You do realize you're talking about Valve servers, and this person who threw the temper tantrum on the mailing list is probably 12 years old and bought his server with daddy's credit card? It's no surprise, really. If you're looking for foolish, overdramatic, hot-headed people, look no further than Counter-Strike players.

If our dear leader would just invite them both to the White House to have a beer and talk, maybe this whole thing will blow over. Although, if she's not a drinker, it might have to be sodas.

I recommend Jolt.

It's already clear in this case. She had gone to the exact same store the preceding Friday attempting to buy dozens of iPhones, and on that particular day understood quite well what the manager meant when he said "Please leave and do not return to this store." Yet we're to believe that the following Monday, when faced with the same situation and the same "Please leave and do not return", she's now a poor Chinese immigrant fresh off the boat, struggling to break through the language barrier.

Huh. Apparently, you can unlearn a language over the course of a weekend.

= Slashdot Field Day

It was as if a million freetards suddenly had nerdgasms, and were frothing at the mouth. I fear something overdramatic and theatrical has happened.

Any facts reported in the original account of the event have been conveniently stripped from the article and summary to make this submission Slashdot-appropriate. That is to say, to avoid potential injury to the precious egos of Slashdot-reading fanboys, articles should contain none of the following:

1. Sound justification for any Apple-sanctioned activities or strategies
2. Market research or information which would suggest any kind of commercial success of Apple products in the marketplace despite repeated claims that "Apple doesn't know what consumers want"
3. Evidence of wrongdoing of anyone other than Apple or its affiliates

Clearly, the submitter was just doing their part to keep Slashdot safe-to-read for Apple haters and fandroids. We applaud your efforts, good sir!

Certain cryptography functions and related software packages are export-restricted by some governments for National Security(tm). As a result, products that contain export-restricted software is also export-restricted. Go read the PuTTY webpage, you'll see what I mean.

Oh, thank god! Whew. You had me nervous there for a second.

I was afraid that a good chunk of the Slashdot readership would be brought up on charges.

Dear Leader's 100% accurate forecast for the week of December 13th, 2012:

High of 200C dropping to an occasional low of -200C in the shade
Clear skies, good visibility, with an imaging resolution of .5 meters in South Korea
35% chance of fatal orbital collision with nearby orbital bodies, with some minor nausea, vertigo, and spatial disorientation as we move into the evening.

This has been another installment of Dear Leader's 100% Accurate Forecasts - remember, if it's not spot-on, then the round-eye imperialist Yankee pigs have sent their weather planes over our wonderful Best Korean homeland to change the skies and discredit Dear Leader!

*whoosh*

At first glance I read the title as "Intel Announces Atom $1200 SoC For High Density Servers".

My first thought: "$1200 for an underpowered Intel server chip? Sounds about right."

How about, because Microsoft doesn't charge a commission to anyone else using the Windows OS?

If they charged everybody else 30% on Windows, then sure, why the fuck not. But they don't. Apple does on iOS. It's a fair and level playing field.

Two possible solutions to this:

A) Microsoft handles the Office365 subscription outside of the Apple App Store ecosystem. The iOS Office365 app suite will be free to download, but requires a valid Office365 account login to even work. There are so many apps that already work in this exact way that this must be the "Captain Obvious" answer.

B) Stop bickering over Apple's App Store policies and pricing structure, and go focus all of your development efforts on Android and Windows RT. This is a very risky move with little returns to be had.

Option A is clearly the winner, no debate needed. This is just a corporate pissing contest. Apple knows how strong the iOS app marketplace is, and won't buckle to MS pressure. Sales of Surface have been slow, and Android users are stingy and won't pay out for Office on Android. Microsoft knows this and recognizes that their only hope of selling more than X million copies is through the iOS App Store.

And yes, I would like fries with that.

This is akin to someone writing into Car & Driver asking,

"HOW TO DRIVE CAR???? PLZ HELP!!"

Sorry, the DNS lines must have gotten crossed. This is actually Yahoo! Answers.