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  1. Re:Why an MMO? on BioWare Targeting Spring 2011 For Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch · · Score: 1

    I love how you're basing this on some videos of a game that isn't even in beta and won't be out for a year.

  2. Re:Star Wars: The Old Republic on Star Trek Online Open Beta Starts Today · · Score: 1

    How can it be "delayed" when a release date was never officially announced?

  3. Re:1st vendor to release a PADD from TNG gets my $ on Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement · · Score: 4, Informative
  4. Re:This has been an issue for quite awhile. on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must be referring to either Japan or South Korea, right?

  5. Re:How to avoid this on Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names · · Score: 1

    Or an arbitrary symbol for which there is no Unicode equivalent.

  6. Re:Innovation! on The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line · · Score: 1

    Then why are they killing them off?

  7. Re:Decisions, decisions. on EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can go in and set almost anything to what groups of people you want. All my photo albums are set to friends & networks. If I log out and goto my www.facebook.com/mynamehere address, my photo doesn't show up. Nothing shows up.

    Sounds like people don't know how to actually use the new privacy settings.

  8. I expect consoles will go away ... someday on Is Console Gaming Dying? · · Score: 1

    At some point there will be a convergence and all you will have is one host machine somewhere in the house and you access the content from different portals around your house. Just sit on the couch, pick up the controller (or not depending on what control method you prefer), turn on the tele and pick a game. Want to use a keyboard and mouse? Go over to your desk, turn on the monitor and pick a game.

  9. Been using it for a while on Google Upgrades Chrome To Beta For OS X, Linux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Set up the PPA on my Ubuntu box in sources.list back in Sept/Oct

    https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa

    Current version shows 4.0.266.0 (Ubuntu build 33943)

  10. Re:Is a movie theater really a public place? on Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy · · Score: 1

    You should goto prison. Doesn't mean their copyright should still exist.

  11. How would this fly on EU ACTA Doc Shows Plans For Global DMCA, 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    In the US even? I mean I know our politicians are bought and paid for, but wouldn't 3-strikes and you're cut off violate due-process? Granted I haven't read all the details, but it's a bit hard to when it's you know, hidden away from all.

    Time to fire up the printer and send off more letters to the Congress critters.

  12. Hmm... on iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing · · Score: 2, Funny

    *double checks URL he typed in*

    Yeah it says http://slashdot.org/ ... thought maybe I'd typed macrumors

  13. Re:Excellent! on New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time · · Score: 1

    If only there were a technology/science news website that did all the work of cataloging such stories in one place.

  14. New metric...??? on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords per second

    4 million passwords a second what?

  15. Re:tax shelter on AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization" · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Never underestimate the stupidity of rich 'n greedy white people!

  16. Re:Easy strawmen to knock off?.. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    True. It's in the governments best interests to keep the stupid ones alive and blindly paying taxes.

  17. Darwin Awards on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    Modern medicine has kept those that would succumb to disease or illness alive. Now evolution relies on the stupid to make sure the strong survive.

  18. Banning non-modded consoles as modded on Microsoft Disconnects Modded Xbox Users · · Score: 1

    I have seen first hand someone get punted with an Xbox that is in no way modded, and in fact was a replacement he received from MS just a few months ago, after his first one RRoD'd.

    He tried to talk to them about it, but they said their system is fool proof and will not unban him.

  19. Good. on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The faster Rupert puts himself out of business, the better off everyone will be.

  20. Re:Microsoft Exchange email account you ...$15 on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's not quite right. Verizon doesn't provide Exchange accounts AFAIK. The extra $15 dollars is if you are on a business account. This comes from friends who are Verizon sales monkeys, but I Googled it too for you Citation Provided.

    $30 for personal data plan. You can Exchange all you like.
    $45 for corp data plan. You can Exchange all you like.

    +$30 more for tethering. For me, not worth it, since there is secured-wifi literally everywhere I go on a regular basis. YMMV

    Egregious, I say, but not exactly how the /. summary makes it sound.

  21. I've installed it on... on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My primary desktop at home, a 2nd desktop at work, and before release, I had the beta and then RC running in VM's for a few weeks. None of these had problems. Then again most of this is on older hardware (p4's with similar era video cards, etc).

    Ubuntu needs to put a YMMV disclaimer :P

  22. Re:predictable behavior in cooperative hazards on Bad Driving May Have Genetic Basis · · Score: 1

    The way you should be based upon laws that are passed for political reasons, "for the children" or whatever other talking point of the month or based on rational debate and reason?

    Look at how people drive in other countries (YouTube some traffic videos in say India). You take responsibility for yourself and act accordingly. You don't expect others to act a certain way because the law says so.

  23. Re:Evolve or die..... on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously this was modded up?

    That's a completely bogus comparison. Unless you can come up with a better way to do the job that trains do, they still have a purpose. Hauling lots of heavy shit/people long distances for a relatively low cost (compared some other methods).

    What is the primary goal of a newspaper? Spread information.

    Now, what invention has come along that can do as good a job or better? (Hint: You used it to post your bogus argument.)

  24. Re:What about just doing what you love? on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 1

    The problem is we've been brainwashed by advertisements that we think we just have to have more junk than we will ever use. You don't NEED a lot to survive. There was even a poster on /. who said he made ~10,000/yr, worked 2hrs/wk and that supported his wife, 2 kids and himself and had his house paid off. They grow their food and have some animals like chickens I believe.

    If we all just took a touch more responsibility for our own well being... It's not like you really NEED to work 40 hours a week, and in most cases people don't and the world gets by just fine (if you factor in the smoke/coffee/restroom/water cooler breaks, reading /., etc. it all adds up.) And what the fuck does all that hard work get you in the long run anyway? More money and likely your boss will give you MORE WORK, because you're so good at your job.

    Look at all the fluff and shit science we read about on here, coming from "career" minded science folk. Work less and focus on quality over quantity and you'd have more time to focus on things you need to do to survive and not crap science because you simply need to "pay your bills". Our society is tailors us to work out ass of and hand over the reward to others for food/etc in order to "survive". It's bullshit.

  25. Re:CentOS 5.4 is out, too. on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop living vicariously through other modders.