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  1. Re:It begins..... on Steam For Linux Is Now an Open Beta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well judging by the Humble Bundle sales data, linux gamers are roughly as many as mac gamers, so yes, they're a significant market.

  2. Re:HALOPERIDOL on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 1

    Exactly like my grand-grandmother, who died convinced that we never went to the moon because "that's just impossible".

  3. Re:And yet... on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    You, mister, are a moron.

  4. Re:Don't tell the Japanese on Has the Mythical Unicorn of Materials Science Finally Been Found? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bah, wake me up when they have something close to Kentucky Fried Panda.

  5. Re:Most folks don't understand... on Urbanization Has Left the Amazon Burning · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The solution is actually very easy: heavy taxation on improductive lands, while of course considering reforestation efforts as a productive activity.

  6. Re:This just in , shitty movie blames piracy . on Hurt Locker Studio Begins Requesting Canadian ISP's Subscriber Info · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First of all, it never questions the reasons of the war.
    From the very beginning it pushes the audience towards sympathy for the American soldier, as in displaying apparently innocuous Iraqi men detonating IEDs and so on, giving a ready justification to any psychopathic behaviour of the soldiers because "the enemy is everywhere".
    In a complete reversal of moral values than in say, horror movies, the audience is pushed to stand on the hunter side instead of the hunted, to worry about the danger that Baghdad's alleys pose for the soldiers instead of the danger that the soldiers pose for anyone else around them. Ultimately, the audience is led to identify itself with the soldier about to shoot someone out of stress induced paranoia, rather than with his victims.
    While I can understand that the director wanted to point out the state of mental stress of the soldiers in a war zone, a whole movie exclusively about that comes out as unbelievably American-centric in the eyes of the whole conflict.

    Ask yourself: do you remember the name of a single Iraqi character in the movie?

  7. Re:This just in , shitty movie blames piracy . on Hurt Locker Studio Begins Requesting Canadian ISP's Subscriber Info · · Score: 0

    No surprise here: the movie is clearly constructed as an Oscar-bait, with a very apologetic view on that unholy mess that the Iraqi War still is, leaving middle-class, Democrat-prone audience with a reassuring feeling that "we did not screw up THAT much in the end...".

    However, compliments on the good job done on sound effects.

  8. Re:I still don't get it... on Draft of IPCC 2013 Report Already Circulating · · Score: 1

    Florida being invaded by giant lesbians would make it a way more interesting place to live in...

  9. Re:The political construct is unraveling on Draft of IPCC 2013 Report Already Circulating · · Score: 1

    Since when Al Gore's bank accounts are in the third world?

  10. Re:Cheap windows 8... on Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC. · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's because Atoms use a licenced PowerVR graphic core from Imagination Technology that provided a binary-only linux driver, and it sucked hard.
    Later kernels have the gma500 driver that provides at least basic functionality on those turds.

  11. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    I see how you completely missed the point of my post. It would be hilarious, if it wasn't tragic.

  12. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if the Israelis didn't use terrorism and forceful evictions to displace thousands of Palestinians from their lands, we wouldn't be at this point either.
    What's the point in determining who shot first? We should rather concentrate on how to stop this madness, as the conflict has far outstretched the limits of reason.

  13. Re:Sounds like a great idea on 'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying it's impossible, but you keep assuming that those commanding those bombings actually want or care about decreasing civilian casualties.

  14. Re:Sounds like a great idea on 'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch · · Score: 1

    No, that's the way the military heads cheat their way in post-action reports when someone "accidentally" drops a bomb on someone's wedding or funeral in Northern Pakistan.

  15. Re:Sounds like a great idea on 'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch · · Score: 2

    Adult male = terrorist, as everyone in Pakistan knows.

  16. Re:It wasn't time on Windows 8 Sales Below Projections · · Score: 1

    It might be worth the effort, shills really come for cheap.

  17. Re:Hey Guys on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're not connected to the same Internet, apparently...

  18. Re:Nice guy! on CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked · · Score: -1, Troll

    He probably also have that dread Apple logo sticker on his Smart Roadster or something...

  19. Re:Why Do You See This as Anti-White? on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    You're both right, and this is one of the most idiotic laws I've ever heard of.
    Seriously, I cannot find a good side to it!

  20. Re:So.. on Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You missed the "effective immediately" part.
    No transaction period for such important role basically mean "thrown out of a window". No pun intended.

  21. Re:Comcast routers on Australia's Biggest Telco Sold Routers With Hardcoded Passwords · · Score: 1

    Funny, last week I updated the firmware of my Fritz!Box and it magically kept all the custom settings I made, including my wireless password...

  22. Re:Industry? on 'Treasure Trove' In Oceans May Bring Revolutions In Medicine and Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes! Just like the Internet! Down with the government!

  23. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 0

    Now, that was a masterpiece of butthurt.

  24. Re:Google Police on Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar · · Score: 1

    Too bad, it would be a perfect match for your megalomaniac profile.

  25. Re:they cant say on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1

    IP over Air Currents?