Comment: next up.. (Score 5, Insightful) 75
getting denied health insurance for having bad genes
Comment: Altitude is a great multiplayer game. (Score 4, Interesting) 460
Altitude is my favorite game ever. It's a multiplayer airplane/dogfighting game with really satisfying combat.
Comment: Scammers scamming scammers. (Score 1) 232
But in these tough times, the scammers said, they are relying more on a crucial tool: voodoo. At times, Banjo said, he has traveled six hours to the forest, where a magician sells scam-boosters. A $300 powder supposedly helps scammers "speak with authority" when demanding payment. A powder, rubbed on the face, reportedly makes victims viewing the scammer through webcams powerless to say no.
Comment: Looks like they are reusing old marketing campaign (Score 1) 5
Microsoft Launches new 'Get the facts' campaign-> 5
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ko9 writes "Microsoft has launched their "Get the facts" campaign, in an attempt to promote Internet Explorer 8. It contains a chart that compares IE8 to Firefox and Chrome. Needless to say, IE8 comes out as the clear winner, with MS suggesting it is the only browser to provide features like 'privacy', 'security', 'reliability'. It even claims to have Firefox beat in 'customizability'. Almost all of these are at the very least stretching the truth, and more likely blatant lies.
To people like me, this page would destroy a lot of the credibility MS might have had with me. I'm wondering if the average joe will question these facts though, or will he just blindly accept them as facts, because a big company like Microsoft would not lie this openly?"
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Comment: Zerg rush for first post! (Score 1) 46
Starcraft has incredible depth and lots of emergent gameplay. My brother bought the game nearly 10 years ago and has played it on and off to this day. He's been playing a lot on ICCUP(an unofficial server that the good players use for ranked play and to avoid hackers) since he has graduated an is jobless. He is undoubtedly better than me and wins 9 out of 10 times, which made it all the more satisfying when I 5pooled him(a rush) and left him in a hissy fit(he doesn't take losing well).
I particularly like that there are so many different strategies in starcraft, you can take a very unconventional/high risk strategy, and if executed decently have a good chance of success.
Comment: Re:Languages (Score 2, Insightful) 371
Oh wow, my eyes glazed over the sentence the sentenced that had "serious text processing" in it. I am not very familiar with Forth so the next part seemed plausible. Finally my tired eyes spotted an anomaly; surely Java/Swing is on par if not more "well supported" than Perl/Tk. But the comment said +4 insightful my mind protested! Oh wait a second, whats this? It's bad analogy guy! I've seen his comments before I remember, amused at how I had caught the joke just barely before it passed over my head.
(A look at the 6 other comments here shows that there was plenty of *whoosh* to go around though)
Comment: Silver Lining (Score 1) 333
Even though it sucks that they got steamrolled I'm sure the startup doesn't mind so much because of the free publicity the case generated.
Comment: This is slashdot right? (Score 4, Interesting) 120
Why is the summary so devoid of technical detail? You realize we don't read the articles right?
Comment: meh (Score 1) 266
The only fork that will work at this point is one that has laxer deletionist/notability standards. Notability could be determined by weather the article has a potential audience, not weather it meets some arbitrary standard of notability. Same with citation requirements, sections of an article that are contested would be marked as such, but not necessarily removed.