No, you fucking moron, he's not saying TROLL at the end. He's giving people like you an insight into how business is done in the real world. Just like companies MUST defend trademarks, even when the infringement is completely innocent, baseless and irrelevant because of how trademark laws work; maybe this company HAD to sue Nintendo in order to prevent other companies from willfully infringing on the patent. They can prove there is no prior art while Nintendo gets an exception to the patent. It's a win-win for the two companies involved.

I'm not saying that is what is actually happening. I'm just saying that baseless accusations like yours are ignorant and counterproductive.

This just in: some companies have large capital reserves and would rather duel lawyer v lawyer in court than cede negotiations to a much smaller company.

You have no idea what went on during those 5 years. Maybe they had been doing everything they possibly could to get Nintendo to license the patents. Maybe they were trying to get Nintendo to contract them to develop new hardware and technologies for the next gen system in exchange for free licensing of the patents.

You have absolutely zero knowledge, yet you completely dismiss and insult them based on your prejudices. Congrats on being what's wrong with the world today.

Dear Queen Caerdwyn:

Today I learned that people would rather breathe toxic fumes from coal fired power plants than spend $3 extra per year to have clean air. I also learned that some people would rather see a well-meaning company fail and have 1100 people out of work than see their political opponent succeed.

Your faithful screw-the-rest-of-the-world-as-long-as-I-get-mine crotchety-conservative Billybob,

Chevron Texaco

I feel the same way about the lockout system. It basically killed the game for me. I had been in progression guilds in the past, doing the hardest content with the highest skilled players (a lot of whom were elitist pricks), and would take 6 month to year long breaks once I got burned out. In Wrath I started a top-end raiding guild with 7 of my in-game friends I liked playing with and who were skilled as well. We used our core 10 man to progress and would PUG a 25 man to recruit. Once we got a good 25 man going then we used our 10 man to learn hard mode encounters and to just have fun with our friends and alts. Maybe doing 3 raids of the same place every week (2 on the main, 1 on the alt) is what burned me out. Regardless, when I came back to play casually and not be a core raider, the shared lockout meant I could never really raid with my friends. They had to keep their mains saved for the 25 man and their alts saved to a set group.

It also killed a lot of PUG raids that people did with their mains, since they didn't have to save themselves to just one lockout. So now I am basically forced to choose between joining a guild with people I don't know or like just to raid, or sit around for hours on end hoping a PUG starts up.

I read all the links on this story post, as well as a bunch of other outside sources and can't find a single mention of a death by bombing a week ago. Would one of the Slashdot editors care to back up their assertion with at least one linked source?

For years we've been trying really hard to get everyone to close down their open WiFi spots to prevent hacking/leeching/malicious activity/etc. Now they want us to do the opposite? I'm sorry, while I don't think a person should be held liable for the child porn their neighbor downloaded using their open WiFi, I also don't think we should be telling them to just ignore security. We have botnets precisely because people ignore security.

They are paying for a service and shouldn't be told to let others use it for free. Why wouldn't they then just cancel their service and use someone else's for free? They shouldn't have to open their computer up to being hacked (or do you want to explain to them how to beef up their security after telling them to lower their security?) just so someone can get free service. They shouldn't have to worry about bandwidth caps just so their neighbor can stream netflix for free.

They SHOULD be hassled if something goes wrong on their open network as a lesson to secure their system.

Hell, I turn off both my router and my cable "modem" when I'm not using them.

I played a crapload of GH2/GH3/RB/RB2/RB:Beatles before deciding I wanted to learn how to play a real guitar. It's been over a year since I made that decision and I haven't played the game once.

With projects like this, though, I'd love to pick up the games again and start learning those real songs on my guitar.

I don't know if I ever would have started playing real guitar without those games, and now that I play guitar I don't look down on those games or insult the people who play them. Not only are they just games (and games that I find fun), but they can be a gateway into real music and creativity.

Want to know how I know you didn't read the article?

Your username is entirely appropriate to the ignorance of your post.

Dammit, I was going to post that it's easy to get a normal username if you sign up early enough, but your UID is twice as low as mine.

This is one of the dumbest posts on /. today.

Congrats.

By your rationale, all states should be completely self-contained. I don't know where you live, but I hope you can survive losing all of the tax money California gives to almost every other state. I hope you can drill your own oil, create your own green electricity (oh, you aren't a windy/sunny/rivery state? too bad), mine your own ore, etc.

Saying Californians need to produce more locally or use less is moronic at best. Californians COULD just fire up a bunch of coal plants if they wanted, but they are trying to be intelligent and use cleaner sources of energy. Some of those sources are better found in other states. But your addled brain seems to think an imaginary line means all that wonderful energy must be completely kept within its cage and never let out.

Haha, it's funny to say California is stupid and wasteful and has economic problems (which it does), but we give more money to all those "better" states in taxes than we receive. Also, isn't it better to have Arizona and Nevada making craploads of solar power and distributing it out than trying to capture any solar in Seattle? What about having Kansas try to harness wave power from all their oceans?