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  1. good idea on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1

    That way our species will self-select the thoughtless!

  2. It's GOB on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 1

    It's GOB, as in George Oscar Bluth Jr.

  3. Hmmm on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 1

    What if you don't trust the cops?

  4. Here's how to do that, since I just did so on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 1
    Since I just switched from Kindle to Nook due to quality issues and a complete lack of customer service, I had the (dis)pleasure of researching how to do this for my 50+ titles theoretically locked in to Amazon.

    How to crack Amazon DRM

  5. re: Butcher's pricing on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Butcher prices his Dresden files books at over $10 a pop. I read the first four or five but the pricing is too stupid and the quality's simply not that good. Not for significantly greater than pulp paperback.

    If he priced his stuff at $6 a pop I would have read the catalog. But $12? Now you're taking advantage.

  6. Re:I disagree on Neal Stephenson Takes Blame For Innovation Failure · · Score: 1
    I thought Reamde was way better than Anathem. . . felt more like his older work (Zodiac in particular).

    It was a pretty good yarn and honestly I wanted that MMO to exist pretty badly. That would be AWESOME

  7. Re:I'd say SPAZ hits a lot of the right notes on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    Of the Star Control series, but not necessarily the Starflight series.

  8. one anecdote here on Anger With Game Content Lock Spurs Reaction From Studio Head Curt Shilling · · Score: 1
    I'm in the market for a new game right now. It won't be Amalur, just like it wasn't Anno 2070 (though I really really wanted Anno 2070).

    They want to end-around first sale doctrine, that's fine. I'll just forego their products.

    This is about First Sale Doctrine, not whether or not I'll resell my stuff. I use Steam so it's moot anyhow.

  9. False Equivalency Horseshit on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 1

    There are simply not enough taxable dollars in that lofty 1% realm to honestly make a difference. It makes for great popular sentiment as it supposedly impacts those "other" people. I also haven't heard a single viable argument as to how it is better to have that money get into the hands of a government that has shown a complete inability to manage money rather than let that money continue to flow into the economy.

    Actually, there's enough to reverse most of the ballooning deficit strictly by reinstating the Bush tax cuts. Furthermore, the best argument is the one that every deficit hawk all over the tubes are stating: current debt levels are untenable and need to be reversed.

    But yeah, it's helpful to pretend this is an intractable problem and "both sides are doing it". But it's a lie and repeating it makes you a liar.

  10. and the buzzword bingo continues on ERP Vendors Get Into Medical Marijuana Business · · Score: 1
    We used to call that sort of thing an Accounting System.

    I imagine we call them ERPs to jack up the price and set up a business model where there's continuous fucking^W servicing of the customer.

    Honestly, after working within them for the past decade, I can't imagine anyone would want to calcify their business with such a tightly coupled morass requiring continuous upgrades.

    Just terrible

  11. that and the two accounts contradict on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The J and E thread reverse which comes first, animals or man. That's my favorite part about creationists - their own book gets it wrong almost immediately.

  12. eh, I see his point re: Progressives on Utah Repeals Anti-Transparency Law · · Score: 1
    The abolitionists (anti-slavery being quite progressive) tended to also be prohibitionists.

    I like to think of it as "nobody has a monopoly on bad ideas".

    The larger point, progressives want to expand the power of the state, is a little fallacious.

    That really ties into paternalism, how hard/soft do you like it (if at all), and where is it appropriate. Those questions/answers don't fall on either side of the political spectrum, I think. (e.g. Republicans believe in hard paternalism when it comes to a woman's body, whilst Democrats tend to believe in paternalism when it comes to health care)

  13. Corporations (was unclear) on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1
    I referred to the corporate tax rate, and was making reference to the fact that the top corporations in America paid ZERO in taxes in 2010. (GE comes to mind immediately, but it's merely one of many culprits)

    Sorry I wasn't more clear.

  14. funny that on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1
    It's only called class warfare when the lower class fights back. Otherwise, it's what, "measures to ensure profitability"?

    RE: taxation - I only agree because the top 10% pays zero (ZERO) taxes in America, with our 35% tax rate.

    Making that more sane is the first step, but no matter what happens corporations have to step up and pay for doing business in America. Period.

  15. Citation Needed on WikiLeaks Cash-For-Votes Exposé Rocks Indian Government · · Score: 2
    They redact before posting. The argument can be made that they don't redact enough and the identifying details are still unobscured, but that's not what you said.

    You're just spreading FUD.

  16. in my experience on Groupon Could Challenge Google's Record IPO · · Score: 2
    Groupon is a death knell for a restaurant. Bourdain mentioned it in Kitchen Confidential - the death spiral of a rest. begins with coupons and the like.

    Perhaps with a new restaurant to get the word out it works, but every Groupon rest. we've been to in the last year failed.

    I don't think that's Groupon's fault, however. I think a Groupon deal is a very good indicator if a restaurant is struggling.

  17. I cancelled my acct on PayPal Reinstates Fund For WikiLeaker Manning · · Score: 1
    I was a pretty heavy eBayer/PayPal user until this occurred. I'd had reservations but let the convenience outweigh them until this incident.

    Cancelled the account and let them know why in both the feedback form and the survey they sent out.

    So basically, this is my doing. You're welcome, America.

  18. Well, I'm sure they're hurt on George RR Martin Finishes A Dance With Dragons · · Score: 1

    You're an asshole. A big "F U"? Ok. As Neil Gaiman once wrote: George R R Martin is not your bitch.

  19. uhh, fifth on George RR Martin Finishes A Dance With Dragons · · Score: 1

    Game of Thrones Clash of Kings Storm of Swords Feast for Crows Dance With Dragons Interminably Long Wait for Six Posthumous Hackjob for Seven. I CAN'T WAIT

  20. god damnit on Go For It On Fourth Down? Ask Coach Watson · · Score: 1

    I hate soccer

  21. nah, Dragon's Lair still exists on Activision Axes Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    The latest incarnation was called "Heavy Rain". Sounds like you just don't like timing-based games, which is all Heavy Rain and the music-games are.

  22. no, I considered the source on Vatican Bans IOS Confession App · · Score: 1
    And then I went to other places, and verified that the abuses of indulgences by the Catholic Church were one of the triggers of Reformation.

    Here's one!.

    And yes, I do consider Wikipedia to be more reliable than the Catholics. One of these organizations keeps claiming an invisible man is telling me what to do, and coincidentally enough it involves a tithe to the Church!

  23. post reformation doesn't count on Vatican Bans IOS Confession App · · Score: 2

    yeah, they're different now, but that's one of the reasons the Protestants even exist.

  24. Uhhh actually you're wrong on Developing StarCraft 2 Build Orders With Genetic Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Insane's build queues are all 50% time. And time is sort of the biggest resource in the game ;)

  25. huh? It exists, called OpenId on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 2, Informative

    OpenId is what you're looking for I believe. . . I think that's FB's implementation as well. (probably way wrong there though)