Why is this marked as "Troll", exactly? Am I missing something? I'm very sleepy, so it is possible.

Given that most sentient beings are things like rodents and lizards and such, I'm not sure they particularly care about DRM or open web standards.

This was definitely released a few weeks back, there was even a Last Week Tonight segment on it.

She sounds very different in some early TNG episodes, when she was trying to put on a much more warm and friendly computer voice rather than the dispassionate tone of the rest of the TNG era.

The paper's too scratchy, right?

...Well that's embarrassing. Started writing a post on my phone, decided to abandon it and do it on my (logged in) laptop instead, and it looks like I accidentally hit the post button on the phone. God damned touch screens. Anyway!

I was under the impression the AC above was quoting those two comments and scores (and creating a third satirical pair) to illustrate the prevalent and popular attitudes amongst Slashdot commenters, rather than trying to imply that the scores actually said anything about the "correctness" of the comment. Which is a perfectly valid correlation. Making such an observation - "the prevalent attitudes of group X are Y" - doesn't even inherently come with any judgement over whether Y is a reasonable attitude to hold or not, it's simply a statement of fact.

I'm not defending anyone, I'm asking for information/verification of such accusations. Thank you for the link you provided, although it still does not back up your statements, or even disprove the hypothetical alternatives I described. Plus, possibly getting into trouble with welfare departments does not mean defrauding them, as a disabled woman who's never been capable of work (and so, always dependent upon welfare myself) I'm acutely aware that welfare rules can change suddenly, often into completely batshit crazy nonsense that doesn't even vaguely reflect reality, including the medical reality of many chronic illnesses. Hell, this guy seems actually willing to be "found out", as long as that would mean the media and the people were aware of the entire situation, rather than only that government department. People who are actually guilty of wrongdoing tend not to want a spotlight shone upon it, or to have their deeds deeply analysed and judged. So, yes, links to forum posts (preferable to images of them for various reasons, such as surrounding context) would be much appreciated if you'd like to expand upon or back up your claims :)

Much like any modern preservation of media. Games, television shows, books... Hell, even a modern preservation of ancient cave drawings would include super high res scans and such. Of course, this project is only dumping hashes of the actual game data, but that allows any archival copy to be properly verified as good. Which'll come in handy next time Nintendo wants to put "pirate" versions of ROMs onto the Virtual Console. Kinda embarrassing for them to be so anti-emulation (at least of the unauthorised kind) and then to be found to be using ROMs from the very "pirate" sites they supposedly despise.

This information does not appear to be clearly stated on the Patreon page. While it could maybe be implied by the very brief bit at the end of the one post there, it's certainly nowhere near proving such allegations. In fact, it makes it sound rather like half the reason it had such a low insurance value was difficulty proving that these games really are worth $10,000. I also don't see anything saying it's the guy's childhood collection, or that he actually paid $10,000 for games worth that much - you can get fantastic bargains on retro games if you have patience and root around, so it's entirely plausible for someone on welfare to have managed to do so. Especially if he's too disabled to work, which as a seemingly long term claimant is likely, giving him a lot more free time than most people to do such bargain hunting. Do you have any additional sources you'd like to cite? Without them to provide a more complete picture, evaluating the accuracy of your claims is rather difficult.

I remember when we had an ever so polite subcommunity on Slashdot for black American people in same sex romances. They'd start the most thoughtful conversation threads. Ever poignant and witty, they were.

Is it retro-trolling week here on Slashdot? Are we going to have a lovely old fashioned flame war about whether the Amiga or the Atari are the best 16 bit micro next?

Apology accepted, and Merry Christmas :D

You did catch the part where I agreed Clinton was analogous to a bullet, and that I thought both candidates were atrocious, didn't you? If you're thinking I was using a minefield metaphor to imply Trump was considerably worse, then no. A bullet and a minefield will both kill you, the latter merely makes the chances of an open casket funeral somewhat lower. I've frequently compared your recent election, slightly hyperbolically, to a choice between Hitler and Stalin. Yes, objectively Hitler is slightly worse, but that would've felt like a pretty academic distinction had you voted Stalin in. Quite honestly, I hope I'm wrong and that Trump won't completely screw up America, I'd like to see things go well for you guys. All of you guys, including the latinos, the female ones, the gay ones, the trans ones, and yes, of course, the white male ones too. Although given that your Oompa-Loompa-in-chief has a facepalm-worthy habit of taking credit for things that he actually played no part in, for example tweeting "@realdonaldtrump gets it done: 'China says it will return US drone it seized'" when the Chinese agreed to return the drone after pressure from... the Obama administration, or how he took credit for being tough and making Carrier change its mind about not shutting down its US factories and sending jobs to Mexico when in reality said "being tough" was Mike Pence (in his role as state governor) giving Carrier $7m in tax incentives and having Carrier agree to invest $16m in its facilities, resulting in Carrier... still shutting down one of the factories to relocate it to Mexico (meaning 1300 jobs lost), saving a grand total of 800 jobs from the other (if you think the number is 1100, well sweetheart, 300 of those jobs were never going to move whatever the outcome), many of which will be lost later since that money's going to be invested in automation, I wouldn't take good things happening - even if Trump takes the credit for them - as an indication that they're actually be anything to do with him.

And take heart, dear one, had Clinton won I'd be criticising her almost as much, or at least I would be if she had similar levels of buffoonery making her such an easy target instead of the more sensible obfuscation tactics shady corrupt politicians like herself use. Now, I realise that you've got some great zingers lined up for who you think your typical opponents will be... Clinton-lovers, liberals, whatever the hell an SJW is (I know what the acronym stands for but so far I haven't received much of a definition beyond "people standing up for the rights of minorities", which surely can't be all there is to it if there's so much hatred towards them?), etc, etc. I, however, am none of those things. I eschew political labels because conservatism, liberalism, libertarianism, communism, etc are all just as stupid as each other for the exact same reason: They cling to dogma. They cling to certain principles as being fundamental unshakeable truths. The only thing I cling to is empirical truth, the scientific method, and that we shouldn't be dicks to each other for no reason. Even then if by some magical occurrence I was presented with a rational, logical reason to reconsider those principles, I'd do so. I'm perfectly willing to be proven wrong if the facts go against me. And I'm not hoping the Trump presidency will destroy your country so I can have a good chortle from the sidelines and an "I told you so" sense of superiority, I worry that he will due to my perception of his general douchery and feel a great deal of compassion towards the American people, and I hope that I am wrong because, apart from being rebellious colonial scum who are traitors to the crown, you lovely Americans don't deserve that!

Now sweetie-pie, you got any backup zingers that apply to someone with my philosophy? Feel free to test them out, and I'll give you honest feedback about whether they're hurtful :) Although, ProTip for you: being antagonistic in a discussion might feel cathartic, but all it actually achieves is to entrench your opponent in their existing viewpoints. It's better to show empathy, compassion, and understanding to people, and to really try to listen to and consider their viewpoints, as then hopefully they'll do the same for you. See? Being nice to others even if they don't share your viewpoints, while an admiral goal in itself (and for me it's something I'd prefer to do just for its own sake, and strive towards, even though I fail sometimes) also has non-altruistic benefits! It's not just for hippy "love and peace" types like myself :D

You dodged a bullet, and landed on a minefield. Congratulations! This election was over as soon as the two atrocious candidates were picked... result: America lost.

Being a democracy and a constitutional republic are not two mutually exclusive things. I'm not here to argue whether the US counts as a proper democracy (I think personally the EC and the winner takes all states screw that up quite badly), but the notion that constitutional republics are inherently not democracies is a widespread misconception.