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  1. Re:Wikipedia says it all on New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails · · Score: 1

    I like how that list is divided into several mostly-mutually-exclusive positions: it's not happening, it's happening but it's natural, it's happening but we don't know why, and even if it's happening it doesn't matter.

    (And that list is 45 people long, including the dead ones. My understanding is that there are about 100 times as many on the other side.)

  2. Re:First! on Nintendo Releases The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword · · Score: 1

    Indeed, but that doesn't explain why Nintendo puts out its big games on Sunday in North America, since Tuesday is "the day of the week" in general as far as I know.

  3. Re:Dont' quit, but don't agree either. on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 2

    Oh for God's sake. Saying "In California, you can do so-and-so" and then turn around and say "well, I didn't mean legally" is some kind of canonical waste of everybody's time. By that logic, we can say "In California, you can shoot a guy in the head", because somebody did.

  4. Re:Obvious on Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? · · Score: 1

    When someone dies their safe deposit box becomes sealed until probate -- at least in my grandfather's case. So you have to have them get there before the bank knows they're dead.

  5. Re:I'm going to go out on a limb here... on Actress Sues IMDb For Revealing Her Age · · Score: 1

    It is a fact that for many professions, the closer one's age is to 50, then, the lower the chance that one will get hired, or even considered for a job.

    Awesome! I'm getting more hireable all the time, then.

  6. Re:Is that English? on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    The name of the group/movement/protest is "Occupy Wall Street".

  7. Re:Just a shot in the dark here on Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement · · Score: 1

    For one, turntable.fm requires a Facebook login as well.

  8. Re:Thanks for the trailer, when is the movie due? on New Video Brings Portal To Life · · Score: 1

    She reminded me a lot of Maggie Q. By the way, the Nikita TV series does not suck.

  9. Re:Just Bizarre on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 1

    Missing hyphen on their part: should be "Show Additional all-DVD Plans".

  10. Re:It still has no live news or live sports on Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's true. No cable channel actually works in 1080p; it's 720p or 1080i. You may have your cable box set to always output at 1080p or something like that -- and for all I know it actually does look better on your TV, if the upscaler in the box is better than the upscaler in your TV.

  11. Re:subtitles? on Netflix Announces Streaming Only Plans and Higher Prices for DVDs · · Score: 1

    The PC streaming player definitely does subtitles; the Wii and TiVo do not. This exhausts my experience.

  12. Re:No surprises here on EFF Stops Accepting Bitcoin, Regifts All Donations · · Score: 1

    Hell the Federal Reserve is printing money so fast that the US dollar is going to go flat almost as fast..

    Disputed, to say the least:

    The Myth That The Fed Is Printing Money

  13. Re:iPad experience? on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 1

    Wait, an insistence that anybody cares about a niche geek feature AND a compulsive reference to an flaw in a consumer product as rape? Marry me!

  14. Re:LittleGreenFootballs on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    The moderator snapped -- or, from my point of view, anti-snapped -- a couple of years ago, and finally decided that his normal associates and commenters were a bunch of morons. He's still conservative, but he and the site are far from the cesspool it used to be.

  15. Re:52 on DC Reboots Universe · · Score: 2

    Supposedly it's 13 relaunches per week over the four weeks of a comic-book month.

  16. Knee surgery doesn't work on Why We Have So Much "Duh" Science · · Score: 2

    For instance: arthroscopic knee surgery, a very common procedure, doesn't actually help.. If you were afraid of "duh" research, you'd never ask that question in the first place.

  17. Re:PETA on Activists May Use Their Targets' Trademarks · · Score: 2

    You have a digestive issue with pita bread? It's bread. Perhaps you meants to joke about some other food?

  18. Re:Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don' on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so I do. Correction acknowledged.

  19. Re:Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don' on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1

    If you want a scary new-series episode, I think "Twilight", from the next season, is a better starting place. (I think it's better than that season's Moffat 2-parter, but I admit that's a minority opinion.) "Blink" is great, but I think you want to start with an episode that doesn't rely on the viewer already knowing what show he's watching, and why the Doctor is anyone at all.

  20. Re:The Amazon Prime myth on Watch Out Netflix, Amazon Streaming Video to Prime Users · · Score: 1

    It depends on some raw facts that we don't quite have. If Amazon's non-Prime is "whenever we can get to it, but guaranteed within two weeks" or some such thing, that's one thing. But if the entire non-Prime model is, as the GP claims, "store it all for a week, then ship it as usual", that's another. You could catch up with a a boost and then everyone could be getting their Prime-like delivery for cheaper...

    unless the cost structure to Amazon is such that no, they couldn't, because if nobody was paying for Prime, they couldn't run at their current capacity at all. And again, we'd need some raw facts to know how it really is.

    But yeah, it's annoying just watching the packages amble from one place to another with occasional days off.

  21. Re:Competition on Cheap Games a Risk To the Industry, Says Nintendo President · · Score: 1

    Maybe you either use your machines differently from me (and I don't have an iPad), or mean something different by "compete with". I don't say "I'm going to buy a cheap game, should it be a Wii VC game or an iPhone/pad game?" I say "I'm going to get something for the Wii, should it be a VC game or a boxed game?" Or "I want to play something on the phone when I'm out, so I need a phone game."

  22. Re:The myth of scientific progress? on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    It's perfectly fine, although I'd prefer a hyphen between "multiply" and "confirmed", which would clairfy: he's referring to things that have been confirmed multiple times. "Multiply" is an adverb here.

  23. Re:Why give them the publicity on Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries · · Score: 1

    Huh? I'm old enough to remember 1996, and Dole was considered the front-runner from the start, against a not-very-imrpessive field. I don't particularly remember any big deal about cross-registration.

    On the matter at hand: speaking of age, I remember when Reagan was "unelectable". You never know.

  24. Re:No Surprise There on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 2

    Unless there's a /. page 2 I haven't noticed, isn't every story a "front page story"?

    Check out the Sections on the left of the main page. There are stories in there that don't make it to the main page. Not all that many, but they're there.

  25. Re:EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it. on White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report · · Score: 1

    Future taxes don't take money out of our current economy, though, which was the part you found mystifying two comments up.