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  1. Re:Tired... on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: -1, Troll

    I know, the liberals have been restrained, haven't they?

  2. Re:hrm... on The Rise and Fall of Supersymmetry · · Score: 1

    "will be helped greatly" - You know this how? The Wright Brothers designed their plane using very well established and tested principles. They didn't manufacture a bunch of math and then set out to build a machine to prove it. And unless you're counting the people who figured out how to make screws and such, I believe you're vastly overrating the preceding contributions. Meaningful ones anyway.

  3. Re:How much can be stolen until it's all gone? on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    Small lesson, thieves steal to do a quick turn around. If the bitcoin economy collapses afterward, they will have already flushed the bitcoins. And they won't care. They'll then move on to something else. Much like them not bothering with cheap radios anymore. No resale.

  4. Re:surprised!!!! on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    You've known neither enough good cops or any real criminals.

  5. Re:just buy an costa rica island to put them on on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 1

    Oh, and to add... My daughter has delivered surrogate. Like she says, she's the delivery system, not the mother.

  6. Re:just buy an costa rica island to put them on on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are correct, it's the DNA what counts. Mitochondrial might even be fudged and it would still be a mammoth. We currently use rabbits to transmit cattle embryos. They wouldn't be part rabbit even it term were possible. (Yeah, yeah, ouch)

  7. Re:In other news... on The Tech Industry Is Getting Ridiculous · · Score: 1

    No one if you equate eight years ago with a hundred and ten.

  8. Usually by whites and colors. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I have to separate by material, but not often.

  9. Re:Free 8.1? on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 1

    If you're making the determination to go with an operating system based on the presence of a Start button on its GUI, then Win8 is probably for you.

  10. Re:Why single out Whole Foods? on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    Did you not read or did you purposely ignore "unmolested by humans"?

  11. Re:God on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Those are just scare stories concocted by priests to keep their particular flavor god in power. No god ever really showed up and *smote* and most certainly no god ever took up residence in some back room. Only Oz did.

  12. Re:God on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When you have to stoop to bolding normal, conversational phrases as evidence of irrationality, you've already lost your argument.

  13. Re:People hate cameras. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    in the minds of the ignorant you're recording everything you see.

    And in the minds of the informed and intelligent, they understand you *can be* recording everything you see. Not a lot of difference, really.

  14. Re:Wait, what? on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And you'll find those posts by the R-mouth breathers interleaved with equally vapid posts by the D-crystal-rubbers. Yet, I know intelligent Dems. Look beyond the caricatures your own side promotes folks, people on all sides are deeper, by and large.

  15. This is the crux on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    "the sum of all the Little Brothers when plugged into something" {= This right here. You're willingly becoming part of Google's surveillance system.

  16. Re:That's alright on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    If they're pointing them at you and recording, yes they do. Why was that so hard for you?

  17. Re:Not generally accepted!? on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    For a story apparently only involving white people, your jump into **RACISM!!** is cute.

  18. Re:what will it take for general acceptance on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 2

    Just gonna continue wading on up that stream of stupid, aren't you?

  19. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    And... you post a stupidly extreme extrapolation away from the intent of the law, which is to protect private conversation. If that's your best reasoning, you lost.

  20. Re:Value on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 1

    In an ideal situation, all of those modes would not be progressively linked (in that you must level to the maximum level before being able to raid, etc), but designers are still trapped by the rigid progression structure of character level that is imposed on anything considered an RPG.

    Bingo. I would like the game to allow me to try and fail, not read "You must be this high to go on this ride" when I try. So what if I'm only leveled to 20? So what if I'm evaporated? Can I take the opponent or not? That is the only question. If I can, I should be allowed and I should reap the reward and open up any further story thread it leads to even if I have to wait to successfully accomplish anything in it.

    Oh, an one of my biggest beefs, I want to see collateral damage, not magical "won't hurt my friends" bombs.

  21. Re:Value on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 1

    One way is to spend some thought and create content that can be played on numerous levels and with group OR solo play. Some games get so fixated on PvPrs that they purposely forget there are those who don't log on for five hours every day for the 'glory of pvp' . Many devs have groups of friends in the game they play with and so concentrate on scenarios only large groups can play. I'm not paying for content that requires eight players to do because it quickly becomes "GLF tank, must be CR95+". Those new people quickly become f2p and stay there because none of the new content that costs money was designed for their pleasure.

  22. Re:Long Term Con? on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    I believe he meant they externalized the threats psychologically. Were purposely unaware enough to not plan like professionals.

  23. Re:Facepalm. DNS too - wikipedia uses PowerDNS, My on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    Yep. The only good time to write your own is if it doesn't exist or the db is specific to you, only you, and will never be available to the not you - and you require high velocity. Otherwise, let those who have designed and improved their interface for years sell you one and then buy whatever hardware you need to overcome any processing bloat.

  24. Re:Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 2

    This is like a bank checking its vault and finding that someone made off with all its reserves long ago

    Other than the part about being insured, you mean.

  25. Re:Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And it shouldn't, as people disagree on what that means and where those are.