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  1. Indeed on Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups · · Score: 1

    "It seems then drones and UAVs will be a weapon of war for a longtime to come."

    Oh, GI. Me drone you longtime.

  2. Fits right in with their product strategy on Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life · · Score: 1

    After all, they've been showering people with software-penises since the late 1980s.

  3. Re:Try this one... on Steve Jobs Says PC Folks' World Is Slipping Away · · Score: 0, Troll

    You really think grannies are going to buy this thing? It's not aimed at grannies. It's aimed at artfag hipsters in coffee shops.

  4. Re:haha on Steve Jobs Says PC Folks' World Is Slipping Away · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hardly a dent in personal computing? You may be forgetting the whole "windowing system" thing. Also, prior to that, the design of the Apple II drove the entire market for years and shaped everything about the PC including the formfactor.

    He's certainly smoking some good crack lately though. Hoo boy.

  5. Re:Steve is so wrong here on Steve Jobs Says PC Folks' World Is Slipping Away · · Score: 1

    Yeah, man, I really don't know what he's smoking.

    Maybe the chemotherapy meds have affected his brain or something. He seems to be increasingly belligerent.

    Maybe he knows that he's increasingly painted into a corner. The iPad did AWESOMELY well, but I think Google is going to come along with something that's going to blow them out of the water.

    Maybe there's just something about becoming a large company that makes companies misbehave and lose marketshare because of it.

  6. The real reason Jobs doesn't want Flash on Steve Jobs Says PC Folks' World Is Slipping Away · · Score: 1

    The real reason he doesn't want Flash on the iPad is because Apple is increasingly lining up against Google in many markets. Google's ownership of Youtube, and therefore fast online video with an incredibly huge library, is a threat to Apple.

    Jobs and Apple want a walled-garden store. Since video is arguably the iPad's single killer app, and a place where it actually does look extremely impressive, they can't afford to have another company dominant in that sector.

    Prediction: Google is going to wipe its ass on that overpriced piece of toilet paper.

  7. WTF on New Hardware Models Highlight Nintendo's No-Transfer Policy · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well. Guess I won't be buying a wii. Not that I have ever bought a Nintendo product, or would be likely ever to buy a wii or any of their japanese kiddie software.

    Even from their inception I've never been able to stand Nintendo. Don't like anything about them: none of their games, none of their hardware. And then you have this sort of policy.

  8. Re:Wrong conclusion on Ball Lightning Caused By Magnetic Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be a bitch if the same conditions that produce hallucinations of plasmoids also produce actual plasmoids. In fact, this may actually be the case.

    I would be much more receptive to this new theory if it were not for the fact that free-floating electrical plasmoids have been shown to exist.

  9. No on Best Way To Sell a Game Concept? · · Score: 1

    The idea of a couple of guys having an idea and selling it to game companies is almost quaint. It doesn't happen.

    1) Great ideas (far better than yours) are a dime a dozen.

    2) Game companies employ professionals to design games. They are called game designers.

    3) The more original your idea is, the less likely it is to sell or get anywhere. Companies don't want original games. They want games that will sell to the lowest common denominator. Free idea that they might have a snowflake's chance in hell of wanting: Marine finds his way onto base infested with alien demons. Now there is a concept with actual legs.

    Suggestion: Learn how to program (not easy) and you and your friend program up the game yourself and begin either shopping it to distributors when totally finished, or sell it as an indie demo/game when mostly finished. To do well in the indie market, make it emo. Think "badly drawn boy."

  10. Re:Damn..... on Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill · · Score: 5, Funny

    So would Hitler, especially the part where the guy "removed a couple of Poles."

  11. Re:Ars technica review of MSE on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    No, they all have boyfriends they met at the coffeeshop while composing derivative house music on their Macbook Airs.

  12. Re:Content Creators Just Can't Win on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is just the way the world is. I'm sure the makers of horse troughs felt the same way. It's a bitch. It's only just gotten started.

  13. Shadow blogosphere? on California Lake's Arsenic Hints At a Shadow Biosphere · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who reads "blogosphere" every time he sees biosphere?

    Are there arsenic-based bloggers out there talking about politics and trading arsenic-based biscotti recipes?

  14. Re:I support this. on California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Loss of rationality on the subject is precisely the reason why they chose animal abusers to enact these new unconstitutional laws.

    Consider: why don't they do it with murderers? Well, because they don't think they could get the laws passed, because people like you are far more concerned about cute little puppies and cows than people.

    No, they'll do this first. Prevent the people from getting jobs, subject them to perpetual shame and humiliation.

    If you think our government is concerned about animal welfare, you must be smoking some good shit.

  15. Indeed? on Sex Offender Shuffle · · Score: 1

    Innovative rappers?

    Remembered?

    Really?

  16. Re:Dangerous slide on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    I think restrictions on driving will be coming soon.

    I've heard that they have HUGE plans for the TSA.

  17. Good luck with all that on Yahoo to Take on Google Analytics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's funny to watch Yahoo scrambling for market share. If the Microsoft bid is successful, it'll be funny to watch Microsoft hitching their wagon to Yahoo. Two boat anchors fall twice as fast.

    It's not quite game set and match to Google, but in a number of spaces it's starting to look like endgame.

  18. Republicans always concerned about fair play on Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos · · Score: 0, Troll

    The republicans worry and fret-- to such an extent that they lose sleep-- about fairness on the web. They are shocked-- SHOCKED! that someone in government might try to pick winners and losers.

    It's up to the phone company and Fox to do that.

  19. Re:Ho hum on Demiforce Releases "Trism", New Game for iPhone, iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Innovative it may be, but the problem space in puzzle games is tiny. When I see the extents of a problem space in a game like that, I'm no longer interested in playing. Multiplayer games are the only ones I'm typically interested in these days, any other kind just seems boring and incredibly lonely.

  20. Ho hum on Demiforce Releases "Trism", New Game for iPhone, iPod Touch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine that, a casual puzzle game! We don't have nearly enough of these, please write more. What a great use of new technology.

  21. Just an observation: on How The Internet Works - With Tubes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When they mention families, duct tape your ass cheeks together.

  22. I see dead people. on Project OpenSky Takes Off · · Score: 1

    Nobody knows the trouble I see, nobody knows the sorrow.

    Disruptive technology is a tree watered by the blood of the brave. Otto Lelienthal is somewhere watching this.

  23. Daikatana Forever on 3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    This game makes Daikatana look timely. I mean, they were announced at approximately the same timeframe, were they not? And Daikatana came out in 2000, to mountains of ridicule because of its ridiculously pushed release date. And it's now 6 years past that.

    Ludicrous. Like this is going to be worth dog shit on a stick.

  24. Screen Door on Submarine 1.0 on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Released · · Score: 1

    Like this will ever fly.

    It's rare that I've heard anything as ridiculous as this. There's nowhere UNIX is more entrenched than in big iron computing. Not only that, but the users-- by definition-- aren't dumb. Microsoft don't have a snowball's chance in hell in that marketing space, and I expect this is going to make Microsoft Bob look like a hot seller in comparison.

  25. Electronic Resistance on The MPAA and EFF Cross Sabers · · Score: 1

    If things keep going as they're going, Western governments are going to be seeing these guys turn into a real Hezbollah.

    They're gonna find out what's up a couple of months after they impose a draft.