kirill.s - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Ouch! The Visuals! (Score 1) 192

by kirill.s on Thursday April 01, 2010 @09:15AM (#31699706) Attached to: Slashdot Discussions Now Include Roulette Video Chat

I can only imagine the average /. user logging in from home and what that person looks like. (I include myself in this cohort.)

The average /. user logs in from work, you insensitive clod!

Comment That's nothing. (Score 2, Informative) 66

by kirill.s on Thursday April 01, 2010 @05:23AM (#31698618) Attached to: Scientists Say Toads Can Predict Earthquakes

The same toads can also predict the release date of Duke Nukem Forever.

Comment Re:New input for the system (Score 1) 301

by kirill.s on Thursday April 01, 2010 @04:12AM (#31698292) Attached to: MIT Finds 'Grand Unified Theory of AI'

If measuring the speed of flying insects is not fun, I don't know what is!

Comment Re:New input for the system (Score 2) 301

by kirill.s on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @12:23PM (#31689132) Attached to: MIT Finds 'Grand Unified Theory of AI'

My favorite syntactically ambiguous phrase is the classic:

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Although Buffalo buffalo is also fun the first time you parse it.

Comment Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 584

by kirill.s on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @04:58AM (#31684576) Attached to: How Smart Are You?

And the radiation may somehow be affecting her looks too.

Comment Management (Score 3, Funny) 586

by kirill.s on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @03:53PM (#31676180) Attached to: Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass

I misread the headline as:
Management Can Sway Man's Moral Compass

And thought... now how is that news? :)

Comment Availability (Score 2, Insightful) 507

by kirill.s on Monday March 29, 2010 @09:07AM (#31655888) Attached to: Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction

They are also much easier to obtain than cocaine and cost less.

Comment Re:He's on Step 2 (Score 1) 421

by kirill.s on Friday March 26, 2010 @05:18AM (#31623338) Attached to: Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize

Step 3: Have your peace and quit, make your way into history books.

The PROFIT he has cashed in can stand the test of time better than mere money.

Comment Re:Seriously!? (Score 1) 408

by kirill.s on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @03:47PM (#31588314) Attached to: Gamers Pay To Play With Girls

(In other words, you have to prove you aren't a complete asshole while playing games.)

If she can prove that she can play decently, I would be willing to spend more money on her on the upcoming dates.

Comment Yes, but does it run... (Score -1, Redundant) 347

by kirill.s on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @10:56AM (#31583792) Attached to: Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor

Windows?

Comment Re:Excellent work. (Score 1) 336

by kirill.s on Monday March 22, 2010 @05:02AM (#31564702) Attached to: Carbon-14 Dating Reveals 5% of Vintage Wines May Be Frauds

Buy a bunch of expensive wine

No wonder that didn't result in a PROFIT!!!!.

Comment Mouse Gestures (Score 1) 378

by kirill.s on Friday March 19, 2010 @10:13AM (#31536608) Attached to: Opera Sees "Dramatic" Rise From Microsoft's Ballot

Opera was the first browser to implement mouse gestures. I only switched to FF, when a mouse gestures plugin was made for it.

Comment Re:so how big is it? (Score 1) 265

by kirill.s on Thursday March 18, 2010 @04:53PM (#31528646) Attached to: Quantum State Created In Largest Object Yet

It's the Library of Congress.

Really? I thought it was a cat.

Comment Re:In Slashdotters Pants. (Score 1) 265

by kirill.s on Thursday March 18, 2010 @04:49PM (#31528586) Attached to: Quantum State Created In Largest Object Yet

I could pull it off with just a red stapler.

Comment Re:This is Masatoshi Ishikawa (Score 1) 138

by kirill.s on Thursday March 18, 2010 @12:38PM (#31524226) Attached to: Japanese Researchers Develop World's Fastest Book Scanner

If they mount that hand on BigDog, we'd all have a pretty cool robotic overlord to welcome.

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