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  1. Re:In real dollars? on Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like saying you're done with Zelda once you have the Master Sword. I mean, I guess that could be *why* you're playing, but that wasn't the designer's intent.

  2. Re:woah on Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So far, most of the negative responses here have been for the sake of getting a laugh or is based on stale or inaccurate data.

    Or salty has-been-but-really-never-was ex-game-devs who wail and gnash their teeth that their crappy 90's space sim never got the love and adoration that Wing Commander did. And the SA goons that humor them for a laugh.

  3. Re: fair judgement on Gamers Behind Fatal 'SWAT' Call Now Face Life In Prison (wlwt.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm listening to all the other posters that say the officer should be punished. Obviously he was wrong to engage, and should have waited to if the guy shot someone.

  4. Re: fair judgement on Gamers Behind Fatal 'SWAT' Call Now Face Life In Prison (wlwt.com) · · Score: 1

    Train dispatchers to stop trusting 911 calls and train cops to wait until they hear actual gun shots. Your self-defense is on you.

  5. Re:Sony? on Sony Ends Production Of Physical Vita Games (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Blu-R--oh, wait...

  6. Re:What when portable media is REQUIRED ? on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Our IT department has a sign that says, "Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine." They'll fill out a PO for new devices (the one you should have done weeks ago) that they will service themselves, and tell you to go pound sand until then. Anything that proceeds from there is on your head.

  7. Re:What when portable media is REQUIRED ? on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You ask information security to white-list the device, and it never leaves the building.

  8. Re:CRLF is technically correct on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's not a order of the characters that matters to me; as former email developer, I'm also used to standardizing on CRLF as per RFC. But there were enough non-standard clients out there that I was used to having to deal with either-or. What fucked it all up were those clients that only send bare LF's. "Be liberal in what you accept" except most of these were spam clients, anyhow.

  9. Re:CRLF is technically correct on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The deal for me is that, as an old MUD coder in the late 90's, I am so used to the VT100 convention that the Unix way of doing it baffles me. I'm too used to doing \n\r.

  10. Re: Seems like the right reasons to me on New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's not about fairness; it's about revenge. Got it.

  11. Re: Microsoft-secured Linux kernel on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Delphi was objectively the best product Borland ever made. I made the switch to C# simply because Anders Hejlberg was involved. Was not disappointed.

  12. Re: Microsoft-secured Linux kernel on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Heretic.

  13. Re:No thank you! on AnandTech Reviews Samsung's Exynos 9810 SoC (and Galaxy S9) (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    ...as well as an atheist crossfitter.

  14. Trade Paperback on Ask Slashdot: I Want To Get Into Comic Books, But Where Do I Start? · · Score: 1

    Go back and collect the classic greats. Individual titles have good days, and bad ones. You've already been told about tDKR. Here are some more recent great titles you might want to pick up:
    - Identity Crisis (Infinite Crisis is drivel, though)
    - Green Lantern: Rebirth
    - Hush (best Batman arc, IMHO)
    - Astonishing X-Men (Joss Whedon)
    - Marvel's Civil War
    - Marvel's The Ultimates series 1 & 2

    There's one publisher that is an absolute delight; only published for a span of 3 or 4 years before going defunct: CrossGen. It's long dead now, and you can pick up all of it for pennies to the dollar at a used comic or book store. They went bankrupt by packing their comics with the most gorgeous art I've ever seen (Greg Land's pencil work for Sojourn is stupid good). The stories are great, too; especially Negation. Check it out.

  15. But look at what happened to those who did the purging in all three cases: the early revolutionaries are the victims of the second purge, as punishment for their revolutionary excess.

  16. Yeah, but if you have your way, you'll find out quickly that to someone, somewhere, *you* are the rich.

  17. Re: i don't know much on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Conservative crazies are worried about chemtrails and fluoridation. Liberal crazies are worried about GMO and vaccination. Keep it straight!

  18. Re: Can somebody who knows more about this on Planting GMOs Kills So Many Bugs That It Helps Non-GMO Crops (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Just because that particular thing is natural in one organism, doesn't mean that it's OK to put it into a different one.

    Welp, there goes our stem-cell research, then. /sad-trombone

  19. Re: "harsh interrogation technique" on Trump's Pick for New CIA Director Is Career Spymaster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For the first two years, they did not. Democrats had a super majority, and the opposition had no veto power. This power was used extensively. It was not used, however, to close Guantanamo Bay.

  20. What you've described is called "head canon." It's the opposite of canon.

  21. Re: 50 Years? on Adult Human Brains Do Not Produce New Neurons, Study Suggests (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    They also some words from time to time.

  22. Or do you mean graphical like in the little appy thingy I can see on the panel on my KDE desktop, where I find a list of network connections?

    I don't think he can see that on his gnome desktop.

  23. Re:The Halloween emails were 20 years ago on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Go away.

    I think the one with an actual account should stay. But that's just me.

  24. Re:Running Linux "natively"? What does that mean? on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Technically, isn't using a hypervisor also running bare-metal? It's not an emulator. And it's no different for MS desktop Hyper-V. Hell, if your BIOS supports it, you can boot straight into those Hyper-V images.

  25. Re:Embracing a Cancer? on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Steve Ballmer said that in 2001. He's no longer with the company, and MS has no obligation to adhere to his philosophy with respect to FOSS.