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  1. Re:Wrong lesson. on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 0

    I run steam 99% of the time in offline mode. No problem!

  2. Lenny Bruce on Researchers Put Numbers On China's Microblog Censorship · · Score: 2

    Lenny Bruce
    “If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”

  3. Re:Only one question remains. on Researchers Put Numbers On China's Microblog Censorship · · Score: 1

    Irony...
    "This Page Cannot Be Displayed

    Based on XXXXX Internet use policies, access to application Scribd of type Social Networking has been blocked."

  4. Re:I actually almost like Windows 8 on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Same with me on both counts. Saw no reason not to replace Vista on 2 machines and go legit on a pirated Win 7 when I could get the licenses for $15 each.
    Mind you, Vista really wasn't bad, but I do like 8 better as long as I can bypass Metro/Modern.
    The only thing I use IE10 for at home is to connect to work from home. IE10 is better than other IEs, but it still is IE. Firefox is the only browser I trust, since I can customize it the way I want.

  5. Re:Nascar .. cha ching on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I realized that when I wrote it. More accurately is they have priced themselves out of my market. The funny thing is that I have way more disposable income now than I ever have, even counting as today's lower value dollars.

  6. Re:Nascar .. cha ching on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Professional sports at the upper levels priced them selves out of the market years ago. Same with live concerts. I really don't know how they get so many people to pay so much for so little.

  7. Re:Dictionary on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling
    When the cutthroat isn't occupied in crime
    He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling
    And listen to the merry village chime

  8. Re:Awesome on Amazon Sells Out Predator Drone Toy After Mocking Reviews · · Score: 1

    Pedantic man is pedantic. (I was joking)

  9. Re:Awesome on Amazon Sells Out Predator Drone Toy After Mocking Reviews · · Score: 1

    She would do you in with antifreeze in lime jello, or ground glass in your oatmeal. Your argument is irrelevant.

  10. Re:Mod Parent Up! on KDE's Aaron Seigo Bashes Ubuntu Phone · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Headache? on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    The radiologists here read virtually everything as cuts. If they want a different view, they tell the techs to create it for them. They were trained to identify pathologies looking at cuts. If they really want 3d, which is infrequently, they load it in Vitrea. Also, a lot of MRs have MIPS as part of the protocol.

  12. Re:Shuttleworth shills ubuntu on Mark Shuttleworth Addresses Ubuntu Privacy Issues · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's convenient for him to imagine he's still engaged in promoting Linux, but at what cost?

    How much did he get for his soul? How much did he get for everyone else's?

    Doesn't matter.. went to space..

  13. Re:potentially worth... on OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    "Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does."
    Groucho..

  14. Re:A Portal movie?!?!? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    Fringe has a lot of Half Life and Portal type tech in it.

  15. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    Oshkosh homebuilt is the first thing I thought too. Not only that, the airspeed indicator redlines at 230!

  16. Re:GSM is a requirement for me now on As 4G Seeps In, Verizon Offers Cheap(er) No-Contract 3G Plans · · Score: 1

    Kind of funny with me. My current prepaid MVNO is changing from Sprint CDMA to T-mobile GSM. There is virtually no T-mobile coverage in my state, so I will be changing to another Sprint MVNO. Verizon coverage sucks where I live too, so none of their MVNOs would work either.

  17. Re:GSM is a requirement for me now on As 4G Seeps In, Verizon Offers Cheap(er) No-Contract 3G Plans · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Cue the on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "But you also could have mentioned that government managed public wifi will once again demonstrate the Tragedy of the Commons [wikipedia.org] as it slips inevitably into a cesspool of hackers, over-saturated bandwidth, government monitoring, censorship, and the never ending cries of "won't somebody please think of the children"

    This is exactly what I was thinking. Free WiFi sounds great, but in practice it would most likely end up like this comment.

  19. Too bad he got ground down on US Energy Secretary Resigns · · Score: 1

    Illegitimi non carborundum

  20. Re:McDonalds! on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    Same thing in Iowa with Amana Beef. It is now a brand, that is supposed to be equated with a certain quality, but it most likely has Mexican and Canadian beef mixed in. Amana Beef used to be 100% from the Amana area of Iowa.

  21. Re:Actually on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    Feces fog...

  22. Couric on Researchers Study Mystery of the Toddler Who Won't Grow · · Score: 1

    Katie Couric is afflicted with soft focus syndrome. It also affects Diane Sawyer. She takes a personal interest in this since thye may be able to find a cure.

  23. Re:Google+ and Circles on Why Facebook Is Stressing You Out · · Score: 1

    Why not run your own blog? That way you have full control over sharing pictures and who gets to see what? And then you are not feeding the beast.

  24. Re:My wife has facebook on Why Facebook Is Stressing You Out · · Score: 1

    My wife just joined facebook. It is under an alias that uses a different alias email address that was created only for facebook. It is only used to snark with friends from an online group.

  25. Re:He should seek legal advice. on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    That's the case with us now. We will just keep expanding. We migrated about 900,000 studies and we accumulate about 110,000 a year.