In the original Elite, the first mission was to destroy some kind of experimental space ship that had been stolen. You were told that the ship had ECM, which meant that you needed to kill it in a dogfight; you couldn't just hit it with a missile.

...well, unless you got really close. Easiest way to win was to fly straight at it, target a missile, and launch at point-blank range. Boom.

At least devils are lawful...

..which is why they should allow Australian taxpayer-owned companies like HP to use their tech for free!

Wait...

It might not be stupid .. because a different group did the same thing?

You know, there's another possible conclusion we could draw...

I remember seeing a couple of documentaries on this a while ago...

Mod parent -1 catastrophically ignorant.

There's no way our politicians would work for 363 days in a year.

How could slashdot possibly run out of stories? They've got over ten years' worth of them to keep posting!

Is Jack the Ripper really the dodgiest connotation you can come up with for "slash"?

"You've seeded 4.3x as much as you've donwloaded overall. Increase that ratio to 5x to gain Level 3!

Yes, but only if it's air that no one else has breathed before.

Don't forget the American logo: Terrorist Buster!

Interestingly, there are over 5,000 google results for "vegan bacon"...

designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution

The scientific method?

I recall reading a while ago about a javascript exploit that would attempt to log in to your router using the default admin login/password. It had a list of a few hundred different defaults to try. If it got in, it would mess with your DNS.

I'm not sure what came of that..

<shrug> Ask one of the 80,000 who got infected :-)