...if you run Android! I'm no expert on programming, but if works in Android's flavor of Linux, why can't it be ported to the other distros?

Let me get this straight: the first human cases of a viral outbreak in the middle east might very well have literally been camel jockeys? Hang on, I'm writing this down so I can come up with a better joke for work tomorrow.

Turns out they took the award from Hackin9 and gave it to Slashdot for their beautifully ironic quality of editing.

I second MS Security Essentials. Back when netbooks fist hit the scene, I grabbed an Asus EeePC and installed the Alpha of Windows 7 on it. It ran alright on the puny PC and miniscule amount of RAM, but would turn into a dog when I'd install antivirus on it. I tried AVG, Avast, Nod32, and a handful of others. Hadn't even heard of MSSE at the time, but gave it a whirl. And I'll be damned if it didn't bog down the machine at all. I've used it to this day on all my devices, and it has caught viruses where programs like Avast and Symantec have failed. Not too bad for free software, especially from Microsuck of all places.

Thank you for explaining who William Shatner is. I'm sure there are still a good 5 or 6 Slashdot readers who are still unaware.

Two of the biggest benefits to an electric car are:

(1) When you're stopped, your motor doesn't keep running. Think of all the fuel you've wasted either letting your car warm up, or sitting at a light, or stuck in traffic.

(2) Regenerative braking technology converts your momentum back into usable power instead of just wasting it as heat.

These, combined with the fact that your car doesn't care where it gets electricity from, and that a coal plant is still more efficient overall than thousands of independent engines, is precisely why this article is probably OPEC propaganda. :D

I'm gonna go to a school full of kids and actually teach them something worth knowing! ....

brb, someone's at the door...

We have all these amazing advances in technology, but all we ever want to use them for is surreptitiously farting on people. The world never changes.

"This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten"

Sweet! Now YouTube gets to catch shit for censoring someone merely recording in public, while there are a jillion videos on their site with far more harassment, bullying, and threats.

*gets his popcorn*

A firearm by definition requires some sort of explosion. We could solve a lot of these problems by moving on to alternative projectile weapon technologies such as the coil gun, more commonly, and incorrectly, called the rail gun.

Then watch as the government tries to outlaw electricity.

...you mean besides masturabte?

I'm a die-hard techie, but it's shit like this that seriously makes me consider unplugging myself from the Internet and phone services.

Guess I'd better give Richard Stallman a call and see if he'll let me crash at his house for a while.

I vote we simply let people use their phones as much as they want while driving, and let natural selection take care of those that do it unsafely.

Dunno about you guys, but I do use my phone while driving, but do so in a responsible manner. I have it in a mount on my dash so I can use it for GPS navigation, MP3/music playing to my stereo, and hands-free calling. Worst-case scenario, I might shoot a quick text to someone while stopped at a light.

I'm honestly more distracted if there is another person in the car, or if I'm eating/drinking while driving, but I have yet to hear anyone tell me I can't do any of those while behind the wheel.

Does this count the batch file I just wrote that repeats my name over and over just so I'd qualify myself for this poll?

Aren't there all kinds of cheap 1080p projectors on the market? I got one from Costco a few years ago for about $900. Use it to play Xbox mostly, but somehow it's still working on the original bulb, and is still plenty bright when projecting onto a 9 foot wide screen.

A projector is often smaller than a monitor, and your screen size is only limited by your available wall dimensions.