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  1. This is the game? on Game Preview: Firefall (video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of all the hundreds of games that come out, a generic, free-to-play money grubbing MMO is the one that gets coverage on slashdot? One that really brings nothing interesting or new? And in spite of that gets an extremely positive summary that addresses no flaws?

    It's like you think we're too damn stupid to see when content is replaced with ads. Can't you stop insulting our intelligence enough to mark sponsored content? Please?

  2. Re:ALMOST there on How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution · · Score: 1

    Like amazon, they're starting in a big west-coast city as an experiment. I'm an eastcoaster.

  3. ALMOST there on How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution · · Score: 1

    I have an available online grocery store, but it's a local affair that can't afford decent software for their site, which makes searching/sorting/filtering down to what you want difficult. I can tell it needs a big-money push.

  4. Re:Think again. . . ."zombies" aren't what you thi on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Well, oops.

  5. Re:Think again. . . ."zombies" aren't what you thi on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Rabies isn't a virus. There's your first problem.

  6. Re:Don't know their science on Researchers Develop the Most Detailed Map of Gravitational Variations Ever · · Score: 2

    Secretly, regular people who live in SI countries don't use or understand Newtons unless they're scientists.

  7. Re:Pay cash !!!! on NSA Spies On International Payments · · Score: 2

    Bayesian analysis of ATMs out versus store register in gives a pretty good model. They don't need to know for sure; they just need a good guess.

  8. Suer on Time For a Hobbyist Smartphone? · · Score: 2

    Because when I code, I always want to use a totally unwieldy UI and no text to do it. It's like when we code for robots, how a hobbyist robot you program by directly writing on the embedded chip, using the robot's sensor's as inputs.

    How about we code on a machine that's usable for coding? I can still design neat things for my phone that way. I promise.

  9. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Should gas about half the population.

    And it's normal people who are the problem?

  10. How can anyone trust on Ask Slashdot: Can We Still Trust FIPS? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How could anyone trust an encryption algorithm provided by an organization whose purpose is decryption and interception? That will always be the craziest part.

  11. Re:Error in summary on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Extrajudicial killing is a subset of warfare here. It's not something I approve of, but it's not fucking torture.

  12. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's totally why he capitalized internet, and why his post practically sweated contempt.

  13. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Because existential judgement allows for an unreasonably taken life to receive "another chance"

  14. Re: People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Your need to include a metaphor has muddied whatever your point was beyond recognition. What do you mean?

  15. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Except that's not normal. That's quite irregular.

  16. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 2

    Psychology isn't medically diagnostic in nature.

  17. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 2

    No, cults tend to have a stronger socio-pathic center that engages in knowing manipulation. Religions tend to have the ability to self-sustain in the absence of the cult leaders. And misusing the word delusion to mean "thing you believe that's untrue" does you no service; it only serves to cloud your statement in rhetoric.

  18. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    That's not a very good way to go about psychiatric care. People often don't have a good sense of their own sanity.

  19. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    We care when we're treating people, because we're trying to help people appropriately. Thanks for your lack of concern though. I'm genuinely touched by how little you care.

  20. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess I expect a deeper philosophical examination of such a far-reaching decision than most people are willing to put forth. That makes me a little sad.

  21. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Rather than debate a religion I don't believe in's dogma, I'll just say that my CONCLUSION would be that there is plenty of scriptural reason for you to never assume you are capable of judging another person vis-a-vis hell.

  22. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    "This is not supported by observation" is the premise of your proof by-contradiction(that's what the cool kids are calling sarcasm now) that is flawed. Observing again and seeing things that you lost sight of is a means of (non-absolutely) demonstrating the validity of the belief.

  23. Re:Error in summary on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Yeah, too bad republicans didn't let Obama shut that place down. Lindsey Graham is an inhuman monster.

  24. Re:People are dumb panicky animals on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Um... okay... that would be the point you clarify to the poor idiot who clearly didn't understand.

  25. Re:Error in summary on Social Media Is a New Vector For Mass Psychogenic Illness · · Score: 1

    Hey, you find a way to end violence as a means of settling human disputes, and I will commit my life to helping you. Torture has long had a special place as being understood to be unnecessarily cruel.