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  1. Re:good, not great. on "District 9" Best Sci-fi Movie of 09? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Except this wasn't an action movie until the third act. It was supposed to deal with issues like alienation and apartheid-esque separatism, and it did just that until about minute 55. Then it just went all junior high shoot 'em up and looked more like Lethal Weapon 5.

  2. Re:At what point... on Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI · · Score: 1

    Well, of course it's wrong. But who gives a crap about that when one runs the world? You are implying some kind of global moral code where none exists.

  3. Re:I didn't know... on Iowa Aims to Establish International Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of when I learned Nickelback was a real band. I thought it was just slang for a really sucky band.

  4. Re:It looks like a browser, it smells like a brows on Netscape Founder Backs New Browser · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Little else is known about RockMelt, and Mr. Vishria was unwilling to discuss it. "We are at very early stages of development," Mr. Vishria said. "Talking about it at this stage is not useful."

    Good thing it was on Slashdot where nothing is useful.

  5. Re:At what point... on Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Isn't it wonderful to be in the world today, where everyone can be racist against whites without fear of reprisal?

    As long as white men are the most powerful demographic to ever exist, then who the frak cares? It' the burden of being king of the hill...you are the easiest target for everyone else.

  6. This is not an issue on $18M Contract For Transparency Website Released — But Blacked Out · · Score: 5, Funny

    Listen, I worked on the project. This is no big deal. Basically, it's [12 LINES REDACTED]. So I don't know what all the fuss is about.

  7. Re:It's nothing new... on Will Your Credit Report Disqualify You For a Job? · · Score: 1

    I work in Seattle and always manage to pay my parking tickets without a problem. They only go on your CR if you fail to pay them. And it's ridiculously easy to do at that.

  8. Re:Arcane? on Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug" · · Score: 1

    They meant arcane as in 'mystic'. Because chkdsk is a mystical process *POOF*!

  9. Re:Nothing New on Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results · · Score: 1
    That all said, your retarded "point" still kind of applies, since Word's dictionary *does* contain the word "xbox" and not the word "playstation" or "wii". But your post is still stupid.

    So I'm confused. My point was "retarded" and "stupid", but still "kind of applies"? You make a personal attack on a stranger and then, within the same sentence, validated said strangers point. Go have a cookie and a juice box kiddo....you're cranky.

  10. Nothing New on Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The same type of thing happens in MS Word. It recognizes 'XBox360' as a word, but if one types 'Playstation' it gets flagged as a misspelling. And don't even get me started on Wii.....

  11. Re:Repeat? on Comcast the Latest ISP To Try DNS Hijacking · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is a national rollout. Basically the program is out of beta and being delivered as a cram-down to all their customers now.

  12. I'm a PC.... on Mind-Blowing Interfaces On Display At SIGGRAPH 2009 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    From TFA: "A cluster of PCs is needed to perform the necessary image capture and 3D modeling." HA! Suck on that Mac!

  13. Thank God I live in America... on Teen Killed At Chinese Internet Addiction Camp · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ....where a person only get's beaten to death for being non-anglo/anglo/female/gay/transgendered and offending hillbillies/jocks/drunken trailer trash/gangbangers. As an American I will withhold my affront at this most recent beating until Hillary Swank is in a movie about it.

  14. Wagers+HonorSystem= on BringIt.com Allows Players to Bet On Console Game Matches · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What could possibly go wrong? From the BringIt.com rules page: "When the game is completed, both you and your opponent must report and verify the results." If my experience with the gamers on XBox Live is any indication, maybe 1 in 5 of the losers will report it. And 4 of 5 of losers will 'dispute' the results.

    Usually the way it works is like this: I am playing a ranked match against somebody named some variant of '420niggah' (classy I know) and as soon as I am about to drop a coup de grace, they just quit. YOu what would make that even more fun? Losing real money each time it happens. No thanks.

  15. Re:Why does this matter? on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In many ways I agree. But the bulk of opinions expressed here are by people who only have know oppression as a literary motive or cinematographic plot device. I doubt many of us have been denied access to a restaurant because of we 'looked disruptive', been pulled over because we 'looked suspicious', patted down at the airport as a 'random search', or asked for our papers because we 'looked like illegals'. but that aside, I think diversity in games will happen in time. Just like black representation in movies slowly evolved from laughably stereotypical to whatever less than that is called.

  16. Diversity? And Slashdot cares why? on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 2, Informative

    News for NERDS remember? Just do a Google image search on 'nerd' and you will see how diverse the /. demographic is. I count (on the first page of 21 results) only two females and the only non-anglos I see are are three duplicate images presenting them as thugs.

  17. Re:One word on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So you think that this issue would have still risen to its current level of coverage if the books turned off were a couple of lurid bodice-ripper romance novels? Not likely. Do you think this is the first time Amazon has reached out to turn off a purchased book? More likely this is just the first time it was done to a book popular among to blogofied masses.

  18. Re:OT: A Word on Braille on Drive-up ATMs on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 1

    Hey you're right! Why do we even have stairs? Can't everything be a ramp? Why engineer both, when a simple ramp would work? "...and she's walking up the wheelchair ramp to heaven.."

  19. Re:Earth to David! on David Pogue Wants to Take Back the Beep · · Score: 1

    So just start your voicemail greeting with "You can press # to bypass this message...". Problem solved!

  20. Re:Good on SMS Hack Could Make iPhones Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    So by "the country" do you mean Ireland? Because they have great reception in Western Ireland....

  21. Re:CDs? on EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a Certificate of Deposit (ask your parents for details). I am still befuddled what this fiduciary tool has to do with EMI...maybe they are going bankrupt.

  22. Re:Bing... on Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yahoo has always been the swinger of the search engine party. For a while it was even powered by Google. When Bing gets old and fat Yahoo will move onto some other nubile young thing.

  23. Bollocks! on The Rise of the Digital Nomad · · Score: 1

    Since these people 'on the go' are being called 'digital nomads', why not just save time and call them...wait for it...gonads. I'll show myself out.

  24. XCOM on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    I am coming to this discussion a bit late. But XCOM and XCOM:TFTD were awesome. I loves me some good turn-based strategy.

  25. Re:No embryo created from stem cells... on Reprogrammed Skin Cells Turned Into Baby Mice · · Score: 1

    Yes they did use the word create somewhat loosely. The embryo was made the old-fashion way - sweet lab-mouse lovin'. They just took some reprogrammed cells and injected them into the embryo. Now the reprogramming is the amazing part, but I think saying the 'created' a live mouse is kind of a stretch.