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  1. Hey, everyone, look! on Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboards · · Score: 1

    This joke ridiculing a trend was turned into real thing ridiculing a trend, so it is evidence of a trend!

  2. The post-Taco decline is faster than I expected on Google Patents Caching MLK Day Search Results · · Score: 1

    I think you meant "Microsoft and IBM" for those links. And if you're going to get your hate on, you should at least find a way to include Apple, who is, after all, on a patent trolling warpath to kill the largest deployment of Linux to consumers ever.

  3. Re:The first four comments are disgusting. on Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    She was girl well out of their league in both appearance and intellect who accomplished more in her short life the typical Slashdot neckbeard ever will. Add Microsoft to the mix and it's like a glowing bug zapper for these moths of insecurity.

  4. Feeding the bullshit on Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented · · Score: 1

    Neither one of those two links offer any evidence of "fragmentation", they're both grasping for excuses to whine. The second one is an unhinged conspiracy theory.

  5. Re:This should have been done a long time ago on DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project · · Score: 1

    Broken window fallacy.

    Of course, the other fallacy is stating that killing people has no value. Somebody wanted those people dead, and the weapons were made and used to do so, so they must have been worth their cost.

    The problem is... who the fuck values killing people in third world shitholes so highly, and why are they calling the shots for our military instead of the American people?

  6. Re:That is pretty much nuts on DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project · · Score: 1

    DARPA does some amazing things but they need to exert a little self restraint and focus on things that will payoff in less than a millenium.

    Yeah, because Mars rocks will totally pay dividends that engineering won't.

    Maybe you need to exert a little not whining to your betters about what they should and shouldn't be doing.

  7. Re:"almost certainly" on No, SETI Has Not Detected Alien Signals From Space · · Score: 2

    To me that's just being naive.

    Asserting certainty for a fact for which you have zero evidence and you're calling other people naive.

    Slashdot never ceases to amuse.

  8. Re:NDAA does not have that provision on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    As I explained, and as people immediately showed that I was correct in assessing that MSM confused the public on this issue, I bring towards you this information, no matter how confusing it all seems. Yes, it is true, Obama specifically fought to make sure that the US citizens are in fact included into the bill and are now just as much of a target for the US administration as any funny looking foreigners.

    Crank-like typing detected.

  9. Re:Deal with it on The Un-Internet and War On General Purpose Computers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or we could simply regulate openness. Worked pretty well with cell phone number portability, something the "market" would have never allowed on its own.

  10. Stealing is more than taking other people's stuff on Actual Damages For 1 Download = Cost of a 1 License · · Score: 1

    What about the cost of their hurt feelings?

  11. Re:Wish they would just knock it off with "earth-l on Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? · · Score: 2

    Calling a planet "earth-like" implies way more than correlation with earth's size and it's orbit around the sun.

    Actually, no, that's about it. The problem is people are screwing that up.

    no human is ever going to see them or even be able to communicate with them

    Yeah, wrong. And communication is trivial for anything close enough for imaging.

  12. Re:oh, not true! on Why the Occupy Movement Skipped Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Have you considered entering the field of emo poetry?

  13. Fuck greens and fuck market fundamentalists on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Claiming that GM is safe is about as stupid is claiming that GM is dangerous. Every individual alteration should be examined and go through safety trials.

  14. Re:iPad vs. all Android tablets on Why 2012 Will Be the Year of the Android Tablet · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares except Apple stockholders, and the loss of dominance probably pisses them off more than anything.

    Besides, Walmart dwarfs every other individual retailer, and yet you can still shop elsewhere. All you're saying is that Apple is the Walmart of smartphones and tablets.

  15. Cue the whining non-graduates... on Moxie Marlinspike Answers Your Questions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please, don't spend your late teens or early twenties in front of your computer at a startup.

    Or you could, you know, go to college. You really can't beat all the drinking and sex and learning among the highest concentration of smart people you will ever know.*

    *Some restrictions apply. Offer not valid at BYU, Liberty University, and Bob Jones University.

  16. Re:Yet Another Reason... on BT Sues Google Over Android · · Score: 2

    do you have any evidence? I think computers have advanced pretty far since the 80s.

    You pathetic humans are still using computers with your fingers.

  17. Re:Hitchens had some balls on Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 · · Score: 1

    Comedy Central is your only example? You lost that argument pretty quick.

  18. Re:Really Has Nothing to Do with Development on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    But the truth is that direct manipulation

    This is evidence that it is beyond you. You probably think the hardest part of UI design getting the controls to line up.

  19. Re:Hitchens had some balls on Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 · · Score: 0

    Most high-profile people who are harshly critical of religion tend to avoid or soften criticism of Islam.

    No they don't. You're making shit up.

  20. Re:Really Has Nothing to Do with Development on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 0

    Why anyone would bother with hand editing XML files is beyond me.

    Yes, it probably is.

  21. Re:Smart enough to milk it? on What Microsoft Should and Shouldn't Do For the Xbox 720 · · Score: 2

    The PS3 was (originally) the only one that offered hardware compatibility for a majority of the back catalog.

    And it didn't work for a lot of games - I had stuttering music on Guitar Hero and Psychonauts would crash. Then they dropped it for software emulation, and then they dropped that.

    I had better luck playing Xbox games on my 360, and they still work.

  22. Re:Has he ever actually talked to users? on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    That's not what he's saying, but hey, why try to understand an argument when it is going to threaten your conventional wisdom anyway.

  23. More Slashdot ignorance on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 1

    We live on a planet that is constantly recycling its crust, limiting the amount of carbon dioxide escaping into the atmosphere â" a natural way of controlling the greenhouse effect.

    Um, you got it backwards there, chief. Volcanoes release the carbon trapped in the ocean beds as they are subducted.

  24. Re:"Empathy Tests" on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    In order for it to be a choice it is not a condition / response.

    That's just fucking stupid. You contradict yourself. Why must it be "controllable" (your word choice) if it were not involuntary response?

    And if empathy derives from experience, as you say, why would you expect people to help a child hit by a car? Not many people are hit by cars.

    Or, as that disturbs you, why does the fact that millions of children are suffering from hunger right this instant not cause the same visceral reaction? After all, you claim it is about understanding, not stimulus.

  25. Re:"Empathy Tests" on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    In fact, empathy can be downright debilitating, especially when there's nothing that can be done for the person in need.

    It would not be debilitating if you did not have the selfish and involuntary impulse to do the impossible, to fix the situation causing you stress.