... with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.

I, for one, welcome our new and completely ethical robot overlords!

Some countries may use a "practical real-world detonation" as a cover for a nuclear test. A country like North Korea could set off some bombs to test/demonstrate their nuclear capability and claim it was for mining or something. Kind of like how their recent missile test was supposedly for the entirely peaceful purpose of a satellite launch.

Or rather, "Spy sappin' mah power grid!"

The parent isn't suggesting that we "do nothing". It suggests that we do SOMETHING, but to take an approach that doesn't involve "war". Or something extreme like a coup.

I don't see how a game like this can compete with something like Quake Live. Quake Live (still in beta) is free and has comparable graphics and gameplay. Yet it already has a much larger community, more polish, and runs more smoothly.

I understand that it is difficult for an open source game to have the same playerbase and polish as a professionally developed, ad-supported game. But at the very least Nexuiz should run more smoothly and should differentiate itself from other games that have already been released.

I'd say that a better open-source game might be Tremulous. Runs much more smoothly on my computer, and I often want to play it because its gameplay is different from other games I already have. Perhaps that's why there have always been more Tremulous players than Nexuiz players in my area.

I was skeptical of anything I saw, read, or heard on April 1st. But damn... THIS caught me off guard! Perhaps Slashdot is going to be the start of a trend. Since everyone is used to getting tricked on April 1st, people are going to start pulling "late" April Fools' jokes on April 2nd just to catch people off-guard. Soon, April Fools' Day will be "April Fools' Two Days". And perhaps 200 years from now, we'll have an "April Fools' Week".

As of 10:18 PM in my time zone, 20 minutes after the article was posted, Google is working fine again. We posted a whole Slashdot article and had a huge discussion about a Google bug that got fixed in a matter of minutes.

I think the whole point is that putting the waste in a landfill and getting extra power off the grid produces MORE greenhoues gases than disposing of waste/generating power using the gasification device. Still, shouldn't TFA still mention that the process still DOES produce pollution?

"Mathematicians have been puzzling over" how to tie their shoelaces "for a century or two"??? Think of what humanity could have achieved if they actually spent that amount of time doing something USEFUL. It's just more proof that shoelaces are bullshit!