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  1. Re:Works for Slashdot as well... on EA's Dungeon Keeper Ratings Below a 5 Go To Email Black Hole · · Score: 1

    ...don't create a vile and toxic cease-pit of comments just because you hate the mild inconvenience of whatever issue with the beta you have

    This goes both ways. It is not uncommon that the protestors are disliked for "disrupting" the everyday patterns of those who do not care about the issue at hand. Only apathy should be disliked. So, thank you for voicing your dislike of the protestors. However i would suggest some patience until all the ruckus is over.

  2. Re:Works for Slashdot as well... on EA's Dungeon Keeper Ratings Below a 5 Go To Email Black Hole · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds like victim blaming. "Beta didn't do it. You did it by not accepting Beta." There is always resistance to change. But the change has to at least bring something better to the table. Not a reduction in functionality. If the villagers didn't riot and just left quietly instead then you would still be left wanting better comments.

  3. Re:Looks more like manipulation on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 1

    It's pretty normal in the US. I can deposit money to a friend's account. They don't even want to see my ID.

  4. Re:I've got a Nokia lumia 1020 on Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One? · · Score: 1

    It seems to be the camera that has made it popular, not the operating system. What happens when android ships on something with over 40mp?

  5. Re:Do not want ... on Firefox 27 Released: TLS 1.2 Support, SPDY 3.1, SocialAPI Improvements · · Score: 1

    Didn't you say a few posts up that you use a youtube downloader?

  6. Re:DRM on Steam Music Now Accepting Beta Signups · · Score: 1

    I have VS 2010 and 2013 installed. Eclipse, Arduino, PhpStorm, WebStorm, and MonoDevelop as well. I don't think an IDE is going to set VAC off. I'm not even going into all the various services, emulators, and editors running either. Other than something deciding to randomly update and steal focus when i'm playing Rust, it has been just perfect. I get lazy sometimes and don't shut everything down : /

  7. Re:No Accredited Credential, No Regulatory Authori on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: 1

    I only checked out http://www.hackbrightacademy.c... but they don't appear to offer any kind of certification. Just 10 weeks of training for women that ends with a "Career Day".

  8. Re:Big $$$ on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe if colleges could teach software development there wouldn't be a need for these code bootcamps.

  9. Re:Despite it's name on AMD Announces First ARM Processor · · Score: 1

    You would have to go way out of your way to get x86 binaries on an arm box. Your package manager certainly won't be giving you pre-built packages for the wrong architecture.

  10. Re:Actually one of my beefs on Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? · · Score: 2

    Lol, i was thinking the same thing. Want to listen to texts and perform an action? Or just replace the whole sub-system? Simply not possible on iOS. Side-stepping an issue is not solving it.

  11. Re:Try better sources than lefty-NPR on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    A president cannot do what Obama is doing in a "Constitutional Republic with checks-and-balances".
    Selective enforcement of law IS the checks and balances.

  12. Re:Flame Bait on Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching · · Score: 1

    That is just silly though. I'm sure your state has passed some extremely ass-backward laws. Probably means every citizen in your state is ass-backwards too, right? The government is elected by majority but speaks for all. The implementation and enforcement of laws is itself a check/balance.

  13. Re:dumbistan & dumberistan on Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching · · Score: 1

    You seem to be breaking any bigotry stereotypes though.

  14. Re:The government = zombies on FBI Has Tor Mail's Entire Email Database · · Score: 1

    What are you doing out here Fred?!

  15. Re:Not comparable. on Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language · · Score: 1

    After two weeks you might think you've learned that programming language. To all your friends who don't know any better it looks like you're some kind of cultured genius. But to anyone who actually knows and works with the language you will appear to be a lost tourist constantly checking a guidebook.

  16. Re:SR-71 = JP8 on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 1

    JP8 is pretty much used for everything too. Stoves, hmmwvs, tanks, aircraft. Everything except lawn mowers.

  17. Re:It's junk. on Study Doubts Quantum Computer Speed · · Score: 1

    Just to add a little to what you said. An old GPU/ASIC can perform certain tasks far faster than modern CPUs. If D-Wave ends up only able to solve that kind of problem faster than a traditional computer then it must also be able to outperform the GPU/ASIC setup as well.

  18. Re:Not neccesairly on In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    Being civilized does not allow a person to control their emotions. If you have ever seen people scared for their lives (for real or imagined) you would never have made that statement. Most people have no idea what they will do in an emergency until it has happened to them. Their idealized self most likely crushed in that moment and they spend the rest of their life trying to forget it or playing "what-if" games during boring meetings.

  19. Re:Open Source! At least it isnt DRM laden like St on Valve Working on GNU/Linux Native Open Source OpenGL Debugger · · Score: 1

    Your definition of DRM seems a bit off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

  20. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    I could agree with you if it was intentional killing of the innocent but otherwise, no. I feel like your world might be filled with too much black and white. Not enough gray. It is very difficult to talk in absolutes.

  21. Re:It's Open Source at least... on China's Government Unveils 'China Operating System' To Great Skepticism · · Score: 1

    You'll also notice the difference in governmental/societies response. One covered it up and one made memorials/policy changes.

  22. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 2

    You've got it wrong. The death penalty isn't about the "rabid mob of townsfolk" getting revenge. It's about getting rid of a worthless human being so we can get on with our lives. There's no need to get emotional about it.

  23. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 1

    I'd say it is to get them out of our lives. If this person could never meet face-to-face with another human being without a guard on standby who is ready to restrain or kill the man, what is the point of keeping the prisoner alive? Some would argue that he could contribute to society in other ways though. That is the only place i could see a life sentence over execution. Vengeance could only satisfy the hurt and society as a whole would not understand and feel it wrong anyways.

  24. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 0

    Why bother? If someone is so terrible that they should never be part of society again then just kill them and forget about it. I don't see it as a revenge thing at all. The only downside i've really seen to the process is how they keep executing people who eventually turned out to be innocent. wtf happened!?

  25. Re:If that wasn't crueal and unreasonable... on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are but they're too busy doing nothing instead : P