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  1. Re:Any Different? on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They don't want gay couples portrayed as normal. They want their children to know they should be ostracizing any of their peers who come out as gay.

  2. Re:I for one on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    I'm not paying $60 to have Tebow QB my team, my Madden game still has Testaverde and Pennington as Jets QBs

  3. Re:To the games industry: on Dysfunctional Console Industry Struggles For New Profit Centers · · Score: 1

    But if gamers can keep replaying their old games, why would they buy the new ones? Playing old games is picking the pockets of the developer!!!

  4. Re:Emigration vs Immigration control on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    When was the last time you were over the Delaware Water Gap bridge? That's been toll as long as I can remember. There's a free one in Easton, and there's I-95, don't know of any others.

  5. Re:Emigration vs Immigration control on DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba · · Score: 1

    If you take I-95 from Jersey toward PA/Delaware it WILL take you back to Newark, though. It goes right through Newark, Delaware.

  6. Re:It'll save $11 million a year? on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    I've got a '71 penny in my drawer, several 80s ones too.

    I'd expect a dollar coin to last much longer than 30 years, sitting in a warehouse.

  7. Re:It begins.... on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Lucky Canadians. The US nickel costs more than 9 cents to mint, making it even worse than our 1-cent coin.

  8. Re:It'll save $11 million a year? on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Carrying around a penny seems like a lot of inconvenience for 1 cent.

  9. Re:Extended Support Release on Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility · · Score: 1

    I've seen a number of sites that redirect Opera to the mobile version of the site. Annoying, but generally workable (mask as IE, give site the finger, move on)

  10. Opera on Firefox: In With the New, Out With the Compatibility · · Score: 2

    That's why I prefer Opera. All the functionality I like that would require a plugin from Firefox is just built in. Since it's built in, the Opera development team are in charge of maintaining them so they don't break with every release.

  11. Re:On the fence on this. on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    That's in the summary, but doesn't appear to be supported in the story itself.

  12. Re:High school student != Expert on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 5, Informative

    Where does it say it was school equipment? The linked article mentions "Carroll says he doesn't think he should be punished by the school for what he posts on his own time and on his own computer. " and I find no other mention of the computer's ownership.

  13. Re:It's their network on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He says he tweeted on "his own computer", and it was 2am so it seems likely it would have been on the school's network.

    What it sounds like is he logged into his twitter account later when he was on the school network. The school scanned his twitter feed and found his astute observation about the word fuck.

  14. Step up that Expulsion on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sounds like the school is really behind. They need to get themselves in gear and expel the 90% of the student body that says "fuck" on a daily basis in the halls, in the cafeteria and on the buses.

  15. Re:Stopped reading at... on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    Bartertown

  16. Both? on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    It seems the logical course is to subsidize chemical fertilizers to increase production immediately, and at the same time encourage the sustainable practices so that a few years down the road they can take the place of chemical fertilizers.

  17. Re:From the text. on House Kills Effort To Stop Workplace Requests For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 2

    It sounds like the amendment simply clarifies that the FCC already has the authority to pass this regulation. I don't see where he gets his complaint about it preventing Congress from apply transparency rules, but it sounds like the amendment is unnecessary.

  18. Minimum Sentence, really? on European Law Could Give Hackers Mimimum Two-Year Sentence · · Score: 1

    "Hacking" just seems far too broad a category of crimes to slap a minimum sentence on, it really calls out for flexible sentencing to fit the exact nature of what was done.

  19. Re:What kind of congress is that? on Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify · · Score: 1

    It was on BOTH issues. The question was how to balance religious freedom issues with health issues. If you refuse to hear one side of the argument, you have a pretty useless meeting.

  20. Re:Gahh on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 1

    It has happened. Of course, it was immediately after takeoff so they hadn't reached full cruising altitude.

  21. Why it's good? on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 1

    Because without it, parents could shut their kids up with the sedative powers of their DS or iPad. And no takeoff is complete without screaming children.

  22. Re:Non-technical reasons between now and June? on HDTV Expert Alfred Poor Tells You What to Buy and What Not to Buy (Video) · · Score: 1

    The TV manufacturers are retailers need to increase their sales numbers for the second quarter, so you should help them by buying their inventory before the next models come out. (You should buy those in July - September)

  23. Re:Publicity whore... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 2

    You think the government is going to care about those perfectly legit sections? Sorry, they're a casualty. They should have known better than to put it on the same server as the forbidden content.

  24. Re:International service on With Cinavia DRM, Is Blu-ray On a Path To Self-Destruction? · · Score: 1

    Netflix has crap selection on their streaming service, though. If you want to watch last year's TV shows, you're probably pretty good, but if you want to watch relatively new movies, you'll need to look elsewhere.

  25. Re:No justification for the current media pricing? on With Cinavia DRM, Is Blu-ray On a Path To Self-Destruction? · · Score: 1

    Because the author is saying it's the only way they're going to compete with various video on demand solutions.