itself bad design is incorrect.

  5. Re:Chaotic good. on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A whistle blower is some who tells about a specific wrong. There was no wrong, there where no lies, and , as it turns out, the US was being totally honest about their activities.

    Saying: I'm going to illegal access this information and dump it to the world in hopes something might be wrong is not whistle blowing.

    This isn't like he photographed some dumping toxic waste into a water supply.

    What war crimes?

  6. Re:Aiding the enemy on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1

    well, that the sticky part.

    Aiding what enemy? It's not like he told the Nazi about troop movements. Is impacting a diplomatic strategy informing the enemy?
    There was nothing to whistle blow about. There was nothing wrong in those documents, and the showed that the US was doing everything they said they where doing.

    IT also showed we have intelligent and well spoken diplomats.

  7. Re:nice efficiency there on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1

    Becasue the holding jail is often more present.
    There is no conviction,
    And it give opportunity for a more fair trial.

  8. Get new glasses. on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1, Informative

    and read that again.

    It says:
    " immediate steps shall be taken to inform him of the specific wrong of which he is accused and to try him or to dismiss the charges and release him.""
    Immediate notification of charges, or dismiss the charges. it say NOTHING about the speed the person charged is brought to trial.

  9. Re:nice efficiency there on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 1

    Which doesn't apply to the military. Who can order you to sit in a cell.
    And,of course, speed y is pretty tricky. What is speedy? is it the next day? or is it reasonable time to gather the required information?

  10. cool. on Intercontinental Mind-Meld Unites Two Rats · · Score: 2

    ". But other scientists who work on neural implants are skeptical.""
    as they should be,. It's a big deal, as such it will require good data and be repeatable.

  11. Clealry on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 4, Funny

    they've done away with the pretense of a game and just have an auction house.

    Or it could be truly shocking and they are going to produce a fun game again.
    I would love to see a new Warcraft RTS. preferable without some lame story shoved into it.

  12. Re:We really need cajones in this country on China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks · · Score: 1

    And the phrase YOU are looking for is "tener cojones"

  13. Re:YAWN on China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks · · Score: 1

    AS is their plan. They do NOT want to loose 3rd world status. It gives them many exemptions on the world stage.

    "The Red Chinese" wow, 1950 called, they want your mentality back.

  14. Re:We need Ronald Reagan on China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks · · Score: 1

    It would have been nicer if he had the balls to say it BEFORE it already started happening. Or even answered Russia request to help the transition.

    Worst. President. Ever.

  15. IMporant distinct need to be made on China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks · · Score: 1

    "US Hack attacks" and US based Hack Attacks are two separate things, and it's an important clarification.
    SO less then 50,000 attacks, all of last year from computers reporting to be from the US.
    I mean, people need to stop, and I don't want to excuse it, but lets not get; crazy in the head about this.

  16. Re:What are they needed for? on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 1

    don't compare 'dogfighting' to what you see in the movies. It takes place in a much larger air space, and you don't need to visually see your target.
    expensive shoulder launching missile to don't reach 20, 000+ feet in the air. They are also slow and detectable.

    If you are dog fighter 1 mile above the ground in an advanced fighter, something has gone horrible wrong... and good luck.

  17. Re:Waste on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 1

    Who the hell has instant response time?
    No one has that.

    Of course, fighter will be drone, so the point is moot.

  18. Re:ROI on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 1

    It's not a good comparison for another reason.
    The reaper will probably become a drone.

  19. Re:ROI on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 2

    withOUT ordnance. gah.

  20. Re:ROI on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 4, Informative

    That 53 million is for FOUR of them,. with ordnance.

    Yes, taking out the human saves a lot of money.

  21. Re:This is not news on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 1

    "The thing is that Defending Canada is not that high of a priority of the Canadian military. "
    Isn't that any military's highest priority?

    Here at the Canadian Army, we taking defending our borders second to cutting down trees and smiling politely.

    The seem to be less concerned with overseas quagmires with regards to the air strike missions.

    " BTW this history of problems and doubt about aircraft is not new. Happened with the F-14, F-15, F-18, B-1, C-5, C-17, Apache, and so on. "
    or:
      BTW this history of problems and doubt about [large complex projects] is not new. Happened with the all of them.

  22. Re:Sums it up ... on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    "America has started doing show trials now of people who haven't committed crimes on the basis that their ideas are radical and dangerous?"

    how is breaking in, illegal access a computer system, illegally adding code to a computer system not a crime?

    How is offering a deal of 0(zero) time in prison an oligarchy?

    "The idea that copyright (and in fact ideas about copyright) should be enforced as vigorously as this is absurd."
    agreed, as does the DoJ. sadly many sights misrepresent this case and it's facts to twist it to being about copyright when the DoJ didn't really give 2 shits about that?

  23. Re:ironic on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    If would take your head out of the anti-copyright advocates asses and read the case, you will see that, in fact, he broke several laws not including copyright, the DOJ offered a deal of no time in prison, and the MIT killed the deal.

  24. Re:It was not political. on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 0

    Yes he did,.

    He broke in, hooked up a computer without permission, installed a malicious script without permission. That is all illegal.

    He most certainly did break the law, and he admitted it.

    Anti copyright groups jumped on the copyright angle and used it for their cause. They should be ashamed of themselves.
    The copyright aspect was a tiny bit the the DoJ barely gave 2 shits about.

    In the end, the DoJ worked a deal where he would spend no time in jail, down from 6 months.

    MIT killed the deal.

    You're understand of the CFAA is laughable, at best.

  25. Re:Apprently 60,459,974 Americans have disagreed.. on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    No he didn't, you moron.
    "arbitrary and indefinite detention"

    wrong.

    "arbitrary assassination without charge or trial."
    also wrong.

    "If he has his way, the people will be disarmed as well."
    he as never said or indicated anything of the sort.

    You are an unthinking alarmist piece of shit.