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  1. Re:When on your deathbed... on Neal Stephenson Says Video Games Are the Metaverse · · Score: 1

    Solid work, buddy. Really classy all the way. It's sad to see it end this way, but all good things must come to an end.

  2. Re:Move to avoid 5-9 GB/mo cap on Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and wouldn't those people benefit most from not having to pay for streaming as well as DVDs?

  3. Re:So Many Missing Links to Choose From on Dinosaur Feathers Found In Amber · · Score: 1

    I'm sure. You wouldn't say "some of them is", but you would say "some of it is". Why would none be different? It isn't singular all the time. None can mean not one ("none has eaten a rabbit of such vast size") or not any ("none of them have eaten a rabbit of such vast size"). In the sentence he is saying not any.

  4. Re:The solution is obvious: on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 1
    You're a complete fucking moron. People's lives are ruined by everything. Trucks ruin lives, ladders ruin lives, marriages ruin lives, affairs ruin lives, mistakes ruin lives, jobs ruin lives. If you get rid of everything that has ruined somebody's life, you will end up with no life to live.

    In this case, we're letting a minority group with little to no concern over the results of their actions undermine democracy because they feel they have the right to just ignore the law because it's inconvenient.

    That's a stupid way to look at it. In reality we are learning from a minority that legislation doesn't solve cultural problems. We wrote the law to solve a problem. It didn't solve the problem, and created many more problems. Anybody can see that prohibition has made everything worse when all we really needed was some education, some real honesty about the substances, and maybe some help without fear of the law.

    Your inability to see that a majority vote in a democracy can not dictate the real world is one of the biggest failings of democracy. Democratic votes only dictate the state's actions. When the actions of the state are inappropriate it is not undermining democracy, it shows that the majority of the people made a bad decision. Not changing a bad decision is being stubborn and bullheaded, and it undermines democracy to insist on doing the wrong thing over and over and being mad at the problem that it isn't being solved by your solution. It undermines it by showing it doesn't work.

    In other words, if we all get together and vote the sky red eventually we're going to have to realize that it isn't, and insisting it is supposed to be just makes us look foolish.

  5. Re:Got my vote on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It could and should be and would be and likely will happen after a privatization assuming government doesn't interfere with a regulation. What kind of airline wouldn't jump at the chance to be the only grope-free way to travel? So you can bitch and moan about the free-market all you want, the only thing that could stop meaningful competition in airport security is the government.

  6. Re:Got my vote on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    Ooh! Ooh! I know this one! Government started running the schools! Not just for the people that can't afford private education, but pretty much everybody. Now you're the odd one for not going to public school.

  7. Re:Got my vote on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    Airline != airport. You can walk across the concourse to the fancy competing airline that does exist and won't molest you, or pick the airline with 2 bags of peanuts.

  8. Re:Words, Not Communication on Wild Parrots Learning To Talk From Escaped Pet Birds · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Dr Pepperberg

    Wait.... really? I thought Dr. Pepper was already Kosher, why did the Jews make their own version?

  9. Re:Editorial Piece Angries Up My Blood on More Info On Google's Alternative To JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Well if IPv4 addresses aren't running out, there's no real reason to convert them all over as we can all continue to support IPv4 and IPv6 for as long as we want.

  10. Re:Not necessarily... on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Racist? Come on buddy, do you even know what racism is? Irrational horseshit claims of racism for any remark about a nationality is the number one indicator of being a whiny bastard. Insensitive, sure. Racist? Hardly. Racist would be saying that the radiation from the nukes probably made them in to the inferior sub-human creatures they are today.

    Racism is so overplayed.

  11. Re:Cynical on Biological 'Logic Circuit' Destroys Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    And the cancer wouldn't? Don't be such a fool. We live in a country where acne medication requires constant blood work to make sure they're not taking a big steamy dump on your kidneys, or rape your liver if you do what everybody with a severe acne problem is doing and drink away the pain. On the other hand, something that might kill a dying patient can't be used because they might, uh, die if it doesn't work right?

