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Comment Re:BitCoin (Score 1) 297

by pm_rat_poison on Saturday January 14, 2012 @12:45PM (#38698188) Attached to: Least worthy tech-world cliches / buzzwords?

SOPA in greek translates to "Shut up!"
PIPA translates to (smoking) pipe, but it's also the word for "blowjob"
apt, isn't it?

Comment Treat students like livestock! (Score 1) 515

by pm_rat_poison on Friday February 18, 2011 @09:58AM (#35242814) Attached to: Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS

How very educational.

Comment Re:But that isn't what this app does (Score 1) 122

by pm_rat_poison on Saturday January 29, 2011 @02:19PM (#35043644) Attached to: Who Unfriended You, and Why

I see your point and I agrree with the philosophy behind it. But in my post, "why" was a short way express "make a conjecture as to why based on that evidence alone"

Comment Re:TFA is evil (Score 1) 122

by pm_rat_poison on Saturday January 29, 2011 @01:03PM (#35043130) Attached to: Who Unfriended You, and Why

it also deprives you of the ability to keep to yourself whether you "just don't use facebook that often" or you just don't wanna add another useless contact.

Comment TFA is evil (Score 1) 122

by pm_rat_poison on Saturday January 29, 2011 @10:19AM (#35042336) Attached to: Who Unfriended You, and Why

Details about who doens't want to friend you and why should remain private. Then again that's true for most of the stuff posted on facebook but that's another story.

Comment What about Zaphod? (Score 1) 312

by pm_rat_poison on Saturday January 22, 2011 @06:44PM (#34968074) Attached to: Betelgeuse To Blow Up Soon — Or Not

Why doesn't anyone ask about Zaphod Beeblebrox? He's from there, too, he's president of the fucking galaxy, and
[spoiler]
the most important person in the universe of the total perspective vortex
[/spoiler]

Comment and quite a long time in coming, too (Score 1) 284

by pm_rat_poison on Friday January 21, 2011 @05:16PM (#34959032) Attached to: Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar

did I get asked for this? noooooo.
all extensions not explicitely allowed by the user should be disabled.

UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default 642

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 19, 2010 @11:26AM from the get-naked-for-the-cctv-instead dept.

airfoobar writes "Yet another country wants to 'protect the children' by blocking all internet porn — not just child porn, all porn. The British gov will talk with ISPs next month to ask them to make porn blocking mandatory (and they appear more than happy to comply). As an effect, adults who want to access pornography through their internet connections will have to 'opt in.' Their rationale is that if ISPs have managed to block all child porn, they'll also be able to block all other porn as well."

Comment Re:Okay Anonymous Assholes (Score 1) 469

by pm_rat_poison on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:34AM (#34401712) Attached to: WikiLeaks Should...

private
public
is there any kind of difference between these two words? maybe private stuff should stay private and public stuff should be public? imjustsaying

Comment Re:MS has mixed up 'Hacking' and 'Cracking' (Score 1) 215

by pm_rat_poison on Saturday November 20, 2010 @07:03PM (#34293916) Attached to: Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design

It's not a hack, it's a feature

Scientists Find New Target For Alzhiemer's 107

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 23, 2010 @10:55AM from the good-news-i-forget-why dept.

GarryFre writes "Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The target called neutral sphingomyelinase (N-SMase) is a protein which, when activated, can cause a chain of reactions in the cell leading to neuronal death and memory loss. Already a substance has been found that shows some promise in halting the progression of the disease."

Comment Re:What ads? (Score 1) 250

by pm_rat_poison on Monday September 20, 2010 @12:56PM (#33637942) Attached to: Did Google Go Instant Just To Show More Ads?

And how do you feel about calling the process of filtering out unsolicited pieces of information from a server you didn't even choose to visit "freeloading?"
Maybe smug is the word you're looking for. Oh, wait...

Slackware 13.1 Released 155

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 24, 2010 @09:09PM from the taking-up-the-slack dept.

Several readers made sure we are aware that Slackware 13.1 release is out. Here's the list of mirrors. "Slackware 13.1 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.6.1, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy-to-use desktop environment, and KDE 4.4.3, a recent stable release of the new 4.4.x series of the award-winning KDE desktop environment."

Comment Re:Drunk and on valium (Score 4, Insightful) 549

by pm_rat_poison on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @10:55AM (#31009762) Attached to: I usually fly...

High. Not legal everywhere, but healthier than vallium.

Unofficial Qt Environment (and Sudoku) For the Kindle 36

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 30, 2010 @04:20PM from the tablet-madness-never-ends dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I've just posted packages for installing a Qt-based platform on the Kindle 2 and DX devices, and a Sudoku game to go along with it. The Qt-based platform includes plugins I wrote for the e-ink display, the keyboard, and the five-way joystick thing — so it's a fully interactive and usable environment now. Soon I'll be adding a sample app with source code to go along with it."

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