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  1. Re:How many atom bombs does the UN have? on The U.N.'s Push for Power Over the Internet · · Score: 2

    President Romney? Time-traveler, are you?

  2. Re:Schizophrenic America on Virginia Rometty Selected As Next CEO of IBM · · Score: 1

    They've been here for years.

  3. Re:I'll get hit from both camps for saying this, b on Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away · · Score: 1

    You've always been able to change the wallpaper on an iPhone. The rest of the stuff Apple just makes it so you don't need to care in the first place.

  4. Re:Steve Jobs is dead. on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's poetically awesome that the summary is just the good old Steve is dead troll. RIP Steve, we will miss you. (typed on an Apple keyboard attached to an MBP)

  5. Re:Third party or third rate? on Coming Soon to EA's Origin Store: Third-Party Titles · · Score: 2

    I can't find it now, but there's a good post from one of Steam's engineers about the Direct X issue on the Steam forums. Essentially the issues with Direct X all stem from Microsoft not providing ways for different games to use similar or separate libraries, and as such they must be reinstalled for every game to work properly.

  6. Re:Ping on Hidden Wi-Fi Diagnostics Application In OS X Lion · · Score: 1

    Why would Netflix run poorly on a Mac?

  7. Re:As long as... on GA Tech: Internet's Mid-Layers Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    holy fucking crap how do you log in

  8. Re:I, Pencil: My Family Tree on UK Health Service Fears Huge Legal Fight Over Unwanted Contracts · · Score: 2

    I can make words bold too. Fuck off, troll.

  9. Re:"no clear link" ? on New Technique To Help Develop MMORPG Content? · · Score: 1

    Evidently you never rolled a rogue or shaman, since Fist Weapons used Unarmed weapon skill.

  10. Re:Couldn't agree more on Gearbox Boss Bemoans Superfluous Multiplayer Modes · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, I've been playing through Quake for the first time in awhile and having trouble specifically with the number of one-hit kill traps - spikes that run you through, etc. Not that easy.

  11. Re:Good Morning on Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    A really good tip an AC gave me ages ago: change troll and flamebait mods to +5 and browse at -1. A lot of good comments get modded off for people disliking them. 0 isn't the end of all quality, you know. Also: holy crap, Slashdot's over 2400000 accounts? I suddenly feel ancient, and I'm only 22!

  12. Re:AltairDusk, thanks... apk on Android Trojan Found, Spreading From Chinese App Stores · · Score: 1

    You need a new grammar file.

  13. Re:Stupid is as stupid does. on Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit · · Score: 1

    You were already paying for "them." That's how insurance works: balancing the people who won't need payouts against those who will.

  14. Re:Office on Microsoft Losing Big To Apple On Campus · · Score: 1

    Let me ask you a question.

    What the FUCK are you doing embedding movies in a Word document, and WHY are you doing it so often that this is a notable compatibility error?

    (There's a really easy answer to your situation: treat it like a text document, and not a kitchen sink.)

  15. Re:License? on 'Old School' Arcade Still Popular In NYC · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well a business license would be. And I suspect you'd have to put the type or purpose of business on there.

    Is there a crack force of arcade investigators? No.

  16. Re:Not for my laptop on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, kettle and PS3 cords are perfectly happily interchangeable. So is my laser printer.

  17. Re:As a Canadian on Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor? · · Score: 1

    You mean the King-Byng Affair?

  18. Wow, bad editing on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 4, Informative

    The BBC themselves has an article up (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8738604.stm) about the ineffectiveness of this filter, the issues filtering out the noise of vuluzelas could cause for the coverage in general, and the rest of their own good reasons for NOT using this shim.

  19. Re:Are they really that great? on New MacBook Pros Launched · · Score: 1

    What the hell are you doing to dent an aluminum case in regular use?

  20. Re:The poor corporate victim on The Struggle For Private Game Servers · · Score: 1

    Cataclysm isn't out yet. Your first month (in addition to the 14 days) is free (it's included in the core game.) You don't need Wrath to start playing, either. The Battle Chest will do you fine for at least a month.

  21. Re:Baldur's Gate. /thread on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Rebooting Baldur's Gate itself is pretty unlikely at this point. For one thing, the Realms has advanced past Baldur's Gate by one hundred years (making the original plotline implausible, if not totally impossible) and now includes the events of the BG games as canon.

    Additionally, D&D's gone through two edition changes since then, so many of the game mechanics would be different. Both of these changes were made at the product/brand manager level, so it's entirely unlikely that Hasbro would be willing to budge on them for product identity issues.

    However, in the 4e Realms Baldur's Gate has significantly grown against the descent of the City of Splendors. I think it's entirely likely we'll see a 4e Realms game that is called Baldur's Gate and is set in Baldur's Gate, but it won't have any relation to the original games, and it definitely won't have BG2's gameplay or BG1's Realms literacy (the Dead Three etc.)

  22. Re:Independents have lost on Publishers Pressuring MS To Push Indies From Xbox Live? · · Score: 1

    Gee, I can't imagine why Firefly was modded off-topic in a story about Xbox Live distribution...*rolleyes*

  23. No SC players? on Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm surprised they aren't filling the storage with "kekekekekekekekekekekeke"...

  24. Recount: on Ideal, and Actual, IT Performance Metrics? · · Score: 1

    .recount toggle

  25. Re:Greed is Good on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 2

    Tim's spoils Canadians in general. Americans have no idea of what they're missing out on.