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  1. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    I'm only posting for the AF achievement.

  2. Re:Flagrun! on Valve Discusses Team Fortress 2's Future · · Score: 1

    There's a version of Avanti which has the offense start with the flag, and have to move it to the point, and which point it is changes over time. There's also a one-way CTF map called stb_cowtown which has only one team trying to get the flag, and the other team defending, and a total of 4 flags on the map.

  3. Re:Valve Time on Valve Discusses Team Fortress 2's Future · · Score: -1, Troll

    Left 4 Dead was pretty clearly rushed out, and the 360 version still suffers from all the bugs- though that is going to be dealt with in a few weeks, it seems.

  4. Re:Ubuntu annoyances? on Ubuntu Kung Fu · · Score: 1

    sudo -i does what you want.

  5. Re:Someone actually listens to NPR? on Penny Arcade On NPR · · Score: 1

    Without knowing specifically what the questions are that they were asked, it's impossible to tell whether this is relevant or the result of your usual right-wing persecution complex being fueled with a hackjob poll and repeated ad nauseam without any of the details (I've seen this sort of figure cited multiple times but never seen the original poll it supposedly came from) until everyone else believes it because it's been repeated so often.

    Let's take the first one you listed- gays- and run with it.

    Do you believe that homosexuality is an abomination?
    Yes (Conservative)
    No (Liberal)

    Oh look, the media has a liberal bias! (We're not going to mention the fact that if you phrase the question like this the entire population would have a liberal bias.)

    When it comes to something like this, always, always look at the original from the pollster; or else ignore it because there's no way anyone else can tell whether it's credible or not.

  6. Re:This is pointless on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    The Coca-Cola Co. formulated "New Coke" based on the Diet Coke recipe. Coke Zero is literally the standard Coca-Cola with a different sweetener.

  7. Re:wow on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    Except, of course, that Jesus also says plenty of things that are hardly peaceful- "Sell your robes and buy a sword", that he "brings not peace but a sword"; and of course, that nasty little bit about how he plans to separate families...

  8. Re:wow on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are at least a half-dozen quotes in the bible saying that unbelievers should be killed, and a bunch more saying that people who perform certain actions (which aren't unethical from a secular perspective) should be killed. And of course, there's "be not yoked with unbelievers".

    It's not a Quran-specific thing. All the Abrahamic religions have no respect whatsoever for those outside of the religion. The mentality boils down to nothing more than "hate everyone who's not one of us".

  9. Re:AI? In video games? on A Look At Modern Game AI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is that internally the game "knows" where you are- after all, it has to track your location.

    Every play against someone in counterstrike who was hacking? Wallhacks, aimbots, the whole nine yards? There's really nothing at all stopping the developers from doing that; and in fact some older games basically did do that, just with arbitrary delays before the AI snapped on you, deliberate fudge factors on accuracy, whatever it took to make the difficulty level sane for a human player.

    It's possible to compartmentalize it, of course, so it doesn't know that; but you as a player have no idea which approach they took. If the AI is incredibly good in a game, it's possible it's "cheating" and doesn't really have to deal with hidden information.

  10. Re:Remember kids on Race and Racism In Video Games · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, in Tolkien's mythos the Orcs were Moriquendi (Dark Elves) that Morgoth captured and twisted to create a new race; because he could not create anything of his own but could only pervert the creations of Iluvatar.

  11. Re:Lower-wattage bulbs on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1

    It's really quite amazing how much of a persecution complex conservatives have. They've been a huge part of political discourse for most of the past 40 years (and dominated since the early '80s) yet constantly scream that everything is biased against them.

    If your worldview contradicts scientific evidence, it's not "bias" to point out that your worldview is wrong. There's no "anti-conservative bias" in pointing out the massive debt incurred by the Reagan and Bush administrations and the negative impact those have on the economy. There's no "anti-conservative bias" in pointing out that creationism is utter bullshit and evolution is the reality.

    If reality has a "liberal bias" then the conservatives should stop being so fucking deranged, not complain that the media is reporting the truth.

  12. Re:Peta out of control - Now in Warcraft! on PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about we ignore bronze age mythology and have a rational discussion about this matter?

  13. Re:Classics, not just stuffy rhetoric or dull hist on Dead Parrot Sketch Is 1,600 Years Old · · Score: 1

    You might be on to something. Whenever I hear Dane Cook, I'm sorry I heard him.

  14. Re:"GimpGear" FTW on Physically-Challenged Gamer Hacks Together Custom PS3 Controller · · Score: 1

    I've got a friend who follows the disabled-awareness movement (for lack of a better term) and there's a surprising amount of them who use the term gimp.

  15. Re:god and diamonds on Scientists Turn Tequila Into Diamonds · · Score: 1

    Then you're not doing it right.

  16. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I didn't say McCain, I said GOP. There was a ton of race-baiting coming from lower-down party members, and party hacks that call themselves "journalists".

  17. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I'd blame the GOP's race-baiting tactics for that, not "minority racism".

  18. I pulled off a Double Top last year on 10th Year of the International Nethack Tournament · · Score: 2

    That may well be my crowning achievement in video gamery.

    I've since retired from Nethack, simply because I don't have the patience for any more of it. Good luck to this year's players.

  19. Re:Radical Minority on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    A woman cannot marry a woman. A man can marry a woman. This is clearly sexual discrimination.

    Case closed.

  20. Re:Schneier bothers me on Schneier, Journalist Poke Holes In TSA Policies · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly, I cannot drink the wine in front of you!

  21. Re:Reach for the switch... on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Religion has zero scientific credibility; as such, it is pointless to discuss religious "reasons" for anything.

    If someone manages somehow to prove that a specific religion is correct, then we'll obviously have to rethink things. Until then, the default working assumption is that the religions are nothing more than mythology. (See: Null hypothesis.)

  22. Re:*sigh*... on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    Wait, that's pretty fucking obvious. If you only allow teenagers ages 17-19 to drive a car, you're going to have a lower rate of teenagers IN CARS than a state that allows teenagers aged 15-19 to drive.

    Talk about skewing the data for propaganda purposes.

  23. Re:Two OSS projects with the same name? on Mozilla Labs' "Ubiquity" Helps Automate Web Interactions · · Score: 1

    It is. There's also a browser called epiphany, as well as a kid's educational game called epiphany- so you have to issue "apt-get install epiphany-browser" to get the browser on Ubuntu.

    These browsers need to stop repeating names.

  24. Re:Not user-centric on Mozilla Labs' "Ubiquity" Helps Automate Web Interactions · · Score: 1

    Java uses "this" though, so you're not too far off. But it's not really used for the same purpose; in Ubiq, "this" refers to "the selected text" whereas in an OO language, this/self/whatever refers to the object that's currently performing the method in question.

  25. Re:That's absurd. on Phil Zimmermann Replies To CNet On Biden · · Score: 1

    So if you're born on the wrong side of an invisible line in the sand, you're worthless. So much for "all men are created equal", huh?