How about this idea: Instead of stopping the holocaust, you bring back all the people you can who died in the holocaust to the present. Of course, you also doom them to live in a future where most of their friends are dead now. So, technically, you didn't change the past and everything will be more or less, the same. Hey, how about this - you bring them back to the time just before the Nuremberg trials! But then again, things would get somewhat complicated and everything will focus more on the time machine than on the holocaust itself. Man, this is difficult!

I'm still amazed nobody has posted the TV Tropes article named "Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act" (which quotes the parent's link, btw).

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlekz83hawz?from=Main.HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct

My favorite line:

That's a good thing. It's literally embedding a natural limiter for a genetic experiment. The stronger the silk, the less probable the organism will be able to escape and reproduce outside. If the thing does reproduce, I expect the offspring that will make it will be the ones with weaker silk, bringing balance to nature again. Unless, of course, stronger silk gives them an unknown reproductive advantage, which I really hope doesn't happen. (Crap, now I really got scared).

One of my favorite examples of this trend is Yagami Light, from Death Note. He is given possibly the most powerful and badass superpower ever invented. He decides it to use it to clean the world of criminals - and hence, he becomes one but that's just a technicality, right?

Things start turning dark(er?) when he has to get rid of the police who are after him, when his initial plan consisted of only killing the bad guys. Finally he resorts to killing his own father to save his ass. All in the name of the greater good.

Meanwhile, inside the FICO facilities...

An alarm buzz sounds. A pigeon grabs a white card from a stack. Next to it, an operator reads the card and types it in a nearby computer.

A few miles away...

Sorry, sir, your FICO score tells us you're disqualified.

Yes, but this is slashdot. We DO know what absolute zero is. This story doesn't belong in here, it belongs in digg or reddit. No wonder the submitter is an anonymous reader.

Only if your name is Iñigo Montoya.

I second this. Currently I've been exposed to Starcraft (the original!) by Blizzard. It's good news that the game got so popular that Blizzard themselves patched their latest version so you wouldn't need to put the damn CD in there.

So now I'm looking for a place where I can purchase the product legally and get my legit key to play in battle.net.

So, with or without DRM, it's the game that makes me want to buy it. Still, kinda sucks that Blizzard are so DRM-obsessed.

Obligatory webcomic links:

http://www.vanvonhunter.com/vvh124.html
http://www.vanvonhunter.com/vvh125.html

I thought the project had been retaken a couple of months ago.

Source: http://www.3drealms.com/

You hit the nail on the head. I've recently been promoted to a more bureaucratic place at my company, and I've come to realize that a lot of things I considered of uttermost importance in software development were not as crucial as I thought. Now, I'm not saying they're not necessary. But I overestimated them. Also, I've learned that it's the sales department which makes the companies earn their income. No income, no salaries. No salaries, no employees.

Linux devs who have never understood the management and marketing side of companies, simply lack the vision needed to improve and promote the kernel/OS they love so much.

About a year ago I upgraded my synaptic (the only user-friendly package manager I know so far). Turns out that the Debian guys missed a critical flaw which made Synaptic crash when loading the repos. Downgrading synaptic using command-line tools was a royal pain in the ass. That's the kind of errors that I hate, and the guys criticizing Ubuntu are much more prone to commit them.

While I don't like Ubuntu myself (for some glitches I've experienced - ironically, in the user-friendliness area), I do agree that it has set the bar on user-friendliness. More user-friendly = more popular. More popular = more pressure on the devs to write software that just works.

As an example, I'll use Mepis 8.5 - it's being released with the latest version of KDE. Well guess what, the installation screen is quite unusable if you have an nVidia video card. You're stuck at 640x480 (or 800x600 if you're lucky), and the installation screens are clipped. Sure, you can install the drivers in RAM, but then you have to reboot. DOH. All installed drivers vanish. Another problem that could be solved with community support.

With more community support, these problems will go again after the devs realize that the world they're writing software for is NOT a world filled with closets stacked with old network cards, cables, old consoles, a hard disk full of debugging and developing software and regexp cheat sheets stappled on a nearby wall.

As much as it hurts, the devs need to get off their clouds, open their eyes and see that the people who use distros like Ubuntu are people who have a life - ok, a busy life - and don't have the resources, the time, nor the brains to solve those pesky problems.

I still remember the days where one had to edit the xfree86 .conf file by hand after following a series of instructions. I sincerely hope those days don't ever come back again.

Ah, but first time criminals aren't aware of the situation. It's those that are easiest to catch. And the police better do it before they become SERIAL criminals.

On the other hand, iPhone storing screenshots of the GPS indicating where you've been... it's outright creepy. Orwell was right, man.