I'm pretty sure that the likelihood of getting mod points is directly related to how much and how recently you spend reading stories (not on the front page, but the actual comment page). The number it gives out is probably based off of how many points it needs to give out compared to how many people it thinks are around to use them. So commenting won't help you, but opening each story and glancing over the comments might.

I'm not saying you are, but your post did read like a lot like an advertisement.

Actually, using a single menu at the top makes it so that it is always in the same place, as opposed to floating, and having possibly several of them out at once, all taking up screen real estate. I'm not necessarily saying that makes it universally better (though I happen to prefer it), but saying that it is entirely form over function just because you don't like it and can't be bothered to see the function is disingenuous.

Oh no, however will he afford his third Ferrari now that he's unemployed?

Actually, Blizzard is stepping in and issuing refunds to players who buy the game online tonight and submit their preorder receipt.

http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/14/blizzard-fixing-game-australias-mess-giving-diablo-3-to-those/

I suspect some government contractors would not appreciate you suggesting that their sales somehow mean less because they were made to the government and paid for with taxes.

This is how I read that initially. I was very confused until I read the summary.

I'm not a physicist, but the way I understand it, there's no way to tell if a particle is entangled without observing and comparing both particles.

I read this and the first thing I thought was, "Can you really grow cotton in Arizona?" I think something might be wrong with my brain.

Wasn't Ormus a character in Diablo 2? Kinky.

Copyright is a complex issue with many applications and rules, and even in this thread there appears to be very little agreement as to which parts, if any, do or should apply here, and whether one or both parties are doing something wrong. To ask whether all of Slashdot is for or against copyright is a gross simplification in several ways.

It isn't like he's mute, you know. He just doesn't really talk on stage, during the act.

I have the same problem. If you Google my name, you'll find a photographer, a musician, and some guy who flew across the English Channel in a jetpack. Sadly (especially in that last case), none of them is me. And yes, if you really wanted this post almost certainly contains enough information to identify my real name. Have fun with that.

Is Anonymous Coward the dope one or the coke one?

I read it as meaning the second thing, per site, but I see how it could be easily mistaken to mean "every time I log in to something". Now I'm not even sure what they meant.

The problem with this is, what constitutes "bad person" or "badly led life" varies widely based on the moral/religious/political beliefs of the individual. How many people would put "being gay" or "not being my religion" on that list? Hell, I bet there are more than a few who would put "advocating murder" on that list.

We have a justice system for exactly the problem you're trying to fix.