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  1. Re:i give this troll an 8 out 10 on William Gibson's Neuromancer Staged With Porn Star · · Score: 1

    There was nothing contrived about it, so fuck off, sir.

  2. Middle class "white guy?" on William Gibson's Neuromancer Staged With Porn Star · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That kind of uncritical asinine blather never ceases to tweak me. Middle class anyone, Gibson, you tool. It's amazing that people spout (and think) racist shit like this, and it is left bare, unchallenged, validated by silence thus tacit approval. Fuck that. The assumption is what? If you're middle class but not white that your perspective is different? GMAFB. If you're middle class and white, like me, you can't possibly know about destitution? (I came from it).

    Idiocy.

  3. Re:Surprising on RIAA Filed 62 New Cases In April Alone · · Score: 1

    And ... McD's patently refused to pay for her hospital bills, which is why the suit was initiated. I was thinking the exact same thing "it's basically the hallmark of people who refuse to fucking pay attention," so thank you for speaking.

  4. Not even the recent mods are correct on A Look At Successful Game Mods · · Score: 1

    Someone else mentioned Hidden already, I'll add that the realism mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R, while cool, was about fifth on the list of mods for that game. Oblivion Lost 1 and 2 both destroy it, as does AMK, and even ABC Inferno is better, IMO. All of those mods introduce gameplay that does not exist in the original vanilla game, whereas the realism mod does not. It simply tweaks damage, etc. The realism mod is more one you would roll into the other, larger and much more interesting mods.

    Going back a bit, at the same time Doom was being modded, Bungie had its Marathon series which were a blast, and the mods were awesome.
    Additionally, the Myth series lives on today through mods, and many of them are simply brilliant.

  5. Chain of custody? on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    IANAL, so I have no idea about the answer to this question/comment, but they (the RIAA) are proceeding wholly on an arbitrary characteristic: file name. How can they prove that my Godzilla.mp3 is not an empty four MB file I've created? Answer: they can't. Without a hash, how on earth can they prove copyright infringement? I work for a fairly large US University that capitulates blindly to these claims (much to my frustration). It staggers me that these issues haven't brought up, ut maybe it is because IAJASSANAL.

  6. Re:Games != real life on Scientists Discover Gene For Ruthlessness · · Score: 1

    As all the gamers tell us, games != real life. People who kill many characters on FPS are not going to kill real people.

    So why should ruthless behaviour in some game be linked to ruthlessness in life?


    Absolutely. I marvel at the things I do in world conquest games such as Civilization. I would go straight for Fundamentalism as a government choice to quash those annoying civilians and their damned civil unrest. In real life, I would never consider such a thing (not that I am in a position of power), but empathy with artificial constructs simply doesn't exist. For me, it is about winning strategies, period. Then again, it is also fun to snipe in an FPS and watch the cloud of red explode from the other side, but I could not kill unless my life or the life of someone I loved was in danger, and I generally care about people. In fact, I am quite compassionate. There may be a gene for ruthlessness, but how does it impact one's behavior in life?

  7. Re:This Isn't Just About Child Porn on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    Thank you. If I had any mod points left, I would add them. I was going to say the same thing ... in fact, this is shoddy police work. The fact that this guy had to find out, on his own, the IP address used to make the purchase (and the subsequent regional tracking), and then do the cross-referencing is quite sad. Not terribly uncommon, either, I'd say, but sad.

  8. Re:Strange... you missed the whole thing. on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    I agree with most of what you said, however I have to point out one fallacy:

    Also, consider that police officers miss nearly 90% of the time when they discharge their weapons. They have lots of training up front and ongoing training in firearms use which you almost certainly do not have.

    The fact is that many police departments have little to no formalized training in shooting, and in particular, in gun handling, which is as important (being able to get your gun smoothly and confidently, reloading, etc.). The only requirements are a certain level of accuracy tested yearly at a gun ranger, with little to no simulated stress.

    I personally find chest beaters like the original poster to be repellent, but private gun owners (which includes gun nuts, but is not all-inclusive, of course) spend a lot more time on their own time learning to shoot and handle guns.

    These issues do vary from department to department, but I guarantee you that the larger the police force, the less formalized training. My experience is from a competition shooter (same guy who taught me to handle guns) who is also the firearms instructor (a police officer, of course) for multiple departments. He often laments these facts, as they are a serious problem, as one can imagine.

  9. Read many of the variants on The Children of Hurin · · Score: 1

    The story that provides the backdrop for The Children of Hurin has always been one of my all-times favorite tales. The style is different, but more epic in scope, and more heroic in nature than his earlier published works, which, ironically, take place thousands of years (and two ages) later in the same world as does this one. That said, I also got this when it was first released, and read it quickly, and was unable to identify any significant changes or additions to what had been published in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. Turin is an incredibly tragic hero, a great character, and the themes here are more adult than in LoTR and The Hobbit, and I am here referring to the larger works that like behind this particular story.

  10. Hosts file on The Advertisers are Watching You · · Score: 1

    One thing I do in an attempt to mitigate the ubiquity of ads is to simply redirect the domains to localhost.

