Comment Terrible Summary (Score 1, Troll) 79
I know this is Slashdot, but at least try to write a decent summary. I had to read the article just to be able to tell what the summary was trying to say.
Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 94
On two trips, we paused the game for a moment and walked away to do something. A week later, I come home from my trip and find the game still paused. Whoops! This works great... until you try to use the system again. Nasty error code and a $100 fix from Nintendo to get the drive to work again.
Don't leave the disc on!
Or just lay off the 10,080 minute movies.
Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 94
Some people don't like to have half a dozen devices connected to their TV's if one device is capable of performing most of those tasks.
Certainly no one on Slashdot! That's grounds for having your geek card revoked.
Comment Re:Not sure of the value of this. (Score 2, Insightful) 171
On a related subject, I've also wondered why they target ads to kids anyway. They can't drive, don't have much money and from my experience if I whined and pleaded with my dad to buy me something I saw on TV I generally got sent to my room.
Are you kidding? Child marketing is a huge industry. Coincidentally, I'm pretty sure Dante reserved one of the lower circles of Hell for child marketers.
Designer Babies 902
Singularity Hub writes "The Fertility Institutes recently stunned the fertility community by being the first company to boldly offer couples the opportunity to screen their embryos not only for diseases and gender, but also for completely benign characteristics such as eye color, hair color, and complexion. The Fertility Institutes proudly claims this is just the tip of the iceberg, and plans to offer almost any conceivable customization as science makes them available. Even as couples from across the globe are flocking in droves to pay the company their life's savings for a custom baby, opponents are vilifying the company for shattering moral and ethical boundaries. Like it or not, the era of designer babies is officially here and there is no going back."
Comment Re:Did His Contract Specify "Internal Waters"? (Score 1) 410
This is the text I got on my cruise a couple of months ago:
AT&T Free MSG: Int[upside down question mark]l data rate of $.0195/KB applies. Unlimited domestic data rates do NOT apply when outside the U.S. Details: att.com/wirelessinternational.
I may have gotten it at one of the ports, rather than via the ship. Of course AT&T was nice enough to send me the free text after sending me a regular text from a friend, right when I turned my phone on.
Comment Re:Prior Art (Score 1) 268
If it's as obnoxious as Fludd, I'll pass.
Comment Re:France... (Score 1) 622
I don't even know where the anti-France thing comes from. I just view it as a funny running joke.
It all boils down to the freedom fries.
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies 898
High school students in Maryland are using speed cameras to get back at their perceived enemies, and even teachers. The students duplicate the victim's license plate on glossy paper using a laser printer, tape it over their own plate, then speed past a newly installed speed camera. The victim gets a $40 ticket in the mail days later, without any humans ever having been involved in the ticketing process. A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.
Comment Re:This thread is useless without pics.... (Score 1) 248
I was going to comment that AOL disks might be collectors items someday. Apparently some people think they already are.
Comment Re:Practicality? (Score 1) 540
So your font is holier than thou?
Comment Not so far-fetched? (Score 1) 71
Wait, a guy using a jetpack to fly over a gorge makes him a small step away from being a masked vigilante and winning the heart of Jennifer Connelly?
Comment Re:Cheap = Good for parents (Score 1) 576
Perhaps the GP meant car park.
Comment Re:mystery. (Score 1) 785
Technic is still around.
Submission + - Nintendo Announces DSi and Wii storage solution (wiimedia.com)
AKAImBatman writes: "Earlier this morning, Nintendo made several major announcements in a press conference in Japan. Ranging from a new Nintendo DS to a Wii storage solution. Nintendo's first announcement was a brand-new handheld in the Nintendo DS line of consoles. This revision of the DS brand will be a significant break from the previous DS Lite console. It will be named "Nintendo DSi". (Nintendo DS-Eye, get it?) Nintendo also announced a solution to the Wii storage problem. Unfortunately, it sounds like players will be able to download to their SD Card, but not actually play games directly from the card."
