Safety officials often use computer models to analyze fire exits and such in an emergency. I can see analyzing your office space for the survivability of a zombie holocaust as a viable safety measure.

There was a whole series of games based pretty much entirely on sex (or the pursuit of) back when I was a kid. I don't think I've had the simulated uncomfortable experience of purchasing a condom in a game since then...

I think either they were fed up with every good domain name being taken and mashed some random characters with a fist of rage, or their cat stepped on the keyboard. Either way, they compiled it in Perl and it output a classified site.

How much is this magic conductive PCB ink and printer going to cost though? If it is anything like the magnetic ink you need for printing checks, I think they just raised the entry bar a fair bit. BTW you can already print your own PCBs, you just need a regular laser printer and some acid to etch out the pattern. There are numerous guides on Google about how to do this on the cheap.

"turns video game sound into (literally) chest-pounding vibrations." I think normal speakers already do this. Granted you have to turn them up pretty high to do much chest pounding, but I'm pretty sure all sounds are indeed vibrations.

Nah we'll just change the rules again if we get too far behind. I seem to remember the Russians beating us to space and putting living things into orbit in the 60s, so we changed the rules to putting a man on the moon.

Russia: Mozltov, comrade we've made it to Mars! The space race is won.

US: Mars? Nice but the real goal was NEPTUNE, sorry guys.

US (aside): Someone call Spielburg...

But seriously, this is what we need to inspire some innovation within our own space program. I mean, if Apple had never released OSX then we might still be stuck with Windows XP. Oh, wait...

I pay about $30 per month for cable, and the only advantage it has over Hulu is that there is more of a selection. However, it isn't really fair to call it a selection when someone else has selected it for me, and decided what time I can watch it. Also at least 1/3 of it is commercial breaks. If Hulu can improve its selection for $30 or less per month, I'll drop cable like a hot rock. If they remove the 30 second ads for paid subscribers, I'd be a fool not to.

... its Geocities 2.0!

Everyone has to get out and push! Come to think of it, that would be an even better savings of energy -- just make everyone get out and walk their fat asses to the next station.

Considering I doubt that anyone here would actually want to meet or socialize with anyone else here, I'd say no. Slashdot is more like a big tree that we all like to piss on than a social networking site.

So you would sooner surrender to a group of soldiers than a giant robot with laser beams on its forehead? Seems pretty moot to me, a threat is a threat, and when you think about is there really that much difference between a programmed robot and a brainwashed human? At least the robots wont be stacking up naked POWs and pointing at their genitals.

Wow, not only did you use a car analogy to flame Sony, but you also got a zinger in on Ford as well. Kudos.

I'd say those who paid 61 euro for a screw are the "special" ones.

8 1/2 x 11 works pretty well, or A3 if you have a European printer.

Somewhere at Google HQ there is a guy saying "I told you we still weren't ready to come out of beta!"