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  1. Re:busted... on ArenaNet Suspends Digital Sales of Guild Wars 2 · · Score: 1

    Buying from an in-game merchant that is there to sell stuff and selling to an in-game merchant who is there to buy stuff (usually the same merchant) has never been an exploit in any game I've ever played. I guess GW2 has strange rules.

  2. Re:This is what's fucking wrong with patents on Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents · · Score: 2

    I don't know all the details of this situation, but what you write is irrelevant. People had the idea for human flight for thousands of years, but that doesn't stop Boeing and Airbus from obtaining thousands of patents on their aircraft.

    Ideas are not patentable, implementations are.

  3. Re:Huh? on Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope your mother runs you over while chatting on her iPhone.

  4. Re:Huh? on Samsung Beats Apple In Tokyo, Itching To Sue Over LTE Patents · · Score: 1, Troll

    From what I've read, it's because Motorola has been ignoring the ND part of that acronym.

  5. Re:Slow news day? on Kindle Fire Is Sold Out Forever · · Score: 1

    You have a very strange idea of loss.

  6. Re:CAFE Kills on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're completely unable to comprehend what you read.

    The GP wrote that small cars are unsafe when most other drivers are driving trucks. He is correct. It's not the truck driver he's worried about.

  7. Re:So which field of engineering on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    That just means that Batman is totally unrealistic. Incest and torture happen all the time.

  8. Re:Hmmmm, color me confused.... on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 1

    No. Vaccines are not 100% effective. If you are vaccinated, but no one else is, your chances for infection are much greater than they would be if otherwise because each one of those people has greater chance of catching and spreading the disease to you. The more people are vaccinated, the less chance each person has of contracting and spreading the disease.

  9. Re:The point of a vaccination? on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 2

    I find that you deserve death by torture.

    My logic is just as unassailable as yours.

  10. Re:There's a shock... on Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also I don't get why unvaccinated students are putting other students at risk.

    Another example of the reason why stupid should be painful. And given the topic, fatal.

  11. Re:Freedom to wear the shirt. on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 0

    How can someone be so fucking stupid as to not know that the TSA let him through? Twice!

    Oh right, he can be an anonymous cowshit on slashdot.

  12. Re:Mars? No. Nevada? Yes. on Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights · · Score: 1

    Woooooooooooooosh!

    (And that's not the sound of the turbine!)

  13. Re:but... why??? on Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's only a big advantage if you don't want to run Windows. The vast majority of computer users do, in fact, want to run Windows.

  14. Re:What Innovfation? on Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stop posting from the future.

    There isn't a PC in existence that can ray-trace a full scene (1920x1080 or better) in anything approaching "realtime" (24fps or better).

  15. Re:The Chinese... on Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? · · Score: 1

    The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are/were taking so long because the US chose not to nuke the places from orbit. If one is fighting a war of survival, betting against the US is far from a sure thing.

  16. Re:Ancient societies had diff values. News at 11! on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the Founding Fathers had insisted on universal suffrage and no slavery, there would not be a United States of America for them to have been Founding Fathers of. You are projecting your values and complete inflexibility on issues you consider important on to people trying to form a cohesive federation of States with very different interests.

  17. Re:Never going to take off on Tesla CTO Talks Model S, Batteries and In-car Linux · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can we a get a "-100 Raped and Murdered the Joke" mod?

  18. Re:VM within VM within VM. on Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android · · Score: 1

    Netflix on iOS doesn't need much in the way of DRM, though, because there's no way to run another app to capture the stream.

  19. Re:Who cares? on How Will Amazon, Barnes & Noble Survive the iPad Mini? · · Score: 1

    I guess you don't remember that your point doesn't matter in the slightest. Apple defined the (modern) tablet market. It doesn't matter what price they came in with, it was by definition the high-end price. There was no low-end!

  20. It's not software developers who are conservative or liberal. It's people!

  21. Re:We're not very smart. on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 1

    This makes no sense. Assuming that double the bacteria requires double the food, after 1 minute there is only 15 minutes worth of food left (minus whatever the bacteria ate during the one minute).

  22. Re:Where do I sign up....? on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 2

    But just about all of it requires less water than rice!

  23. Re:False premise on Will Online Learning Disrupt Programming Language Adoption? · · Score: 1

    It's very unlikely that there are more than a few dozen people on the planet who can regularly tune hand-written assembly to outperform a good compiler across a wide range of CPU models. If you know exactly the exact hardware your code will run on, down to the RAM timings, you might be able to optimize for it. Otherwise, you will almost certainly lose as soon as one part is changed.

    Perhaps the only practical exception is using vectorized instructions (SSE, Altivec, etc.) when available, if you don't already have a library to replace the affected intrinsics.

  24. Re:The long-term problem for Apple. on Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are an idiot. 30% is not an insane percentage given that Apple takes care of hosting, distribution and all finances involved in a purchase. (They don't pay your taxes for you.) All you have to pay for is marketing.

  25. Re:Here's a seemingly obvious question on Microsoft Releases Attack Surface Analyzer Tool · · Score: 2

    If that's the obvious question, you must know almost nothing about computers and/or software. Or your reading comprehension is gone missing.

    No one said anything about changing the OS.