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  1. Re:Secret World on The Decline of Fiction In Video Games · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, the game is aimed at adults with the purchasing power to subscribe to games. ... which is why it's rated M. They simply don't give a crap about the teenage demographic that most other MMOs target.

    In that sense it's a niche title, but on the other hand the market they're targeting isn't very saturated so they have plenty of opportunity to gain a strong and loyal following.

  2. Re:Not the bees! on Colony Collapse Disorder Linked To Pesticide, High-Fructose Corn Syrup · · Score: 1
  3. What are they eating? on Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away · · Score: 3, Funny

    What are they eating in San Jose to produce all that wind?! Seriously. Something is seriously wrong. Seek medical attention.

  4. Screw ships, go RKVs on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Remove ships out of the equation entirely. I don't quite see what they could contribute. They're slow and inefficient, and impossible to give orders in time over large distances.

    Relativistic kill vehicles are far more menacing weapons than any ship. It's a reinvention of one of mankind's earliest weapons: The humble rock, thrown at the enemy. But this rock is accelerated very near the speed of light, making it nearly impossible to detect, and completely impossible to stop (if you blow one up, it just increases the destruction). Even a fairly modest RKV can carry the destructive force of a hundreds of atomic bombs and absolutely obliterate it's target.

  5. Re:My bootyass was cursed! Help! on Researchers Teach Subliminally; Matrix Learning One Step Closer · · Score: 1

    TL;DR

  6. Re:No win, really on Apple Bans Game App That Criticizes Smartphone Production · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you censor criticism, you're not merely losing the moral high ground, you're also validating the criticism (after all, why would you censor something if it wasn't true?) as well as giving it publicity (see the Streisand effect.)

    The correct thing to do is to face the criticism. If they are wrong, then you prove it (tour of the facilities maybe?). If they've unearthed something wrong, then you publicly apologize and fix that. Under no circumstances try to weasel out through semantic loopholes or by putting down straw men.

  7. Re:And then 90 years, and then... on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would be confusing. 0/0 is not infinity. 0/0 is undefined.

  8. Re:Huh? on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 0

    THEY ARE SPEAKING ABOUT SOME CRISIS OF REARING MAIDS!

    lowercasetextthatgoesonandonbutissadlynecessarytonottriggertheallcapsfilter

  9. Re:I've been using FF for exclusively for years on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    Shit started with the "smart" URL bar in Firefox 3. It behaved completely differently to the Firefox 2 URL bar, and there was no getting back to the original behavior. Which wouldn't be bad, except the new URL bar was became incredibly slow on certain slow software configurations (largely dependent on what file system was used) after a couple of months of use.

    There has been many more changes like this through the years. The official mozilla policy seems to be to never offer ways of fixing a slow or frustrating user experience ("switch to tab" in newer firefox, how I despise you), and hand all that to extension developers. Except, they're rarely able to actually fix the problem.

  10. Re:Less Duplication? on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    Experiments need to be repeated because they're fairly often wrong. If we remove verification from science, while we will produce more results initially, a large portion of that will be wrong, and so will any future science based on those results, and in the end, so much of science will be incorrect that it's completely useless.

  11. Re:Why I am not joining Google+ on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    What's keeping you from creating a separate google account for google+? That way your youtube and picasa and stuff is perfectly safe if your google+ account is deleted.

  12. Re:Invite on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    The gmail spam filter is actually really solid. I have my email posted out in the open on several websites, and get virtually no spam outside of my spam box.

  13. Re:Multiplayer games that are actually social on Current Social Games Aren't Fun, Says MUD Co-Creator · · Score: 1

    Back in the day (est. 2000), there was not very subtle Zelda: A Link to the Past clone called "Graal Online" that was multiplayer. The gameplay mechanics and graphics were very similar to the SNES title, except there were hundreds of people running around doing random quests (and the lore was different).

    It was a lot of fun in the day, but it sort of went down hill and slipped into obscurity (even if a cursory googling sugests it's still around). Partly from competition from emerging MMORPGs like WoW, but also due to questionable business decisions (it went from free to play to credit card only; brilliant move when a bunch of kids without credit cards constitute a significant chunk of the player base).

  14. Re:Numberists! on Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared · · Score: 5, Interesting
  15. Re:Missed an opportunity... on Can Open Source Hardware Feed the World? · · Score: 1

    I'm looking for a water chip you insensitive clod!

  16. Re:Seriously... on Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores · · Score: 1

    You think that's big news, wait until you get a load of this!

  17. Re:Well... on TSA Investigates... People Who Complain About TSA · · Score: 1

    The first rule of TSA: Dont talk about TSA.
    The second rule of TSA....

    ... it will be less painful if you relax.

  18. Re:Problem is where, not how much? on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    That isn't different. Virtually all labor is unionized in Sweden, and the unions have legal right to blockade businesses that refuse to deal with them.

  19. Re:Problem is where, not how much? on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    But where is it being spent? As a Swede, my impression of American schools is that huge amounts of money is being spent on sports teams and similar things. Maybe if more of that money went to education instead of jock straps, that would improve things?

    I also get the impression that you're expected to work part-time and do bunch of extracurricular activities during American high school, whereas I had classes pretty much all day long, every week, leaving little time for anything else. Which is pretty much what's expected of you in Swedish education.

  20. Re:Goebbels would have been proud on The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes · · Score: 1

    Sendai has always experienced slightly higher radiation levels.

  21. Re:RMS calls the 'tracking devices' on German Politician Demonstrates Extent of Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    They don't need to. Cell tower tracking works just as good.

  22. Re:One of many reasons... on German Politician Demonstrates Extent of Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    I'm not giving them my email address. Who knows what sort of spam I'll get. It's much better to tell them to post letters a week in advance.

  23. Re:Tom Baker is the best doctor of them all on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1

    Depends. Pertwee is definitely a must-watch if you're an engineering or science type nerd, as especially some of the earlier serials really go to town with the men in lab coats and science facilities. Furthermore, having Roger Delgado as the Master is also a very good thing.

  24. Re:911, or 999, or whatever on System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice · · Score: 1

    I thought the UK changed to 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3.

  25. Re:Calibration? on System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice · · Score: 2

    Which one is the ex military guy?