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Comment: What does "net new jobs" mean? (Score 1) 271

by Chrondeath (#39085287) Attached to: Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US?
I keep seeing various statistics about where all (or some percentage of) the "net new jobs" come from, but I'm not sure I understand what it means. Are they just saying "Internet startups (or whatever) added 100 more jobs than they lost, and the economy as a whole added 100 more jobs than it lost, so all the gain came from internet startups"? That doesn't seem like a legitimate claim (any number of other categories could have had the same net job gain, as long as enough jobs were lost from at least one other category...)

Comment: Trolls? (Score 5, Interesting) 417

by Chrondeath (#35400568) Attached to: Disarm Internet Trolls, Gently
The author seems to be using "troll" as a term for "someone posting in an inflammatory manner," but I thought "troll" specifically referred to posters doing it to get a rise out of people. Responding in a reasonable manner isn't going to help if the other party isn't interested in taking the conversation seriously.
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EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely 341

Posted by Soulskill
from the sixty-dollar-yearly-fee dept.
Spacezilla writes "EA is dropping the bomb on a number of their video game servers, shutting down the online fun for many of their Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 games. Not only is the inclusion of PS3 and Xbox 360 titles odd, the date the games were released is even more surprising. Yes, Madden 07 and 08 are included in the shutdown... but Madden 09 on all consoles as well?"
It's funny. Laugh.

Therapists Log On To WoW To Counsel Addicts 187

Posted by Soulskill
from the sometimes-an-elf-is-just-an-elf dept.
eldavojohn writes "So, you can't find the time to leave the World of Warcraft to seek help for your World of Warcraft addiction? Sounds reasonable. Well, addiction therapists are coming to meet you so you don't have to quit playing as they counsel you and your addiction. From the leader of this initiative, Dr. Graham: 'We will be launching this project by the end of the year. I think it's already clear that psychiatrists will have to stay within the parameters of the game. They certainly wouldn't be wandering around the game in white coats and would have to use the same characters available to other players. Of course one problem we're going to have to overcome is that while a psychiatrist may excel in what they do in the real world, they're probably not going to be very good at playing World of Warcraft.' Send in the level 5 counselor and let the games begin!" What happens when the therapists become addicted?

Comment: Re:Retarded (Score 1) 874

by Chrondeath (#26912467) Attached to: Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them

With a EULA you gain the right to run the software.

What is the theory under which you _don't_ have the right to run the software you've legally purchased, absent any EULA?

If you don't have such a right without a EULA, then presumably, you could distribute (for free, with no EULA) some useful utility you wrote, then turn around and sue anyone who runs it for copyright infringement?

Comment: Re:Is there anyone who doesn't? (Score 1) 516

by Chrondeath (#26086743) Attached to: Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity

I, personally, am proud to be pro-abortion. Babies may be cute, but some day they'll grow up.

If you really believed that, you wouldn't be posting here. Oh, you believe it for other people? What's that called again? Oh right, hypocrisy. Nice.

Uh....what are you saying he SHOULD be doing if he really believed that, instead of posting here? Hunting down babies?

Or is he hypocritical because he didn't inform his mother while he was a fetus that he would have preferred to be aborted?

Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of. -- J.J. Gibson

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