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  1. Re:Translation on Pakistan Seeks To Block Facebook Again · · Score: 1

    1. Go into a town with black people, start calling them niggers.

    2. Get beat up.

    3. Show the world that you can't have niggers in this goddamn country because they are violent and brutal, so we have to throw them out.

  2. Re:Don't over think religion. on Pakistan Seeks To Block Facebook Again · · Score: 1

    As others pointed out, you need more than the words "no true..." for it to be a No True Scotsman fallacy.

    Can you actually explain where the fallacy is, rather than just namedrop it?

  3. Re:Translation on Pakistan Seeks To Block Facebook Again · · Score: 1

    No, I am saying that people get angry at you when you insult their values and beliefs.

  4. Re:one other reason on Apple Too Big For the Dow Jones Industrial Average · · Score: 3, Funny

    Um, I've got some news for you...

  5. Re:Translation on Pakistan Seeks To Block Facebook Again · · Score: 2

    Generally, none of the people participating in any "draw Mohammed day" are forbidden from doing so. Thus, they are not actually doing anything to promote any kind of freedom.

    What they are doing is acting like brats and angering a lot of people. That is not a productive way to spread your views, it will just cause people to backlash.

  6. Re:Don't over think religion. on Pakistan Seeks To Block Facebook Again · · Score: 1

    Well, why don't you point out the part of his argument that is fallacious?

  7. Re:Microsoft on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    Any camera allows you to do that. You just have to re-encode into a format that does not require licensing fees to distribute first.

    Nobody ever distributes the direct output from a camera commercially. You pretty much always edit and re-encode, so this is a total non-issue.

  8. Re:Microsoft on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    You can use the camera in absolutely any way you want. There are no restrictions whatsoever on that.

    What you can't do is distribute video commercially in large amounts in h.264, without a license. This is entirely unrelated to how that video was created.

  9. Re:Microsoft on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    How are you avoiding it? By downloading DivX files? Those are just as patented. They're just used illegally.

    I assume you don't buy any DVDs, either.

  10. Re:thi5 FP for gNAA on Wolfenstein Ray Traced and Anti-Aliased, At 1080p · · Score: 0

    FP=Fnineteenth Post.

  11. Re:Get some artists already on Wolfenstein Ray Traced and Anti-Aliased, At 1080p · · Score: 1

    Wooing them by showing them graphics that look worse than pretty much everything else on offer? How is that supposed to work out for them?

  12. Get some artists already on Wolfenstein Ray Traced and Anti-Aliased, At 1080p · · Score: 1

    I think Intel would find it easier to get people excited about this technology if they actually used it to render something that looked interesting, or at the very least looked good at all.

  13. Re:Microsoft on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    Nope, that's business as usual.

  14. Re:Microsoft on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    h.264 is patented, but it is by no means "shit".

  15. Re:Windows 8 on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview · · Score: 1

    Oh, what did he do in the past?

    Say other positive things about Microsoft?

  16. Re:Windows 8 on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview · · Score: 1

    And do you know what kind of things they do, then?

    Things like http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/30/0627206/Microsoft-Wants-Your-Feedback-On-Its-New-Python-IDE .

    And do you know what Slashdotters do in return?

    Act like children.

  17. Re:Cue more irrational nuclear panic in 3...2... on Explosion At French Nuclear Site Kills One · · Score: 2

    So? The relevant statistic, deaths per terawatt hour, was given.

  18. Re:Accuracy in the article. Wow on Fukushima and Chernobyl Side-by-Side · · Score: 2

    Cesium is one of the most problematic ones, because it has a half-life that is long enough that it will stay around and remain a problem, but short enough that it is still very radioactive. It is also problematic because it is taken up and concentrated by biological processes.

    Iodine is a great concern in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, but its short half-life means it disappears quickly and is not a problem in the long term.

    Uranium is not much of a problem in general. Plutonium is pretty bad, but neither of the two are usually spread very far.

  19. Re:Accuracy in the article. Wow on Fukushima and Chernobyl Side-by-Side · · Score: 1

    Most of the Fukushima fallout went straight out to sea where the population density is usually around zero.

  20. Re:Might add a warning... on Wicked Lasers Introduces Handheld One-Watt Green Laser · · Score: 1

    From two hundred yards away? That's some arm on that kid.

  21. Re:OK, now try it in English on NSA Makes Contribution To Apache Hadoop Project · · Score: 3, Funny

    How do you "submit" a databse?

    It turns out that if you read sentences all the way to the end, they become a lot more clear.

  22. Re:So they don't know... on Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem · · Score: 1

    I know they are incompetent of fraudulent enough to issue a certificate for *.google.com. What more do you need to know?

  23. Re:Easier way to learn it on Ask Slashdot: Math Curriculum To Understand General Relativity? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, not really. You can get a very superficial understanding of what is going on without any maths, but you are just fooling yourself if you think that understanding is anything remotely like what you understand once you've actually worked with the maths.

  24. Re:Does anyone on Google Is Grooming Chrome As a Game Platform · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm sure there are other people who also have not made the tiniest effort to read up on the security mechanisms of NaCl, and think the same as you.

  25. Re:The very stupidity of it all on Google Is Grooming Chrome As a Game Platform · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, Google wants to introduce LLVM bytecode, which will run on both x86 and ARM. They're making an OS for ARM processors, you know, they are aware it exists.

    x86 is just the first step on the way.