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  1. Re:Long overdue on No Man's Sky Under Investigation For False Advertising (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    And this is why I only trust the promo videos of Nintendo. Even when their 3DS games look like junk blown up on a 55inch TV, they don't flinch and try to smooth things out to make it look closer to what the gamer would actually experience.

    I can't wait for Nintendo 7.

  2. How is this different from any other form of... on The USB Kill Stick, Priced at $56, Is Designed To Destroy Laptops, PCs, TVs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How is this different from any other form of vandalism? I'm guessing an exposed earphone jack on an airplane's entertainment console can also be used to harm the device. Saying this is an example of insecurity is like saying that a door being flammable is an example of a door being insecure.

  3. The only people saying they would sign up are Anonymous Cowards here. I don't think that's true. I'm a happy Google Fiber subscriber, but every time I talk about how awesome it is, I get downvoted to oblivion. My theory is that most people just hate the idea of Google Fiber. Google's probably seeing the reaction from the masses too and have come to the same conclusion.

  4. ALT+LEFT on Google Restores Backspace Functionality To Chrome With an Add-on (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why not just press ALT+LEFT?

  5. Re:I'd be sympathetic to Rotten Tomatoes but... on Suicide Squad Fans Petition To Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Negative Reviews (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Suicide Squad is DC, not Marvel. Yes, the Marvel series are good, but I don't think Marvel movies and TV shows is good evidence for or against whether there is a bias against DC movies.

  6. Re:I'm about ready to drop on Netflix Stock Price Tanks As Customers Quit Over Higher Prices (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah... Netflix is not honest like those hard working cable channels who force feed us garbage and hours of commercials.

  7. Re:It's A Bargain on Netflix Stock Price Tanks As Customers Quit Over Higher Prices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure where you are financially, but it looks like you have an opportunity to get a $2640 raise here. And unlike other raises, the government won't get a cut. If cable is important, consider PlayStation view. By switching to the $30 plan (which is very good), you can save $2280. That's enough to pay for the PS4 you'll need for Vue several times over.

  8. Sounds good to me! on Microsoft Could Turn Every PC Into an Xbox (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I only want one game for XBox One. This will allow me to have my cake and eat it too. Now if Sony can make all Blu-ray players a PS4...

  9. Re:It's called pro-life, not "anti-choice." on Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women (rewire.news) · · Score: 2

    I think this is the strength of the Democratic Party and how they are able to fool so many young people today with their Orwellian tactics.

  10. Re:Pay up !... Or not on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true. It's $70/month for just gigabit cable and $50/month for 100 Mbit cable.But you don't get datacaps and throttling. I've had it for about a year and hardly notice it. And that's how Internet service should work. To work so well, that their customers don't think about it.

  11. Re:Pay up !... Or not on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. I'm surprised you're not already in KC. It has a little bit of everything without the insanity of the coasts.

  12. Re:Pay up !... Or not on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Many managers of apartment complexes here were more than eager to get hooked up to fiber. They would then boldly advertise that they have Google Fiber.

  13. Re:Pay up !... Or not on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    People should just switch to Google Fiber. They don't have data caps and the bandwidth is fairly high.

  14. Re:Mario who? on New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable (polygon.com) · · Score: 2

    It is canon that Jumpman is Mario.

  15. Re:Nintendo NX exciting? on Sony Working on 'PlayStation 4.5' With Enhanced VR and 4K Support (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    You misunderstood. I was being sarcastic. I really don't enjoy kiddie M rated games and choose to play awesome creative games made by Nintendo, Level 5, etc... instead. You'll get it when you grow up.

  16. Re:Nintendo NX exciting? on Sony Working on 'PlayStation 4.5' With Enhanced VR and 4K Support (kotaku.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know, why would I want to play original titles with gorgeous graphics like Splatoon!, Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World, when I can play buggy 3rd party "bald space marine" FPSs in glorious next gen brown? I hate it when companies push the envelope in creativity, fun, and challenge too.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my "Fischer Price" games like "Fire Emblem: Fates".

  17. Re:Yeah, whatever ARM on ARM: Mobile Graphics Will Surpass PlayStation 4, Xbox One In 2017 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I choose performance over the games I want to play?

    I mean given the choice of playing some generic "gritty" arena shooter or the highly innovative game "Splatoon", I would choose "Splatoon". It performs good enough and the graphics look pretty slick. I don't need to see an inkling's nose hair with realistic nose hair physics to enjoy the game. In fact I prefer to not be in the uncanny valley that caused the hardcore PC games of yesterday to age so poorly while the console games still look pretty good today.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some "Fire Emblem: Fates" to play on my super low res 3DS.

  18. Re:...and in other news: on Twitter Launches Trust and Safety Council To Help Put End To Trolling (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    This is something that Slashdot already does. They'll clearly be infringing on some sort of patentrightmark or something...

  19. Re:Old? on Java Named Top Programming Language of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    Totally agree. Nothing is as expressive as Perl. Normal people need full words to understand what's going on. But us perl folks can have conversations like this:

    @#!$ %^% $%;
    2#$ %@#$;
    #$^^&%#EUia !@#$!@#;
    1!@ #!@ #$@ #$%!#;

    For those of you that don't speak Perl, that was "War and Peace".

  20. Re:Wrong business model on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    VR isn't a casual gamer's playground.

    Meh... I'm not a casual gamer, but I won't spend $1000 on a gaming PC when I have a perfectly working Wii U to play on. I'll just have to hope that the NX has some sort of VR so that I can play real hardcore games with my VR.

  21. Re:Star Trek not so much on Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years (hackaday.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Start at the new Doctor Who in Season 5 episode 1. Watch until "Day of the Doctor". Then go back to Season 1 episode 1. Finish off the rest of new Who. Then go back and watch the classic Who (at least what exists).

    Why Season 5 Episode 1? Because there are some huge spoilers in earlier seasons. (It's a time travel show). It also makes a certain episode in Season 4 a lot more tragic.

    As for classic who, my advice for watching it is to view it like a play rather than like a modern show.

  22. The Mathmagician on Interviews: Ask Mathematician Neil Sloane a Question · · Score: 1

    The Mathmagician is the most computational local wrestler in sports entertainment today. Unfortunately, he loses a lot. What integer sequence should he study to win his next match?

  23. Re:I'd update iTunes more often if on Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security · · Score: 1

    This. It's like the PlayStation 3 of software.

  24. Read the article on Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" · · Score: 4, Informative

    The title is misleading. The unfriending was part of a range of things that the one coworker did to her coworker.

  25. Re:Something wrong there on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 2

    Flight.