Ode to the Spell Checker

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

I don't know who modded this down but it was damn funny and has a certain amount of truth to it.

Apparently the Professor was a professor of everything BUT naval architecture.

Bamboo car from Gilligan's Island

Chuck Norris can kick the Russian's GLONASS!

And somehow lost the ability to create a new account? Nice try.

Amen. I'm not a Jew but I completely agree.

Anyone who equates someone who accepts DRM with someone who accepts the systematic slaughter of an entire people by the state needs to have their sense of proportion adjusted.

I agree that we can learn a lot using telescopes and autonomous/semi-autonomous robots but nothing captures the imagination quite like one of us actually going there.

How about a tattoo on your johnson?

Hey, hey hey! This is Slashdot. No lemon analogies allowed.

Only car analogies and the more twisted the car analogy the better.

Here's a few more:

160,000 times the top speed of a Segway
500,000 times faster than a senior on a scooter
6.67 E07 times faster than a garden snail
1.11 E15 times faster than Europe and North America are drifting apart
infinity times faster than the U.S. Congress

That's why the HFTs installed their own dedicated fiber-optic lines between key exchanges that were "straighter" than the public network to shave a few milliseconds off the roundtrip time at the cost of $100's of millions. Why do you think they did that? So they could improve their WoW latency?

That was only one of the techniques they used to manipulate the market. NY Times has a nice article about the book that brought this to peoples' attention.

I for one welcome our alien dick overlords.

Then pull the SIM card before you put it in the evidence bag. No SIM card means no remote wipe. And install a WiFi blocker in the police evidence room to prevent it callling home via WiFi.

I'll have to rethink the realism of Moonraker. I used to think it was the most ridiculous of all the Bond films but Musk is well on his way to being a real life Hugo Drax.