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  1. Re:Only for Ubisoft on Ubisoft Claims PC Piracy Rate of 93-95% · · Score: 1

    If there are 4.4 million non-pirating customers on steam at one time then by this logic wouldn't that mean there are another 150 million pirates? Unless I'm too tired to understand what he's saying here claiming that only 5-7% pay means that if you have X number of non-pirates you must have Y number of pirates.

  2. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    He's not talking about Find X and slope-intercept algebra, he's talking about "Here's your board sized equation with imaginary numbers and aleph sets that you need to solve without so much as a slide rule" filler bullshit they make you take in college even when your major doesn't remotely deal with Powers of i. Everybody should be able to handle Elementary Algebra and problem solving. Not everybody needs to be buried two steps shy of calculus with only a pencil and a sheet of paper to dig their way out again.

  3. Re:Well they are both rectangular on Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouting to a room of grad students or interns?

  4. Re:Clever on Researchers Spray-Paint Batteries Onto Almost Any Surface · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that the citizenry suffers from widespread crushing poverty and lack of basic necessary services to maintain a developed society because of an incredibly unbalanced distribution of wealth, constant abuse by megacorporations who take advantage of vast swaths of land, resources, and the workforce without any interference and in some cases active assistance from an incredibly corrupt government that has practically institutionalized bribery, grift, and nepotism all of which is constantly being besieged on all sides by a backwards ignorance-worshipping violent religious group that wants to drag the country back to the stone age.

    Meanwhile in India they've got many of the same problems...

  5. Re:...overkill...? on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 2, Funny

    64/384? Please only a deaf luddite would use something so crude. Everyone knows the new standard of sound is a Z-bit / 300-Terahertz is the new standard.

  6. Re:Funny block... on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    Personally for three years I thought it was just a derisive term for a particularly talentless band.

  7. Re:Logical fallacy on Capitalists Who Fear Change · · Score: 3

    Is it a NTS though if the alleged fallacy-rebuttal is in fact part of the definition of something? If by definition fear of change truly is contrary to the genuine nature of capitalism then it is not a fallacy to genuinely assault the legitimacy of claiming the title "capitalist" applies.

  8. Re:Correlation/Causation? on Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access · · Score: 1

    You forgot that the loss of His Noodly Prophets also paralleled a direct decrease in believers which naturally meant fewer people believed in hell and thus crime increased. HOWEVER this lack of belief left them wide open for christianity to come in. How is this relevant? Simple, everyone knows that the more christian you are the more right wing you are and the right wingers don't believe in global warming... and as more and more people have been disbelieving in global warming in recent years the number of pirates has risen as well. Thus with more pirates there should soon be less global warming and more women in computer science as well as a decrease in crime since they all believe in hell.

  9. Re:Correlation/Causation? on Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access · · Score: 2

    And if you keep her BMI between 19 and 23 you'll need to add martial arts to that and send her to school with a stick to beat off all the men who'll propose to her on the spot.

    p.s. She wouldn't happen to have a sister with similar interests about twice as old would she?

  10. Re:Interesting on Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Modern DLL hooks certainly do that, the original primitive aimbots for CS simply used red and green color coded models and would fire at anything that appeared with the color you set it for. There were some funny moments when people realised just having a rainbow spray could instantly lock most aimbotters on the wall.

  11. Re:Whatever happened to.... on Samsung Sues Aussie Patent Office In Apple Suit, Apple Sues Back · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It makes more sense if you consider that the "free market" that big businesses have been all about is really just code for allowing them to abuse consumers and employees. Then this kind of systemic abuse actually makes sense as just one more step in the pattern.

  12. Re:Once again on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And preventing education is an investment in the future of the republican party. A combination of poverty and ignorance is the best environment for their ideology to grow and spread in.

  13. Re:well, on reflection, it's not a real godwin on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised. Just like there are people who think "Nickelback" is just a derogatory term for a bad band there are plenty of people who think that "nazi" is just an insult and not a real group of people.

  14. Re:well, on reflection, it's not a real godwin on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: 1

    Afaik there's an exception for legitimate nazi comparisons and discussions involving the actual thing.

  15. Re:That's the Spirit on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 1

    Yeah that martian rain would've washed the dust right off...

  16. Re:This is bullshit. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    Colony drop?

  17. Re:open standard yes, open source no. on Mozilla Considers H264 After WebM Fails To Gain Traction · · Score: 1

    So in other words we're following the Star Trek Rule here...

  18. Re:Oh Well on New York Times Halves Monthly Free Article Views To Ten · · Score: 1

    Or in my case a game of making sure I always open a NYT link in chrome (which can ALWAYS read their articles) rather than firefox, which ALWAYS gets a paywall/login page.

  19. Re:Uh, what on Journalist Gets Blasted By the Pentagon's Pain Ray — Twice · · Score: 1

    Or as stated elsewhere its just charging a big damn capacitor bank off a humvee alternator.

  20. Re:If he did... on Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Actually at the worst part of the year (for them) they're already done with their first class of the day before sunrise in the school zone I live in. I remember some years ago a teacher made a snide comment about "getting up at the crack of dawn" which pushed me over the edge and resulted in my pointing out at significant volume that it's not the crack of dawn, and it won't be for another half hour at least so by her own logic I should still be at home sleeping.

  21. Re:Eureka on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 5, Funny

    _

    How long have you been waiting to do this?!

  22. Re:Nice. on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    GDM FW900/9012, P1110, G520... pretty much any trinitron 21" and up.

  23. Re:4:3 comes back! on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    Go find a book. I'll wait a minute while you do this since they seem to be getting a bit rare these days. Now, tell me, is that book shaped like an envelope? No, it's not. There's a reason most books are taller than they are wide.

    Additionally unless you have cro-magnon eyebrows and cheekbones like a bookshelf you have a far larger vertical field of view than you are giving yourself credit for.

  24. Re:whoa on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, widescreen flatpanel? You could buy 24" monitors that did 2048x1536 back in 2001. You have flatpanels and widescreen to thank for our resolution and refresh rate dark ages.

  25. Re:hmm on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    16:9 is like reading off of an envelope. I'd much rather have 4:3 or 16:10 at the very least.