Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Coming Soon! (Score 4, Interesting) 163

Get murdered in your own house by -- you guessed it! -- the house itself!

Doors... Locked. Check.

Lights... Off. Check.

Nest Protect(tm) Carbon Monoxide detector... Silenced. Check.

Ventilation fans... Off. Check.

Gas stove... On. Check.

Now just wait six hours before undoing all of those, erase a few logs and then wonder how such a tragic accident could have taken place. And you didn't even need to call a SWAT team.

Comment There's something to cheer about. (Score 1) 232

Alaska, Spirit, and Frontier are tied for the highest fuel efficiency score, while American beats out Allegiant Air and Sun Country for the lowest spot.

So American has beaten every other airline by producing more pollution than anyone? You know what this means...

We're number one! We're number one! You! Ess! Ey! You! Ess! Ey! You! Ess! Ey!

Comment Re:A bunch of old timers ... (Score 1) 400

There are plenty of crappy movies, but there are plenty of good ones.

[Citation needed]

No, really. If you know about plenty of good movies which were released in the last year, why not share them with the rest of us? Perhaps we're all complaining about the lack of good movies because we actually didn't see any.

Comment Look, I have a T-shirt! (Score 4, Interesting) 304

I still do this from time to time, only without the extreme overkill of using an oven.

As the lucky owner of one of these fine computers which were outfitted with overperforming nVidia GPUs, every few months I run into similar problems. While I could go a little over the top in addressing the issue, all I really need to do is turn the thing upside down, remove the bottom cover, loosen the heat sink covering the GPU and then turn the poor thing on and let it run for up to half an hour. Since the GPU runs hot enough to loosen its own solder, it also runs hot enough to put it back.

Eventually entropy will catch up with me and the poor thing will die of some other cause, and I will have to let it go. But until then, a little heat-related abuse can be a good thing.

Slashdot Top Deals

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics. -- N. Wiener

Working...