Stop it with the Bitcoin articles. We're not interested in your Ponzi scheme.

Rob

You're roughly 11.5 years late.

Rob

If you have Windows 7 Pro or greater, you can get an instance of XP running on Virtual PC for free. It's called "Windows XP Mode."

Rob

I mean, if we all got together at the end of the day and declared that Slashdot has given us the best April Fools' Day celebration ever and that they could never possibly top it in a million lifetimes, would it convince them to stop?

Rob

As I said, some guys rooted an Android phone by sticking it in a freezer. Non-volatile RAM would make this kind of thing easier, wouldn't it?

Rob

...wouldn't this lead to exploits that are currently considered impossible due to the volatile nature of RAM? I'm thinking of something along the lines of those guys who jailbroke a mobile phone by putting it in a freezer. Not that this would be an insurmountable problem, but it is something to think about.

Rob

Have you ever heard of the concept that the left-right spectrum is shaped like a horseshoe? That is, the further left a person goes the more he begins to look like an ultra-right-wing lunatic, and vice versa? I think that's what's going on here. The progressive attempt to give women equal rights under the law has mutated into the desire to protect them from everyone including themselves.

Rob

Not true--just because both sides of an argument are honest and forthcoming doesn't mean that they're both right. They often have different understandings of a situation that come from their own unique perspectives and beliefs. Judges are useful arbiters for determining which side is correct.

Rob

And if there wasn't a large and powerful government, then corporations would suddenly have no power over the system? How does that work?

Rob

They're more than willing to admit that blacks are responsible for more crimes than other races, even when there are many more whites and Hispanics who are far worse off, economically and socially.

Er, either you're simply wrong about this or you're using the word "more" in two different ways in the same sentence. While it's true that there are more black criminals per capita, it's also true that there are more socioeconomically deprived black people per capita. And while there are more impoverished whites and Hispanics in an absolute number, there are also more white and Hispanic criminals in an absolute number.

That's not even getting into the fact that there's a systematic bias against blacks in our judicial system, or that most black criminals are considered criminals as a direct or indirect result of the War on Drugs which you yourself decried just a few sentences later...

Rob

Your post is proof that if we based our view of the world and our policies on what is taught in an introductory class on any particular subject, we'd be totally screwed. Eradicating low intelligence, which is based on a whole host of genetic traits and environmental influences, would be orders of magnitude harder than eradicating mental retardation, which itself is already impossible to do through eugenics. (If you don't know why, read up on Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in relation to rare recessive traits.)

Rob

You can't declare that ownership laws in another country apply to you when they protect you (e.g. copyright law) and at the same time declare that they don't apply to you when they protect someone else. This would be a slam-dunk case if not for certain Supreme Court Justices who can't help but give big slobbery kisses to any corporation that gives them the time of day.

Rob

Do these crystals have a cubic structure?

Maybe we were all educated stupid after all...

Rob

That's more of a problem with FPSes, though TF2 does happen to be a game that didn't have as much of a problem with idiot kids until it went F2P. No, the major problem with F2P is that it usually devolves to P2W (pay-to-win), where the stuff they charge you for is necessary to do well at the game. I'd rather pay upfront for a game where everyone is on an equal playing field than end up paying the same amount (or more) for a game where money trumps skill or perseverance. (TF2 is ironically the best example I've seen of not falling into this trap.) And that's not getting into the fact that F2P games are multiplayer-only almost by definition...

Rob

The problem with this argument is that he's actually trying to justify moving towards F2P. The choice between DRM and F2P is the video-game equivalent of choosing between the giant douche or the turd sandwich.

Rob