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  1. Re:Why is this bad? on New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games · · Score: 3, Informative

    and FOSS the game afterwards, like the previous closed source games in the past did.

    Only a couple of games went FOSS after the bundle and that was only at the beginning. The vast majority of the bundle games are never open sourced.

  2. Re:I'm one of the people who's pretty angry... on New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games · · Score: 1

    No, the charity was that Humble Bundle was set up to support Child's Play. The non-DRM, multi-platform stuff was the side effect not the primary motivation.

  3. Re:Heck no on New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games · · Score: 0

    Having said that the bundle has been available for around 27 hours as the time of this post,

    It's only been out for just under 9 hours not 27.

  4. Re:I'm one of the people who's pretty angry... on New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering in only 8.5 hours that it has outsold 14 of the last 19 bundles and still has nearly 13 days to go shows that their decision really isn't hurting them.

  5. Re:Won't be repeated, Windows users are too cheap on New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games · · Score: 0

    Wow! In less than 90 minutes, the Humble THQ Bundle has reached $200,000 in sales and over 40,000 bundles sold! Thanks everyone for all your support for awesome charities and amazing games!

    71 minutes later:

    Holy smokes! The Humble THQ Bundle just reached $500k in sales and over 94,000 bundles sold! Your support is phenomenal!

    And 2 hours later:

    We're not even 5 hours in and the Humble THQ Bundle has already hit $1 million in sales and over 181k in bundles sold! We can't thank you all enough for your unbeatable support for charity and games!

    So basically it's one of the fastest selling bundles in the history of all the bundles. Man, what a total failure it's amounting to. It still has 12 days and 21.5 hours left and it's at $1.5 million and has already outsold 14 out of 19 of the previous bundles.

  6. Re:10: shoot self in foot 20: goto 10 on New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games · · Score: 1

    Yes and the Windows users also made up around 70-80% of the revenue in most of them.

  7. Re:News flash, US on In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As opposed to the CEO who pulls in $1.5 million after her pay doubled along with her $3.5 million cash incentive target? Maybe she should be taking a paycut first?

  8. Re:What would the sentence be: on In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music · · Score: 3, Informative

    At the Federal level, manslaughter is fines and/or up to 10 years. Rape is fines up to life imprisonment. First-degree murder is death penalty or life imprisonment and second-degree murder is life imprisonment.

  9. Re:3 strikes and he's out on In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music · · Score: 4, Informative

    Easier sentence for murder? You realize that Federal punishment for second-degree murder is mandatory life imprisonment and first-degree is the death penalty or life imprisonment? Exaggerate much?

  10. Re:That is cheap on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 3, Informative

    The first; that this is a bait and switch operation,

    No it's not. A bait-and-switch is advertising a product for some price and then when a customer comes you tell them the product is not available and you attempt to sell them something else. Changing a free service to being partially paid-for is not a bait-and-switch.

  11. Re:Windows 7 compatibility mode on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: 1

    Did you run it in "XP mode"?

  12. Re:lunacy on MOOC Mania · · Score: 1

    Because you learned everything perfectly with no feedback from anyone, right?

  13. Re:Serves them right on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    I didn't say he didn't support it and actually explicitly stated that he did. It is still wrong to claim it was Obama or his administration that granted the immunity since it was since it was pushed for and signed into law by Dubya after he got caught.

  14. Re:could not agree more on Moore's Law Is Becoming Irrelevant, Says ARM's Boss · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if you ignore Ivy Bridge and Haswell.

  15. Re:Undecoded? on WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, "undeciphered" is more precise. Because that covers the fact that it might not be encoded but the meaning if the message has not yet been interpreted.

  16. Really? on US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web · · Score: 0

    and even force companies to clean up their 'e-waste' and make gadgets that are better for the environment

    How horrible!!!

  17. Re:If it wasn't for wallstreet... on Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads · · Score: 1

    FYI: The US only has 300 million people and the EU population is 500 million. Might want to double check your facts next time.

  18. Re:Not sure the need to spread lies on Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads · · Score: 1

    Totally. Which is why you provided the link to where they said this.

  19. Re:Stupid choice from Microsoft on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    You are naively assuming that DNT was anything but a worthless standard.

  20. Re:Shocking on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    So then what's the point if when you asked not to be tracked and they can just freely ignore it?

  21. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 1

    They are also not subject to Texas law. The treaty binds them by the laws of the national "State" not by some dick-waving state AG.

  22. Re:Non-local government is a bad idea on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 2

    The OCSE does monitor elections worldwide.

  23. Re:Diplomatic Amunity on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 2

    The OCSE is not part of the UN.

  24. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 1

    Why does the UN feel the need to protect just one of the two prominent political parties in this country?

    The OCSE is not the UN, moron. It's an inter-governmental organization like NATO. It has no ties to the UN at all.

  25. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 1

    And you are also wrongfully interpreting that clause. "State" refers to the national government and the "laws" being referenced are the laws of that national government. Texas law basically means jack and shit.