    On my macs, linux, unix (mostly solaris) boxes, and windows. This means that instead of ads I get "Unable to connect ..."
    errors, but I much prefer those blocks. Additionally, I notice that ad sites delay the loads of many pages, thus redirecting
    them to localhost speeds up browsing.

    I know most of us know where the hosts files lie on most systems, but for those who don't:

    OS X: /private/etc/hosts

    Unix/Linux: /etc/hosts

    Windows: [root drive]:\{windows directory}\system 32\drivers\etc\hosts

  11. Re:information versus action on Wikileaks Calls For Global Boycott Against eNom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I strongly disagree. Wikileaks is not attempting to act on information someone posted on their site; they are acting in response to something that was done to them directly.
    This has absolutely nothing to do with the information they host, aside from the fact that the information that they host was a reason for the acts by eNom et al. It also does
    not reflect on the veracity of their information, and interpreting it that way seems odd to me.

  12. Re:Apparently only if you get caught on Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let me get this straight: US Universities have a culture of social climbing, and your evidence to this theory is an incident in which two Indian students reported you. You may want to take stock of your prejudice. If you need help, start with this statement: "Apparently two Indian students striving to become fledging proto-Americans . . ."

  13. Re:Purpose ? on Are Wikileaks Servers In a Nuclear Bunker? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One reason, and a major one at that, is that simply snipping the cables leaves all of the data intact. Cables can be rerun, access can be restored, data,
    once destroyed, is gone, and it is unlikely that a disaster recovery site would offer the same physical protection as a nuclear bunker.

  14. Re:The bottom line is parent's don't care on A Real Mom Reviews the Games Industry Report Card · · Score: 1

    First, you attribute a mistake to me, then you spend six times as much time repeating ad hocs.

    First: I pointed out a flaw in your reasoning, which you asked for. Second: ad hoc? The term you were going for (and
    mis-using) is ad hominem. However, an ad hominem would consist of me calling you a jackass for some reason other than
    the jackassian traits displayed consistently in your original message, and subsequent responses, and ignoring the matter
    of the posts. I did not engage in ad hominem attacks. I pointed out the flaw in your reasoning, and took you to task for
    it, and continued when you feebly bleated your rebuttal.

    You evidently have less of an idea of what critical thinking is than I do.
    I didn't say all. You did.


    You said "Today's parents just suck at parenting. They lack the minimal backbone required to tell their kids "no," because they try to be friends rather than parents.

    This is a clear implication that you are referring to "all." Additionally, I left the idiotic nutritional rant alone, which is equally misinformed.

    Now go away- you're starting to piss me off.

    Let me put this as delicately as I can: Fuck off. If you don't like criticism, think before posting, and think twice before flaming, especially when you are
    on a tenuous foundation, at best. In this case, you're simply wrong, and digging yourself into a deeper hole. You should have stuck to the shinebox.

  15. Re:The bottom line is parent's don't care on A Real Mom Reviews the Games Industry Report Card · · Score: 1

    Show me a poor example of reasoning on my part and you'll have something to talk about.

    Using your own narrow experience as evidence to identify cause. As in: parents suck. Not, some parents suck, or bad parents suck, but
    all parents suck, and here is why: Because my childhood was better, so I am better, therefore I know the truth. It wasn't necessary for
    me to quote it, because it was self-evident.

    As for being reduced to a cursing pile of self-loathing: nice try. On second thought, no, it wasn't. It was actually quite pathetic, but
    given the intellect displayed in your original statement, I don't find that surprising.

    What pisses me off is idiotic, non-critical thinking twits (i.e. you) espousing stupid and lazy views that are then validated by further, lazy-thinking
    sycophants. I don't suffer fools gladly, and your original post was foolish. Not that you are a fool, of that I am unsure, but given that
    you have now posted foolishly twice, the odds are not in your favor.

    And as to leaving your posts alone: use your fucking brain if you have one, and then you won't have to worry about criticism.

    And not a single response to the matter: that you are dead wrong. Not only did you spout, you spouted off in ignorance.

    Now go get yer fucking shinebox.

  16. Re:The bottom line is parent's don't care on A Real Mom Reviews the Games Industry Report Card · · Score: 1

    Today's parents just suck at parenting. They lack the minimal backbone required to tell their kids "no," because they try to be friends rather than parents.

    Today's slashdot posters suck at reasoning.

    How the ^%$%! did this idiotic rant get modded up? Oh, no, wait, you just solved the parenting dilemma and the obesity epidemic in one fell swoop.
    It's cereal! Holy crap, why didn't I think of that. Quick patent that idea!

    There is very little that I hate more than hypocritical morons waxing didactic. Fatter and dumber? Yes, fatter because the nutritional landscape in American
    is in shambles, due to factors well beyond Frosted Flakes, dumber because the paradigm for education is the least efficacious, and seemingly critical thinking
    skills are eroding in the masses, and brilliantly and beautifully exhibited by you.

    Way to go.

