Comment Re:Won't somebody please think of the children!?!? (Score 1) 255
This thread makes me fucking proud to be a Australian. We don't like censorship.
Comment Re:Ah they broke rule #1 of cybercrime (Score 1) 95
The US is where the bots are located, not (necessarily) the guy running them.
More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux 256
SheeEttin writes "Back in November 2008, Phoronix reported that Linux libraries appeared in the Left 4 Dead demo, and then in March, Valve announced that Steam and the Source engine were coming to Mac OS X. Now, Phoronix reports that launcher scripts included with the (closed beta) Mac version of Steam include explicit support for launching a Linux version."
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 3, Informative) 539
You worked for EA right?
Comment Re:Ellipse != Circle (Score 3, Funny) 188
Clearly it was a case of circular logic.
Comment Re:No upsides either (Score 5, Funny) 218
People who live in glass houses shouldn't use plain text passwords.
Comment Re:Nothing quite like a "timely" response (Score 5, Funny) 251
If I had got a dollar for every time I had to correct someone for RAS syndrome style mistakes I'd never have to visit an ATM machine again.
Idiots!
Comment Re:Hillary Clinton released a statement? (Score 1) 515
Theres a reason Hillary knows how to answer 3am phone calls:
"Isshh Bill... yeshh... I needshh a ride homeeee..."
Comment Re:Stop serving nuts (Score 1) 643
Logic is sound.
If she gets her nuts out her face could blow up.
Comment Re:Climate change is a security threat (Score 1) 417
Fact: the weather (which believed to be in close association with the climate) has been responsible for more plane crashes in the last 10 years than al Qaeda.
It's a numbers game, really.
Comment Re:Should read (Score 1) 809
And this flight didn't originate in the US. The TSA is a US domestic organisation, so they have to rely on the departing countries security measures.
Comment You know what I've come to realise... (Score 1) 214
ignorance is bliss.
Comment Re:I'd much rather... (Score 1) 636
43 minutes of TV might be worth $0.68 cents to the station, but its worth a lot more than that to the advertisers. (Well, with ads anyway.)
Comment Re:Aweful? (Score 5, Funny) 645
He was just trying to avoid paying Oxford University Press by using a free alternative.
Comment WRONG (Score 5, Informative) 444
Something that produces energy from the decay of radioisotopes is called a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) whereas a battery is an array of electrochemical cells for electricity storage.
You didn't read the article.
The batteries use Sulfur-35 which is a beta emitter. Aka, electrons. They do not use thermocouples at all.
Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaics
