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  1. Other Systems on Dungeons & Dragons' Influence and Legacy · · Score: 2

    Tunnels and Trolls and Traveller had more of an influence on me than D&D.

    D&D did teach me to take the parts I liked and screw the rest.

    METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA IS 40 YEARS OLD WHERE IS THEIR PARTY???

  2. Re:Neil DeGrasse Tyson may be right - now, but... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 1

    "So was crossing the atlantic in a boat."

    'Tis true, Until we find natives on another planet foolishly hoarding natural resources, that are ripe for exploitation and conquest, then commercial space programs are doomed.

    Until then our only hope (stop, please stop, thinking about making a joke there) is some crazy idiot backed by a second-rate global player who thinks he can find a quicker route from San Jose to San Francisco via Mars.

  3. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    The summary should read "Several browsers let your significant other press Ctrl-Shift-T to reopen a closed tab chock full of furry pr0n. That is all."

  4. Re:Great on Google Patents Image-Capturing Walking Sticks · · Score: 1

    Thank god Corpsicles never took off!

  5. Re:I cut my teeth on that CPU on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 0

    16 bit... tchka!... you had it easy.

    The PDP 8/e was da bomb for:

    printing "Hello World"
    playing Tic-Tac-Toe
    paper tape races

  6. Mixed Feelings on Villians & Vigilantes Creators Win Lawsuit, Rights To Game · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it wasn't for FGU I wouldn't have bought V&V. On the other hand, the FGU http://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/ webmaster should be shot.

  7. Good Story on Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State · · Score: 3, Funny

    I liked it so much I liked it. ...ooops...

  8. Re:If you want groundbreaking early Mac software on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 2

    I was deep into Pascal and assembly but it wasn't until HC that I learned the UI was where the battle was won or lost.

    Also, Talking Moose!

  9. A Modest Question on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 4, Informative

    How many MIT student pranks ended with felony charges?

    I highly recommend reading Alex Stamos' thoughts on Aaron Swartz:

    The Truth about Aaron Swartz's "Crime"
    http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartzs-crime/

  10. Re:John Brunner on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    ditto ditto ditto

    muckers... Corp liability settlements as a profit center ... World wide webs... Aggressive advertising

    thank God none of his predictions came true

  11. Re:I (honestly) do not have a Facebook account on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 1

    Epicly stupid.

    Grandparents love to keep up with grandchildren, for one.

  12. Re:Pfft. on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    Thomas Alva Edison & I hear you loud and clear.

  13. Re:He's going to be chief youth jargonist on Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post · · Score: 1

    I predict his first WaPo post will be a dupe!

    j/k good luck, and don't fuck with Pogue if you know what's good for you!

  14. No Access for Amateur Coders on Why Didn't the Internet Take Off In 1983? · · Score: 1

    Amateur programmers couldn't run and test their own code on it.

    If nascent code monkeys weren't interested, then you lose the wow factor pretty quickly.

    GEnie, Compuserve, Applelink, and AOL had some success because they were 1/2 BBS-like and 1/2 virtual desktop publishing.

    One look at Mosaic + HTML, though, and it was painfully obvious that not only could you publish your random crap without AOL, but you could spend an eternity tinkering and extending it.

  15. hey eeplox on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 2

    submit this to boing boing and the agitator. They'd probably love this.

  16. Re:sony all over again.. on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 5, Informative

    On December 8, 2011, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed the last remaining count of the class action lawsuit, stating: "As a legal matter, [..] plaintiffs have failed to allege facts or articulate a theory on which Sony may be held liable." He then removed massive amounts of wax from his ears after the trial.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

    Once again, I am in the wrong damn business.

  17. 1976 on Developer's View: Real Life Inspirations Or Abstract Ideas? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Dammit, all these charts a tables need to be on a computer!" -- me in 1976 playing D&D.

    I would argue that the "immigrants" have a more pressing desire to innovate because they felt the crushing limitations of the non-virtual world first hand.

  18. Re:Let it happen on Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed · · Score: 1

    Please, yes. These infected moroons are tomorrow's clients and damn I need the cash!

  19. Re:I'd comment but... on The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal · · Score: 1

    from toilet seats of course!

  20. I'd comment but... on The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal · · Score: 1

    ...this webOS browser is like slow burning syphilis. The only, and I mean only, thing that's right here is the $99 price tag.

    YMMV for phones, sure. But for a tablet webOS is like a delicious cake made without leavening.

  21. Re:I for once, welcome our ...nevermind on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 1

    Ron was good with tools. It would not surprise me a bit if he knew enough about copseyes to knock out the whole system.

    Maybe someone ought to stop him.

    But knocking down copseyes wasn't illegal. It happened all the time. It was part of the freedom of the Park. If Ron could knock them all down at once, well . . .

    Maybe someone ought to stop him.

    - Cloak of Anarchy, Larry Niven, 1972

  22. Re:What is he smoking? on HP CEO Says Google-Motorola Deal Could Close-Source Android · · Score: 1

    Leo sold me a freakin' sweet $99 ebook reader, so he's alright with me!

  23. Re:Sigh on Steve Jobs Awarded Posthumous Grammy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Today: "Yeah, Steve screwed us, but at least he didn't post the video on YouTube."

    2050: "The MPAA and RIAA led the fight to make media cheaper and more accessible worldwide."

    Come to think of it, the survivors of the Confederate States of America went through the same mental gymnastics.

  24. Re:MEETING on Study Finds Social Media Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes, Alcohol · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Social Media Twelve Steps
    We admitted we were powerless over social media - that our lives had become unmanageable.
    Came to believe that a better broadband connection can restore us to sanity.
    Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of a All Knowing Server Admin as we understood Him.
    Made a searching and fearless inventory of our posts.
    Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our spulling erroz.
    Were entirely ready to have The Next Thing Better Than Facebook remove all these defects of character.
    Humbly asked Customer Service to remove our drunken posts.
    Made a list of all persons we have stalked, and became willing to block them all.
    Avoided making direct amends to such people wherever possible because it pretty much looks like even more stalking.
    Continued to hide our personal baggage and when we were wrong to rise above the desire to ragequit.
    Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with cute kittens as we understood Them, praying only for the power to not forward it.
    Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to social media addicts, and to practice these principles in all our status updates.

  25. Re:Neither advertise Android as a selling point on Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have a real faux Android tablet called an HPTouchPad. It's sweet!