  17. The same thing that troubles print on What's Wrong With the TV News · · Score: 1

    News, in general, is a business, the business of selling advertising. The bottom line is the bottom line, therefore views are going to largely represent those of the buyers. The buyers, in most cases large and wealthy corporations, are the same that funnel large amounts of money into political campaigns and therefore drive legislation. Hence, critical and/or dissenting voices are nil in any major media outlet, be it television, radio, or print. This is simple institutional analysis, and it has been this way for decades, perhaps even more than 100 years, since the cost of printing presses drove most small papers into oblivion. It is propaganda, pure and simple.

  18. Re:Who cares? They're cheap. on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    So what's the solution, in the meantime you're going to waste your expensive high def TV watching shitty standard format DVDs?

    I have a 52" HD tv, and with an composite connection, those "shitty standard format DVDs" (sic) still look damn good. It's not a
    sacrifice, holding onto standard format DVDs for a while, plus, they're cheap.

  19. Enough with Jack Thompson, already on Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The guy is an absolute nut case, and is totally irrelevant. He is about to be disbarred, has made numerous clearly paranoid statements in the past, why the hell does his ridiculous ranting gain credence by being submitted to /. time and time again?

    The next time someone submits a Jack Thompson story, please make the headline the following: Jack Thompson Bleats Again.

    And the body of the text can be: Jack Thompson, well-known corrupt and insanely-paranoid former lawyer, makes another outrageous statement.

  20. Re:Buy a Mac. on Is the Dell XPS One Better than the Apple iMac? · · Score: 1

    Most users do not want the hassle of downloading and updating applications that offer functionality that
    ought to be a part of the operating system. Having all of that crap running affects system performance detrimentally. Users
    who also happen to be the most liable to get viruses/spyware/trojans/adware are particularly those who cannot be trusted to understand the process
    of updating and insuring that these things are always running and in a good state, though it is second nature to experienced windows users - out
    of necessity, I guess.

    No, for those users: get a mac. For whatever reasons, and it is a hotly-contested source of debate, macs running OS X are simply not as vulnerable
    to malware.

  21. Re:Good time.. on Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover · · Score: 1

    TV is not a major issue in American obesity ... it is a minor one, and only part of the shift to a less physical lifestyle that comprises many things,
    and I would estimate that video games, which directly substitutes a sedentary activity for what was once physical activity, especially for children, is a larger
    piece of that pie (pun intended) than is television. As for the major factor? Food. In particular, the shift to a food pyramid in the 80s that included a ridiculous amount
    of carb-laden choices parallels the rise in obesity in America. No, it isn't TV, it is food, particularly the ubiquity of unhealthy choices, and the
    fact that schools have often ceded their lunch programs to fast food and junk machines. Most Americans eat shit every day, and they aren't even aware
    that there is a choice.

  22. I can't get to openoffice.org on Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    From cavalier's network (cavtel) in Philadephia. I've instead installed the google pak (choosing only star office) on pcs, or downloaded
    it from work and stuck the archives on an external server (for other OSes). I never really thought much about it until now, and I am not sure why
    they would stop or filter traffic, but I cannot load a page, let along download the entire installer.

    Cavalier is also one of the annoying ISPs that hijack any non-existent URLs to another search domain (itemnotfound.com), so I've merely made static
    host entries to kill it (not having my own DNS servers at home).
    Just a general FYI.

  23. Was stuck in this kind of deal on FCC To End Exclusive Cable For Apartments · · Score: 1

    Rented a town home in a development when we dumped our house in the burgeoning RE market. Had directv for years and loved it.
    The development had an agreement with Comcast, which I abhor. I called the management and asked if I could have a satellite installed
    and they politely said no (the mgmt here is really great, so no complaints). Got comcast, hated it, cancelled. My neighbor had
    directv installed a couple of months later. Never asked for permission. I called the very next day and went with Dish (better
    HD programming at the time, and not at all unhappy). Shortly thereafter there was an explosion of satellite dishes all over the
    development.

    The bottom line, for me, is that people get stuck paying higher prices for what is, in many cases (certainly in mine) an inferior
    product.

    Just a little nugget to toss into the discussion ...

  24. Re:Of course... on Infrequent Anonymous Cowards Reliable on Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    (Carson) I did not know that. (/Carson)

    Yes, I blanked the page. I guess someone else must have actually deleted the article.

  25. Re:Of course... on Infrequent Anonymous Cowards Reliable on Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I completed deleted an obvious joke entry that was reverted numerous times. It was like a tug-of-war between me and the bot, and I finally won.

    The entry was almost a word for word plagiarism from an article about a serial killer whose name I now forget, but he is famous for being the only
    man in America who has had two death sentences from completely different murders, as he received one in the late 60s early 70s, which was commuted to
    life when the death sentence was abolished in Texas (it returned, obviously), and was later released due to over-crowding whereupon he killed more
    young women. Three the first time known as The Broomstick Murders.

    The joke entry attributed the acts to a late teen from New Jersey. It wasn't even funny, unlike the entry that I edited for Black Bart, where at the
    end of a fairly well-written paragraph describing his behavior there were sentences like the following tacked on: "He liked to screw his captives in the
    butt. He liked butt screwing," which was probably the height of hilarity to the twelve-year old who wrote it, but still ...

    Oh, and all of my edits are anonymous. Don't know why, just never registered.