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  1. Re:not where from, where to? on World of Warcraft Loses 1.3 Million Players in First Quarter of 2013 · · Score: 1

    I may not fit with the current crowd, but I went from world of warcraft about 4 years go to playing minecraft for about a year and lately been playing DayZmod.

  2. Re:Double entendre on How Netflix Eats the Internet · · Score: 1

    Are they going to have 1-inch guy for google glass? You'd really just have to giggle at him every time his name is brought up.

  3. Re:Bad codecs on How Netflix Eats the Internet · · Score: 1

    I RTFA'd sorry, this is something they do regularly. Every time there is a new device that supports netflix on a different resolution or format they transcode the content to fit.

  4. Re:Bloat on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 2

    I know, my cluster base CentOS 6.3 is nearly 800Megs. What happened to the days when I could boot/root two floppies and have a full Unix OS.

  5. Re:More Flexibility? on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1

    You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. That doesn't even make sense as FUD. Were you just making stuff up as you went along?

  6. Re:troll bait headline on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1

    Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/927/

  7. Re:New Coke was a Flop? on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    except they are wrong, and I am right.

  8. Re:I can't see it. on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 2

    10 years ago I would have said for sure they were just going to screw it up. Things have changed a lot in Hollywood. Where as before I would have given it a 10% chance of being any good, these days I give it closer to 50-50%

  9. Re:It's cool and all, on Oculus Rift Guillotine Simulation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hardware on the cutting edge rarely is. This is not going to allow the Rift to get ahead of the game. The idea is all right, but the execution is all wrong.

  10. Re:Who owns this? on Armstrong EKG Readings During Moon Landing Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Looking at the tag for the handle just made me think of an astronaut finding that tag instead of the handle and radioing "Huston, we have a problem."

  11. Re:Value on Armstrong EKG Readings During Moon Landing Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    So his current EKG is ---------

  12. Re:BBC has video - look like quite a recoil on The First Fully 3D-Printed Gun Has Been Successfully Test-Fired · · Score: 1

    ceramic or glass probably wouldn't be too difficult.

  13. Re:Yeah. Now on New Flying Car Design Unveiled · · Score: 2

    Nope, not this sci-fi geek anyway. I just want to be able to transition from driving to flying without going to an airport. Preferably without getting out of the vehicle. Looking like a DeLorean would be a bonus though.

  14. Re:New Coke was a Flop? on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    Yet there is far more than enough anecdote to bring it into question, and enough industry push to hide the question.

  15. Re:It's like deja vu all over again on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 0

    Ditto, Ditto. I wont bother rewriting my opinion so please just reread the parent post.

  16. Re:Preemptively Posting on Injectable Nanoparticles Maintain Normal Blood-sugar Levels For Up To 10 Days · · Score: 1

    Your type-o is interesting because I first read it as quackly as in we want to take every quack doctors suggestion as a cure for what ever he says it is. In the context of your request, quickly and quackly are very likely the same thing.

  17. Re:Tell them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sell an Algorithm To Venture Capitalists? · · Score: 1

    This. You don't need to sell them on the tech, you need to sell them on your ability to sell the tech and profit. That is all.

  18. Re:And then there's this asshole: on Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected · · Score: 1

    There is a pretty solid agreement that the people that have screwed up California with it's overly liberal policies have been fleeing to places like Colorado driving the inhabitants out.

  19. Re:don't privatize the police on Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    The only difference between a private police force and the regular police is what euphemism is used for the protection money.

    or

    The only difference between a police force and the mafia is what euphemism is used for the protection money.

    FTFY

  20. Re:Too fast for me! on Xkcd's Long-running "Time" Comic: Work of Art Or Nerd Sniping? · · Score: 1

    So I had to watch the one year time lapse camera shot. I couldn't notice any change at all.

  21. Re:don't privatize the police on Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    "In a word, corruption. Favoritism and graft."

    Yea i forgot that this doesn't happen in the government.

  22. Re:don't privatize the police on Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    what was his reasoning? Most places that have private police forces have been some of the safest places there are.

  23. Re:Missing something? on Living In a Virtual World Requires Less Brain Power · · Score: 2

    Because they were all wearing sunglasses.

  24. Re:And then there's this asshole: on Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected · · Score: 3, Informative

    What most Europeans don't understand is that Louisiana is about as foreign too 95% of the US as Romania is to the UK. While the states of the US are a little more alike than the countries of Europe, they are still run independently and only tied together by the Federal government. That pendulum is something that swings at times, but is still there. The main example I hope the Europe takes from the US is, don't let the EU become what the US's Federal government has become. It's on that path though, unfortunately.

  25. Re:Playing the race card again on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    Are you calling them Right wing? I think that cluebat just misfired on you.