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  1. Re:hehehehe on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pretty sure they stole that idea from "Top Gun" on the NES, except that in Top Gun, the DRM was active even in "legit" versions.

  2. Re:Vulcan on Nearest Alien Planet Gets New Name · · Score: 1

    Not so far away that travel was impossible between ours and theirs. Remember, ET's race has been to Earth, and was also a member of the Senate.

  3. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 0

    And how, exactly, is that not a standard cell service contract?

  4. Re:Playing back a recording on Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora · · Score: 1

    "Untenable" is a concept that doesn't appear to exist where "justice" is a private industry that is "too big to fail."

  5. Re:http://www.linuxadvocates.com/p/support.html on Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora · · Score: 1

    Sure it is. A link to one of those "reputation management firms" (or whatever those shill scumbags call themselves) made the rounds awhile back mentioning slashdot and reddit by name.

  6. Re:whitelists, not blacklists on Ubuntu Releases 13.04, Sticks To 6-Month Release Rhythm · · Score: 1

    And the right way to approach the problem is to ask: what users are asking for spyware?

    The answer is: none.

    If the answer had been yes, then the next question would be: Dammit, Kosh, we're trying to get work done here!

    FTFY

  7. Re:Dumbest idea, ever on Apple To Launch Largest Stock Repurchasing Plan In History · · Score: 0

    Not earth shattering stuff, sure, but why wasn't ANYBODY doing them right.

    What utter rot. The pre-apple MP3 players were MORE usable than the stupid thumb-wheel, since they emulated the same buttons that people had seen on walkmans and tape decks for decades.

    What Apple did was take "geek toys" and market them to the mundanes, and made a killing at it.

  8. Re:Dangerous on USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W · · Score: 1

    as opposed to, say, your finger, which doesn't [speak usb]

    And why the hell not? It's 2013 FFS. We've got so many elements of Shadowrun well underway, but no damn datajack yet!

    We've been robbed, my friends. ROBBED.

  9. Re:Riiiiight.... on Building a Small IT Consulting Business Based on Linux (Video) · · Score: 1

    Seven of which are from the same company which is rather notorious for "job-spamming," even here in the area.

  10. "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Kosh

    But best of luck to you, nonetheless.

  11. Re:Super Mario Bros. (1993) on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    Hell, I liked Super Mario Bros AND Howard the Duck...

    I'm even worse off than you and the guy below are.

  12. Re:Milking It to Death on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    What? While "Batman Forever" was certainly horrible, why would you say that they stopped there? The shitters were just getting started at that point!

    Ugh. "Batman & Robin"

  13. Drinking, bitterness, and jaded nihilism.

    It is best for man to be middle-wise,
    Not over cunning and clever:
    The learned man whose lore is deep
    Is seldom happy at heart

    --HÃvamÃl (Snorra Edda)

  14. Isn't that just precious. Someone who still buys the line of bullshit from eighth grade civics. How cute.

  15. Re:It should be legal on FCC Issues Forfeiture Notices to Two Business for Jamming Cellular Frequencies · · Score: 2

    The 'simple' solution to this problem isn't tin foil or expensive infrastructure replacements. Its a simple low frequency signal that all cell phones read which tells them that all outgoing phones are to be disabled baring specific hardware enforced overrides (like 911 service for example). All phone sellers will immediately embrace it if there was a law in the US (even a single large state's law maybe).

    Delightful. Because our damn batteries weren't bad enough, we get to suck 'em dry faster for the sake of handing over even more control of "our" hardware to some self-serving corporate scumbag.

  16. Re:potentially habitable on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 2

    Habitable to whom, you double-hearted freak?

  17. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 2

    Curiosity: In what context is it a unit of time?

  18. Re:So what on IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If that were an actual answer instead of an ass-pull so that they could convince naive people that they didn't fuck up, it would have been in response to Kenobi asking "Is it a maneuverable ship" not "Is it a fast ship?"

    You could do the Kessel run in 12 parsecs in a Ford Pinto, it would just take awhile.

  19. I'm... not sure if you're mocking idiots who use bullshit like that to argue against gay marriage, or if you're an idiot mocking people who mock the idiots...

    Jesus, I've just been meta-Poe'd. I have a headache.

  20. group marriages just don't work from a logistical standpoint.

    By your reasoning, neither do one-to-one marriages. (Not that I disagree in the slightest).

  21. Re:Yeah Right on "Choice Blindness" Can Transform Conservatives Into Liberals - and Vice Versa · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What special privileges do you suppose liberals are trying to get for gays.

    "Hate Crime" legislation comes to mind. Typical "liberal" bullshit. They completely choke on solutions to the actual problems (I will ever maintain that there's no legitimate objection to gay marriage), but give them half a chance and they'll make another group of delicate snowflakes who need to be "protected".

    "All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others," indeed.

  22. Re:wow on EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America' · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not stupid, you're just ignorant. Try reading the links, and you'll see EA's self-congratulatory bullshit claiming they're being "targeted" by anti-gay bigots because they refuse to stop players from making gay characters in games.

  23. Settle that damn dream sequence, please! on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    By that, of course, I mean the dream Sheridan had on the Stribe ship in "All Alone in the Night".

    A lot of the imagery was explained later on, but a couple of things still feel unsettled.

    * What was up with the birds on Garibaldi and Ivanova's shoulders?

    * Who was "the man in between?"

    A lot of old discussion seem to have settled on it being Justin, the Shadow agent who refers to himself as "A middle man."

    I always thought it might have referred to Lorien, who finds Sheridan "Between 'tick' and 'tock'", and needed someone like Sheridan to put an end to the cycle once and for all.

  24. Re:Babylon 5 on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    Basically, as it was told on the proto-web back in the day:

    Early in Season 4, they were told that there was not going to be a renewal for Season 5, so they crammed it all into season 4 to finish the storyline. Then, late in Season 4, something happened (ratings spiked, fan backlash, I dunno) and Season 5 was back on, but most of what would have been in it was already jammed into 4.

    I always thought that showed most obviously in the lack of any real moral dilemma between the "Obey Orders" and "fight corruption" themes of S4.

  25. Re:Really? on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 2

    Who uses Unity on a server?

    Who uses a resolver daemon on a server?

    Ubuntu, apparently. Because sys admins are constantly lugging our servers into coffee shops.