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  1. It's childish... on Pirate Party Gains Another Seat In EU · · Score: 4, Informative

    But not in the way most people would be thinking.
    Remember, Piracy was adopted as the major branding slogan by content publishers because they thought it would have negative connotations. Accuracy and truth were not a part of it; they were going for psychological hits rather than any actual reasoning based off of logic and justice.

    In calling it a "Pirate Party" they are mocking the originators of the term. It had already lost its meaning and reversed, becoming an average term, and now used by a political party as a straight-out rallying term of endearment against anachronistic corporations and the politicians they control.

    Which is in and of itself quite petty, and thus childish. Still amusing, and still a group of politicians that I'd trust further for many issues (completely unrelated to piracy or media) than most others.

  2. The naive mindset on Pirate Party Gains Another Seat In EU · · Score: 1

    Yes. Everyone everywhere is an idiot, or care as much about things like intellectual rights and content restrictions as the average American, which is not at all.

    Of course.
    Why, that's exactly why there could never be successful concert that used only creative commons works and artists rather than big names!
    Oh wait.

  3. A doomed effort on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 2

    You have to admire the Mint team.
    They're trying their hardest to reign in Ubuntu without abandoning the original desktop environment line.
    It's a nice sense of loyalty and dedication.

    And it's a doomed effort, because eventually, Gnome will get the point where the combined effects of the "upgrades" actively work against the traditional (read: good, working, not-shit) desktop environment format, if not entirely stopping the possibility of Gnome being retrofitted to be like one.

  4. Re:My account was among those compromised. on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    Free accounts have limits on the,.
    But it's all of $5 to remove all those limits completely and permanently. Well, actually, $5 but the minimum deposit is $5 (and anything you'd want to do with a full access TF2 account would involve paying money anyways so that doesn't matter...)

  5. Re:My account was among those compromised. on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you can paste in it, but I can't check ATM.

    Might as well use the "remember info" checkbox. Anyone who gets control of your laptop is probably going to do far worse things than buy games on Steam (especially since they're rather quick on banning any accounts that receive gifts from stolen accounts).

  6. Re:How do we know? on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    You're joking, right?

  7. The difference on Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion · · Score: 1

    The difference is that EA would have hidden it, and unlike Sony they would have been successful in doing so. Then they'd probably lock down their forums after banning anyone questioning such actions.

  8. It Just Works (TM) on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    Unity feels like bloated, extremely slow and clunky garbage when I try and get work done with it, and it actively tries to sabotage me when I use my computer casually.
    Gnome 3 is headed down the same horrible path.
    I already use Lubuntu and xubuntu on my machines for programming and actual work and the like.
    OSX is bipolar at the moment ("do we want to do a full-tablet interface on the desktop and tell our users to suck it up, or do we want to half-ass it and abandon it? Let's do both!") and my laptops don't support OSX86 very well. Then, Macs are already just too expensive for the hardware.

    For casual browsing and media consumption, my Windows 7 box just works. The keyboard shortcuts and the general usability of it just seems far better researched and tested than most other modern operating systems (OSX would have held that title up until a little while ago), at least certainly far better than Shuttleworth's pet project.

    And finally, all of the games I like to play run like shit with WINE. That's just the way it is.

  9. Well, on Ask Slashdot: Post-Quantum Asymmetric Key Exchange? · · Score: 1

    Chances are, anything that does need to be secured against such threats, already is. Anything that does not, is probably fine with RSA.
    Barring gross incompetence.

  10. That seems somewhat smart on With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets · · Score: 2

    Therefor it will not succeed.

  11. Re:No on ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU · · Score: 1

    Having the equivalent of a 7600GT in a super low power mobile form factor would be great, especially considering the actual demands (resolution/AA) would be lower anyways.

  12. GPU Farms? on ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU · · Score: 2

    I don't know much about ARM GPUs, but if these turn out to be significantly lower-powered than their counterparts, couldn't multi-gpu ARM boards be put to great use for GPGPU applications?

  13. Re:Yay Obama! on Obama To Veto Anti-Net-Neutrality Legislation · · Score: 1

    Uh...what?

    Most presidents have been making extensive use of a teleprompter since their televised appearances started actually mattering.
    Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, whatever. It's not surprising nor does it really matter.

    "you have fallen for it!"

    Oh dear god not one of these again.

  14. Doesn't the high amount of forked versions of these dictatorially-perverted projects mean that the process is working as it should?

    I think with Blender, it was a case of being so radically hard for new users to get into, that their only options were outright alienating their existing base to allow for much better future growth, or stagnating in terms of demographic growth.

  15. While it does not excuse a bad interface on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    You should have tested whatever you were going to install _before_ going over there.

    Also, why the hell didn't you download it beforehand on your own?

  16. Re:People also hated... on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    In this case, the change is quite silly. With Unity, they're trying to force a Touchscreen-oriented (very obvious at this point) interface onto a Desktop userbase, despite them being focused on drastically different nearly fundamentally incompatible input styles.

    They're trying to use a Square peg to connect a round hole with a square hole, and unsurprisingly, one half of this process is fundamentally broken.

  17. NOPE. on Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment · · Score: 1

    The second I see one of these in my apartment complex is the second I confront my landlord (and possibly, look for another place to live.)

  18. Re:No love for financial institutions. on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 1

    That's why I said "ostensibly".

    At the very least, the former is the better option between the two by far.

  19. Re:No love for financial institutions. on Bill Gates Advocates Tax On Financial Transactions · · Score: 2

    One is ostensibly a body created by and for The People, and the other is a generally unaccountable organization dedicated to getting the most profit at any expense?

  20. Re:Color e-ink display? on B&N Releases Nook Tablet To Rival Amazon Fire · · Score: 1

    There was a report on a tech blog about a company finally manufacturing the devices for commercial sale in Europe, but that was a few months ago. I'll see if I can source it when I get home.

  21. Re:Color e-ink display? on B&N Releases Nook Tablet To Rival Amazon Fire · · Score: 1

    Uh, yes. There's one demo showing one playing Transformers (the movie) and the reported battery life is astonishing. But there's little demand for it, apparently.
    Hence why my response centered around the actual touch response, because I thought the above was relatively known.

  22. Re:Color e-ink display? on B&N Releases Nook Tablet To Rival Amazon Fire · · Score: 3, Informative

    What?
    You can add a near-instant capacitive touch interface to a color (only 30FPS/30Hz, but that still seems ok) E-Ink display just fine, though it darkens the screen a bit.
    A darn shame the tech hasn't been mass-produced though. No demand for it despite the clear battery life improvement.

  23. Re:Evidence for life on White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions · · Score: 1

    I think they were just being frank.
    Or Phil, in this case.

  24. I wonder how much is snark on White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions · · Score: 2

    Because I've certainly seen a UFO. I mean, it was probably just a plane or a helicopter and sometimes just a refraction of insects in the light from my glasses, but I seens thems, I'm sure.

  25. Re:Bizarre on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    Because the market has been flooded in general. There's just far more people looking to get into IT/CS.
    And a degree is a great starting point for cutting a stack of 300 applications down to 50.