...for your next-gen gaming console that requires a persistent internet connection? Deal with it.

The only games I have and will ever have that require an internet connection are MMOs, because, well, that's the point.

I've been visiting Slashdot less and less, and stories like this show me I've been making the right choice. So where is the core audience moving to?

Found a picture of the submitter. http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7673/descent.jpg/

"The rest of us" shouldn't be coding. At least according to the article directly before this one. http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/09/20/2015204/why-non-coders-shouldnt-write-code

FTA: MP3tunes had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 code, which envisages liquidation of a company's operation. In the court filing, the company had listed out assets of about $7,800 and liabilities of $2.1 million. Good luck with that...

They should just sell some of the trillions of dollars worth of song files they're holding on to. According to statutory damages, each song is worth about $150K; they could erase their entire debt by selling just 14 tracks.

I would go see Cowboys of the Caribbean.

Lucky for you they maintain a healthy tour schedule.

I read this book probably a hundred times in junior high.

to celebrate Black History Month, the shortest month of the year.

I'll wait a generation or two, and pick up the most comfortable, least expensive item I can get my hands on. Of course, part of a device being comfortable is having it be precise and customizable so I don't have to focus too hard on using it, otherwise that's where the "withstands violent impact" option comes in.

I'm excited to be that much closer to Star Trek-type replicators, even if we're still just a half-step into a long journey. Synthehol and hot Earl Grey tea, here I come!

Tablet makers should shut down and give the money back to the shareholders.

Fallacy of sunk costs?

But don't tell my wife I called her that.

I don't want Ron Paul outside naked *anywhere*.

What if he was naked outside the ionosphere?

you insensitive clod! (Are these types of posts still allowed?)