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  1. Re:Future game titles on Average Gamer Is 37 Years Old · · Score: 1

    The Sims: Nursing Home

    That's the one that'll get the expansion packs "Compassionate Care" and "Death With Dignity" six months after release, but only offers two months of play time. :(

  2. Re:Not to worry... on Schema.org — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Agree On Markup Vocabulary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The latter implies the former. I say go right back to XHTML 1.0 Strict (the last standard that didn't have a broken DTD) and concentrate on finally getting all the browsers to better implement SGML. For example, all of the itemprop, itemscope, and itemtype crap could be done better with processing instructions (say, pop an <?itemscope ?> tag thing and poof, done), without fucking up the markup. schema.org is trying (among other things, I guess) to help search engines better understand the page,* and PIs were made to tell applications how to process data, so it's a matter of getting them to play The Dating Game and meet.

    Stop making HTML harder to validate and process, and start making browsers better conform--and developers more completely use--the many existing features in it and its underlying SGML or XML. That's Allstat^Wgame kid's stand.

    *"However, the HTML tag doesn't give any information about what that text string means—"Avatar" could refer to the a hugely successful 3D movie, or it could refer to a type of profile picture—and this can make it more difficult for search engines to intelligently display relevant content to a user."

  3. Re:I found the buyer! on A Piece of Internet History Lost: IO.com Sold, Services To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Even the thought of that makes me want to cry. That multi-industry monopoly should be out of business*, not profiting (PDF) and steamrolling history.

    *or at least offering à la carte, and apologizing both for astroturfing and getting away with it

  4. Re:My life on GameStop To Honor Ancient Duke Nukem Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. The Decepticons will not allow that.

  5. Re:Bad Translation on Lockheed Martin Purchases First Commercial Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    It was actually translated from Yiddish, but Google messed it up due to D-Wave's abuse of their API.

  6. Re:cool, but... on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 1

    Does the world need 20 new pot dispensaries, record labels, and social media copycat companies?

    Um, yeah. We can't have a world without drugged starlets and viral ads. That would threaten national security!

  7. Re:There will be no peace. on Sony Suffers Yet More Security Breaches · · Score: 1

    Is that a prediction, an aspiration, or a promise?

    Yes.

  8. Re:Rapture on Volcano Erupts In Iceland · · Score: 1

    With the world economy the way it is right now, it's hard to do a quality Rapture on the limited budget that God can afford, what with his credit rating in the toilet, and all.

    It's all His fault! He could've just bought that 1-bedroom house in Flushing (J-Dawg got His right hand and they can share the flatscreen, so no need for 2), but He just had to take out the jumbo morg on that crib with the pearly gates. Our God is an idiot.

  9. Re:Movies and Television Shows only? on New Bill Ups Punishment For Hosts of Infringing Video Streams · · Score: 1

    ...and thus, soccer was reimagined as sports entertainment.

  10. Re:Readability on JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future · · Score: 1

    Content? Content!? Don't you get it? Internet is the new TV, and it needs more 2-hour-long commercials for Coca-Cola, Ford, and Bing. Who cares who wins? It's all about who fights, who's dating, and who's the 1,000,000th page view (CLICK HERE to claim your prize!).

  11. Re:Next Lawsuit Target: Google on CNET Sued Over LimeWire Client Downloads · · Score: 1

    After Google is successfully sued, I suggest CBS should sue "eyes".

    Maybe that explains their logo. It's not like that because they want people to watch, it's a "Wanted" poster for pirating eyes everywhere.

  12. Re:forget Bennett, what the hell is that?! on A Court's Weak Argument For Blocking IP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    Oh, that? That's just the ramblings of frequent Slashdot contributor Oraargg Unfrygba.

  13. Re:Lesson learned on Marlinspike's Droid Firewall Kills Tracking · · Score: 1

    They'll worry about the privacy of the Small People after they deal with those pesky phone-company-killing tetherers.

  14. Re:passwords? on 77 Million Accounts Stolen From Playstation Network · · Score: 2

    You should've told them to make like yeast and bud out.

  15. Re:Aha! on Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate · · Score: 1

    Yes of course, the Holy Hard Drive of Antioch! It's one of the sacred relics Steven Ballmer carries with him!

  16. Re:Meta-Google Ad Commentary Alert! on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'd totally evaluate my dongle with that "Persian Princess".

  17. Re:texas? on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    Ah, but that's what black sites are for. No need to navigate the internets when you can beat its rumors from people!

  18. Re:Who are they trying to fool? on Rivals Mock Microsoft's 'Native HTML5' Claims · · Score: 1

    Hell, I'm still waiting for browsers to decently implement SGML.

  19. Re:language on All Languages Linked To Common Source · · Score: 1

    In short, roughly, this picture.

  20. Re:Semaphores on Microsoft Adds Kinect Support For Netflix · · Score: 1

    And what will be the gesture for spam? I have a few suggestions if they haven't settled on one already.

    It'll be simple. To report spam, move near screen and raise a middle finger pointing upward in front of message. To send spam (once composed with keyboard or finger-tracing of characters and Viagra pills), move near screen, turn a half-circle (to face other people sitting on the sofa, chairs, etc.) and raise both middle fingers as above.

  21. Re:Windows Catalog? on Windows 8 App Store Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Sliced bread sucks. It can't get you games, summer blockbusters, or porn. It doesn't even support HTML5.

    I mean this is the 21st century! It's, like, a post-Fox world and we can't even get flying cars, real-life magic missiles, or food with Micro-USB ports. Lame.

  22. Re:Cool - new acronym to use on /. on Over 10B Social Network Accounts Created Already · · Score: 1

    Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you IANASNOW.

    I know you meant roughly "I am not a social networking [or] online world [user]", but it does make me wonder whether Mark Zuckerberg can snow IANA with enough money to give him his very own IP address system. I mean, given the whole Newark school thing and that Facebook has its own AS number...

  23. Re:An anonymous claim of skill? on Lone Iranian Claims Credit For Comodo Hack · · Score: 1

    "I'm unstoppable, so afraid if you should afraid, worry if you should worry."

    I think 1,000 hackers is a pretty cool guy. eh takes over comodos and doesn't afraid of anything.

  24. Re:I was offered a free 2011 subscription on Why Paywalls Are Good, But NYT's Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    I got an offer on March 17, a few hours after the Important Announcement(TM), and already "decided" there. No increase in ads (just had to confirm I wanted it by re-entering my password at nytimes), but then I block Flash except from those few sites (gaming etc.) or pages that I want to use it on so I just get GIFs and JPEGs and I guess whatever cookies they feel like adding.

    So not much changed since then, other than I have a free subscription to the Web and app versions until Dec. 31 and maybe Lincoln knows what I read and wants to sell me cars or something.

  25. Re:Shatner's birthday? on Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! · · Score: 1

    Just think of your newfound anxiety as his birthday gift to you.