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  1. Re:Hooray! on BBC Gives Up On 3-D Television Programming · · Score: 1

    Unlikely. The theatres already blew their load and installed multi-million dollar 3D projectors. They're going to want to keep using them and charging a premium for 3D to cover the cost.

  2. Re:It is protest. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    And yet women are set to overtake men in terms of higher education achievement (if they haven't already in your country -- they have here).

    Maybe the plural of anecdote isn't data?

  3. Re:practicalities make it impossible.. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 0

    Socializing and the "mating ritual" isn't that hard when you treat women like people and don't act like you're superior to everyone because you've stopped trying.

  4. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    So, what, when someone has to use the bathroom do you expect them to bring a bottle (funnel optional) so that they don't distract you from the movie?

    A dark figure getting up and walking out is not all that uncommon nor distracting when compared to someone yanking out their iPhone with the brightness set to 11, lighting up the entire theatre as they tap out, painstakingly slowly, a 5 word tweet about how good the popcorn is.

  5. Re:more worried about google using my gmail accoun on How Much Is Your Gmail Account Worth To Crooks? · · Score: 2

    That's why you make use of Google's relatively good tools to download all of your data regularly and make backups.

    It's your data. You're the one responsible for it.

  6. Most people would be wrong. on Ethernet Turns 40 · · Score: 2

    It's an 8P8C connector on their laptop, not RJ45.

  7. Re:Figures. on Injured Man Is First Person Saved By a Police Drone In Canada · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

  8. Figures. on Injured Man Is First Person Saved By a Police Drone In Canada · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course we Canadians would use drones for polite and considerate tasks. We have a reputation to keep up!

  9. Re:Playing the race card again on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    Lumping every person of colour into one unified "black culture" is pretty damn racist. It others them, defines them as different. Then you sit around and can't figure out why the system treats them differently than white people, who are seen as the norm and the default?

    You're right though, in that "black culture" in the US is different than anywhere else in the world; being black is what defines people of colour in the US. In other places, people don't tend to so blindly label people's ethics and values, their "culture," based solely on their skin colour.

  10. It really says something. on Hillsborough County (FL) Hackathon is a Sign of Increasing Tech Awareness (Video · · Score: 2

    But then, this is a helpful part of the country where, if an old person falls down on the sidewalk, strangers will rush to her side, whip out cell phones in case a 911 call is needed, and help her to her feet.

    The fact that this very basic behavior that I would expect any human being to do (and do regardless of the age or gender of the person who was injured) is exemplary of a "helpful" part of the country is just sort of sad. It really says something about the rest of the country, if true.

  11. really? on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never actually done a comment like this, where I go "Oh come on Slashdot, what is this and why is it here?"

    But come on Slashdot, why is this here?

    News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters.

  12. Re:Sequestration is a gimmick on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In America? No, they cut band and art before they cut athletics.

  13. Re:Well yeah, it sucked on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Family Guy is a great example of the right way to do it.

    Mods, give this man +5 Funny.

  14. Re:Because old machines are perfectly fine! on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    The Q6600 was released January 2007. 6 years is fairly "old" when it comes to PC hardware, especially when we're talking gaming stuff.

  15. Re:Fired on Electronics Arts CEO Ousted In Wake of SimCity Launch Disaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's funny, the rich don't even get laid off the same way as us.

  16. Re:Good engineering? on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thing is, MHL sends uncompressed 1080p over a cheap, standardized cable. Apple's standard, evidently, does not. And like you said, it's worse than the old docking cable in this regard. Regression is extra silly.

  17. Good engineering? on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember when Apple was known (at least by the general public) as being the company with simple, elegant engineering?

    How the mighty have fallen. Really, needing a computerized cable is just silly.

  18. Re:I don't understand the "high cap" magazine ban on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    Guns won't help you when those tyrannical fascists have air superiority, which is what wins wars. Just ask Iraq or Afghanistan.

  19. Low FOV on Microsoft's Future of the Living Room Starring SuperTuxKart · · Score: 1

    Considering the low FOV of most console games, I imagine the device won't be the only thing projecting all over the room if this makes it to market.

  20. Re:Steam Still Locked to One Concurrent User on Valve's 'Steam Box' Console Is Real, Says Gabe Newell · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So have the wife and kid play in offline mode?

  21. Re:Just about complaints and reversed transactions on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 1

    Holy water does have properties that are believed in by people who use it, intangible as they may be to other people. It does carry a particular promise as the incantation includes things like banishment of evil from the water and therefore things it touches.

  22. What if... on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What if Slashdot just stuck to posting actual news stories instead of speculatory flamebait?

  23. Re:Quality and quantity on Is TV Over the 'Net Really Cheaper Than Cable? · · Score: 1

    Here in Manitoba, MTS not only gives me unlimited 12 mbps ADSL (sometimes spiking up to 32!) but (actual) unlimited 4G on my phone anywhere in the province. And free hotspot access throughout Winnipeg. Internet / Phone are about $50 each. Only downside is that they block port 25 on residential connections.

    Maybe you should consider moving west.

  24. Re:Here come the lawsuits... on Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets · · Score: 1

    When the kid swallows more than one magnet, they can meet up in the intestines rather violently.

  25. Re:Absolutely amazed by this decision on Used Software Can Be Sold, Says EU Court of Justice · · Score: 2

    Except that would utterly destroy single-player game sales. Whole communities would pop-up that would simply buy one copy of the game and share it with 500 people, each person taking a "turn" at blasting through the campaign before gifting it to the next.