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  1. Re:Biased much? on Does Net Neutrality Violate the Fifth Amendment? · · Score: 1

    Of course they're biased, that's the whole point of their site. They have viewpoints they want to get out to the public.

  2. Re:100TB = $1 million on Data Storage Capacity Mostly Wasted In Data Center · · Score: 1

    That's actually cheap compared to the prices I heard quotes at my company the other day. So sad.

  3. Re:I agree with this. Case in point: on Too Much Multiplayer In Today's Games? · · Score: 1

    Except an entirely different development team worked on the multiplayer portion of BioShock 2. I'm not sure if that's the greatest example. I think the watered down campaign was that it wasn't developed by Ken Levine and company.

  4. Life Aquatic on Massive EU Program To Study Three-legged Dogs · · Score: 1

    I was just watching Life Aquatic last night and there was a three legged dog running around, its movement was pretty incredible especially when it was running.

  5. Re:heh on George Lucas C&Ds 'Lightsaber Laser' · · Score: 1

    Of course, right when I don't have any mod points I read this.

    2. Lucas said for I think 20 years in various interviews that he always envisioned the Vader/Obi-Wan duel would take place on a volcano planet. I think Starlog magazines were writing about this in the early 80's. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised by something that has been somewhat canon for decades.

    I would agree with this, when I read the original Star Wars novels as a kid, it definitely said that Darth Vader wears his suit because of some volcanic/lava incident while fighting Obi Wan. Before the last film even came out I knew this was going to happen. Stuck with me all those years I guess.

  6. Re:Not all companies are trying to hide this. on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now that I'm reading this I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo included some kind of parental control that disabled 3D altogether on the 3DS, even if the slider was adjusted.

  7. Fooled us on White House Cracks Down On Piracy & Counterfeiting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, what did we really expect when the Copyright Czar position was created?

  8. Re:Franchise? on Nintendo Announces Raft of New Games, 3DS Details · · Score: 2, Informative

    Kid Icarus had a sequel on the Game Boy and the Kid Icarus character appeared in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and in the tv show Captain N.

  9. Re:Question on Rock Band 3 To Include MIDI Keyboard · · Score: 1

    A day later and they have confirmed this, does require an inbetween peripheral though:

    http://kotaku.com/5560679/rock-band-3-playing-the-new-keyboard-102-button-guitar-controller

  10. Re:Opera users didnt have a problem on Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images · · Score: 2

    Did you have noscript on? You needed to enable something like gmodules.com to make it work.

  11. Re:Wow, thanks for sharing. on Review: Red Dead Redemption · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slashdot is not a professional video game review site, they probably accept a handful of games from publishers and review them when they get around to it (ie. playing in their own free time). It's their responsibility after receiving a review copy to, you know, actually review it, and just because it's not a zero day review doesn't mean it's stale. The game is just a week old.

  12. Five Finger Fillet on Review: Red Dead Redemption · · Score: 1

    "Five Finger Fillet," a game where you tap buttons in a certain order and rhythm while Marston correspondingly drives a knife into the table around his splayed fingers.

    Anyone else remember doing that in the bar in Full Throttle, except you had to click between the fingers very quickly?

  13. Re:Sounds like the excuse.... on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 1

    I'm curious if she built up those four steps over the course of her 21 year career?

  14. Re:$380? on Asus Budget Ultraportable Notebook Sold Sans OS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Microsoft convinced the manufacturers that they needed to run Windows, so any kind of ARM support was dropped with that, along with the likelihood of a cheap netbook.

  15. Re:Excellent on Linux 2.6.34 Released · · Score: 1

    That was a great troll and I look forward to the parody posts in the future.

  16. Re:Unskippable previews? Not anymore... on Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    http://lifehacker.com/5518076/hit-stop-+-stop-+-play-and-other-tricks-to-skip-dvd-trailers-and-warnings

    Very useful tip, also nice using something like XBMC which doesn't seem to honor a DVD's no-skip wishes and just let's you get to the main menu (almost) any time.

  17. Not unexpected on CoD: Black Ops To Get Dedicated Game Servers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With the storm of bad press Activision has been under the last few months this almost comes as no surprise.

    Too bad it's too late for them to win me back.

  18. Re:My Question on Steam Client for Mac Launches, Linux Client On the Way · · Score: 1

    Mac users can download all the games they already bought on Windows for free.

  19. Re:Wanted linux games.. on Steam Client for Mac Launches, Linux Client On the Way · · Score: 1

    Democracy 2 runs in Wine

    http://www.positech.co.uk/forums/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2303&sid=7e6a0845a38b5d76ae7f2e18fffc7581

    Not surprising as I played through Gratuitous Space Battles in Wine too.

  20. 1984 on Amazon Is Collecting Your Kindle Highlights & Notes · · Score: 1

    I thought when Amazon removed 1984 a few years ago a few people were upset specifically because they lost their notes on the book, but then Amazon was able to restore those? Seems like this should have been obvious for years.

  21. Re:The stats on Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million · · Score: 2, Informative

    The counter has been fixed to a four day extension, they mentioned that was what they intended on IRC.

  22. Aquaria also OSS on Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million · · Score: 4, Informative

    Along with Gish, Penumbra Overture, and Lugaru, Aquaria is also being open sourced. Lugaru's game engine was GPL'd but they're retaining the art assets, so I'm assuming the others will follow suit.

    Great week for indie devs, charities, and gamers all around.

  23. Re:EA Sports on EA Introduces "Online Pass" To Get In On Used Games Market · · Score: 1

    But they turn the servers off of sports games as fast or faster than other titles too. Madden 2009 was going to be shutdown a few months ago but public outcry stopped that, but every iteration before that is already down.

  24. Didn't this guy on Obama Calls Today's Ubiquitous Gadgets and Information "a Distraction" · · Score: 1

    Didn't Obama announce his VP candidate via Twitter first? Probably leaving thousands of bloggers and newsrooms constantly refreshing their feeds?

  25. Obligatory on Beaver Dam Visible From Space · · Score: 1