Comment Re:Resturant order strips (Score 1) 310
When I was at school (many years ago) we made something similar in woodwork class using a marble as the ballbearing.
Comment Re:Do it well or don't do it at all (Score 1) 205
You learn by doing , not by making powerpoint slides.
So how do you learn how to make powerpoint slides?
As far as I've seen this is learnt by doing an MBA or other managemant zombie courses - more to the point for me is why do you learn to make a powerpoint slide?
Comment Re:Paging Buffy Summers... (Score 1) 89
why cant we come up with the legal equivalent of a shotgun. shotguns ALWAYS work against zombies, or im i wrong?
Think Geek agrees.
Comment Re:New doomsday scenario? (Score 1) 383
It's 640 light years away (give or take). Would the neutrinos affect us at all? Is this another doomsday scenario? I would imagine that it'd be hellishly bright in the night sky. What does science say about it? I'm rusty on my astronomy, but it'd be awesome to see.
meh - 640 light years ought to be enough for anyone
Comment So Blizzard got it right? (Score 4, Funny) 183
For the Horde!
Comment Re:The essense of Judo (Score 2, Insightful) 105
I read that as 'Customers do make great cushions, after all.' I think I've worked in support for far too long...
No, you've worked in support too long when you read that as "Customers make great targets"
Comment Re:Undercutting Bloomsbury (Score 1) 95
Perhaps they are counting on Schools to buy 30 copies per class - still cheeper than providing each kid with a computer.
Comment Re:Just remember when you give money to the church (Score 1) 447
Why do humans like to blame gods or supernatural powers for their own stupidity?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's because they're too stupid to know better ?
It also allows them to claim it's not their fault - "It was like that when I found it Dad"
Comment Re:HOT AIR (Score 1) 447
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone ... I take it you're ready to proove you qualifications :oP
Comment Oblig (Score 2, Funny) 358
The more you tighten your grip, Hollywood, the more systems will slip through your fingers.
Comment Re:Tranquility? (Score 1) 383
Except that, as far as I know, the Fox series was called Firefly and the film was called Serenity because Universal didn't have the rights to use the Firefly name. On the other hand maybe Universal wouldn't grant the rights or possibly I may be plain wrong.
Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm 145
CurtMonash writes "Twitter was hit Saturday by a worm that caused victims' accounts to tweet favorably about the StalkDaily website. Infection occurred when one went to the profile page of a compromised account, and was largely spread by the kind of follower spam more commonly used by multi-level marketers. Apparently the worm was an XSS attack, exploiting a vulnerability created in a recent Twitter update that introduced support for OAuth, and it was created by the 17-year-old owner of the StalkDaily website. More information can be found in the comment thread to a Network World post I put up detailing the attack, or in the post itself. By evening, Twitter claimed to have closed the security hole."
Comment Re:Quantals (Score 1) 236
I RTFB, thank you. Sorry 'bout his first name...
Just a little joke at your expence and no offence intended. If you haven't already read it Ian Stewart's "Does God Play Dice" is a good read and a bit more mathematical if that's likely to help. I enjoyed it but as you can see from my sense of humour there's no accounting for taste.
Comment Re:i find it so hard (Score 2, Funny) 288
I think the purpose of this virus is to try to take over the world.
No problem then - Pinky will find some way to screw it up
Comment Re:Quantals (Score 1) 236
Try the book by James Gleick from the same era, it's much more informative.