  12. Re:China, don't get ahead of yourself. on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Why do you think we won't space mine? What if we space mine and bring that stuff to the ISS, or some successor? What if we take it to the moon? I think you are convinced that mining an asteroid is worthless prematurely. It's not only a matter of taking resources from an asteroid and bringing them back to Earth, a space mine would be the first movement towards real, sustainable presence in space. We would be free of the "access to nothing we didn't send up there" uselessness of the ISS you are complaining about.

  13. Re:sort of like? on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    Damn, should have closed explorer.exe before opening my big mouth. As of Windows Vista, dwm.exe is the window manager. So it seems Windows 8 will ship with alternate versions of explorer.exe and dwm.exe, something like metro.exe and mwm.exe. Of course since Vista and 7 won't allow you to close dwm.exe, there is likely a whole slew of stuff underneath that will likely need to be re-architected to allow for such a thing to happen.

  14. Re:sort of like? on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 2

    Maybe I'm wrong, but when explorer.exe is closed, you don't see ANY windows until it is restarted. When it is restarted, everything is back in its rightful place though, so I'm not sure how far away explorer.exe is from the actual window manager since windows is... weird... about the distinction between a window manager, the shell and the window system.

  15. Re:Finally on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm wrong, but explorer.exe has been user space for a while now. This sounds like they're just not loading explorer.exe on startup but instead loading metro.exe. I guess there would be some drivers and such that they may not load, but those wouldn't be user-space either way. You've been able to change the shell in windows for a long time. Even more than that, when the shell crashes, the machine and all the applications stay alive - you just need to restart explorer.exe through the task manager.

    Honestly, this sounds like they're just giving a dumbed down explanation of what it means to ship with two shells, and not some kind of shift in the OS architecture, nor anything new to Microsoft's dev team.

  16. Re:Time for something else. on Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon · · Score: 1

    What, you don't find pictures of him and Hemos from 1998 are slashdot-worthy?

  17. Re:Time for something else. on Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Follow Rob Malda on G+, it's the new slashdot.

  18. Re:Smart move on Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon · · Score: 1

    They have the best online ordering, too. Sometimes I get their pasta bowls. It kind of seems like somebody there knows what the hell they're doing finally. It's kind of funny, they have a tracker that will tell you things like "Brad is beginning to prep your delicious order!" and you can leave comments for the staff (from a dropdown). It doesn't serve much of a purpose, but it's better than an all-flash piece of filth like most pizza places have opted for.

  19. Re:China, don't get ahead of yourself. on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Do you feel the same way about the ISS or going to the moon?

  20. Re:China, don't get ahead of yourself. on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 2

    Research and development; this would be a prototype mine. In much the same way the Chinese have looked at altering the path of 99942 Apophis even though it is highly unlikely to hit us as it is, this is a practice run. Better to learn how to do things before you need to. Better to learn how to mine asteroids when we have abundance than to wait until things are so scarce that we need it. Do you not see the benefit of running a space mine for a loss financially to gain the knowledge of space mining?

  21. Re:Anyone should be free to decide on Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software · · Score: 2

    Don't release software under a license which permits use within a non-free program.

    See, that's the problem right there. GPL is like freedom of speech as long as you don't say something I don't agree with.

  22. Re:IT SUCKS !! on Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On Its New Python IDE · · Score: 1

    So I guess the important question is will it run on express?

  23. Re:vastly outnumbered by our bacterial overlords on Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control · · Score: 1

    litre of soya milk

    Wow, I don't think there is a more offensive phrase to republicans than that.

  24. Re:oh fuck off. on There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks · · Score: 2

    I love your black and white world where since we tortured, we always tortured, and every piece of information collected was put to use for that. The point the OP was making was that those things are not true, most of them are just trying to stop the people who are torturing, murdering and terrorizing the people in their communities. But it's so easy for you to judge them, having never even begun to approach their situation.

  25. Re:Alright, I know how to be now. on Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid · · Score: 1

    Lets all agree the most important feature to get right is the face. Without a face, you've got nothing. Oh, look at that tiny girl with the ass and the boobs, OH GOOD LORD SHE HAS THREE TEETH! That's not ok. The face is the foundation you erect a smoking hot body on.