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  1. Re:Must *NOT* be stopped. on Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that the html5 video tag is technically superior to either flash or silverlight's video support. 'Cos, you know, it's not. Even. Close.

  2. Re:Not putting in DRM isn't going to eliminate DRM on Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes! Screw paying the artist. They're already starving a little less income can't hurt.

    Christ. Some people's sense of economics doesn't extend beyond their parents' basement.

  3. Re:Not putting in DRM isn't going to eliminate DRM on Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards · · Score: 2

    Yay, free cars.

    But until the star-trek utopia arrives the people that used to make those cars now need a new job...

  4. Re:How come no animals have evolved 4D on Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve · · Score: 1

    'Creation' implies a creator, and a time before which the universe existed. Most rational materialists believe in neither.

  5. Re:lies, all lies on Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fortunately, zero percent of all the grains of sand in the world believe that god created man. There are fewer incorrect grains of sand than there are ignorant Americans.

  6. lies, all lies on Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve · · Score: 4, Funny

    these evolutionists are just trying to force these lies down your throats.

    how can the birds be changed by the overpasses? the bible tells us that the overpasses have existed since the creation of the universe, 3 decades ago.

  7. Re:What does it matter? on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    that's a straw man, i didn't say 'might', i said 'is'. if you buy his books you know for certain that some of that money is going to fund homophobic lobbying, and not in some hand-wavy "we're all complicit in the system" conspiracy theory kind of way, i mean directly. you pay him, he pays the church. probably quite a lot.

    would it be ok to boycott if he'd printed "proceeds from the sale of this book go toward fag-bashing" on the front cover?

  8. Re:Copyright on Scientists Have Re-Cloned Mice To the 25th Generation · · Score: 1, Funny

    wouldn't your conception be prior art?

  9. Re:An Old Discussion on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    I see, i need to undergo lobotomy operations if i am to continue to argue with you....

    that might help, yes.

  10. Re:Not Surprised on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 2

    Who's assaulting your religion?

    Nobody's forcing you to like crucifix/pee art.

    Freedom from offense is not a right.

    One if the many great things about lgbt people is that their very existence proves the non-existence of God. If sexuality were a choice, YOU could choose to enjoy a gay lifestyle from now on. Think about it. How about chowing down on some cock tonight? Sound good? No? Not much of a choice really...

  11. Re:What does it matter? on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    What if your money is going to fund causes that you find unethical?

  12. Re:Nobody has done anything wrong here. on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    Fox & logic. That's what's new...

  13. Re:An Old Discussion on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    Why not? Why don't you publish it yourself? Nobody's stopping you.

  14. Re:An Old Discussion on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    In this case they should simply be ignored. Completely.

  15. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    So owning slaves was fine, as long as you didn't hate them?

  16. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    You cannot separate the artist from the art when money is involved. 10% of which goes to the Mormon church which goes to fund homophobic legislation.

  17. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    Since when did this gave anything to do with the government? This is between a writer and his publisher. Democracy has nothing to do with it.

  18. Re:I went the other way, OS X - Linux on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    I never understood why macports doesn't just host the binaries, and build everything once for everyone like, you know, a normal distribution.

    Wouldn't it be great to have a fully-populated Debian-like package manager on osx?

  19. Re:Not as strange as it sounds on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting the footprint of filling the landfill. And the landfill.

  20. Re:Ain't gonna die on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 1

    you're lucky, and about to be significantly less so.

    there's nothing special about the hard drive in that machine - it's going to die like all the others.

    unless, of course, you got one that Steve Jobs sprinkled with magic Apple fairy dust.

  21. Re:Wait on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, now would be a great time to cancel your cable service. Don't bother buying any TVs. You'll save a bunch of money and time.

  22. Re:Figure out where he is located on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    I think he's talking less about jamming the signal and more about boiling the water in his brain.

  23. Re:Security is a concern on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    Webgl isn't a security risk. That's Microsoft fud. What is a security risk is buggy implementations that don't verify their inputs - but the same could be said for jpeg decoding, or any part of the web-page rendering stack. There's no difference between executing code natively on the gpu and executing jitted JavaScript in this respect.

  24. Re:Obama talks a lot but never delivers on Hardware Hacker Proposes Patent and Education Reform To Obama · · Score: 1

    Wasn't he expressly prevented, by congress, from closing Guantanamo on the grounds that we can't have terrorists on he mainland?

  25. Re:You clearly didn't review the charts given. on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah. Can you guess why?

    You don't read much?

    http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/intensive.html