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  1. Offer to cuddle afterwards on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me? · · Score: 0

    Chicks dig that.

    They like it of you talk to them too.

    So talk about cuddling.

  2. Re:Google Maps on Swiss Historical Maps Allow Journey Through Time In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    This capability is going to be fantastic when applied to Slashdot so we can see it when it was good and compare it to now.

  3. Thisis why I kept my landline # on Facebook Lets You Harvest Account Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    The landline number is the only number I give out. The calls are screened and blocked or unknown calls are not answered by me; they get to leave a message. On;y people I want to call me on a regular basis are given my cell number.

  4. MalwareBytes? on Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results · · Score: 1

    Are they not included in the test or am I just missing them?

  5. Easy on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Fit In the Office? · · Score: 1

    Step away from the Snickers!

  6. ./supertuxkart: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2 on Microsoft's Future of the Living Room Starring SuperTuxKart · · Score: 2

    ./supertuxkart: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by ./supertuxkart)

    Seriously, WTF?

    What is is about GLIBC_2.15 that makes it magic for opengl games? The STEAM Linux client has this requirement as well.

  7. This Cop on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 1

    This cop makes the three honest, intelligent cops look bad.

  8. Re:one of these days it's going to get streamed on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 1

    I believe Dropbox does this on my Android phone. And it is copied to at least 5 different computers at three locations, two computers and one location of which I do not own nor rent, so good luck with that officer.

  9. Re:Law is complicated on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 1

    Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

  10. Re:sigh on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 1

    SCOTUS doesn't need to make a ruling upholding a constitutional right, as the constitution already does.

    The Justice Department affirmed this strongly when they sent a letter to the Baltimore PD which asserted that it is a first amendment right to record, and a violation of the fourth and fourteenth amendments to access and/or destroy such recordings without due process and/or a warrant.

    This made national headlines and so it's assured every police department in the U.S. is well aware of this.

    The victim should be contacting the DOJ and ACLU in short order.

    Attention, Ramsey County Sheriff Deputy: Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

  11. Re:sigh on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 2

    It's common knowledge that police go trolling through law books looking for anything that sounds remotely charge-able against people they don't like.

    FTA: Deputy Dan Eggers in a recording, speaking to the victim: "They felt like you were being a 'buttinski' by getting that camera in there and partially recording what was going on in a situation that you were not directly involved in."

    That, combined with destruction of the evidence, does not remotely sound like honest belief in a HIPAA violation by an expert person knowledgeable in medical-industry practices.

    The guy violated the anti-'buttinski' laws. The cops now want him to experience "buttupski" punishment.

  12. This is hpw it is supposed to work on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    Some people were able to express their religious beliefs. That there were consequences comes with the territory. Now they are martyrs for their faith.
    The hospital continues to provide care for its patients.

    Win/Win all around.

  13. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    my thoughts exactly. the only group I know of as well is the christian scientists, and they dont just eschew immunizations, but ALL medicine. they believe, as a core tenet, that all sickness is caused by fear or a lack of faith, and by extension that medicine isnt real.

    Which is why there are realtively few of them.

  14. This Thinking on Can Fotobar Make Polaroid Relevant Again? · · Score: 1

    This thinkng is what doomed them in the first place.

  15. Re:Support on Blizzard Reportedly Planning A Linux Game For 2013 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They could release a generic, runs-most-anywhere installation bundled with all the correct libraries, specifying minimum storage,memory, videocard, kernel/glibc requirements (just like for a Windows release).

    If they want to limit support, pick the top 5 distros and make certain it runs on those out-ofthe-box. Everything else is "at your own risk". Other software companies have some model for this so it can't be that difficult.

  16. Re:No future on Blizzard Reportedly Planning A Linux Game For 2013 · · Score: 2

    Gaming for Linux (or, more specifically, binary blobs in Linux) have absolutely no future, since every distro has its own version of every library.

    You know, you look at this the exact wrong way.
    Linux can allow the game distributor to provide the exact versions of the libraries they want. All you need to do is plop them all into one directory, say $INSTALL_DIR/lib/, and then have the wrapper run script prepend that directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

    And if that wasn't enough, the games company can even provide a bootable Linux DVD or USB stick which boots into linux and starts the game. Can't have much more control over the OS software than that!

    So much THIS.

    Releasing for a particular distro is lazy development and only serves to fragment the Linux market, not support it.

  17. Re:Doesn't help that Steam client is poorly writte on Valve Reveals First Month of Steam Linux Gains · · Score: 0

    That was my impression. I've tried the Linux Steam beta and it is terrible. It's slow, clunky and navigating it is a pain. it doesn't integrate into the desktop either, so the app looks out of place.

    Which is surprising since the Windows client runs pretty well using WINE.

    Perhaps the sluggishness is the result of additional DRM enforcement in the client?

  18. It Could Be More on Valve Reveals First Month of Steam Linux Gains · · Score: 0

    They might show even better results if their client were designed to run on _any_ modern Linux. Perhaps their engineers are not that skilled?

  19. Re:DRM on Valve Reveals First Month of Steam Linux Gains · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lot sof playable-on-Linux-DRM-free games at gog.com.

  20. No disagreements? on GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project · · Score: 0, Troll

    So he's just on his period?

    Oh wait, it's just a sensationalist headline.

  21. Why The Need for Such Secrecy? on Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Blacklists For Websites · · Score: 2

    If they are trying to do good in a legal way, why does the government need such secrecy?

    i.e. If you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?

  22. Re:Why don't we sentence that student to ... on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 2

    Why don't we sentence that student to a picture of a prison.

    Finally, a rational response.

  23. Re:The Drones on USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video · · Score: 0

    One thing I cant understand about this whole thing; how is it possible they blanket label everyone on the receiving end of the hellfire missile as 'enemy combatant' or 'a dog', even if theyre just civilians and or children.

    Note to Self: It's very dangerous to be around people associated with groups engaged in acts of violence against the US no matter how justified I feel they may or may not be. I should avoid them, especially at funerals.

  24. It's all about masturbation, Mr. Carrier on Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study · · Score: 4, Informative

    Then arms were made for masturbation. Otherwise why would they not be that length? If they were made for punching, they would be very much longer to minimize the risk to oneself from an attacker. Hands were then made for masturbation as well, otherwise why put them at the end of the perfect length of arm?

  25. Re:Why not just block messaging? on New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks · · Score: 0

    That's why God made McDonalds.

    MsDonalds is the world's largest chain of public toilets.