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  1. Re:For what? on Batman Demands 12GB RAM For Windows 10 (steamcommunity.com) · · Score: 1

    freeciv is light on resources, is roughly equivalent to civ 3 (well at least that's the last one I played) and it's even been ported to the web.

  2. Re:I'm not the target audience apparently on Microsoft Edge To Support Dolby Audio · · Score: 1

    For Microsoft, this is just about sticking a brand name people recognize on their shiny new browser. For Dolby it's about collecting more patent royalties. If it were really just about sound quality, they would touting opus for lossy and flac for lossless. Opus is superior to the now ancient ac3/Dolby digital codec in sound quality per byte and flac is superior to lossless Dolby TrueHD in compression ratio.

  3. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1

    Fundamental rights are not a contract. You don't need to understand them to be endowed with them. Do human rights not apply to humans who by inexeperience, disability, etc. are unable understand contracts or laws?

  4. Re:ha! Inuit diet. Hazda diet. on The Evolution of Diet · · Score: 2

    Sure, this is a fair comparison. What difference could a couple centuries of colonialism make?

  5. Re:Please stop linking paywalled papers. on Turing's Theory of Chemical Morphogenesis Validated 60 Years After His Death · · Score: 1

    Quite the reverse. The authors typically also pay to have the paper published.

  6. Re:Command line is more error-prone on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just me, but I've made far more mistakes with GUIs. It's very easy to accidentaly drag folders into eachother and loose them if you don't notice right away.

  7. Re:Is it too late to get UN sanctions on them? on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    Replace "men" with "women" and you've got the situation 100 years ago in the West. No doubt we're a lot better off today, but this"terminally ill society" seemed to putter along. If this really is such a big problem, maybe it'd be better to look at the root causes of why males are dwindling in academia rather than trying to force the symptom to go away.

  8. Re:Oh Canada! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Place To Relocate? · · Score: 1

    The greater vancouver area is where most of the gang violence takes place, not in the inner city. In any case, the homicide rate is still about half that of Seattle Vancouver's murder rate low by North American standards. Property crime on the other hand is a bit of a problem Vancouver crime among worst in North America.

  9. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    This sounds like another annoying thing that apple has done that is actually the RIGHT thing. Much like ostracising flash. Decisions like this will get developers thinking twice about using flash or javascript indiscriminantly, even if it is for the wrong reasons of appealing to Apple users rather than security, speed and stability. As troubling as their choke chain is, I'm glad there are some instances in which Apple are using their popularity to accelerate technically well thought-out change for everyone, not just their customers. It's still not enough to make me buy their products though.

  10. Re:Yeah the money may be good on Why Junk Electronics Should Be Big Business · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Non rhetorical question: How much worse is mining and processing the equivalent ore?

  11. Re:"shutters"? on Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans · · Score: 2

    Appears to exist in American English at least.

  12. Re:Rabbit choice on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    There is a paradox in using our capacity to act unselfishly as justification to act selfishly.

  13. Re:How many rabbits were sacrificed? on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This seems to be the consensus among slashdotters given the consistent downmodding of people who even remotely question, let alone challenge, the ethics of animal experimentation. However, no one seems to address the rational justification for elevating humans to a higher level of worth. I'm not saying that experimentation is outright wrong, but the ethical assessments like these should never be automatic.

  14. itunes? convenient? on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    besides–is it really that inconvenient to download a song from iTunes into your iPhone?

    Grrr, yes it is! It requires you to install memory eating proprietary software that doesn't work on all platforms.

  15. Re:Everybody knows... on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 1

    ...the species isn't worth it.

    More importantly, it's going to take a lot more than a small drop in birth rate to challenge its survival.

  16. Re:So that's really why he gave up his citizenship on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO · · Score: 1

    American and dual citizens residing in Canada pay US taxes on their Canadian tax free savings account http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax-Free_Savings_Account effectively nullifying the whole point of having one.