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  1. Not surprised on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 0

    XBox live is complete shit. Games aren't promoted, but the latest NFL or some other mainstream media event is all over the main screen. Plus one needs a 'gold' account to watch Netflix. Microsoft is floundering something big.

  2. Why not endorse something? on RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I don't see the value of saying "don't do this".

    He'd make a better point saying "This (or these) distro best represents the ideals of GNU and I recommend using it over the leading distro"

  3. Fired? on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1, Funny

    If Jobs was alive, the guy would've been shot at dawn and his family billed for the bullet.

  4. Eating habits on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1
  5. fucking cranky on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 0

    Slashdot keeps getting worse. I've seen better shitposting on 4chan and reddit.

    In the past, under Taco, someone would've posted something really awesome about preparing a turkey with detailed instructions. Nowadays Slashdot is so fucking desperate for content to remain relevant the site's trying to get other people to write shit.

    Just stop. Return to the current state of being a week behind the rest of the internet regarding news and tech.

  6. News For Nerds? on Slashdot Asks: Are You Preparing For Hurricane Sandy? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Man, this place has gone impossibly downhill further since Taco left. Makes me yearn for Roland Piquepaille's slashverts and Michael's political polemics.

  7. Dear Hugh Pickens, on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One link is necessary for Slashdot. Slashdot isn't Wikipedia.

    After reading the first sentences of your submissions and seeing five different links, I give up and go to reddit for the actual story. You're doing Slashdot a disservice.

    Go create your own blog with a feed.

    Thank you.

  8. Cloud Atlas comes out this month, not 2013 on The Sci-fi Films To Look Forward To In 2013 · · Score: 2

    Also two films with Tom Cruise and Will Smith? Nope.

    Worse, the Will Smith film is filmed by M. Night Shamalamadingdong.

  9. Bye Apple on Apple CEO Tim Cook Apologizes For Maps App, Recommends Alternatives · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steve Jobs would have never apologized. He woudl've given it just the right spin that everyone would feel contrite over making jokes at Apple's expense. The next release would be perfect, as Steve would have demanded, and the kerfuffle would be consigned to largely forgotten history.

    Tim Cook goofed.

  10. Joisey on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 1

    Why would they smile? They live in Jersey.

    I speak from experience having moved from Colorado to NJ.

  11. shitty write-up on Unconventional Adversaries vs. Conventional Wisdom (Video) · · Score: 2, Informative
  12. First World Problem Here on Confessions of a Left-Handed Technology User · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's okay, left handed people don't have souls. Just like gingers.

    Also you're complaining about chirality in technology? Really? How is this news for nerds? This place has become an even bigger gay gang bang since Taco picked up his toys and went home. OMG Ponies had more gravitas than the shit posted on Slashdot of late.

  13. f.lux or redshift on Exposure to Backlit Displays Reduces Melatonin Production · · Score: 1

    I use f.lux and it's pretty nice. Dims the screen and gives it a red cast around sunset, brightens to the normal, harsh blue glare around sunrise.

    I didn't RTFA (like everyone on Slashdot) but did the researchers check with test subjects if these programs had any effect on their melatonin or sleep habits?

  14. Irrelevant. on A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part Two of Three (Video) · · Score: 2

    Post a transcript if you're going to post a video. This isn't reddit (yet). Much faster to read than it is to sit and watch something.

  15. Re:Next week.... on How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders · · Score: 1

    i always type "any" and that works. sometimes before i'm done typing! computers can be so magical.

  16. Re:Next week.... on How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders · · Score: 5, Funny

    omg, my mouse has two buttons and a wheel between them! i hope this is a continuing series!

  17. Transcript, please. on A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part One of Three (Video) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Enough with the video.

  18. I won't believe it... on GNOME: Staring Into the Abyss · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...until Netcraft confirms it.

  19. This is Slashdot on Slashdot's Rob Rozeboom Interviews D&D Designer Mike Mearls - Part 2 (video) · · Score: 2

    People like to read articles on Slashdot, not watch non-pornographic videos.

    At least post a fucking transcript.

  20. Nitrogen on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Get a container which is airtight and watertight. Pump it full of nitrogen.

    I disagree with CDs and DVDs not being readable. Compact discs are a mature technology. As long as they're kept someplace cool, dark and dry they should be fine and readable when the container is opened in twenty five years. No idea if memory sticks or hard drives would survive.

  21. How about gameplay? on The Decline of Fiction In Video Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the bad aspects of modern gaming is games becoming interactive DVDs. Press X, beat the bad guy and earn the privilege of watching a half-hour cutscene that tells you to press O to defeat the next boss to watch the next cutscene.

    Create games that are engrossing with gameplay and don't require much of an investment on the behalf of the player.

  22. Re:Wait... on The Boy Who Loved Batman · · Score: 1

    I remember being annoyed at the Batman tv show when they replaced Julie Newmar with Eartha Kitt. Stopped watching it and was selective about the reruns I caught.

  23. Re:Le first post on Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By a Horde of Fake Accounts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU-

  24. Re:Microsoft of social networking? on Facebook Releases Instagram Clone, Two Months After Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Enjoy only speaking with Wil Wheaton and Google engineers bemoaning their failed social network.

  25. Interesting on The Greatest Machine Never Built · · Score: 4, Funny

    But now we can build computers within computer programs with redstone. Babbage never had redstone.