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  1. self-absorbed narcissist on Mt. Gox CEO Returns To Twitter, Enrages Burned Investors · · Score: 1

    So... He's pretty much like everyone else on Twitter?

  2. Re:Decent was descent on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    I would make people nauseous watching me play, mostly because I was one of those people who felt that an absolute up and down were meaningless in a free fall environment. Up was whatever happened to be above me at the moment, down whatever near the bottom of my ship. I noticed that many of the people I would play against stuck with the locked up/down that they started with, which worked out well for me as people look either down or to the sides, and "up" last of all...

  3. Re:Hell Yes! on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    The spaceOrb was almost cheating once you got the hang of it. I remember playing the Mega Team Fortress mod for Quake... the Concussion Grenades caused your viewpoint to wobble in a figure 8 pattern that got smaller as it wore off, I could run as if unaffected by the grenade because I countered the movement without actively thinking about it. Also being able to jump, while moving and being able to turn independently was a huge bonus .

  4. Why go Apple? on Postal Service Starting To Use Mobile Point of Sale Tech · · Score: 1

    Why not use something nobody will want to take home, like a HTC first?

  5. Re:Of course people who navigate... on Need Directions? Might Not Want To Ask a Transit Rider · · Score: 1

    When my car broke down for a week a couple years back, my 10 minute commute, turned into a 45 minute bus ride, or 30 minutes on my bicycle.... I chose to ride the bike rather than pay for bus faire.

  6. Re:Of course people who navigate... on Need Directions? Might Not Want To Ask a Transit Rider · · Score: 1

    I was a living example of this on my trip to Japan. At first I only rode the subway everywhere... I knew which stops to get off at and which direction to go from there. Then I got a map and realized that I could walk to most of the places I wanted to go in about the same amount of time it took to take the subway, because I need not go out of my way being only able to follow preset limited transportation routes. Not to mention I got to see a lot more interesting places.

    I used the subway when going back to the hotel from shopping, but to get to the electronics district in Osaka I tended to walk (unless the weather wasn't decent).

        Before then I had no notion of the spatial relationship of the hotel to the various shops.

  7. Re:Also they're complaining about... on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    No kidding, it was bad enough when Nintendo did a really bad Italian accent, Lucas should have known better than to use Mario as his speech template for a character.

  8. Re:here we go on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Well only if you into certain types of "massage parlors" do you get both, and only after you've paid for it.

  9. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 1

    I'd much rather give it to an organization that I can check references on that would provide those things to the person until they can provide for themselves. I do this for two reasons 1) the person cannot blow it on drugs,alcohol, hookers, or bathsalts. 2) I get a tax write off. The fact that my dollar is probably doing a lot more work doesn't factor into my personal reasons, but it might for some people.

  10. Re:In defiance of Betteridge's law of headline: ye on Will Tablets Kill Off e-Readers? · · Score: 1

    That's the thing that kills me about the tablets, or even my smart phone. I like being able to read my books on the go, but the fact is if I spend a couple hours reading a book on a non dedicated platform, the battery is getting low. Many e readers are still able to run for days of reading without having to be tethered to something.

  11. Well he certainly didn't help anything when his administration made that video he claims got the Middle East in an uproar, the filmmaker didn't build that.

  12. Prior Art on Activision Blizzard Sued For Patent Infringement Over WoW, CoD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is this obscure game called Everquest that does all of the described elements of the patents. Everquest released March 16th, 1999. The aforementioned patent was filed March 19th, 1999.

  13. Re:Is this a joke? on Should Failure Be Rewarded To Spur Innovation? · · Score: 2

    You might be surprised at how being mocked by your peers is a motivational factor.

    I see the sharing in either case to be a tricky way of publicly shaming really stupid ideas, and a good way to show off those decent ideas.

  14. Re:"Factory Reset" means nothing on the 360... on Hackers Can Easily Lift Credit Card Info From a Used Xbox · · Score: 1

    You are correct, it's your shit now. Microsoft isn't stopping you from selling your shit. It's like bitching that the dealership won't help you transfer the title on the car you bought from them when you sell it to someone else several years later. It's your job to deal with that because it's your shit now.

  15. T.M.N.T.? More like on Michael Bay To Remake TMNT As Aliens · · Score: 1

    Teenage Alien Intelligence Ninja Turtles.

      So we'll all know whose it is we are doomed to view.

  16. Re:early Heinlein on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    "Red Lightning", "Red Thunder" and "Rolling Thunder"

    Apparently there is a new one coming out too, "Dark Thunder."
    Besides I don't think they ever really said how old Jubal was, and of course he spent a good deal of time in a stasis bubble by the time Rolling Thunder came along. And she was of legal age.

  17. Re:Ah, I got it ... on Battery Turns Saltwater Into Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    actually we'd probably dump the salt back into the sea, since most of the water that is being added to the system has very low salinity. It would lower sea levels and bring the salinity to a more normal level.

  18. Re:FAIR USE !! on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    So he's Rocky from Rocky V then?

  19. Re:Unskilled people in our borders on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 2

    Yes look how well that open border policy worked out for the Native Americans, can you blame the white folks for not wanting to let that happen to them?

  20. Re:My guess on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    You are mixing correlation and causation again. Poor people from say Africa or even Eastern Europe cannot just walk across a border and arrive in the United States of America. Yes there is a correlation to one being a poor, unskilled and illegal laborer in the USA and being "brown". The republicans would love to toss all of the former group out, regardless of the amount of pigmentation in their skin.

  21. Re:Yes it is on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    Look how well that turned out for them. We stole this land, fair and square.

  22. Re:It's just more Romney pandering. on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 2

    Ah but you miss the point, with a manned moon base we'd always have the high ground in any conflict...
        Lob a "small" rock from the moon back at the earth and you have a bomb that is nuclear level effective, but will not render the area unihabitable by humans. The lower number could be used to pay for said base (and likely it would be manned by military personel anyway)

  23. Prior Art on Zynga Accused of Cloning Hit Indie iPhone Game Tiny Tower · · Score: 1

    EA should sue both of them, that looks like a stripped down version of SimTower.

  24. Hydro Fracking on Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power · · Score: 1

    Basically they are using the same technology that oil companies use to get to oil. Given the press over some methane in water allowing it to burn, just imagine the public outcry when lava starts showing up in your tap water! You try to hose down a fire, and instead it sets the rest of the lawn ablaze. Luckily all that pumice means that the town residents will be very clean and not need to go to the local spa to get the epidural scrub.

  25. Re:Ouch on HP Wanted $1.2B For WebOS and Palm · · Score: 1

    I ditched my Pre after the HP fiasco with WebOS and bought a new Android phone. Look I can actually use Flash on it (one of the selling points on my Palm Pre was that a Flash player would be out in a few months when I bought the Pre shortly after launch). And people develop stuff for it.