I always thought it was due to bad landings...

Technology is already being developed to countermeasure this google glass thing in Dubai. It's called the Burka and it's supposed to shield the device from doing its job. Specs remain unavailable at this time.

I bought the original Battlefield 1942, installed the Desert Combat mod and it's still the only game (online or not) that I play. I think I tried BF2, didn't buy it though, and wasn't convinced. As for DC, there's still a few servers around. Unfortunately some of them insist on having crappy maps on rotation. Apart from that, it's still great fun.

Probably not around here, but imagine an earth like planet, about 17 times bigger... Two separate intelligent species could evolve separately and not be aware of each other well until they get close to XX century earth-like tech. Remember we only got to really start moving around in the XVI century. And earth is a relatively small planet. Now imagine something much MUCH bigger.

Still, of course, we have to consider, what would happen if those 2 species met. Would we be talking about human-like vs over-developed-dolphin? :) Or just two different branches of primate evolution, REALLY different (not american indian vs european caucasian different, since those were the same species) that only met when both were culturally advanced enough to actually get along.

That depends on the cables!

There may be a need to repopulate the planet. That scenario renders about 99.9% of slashdotters pretty useless...

Uh, yeah! Alriiight! We got it! We found the little prick! Illusive son of a bitch! We nailed it! Fuck, yeah!! We found this... the... little... thing. Damn right! Who da man? Who da man?! We da men! Ahah!! It's done! Bag it!! Can you believe we found the thing? Oh, man. I can't... I... oh... This is really great. The whole thing... the little... I mean, c'mon!! It's there! Look, it's... right there. We... What the fuck is this thing? No, really, what the... fuck is this... thing... we just f... found? Ah, gotta patent the fuck outta the fucker, anyway!

Do you mean: 'pump up kicks?!

- D: Dradis contact! Oh frack! A cylon base ship just jumped in on top of us...

- Admiral Adama: If only it was full of number sixes...

- Colonel Tigh: Oh man, I'd give my right eye for that!

Oh crap! Sorry guys... I'm having those number six dreams *again*.

I've never had any trouble finding apps in XP's start menu. I use 'dirs' and group the apps by genre. I have design apps, sound apps, internet, security, utils, and so on. No need to scroll or have two columns. I don't use quick launch and I don't have a single app shortcut on my desktop (I have quite a few txts in there though, as post its...).

"you can leave you tin foil hat on"

Truth is, it's probable just The Stig in the trunk, with a laptop.

Great, so you'll loose all the money you have with you AND a baseball bat...

That's what they get for using MS software.

Incidently, I gotta ask, what comes after Karma: Terrible, even when harmless jokes are involved?

My fault, I read it here and... well, I talk while I sleep...