Actually, Blizzard is stepping in and issuing refunds to players who buy the game online tonight and submit their preorder receipt.

http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/14/blizzard-fixing-game-australias-mess-giving-diablo-3-to-those/

I suspect some government contractors would not appreciate you suggesting that their sales somehow mean less because they were made to the government and paid for with taxes.

This is how I read that initially. I was very confused until I read the summary.

I'm not a physicist, but the way I understand it, there's no way to tell if a particle is entangled without observing and comparing both particles.

I read this and the first thing I thought was, "Can you really grow cotton in Arizona?" I think something might be wrong with my brain.

Wasn't Ormus a character in Diablo 2? Kinky.

Copyright is a complex issue with many applications and rules, and even in this thread there appears to be very little agreement as to which parts, if any, do or should apply here, and whether one or both parties are doing something wrong. To ask whether all of Slashdot is for or against copyright is a gross simplification in several ways.

It isn't like he's mute, you know. He just doesn't really talk on stage, during the act.

I have the same problem. If you Google my name, you'll find a photographer, a musician, and some guy who flew across the English Channel in a jetpack. Sadly (especially in that last case), none of them is me. And yes, if you really wanted this post almost certainly contains enough information to identify my real name. Have fun with that.

Is Anonymous Coward the dope one or the coke one?

I read it as meaning the second thing, per site, but I see how it could be easily mistaken to mean "every time I log in to something". Now I'm not even sure what they meant.