Comment Listen you stupid machine! (Score 2, Funny) 234
Listen you stupid machine, it tastes filthy! Here, take this cup back!
I'd settle for restricting flash to site domain only.
If only pages would load as fast as they can be rendered.
What is perhaps interesting is that Lost has a lot more popular appeal than the examples I quote above, so maybe this type of storytelling is becoming more appealing to the average TV viewer?
Because nobody ever told stories with large amounts of flashback before the advent of hypertext.
But if you tie it to a fancy buzzword, it's all new and exciting!
no no no — you're supposed to say “Can you imagine...”
a professor at the University of Edinburgh DOES = good science and for things like this... i think i'll ask someone i KNOW to be an expert.... good idea don't you think?
Come to think of it, it probably is a good idea. The more people get to know about this guy, the better.
Holy blap, what part of "crap" don't you understand?
A LaTeX document with lots of formulas doesn't automagically mean proper science, you know.
See this and this.
And thrown in for good measure: The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus
Peer review indeed isn't a guarantee for proper science if easily-debunkable crap like this can get through peer review.
In fact many companies are also breathing a sigh of relief along with us techies, but for different reasons. They don't want their users watching videos while they should be working.
Um, no. What part of
“On March 13, we are dropping support for your browser. You’ll still be able to watch videos after that date, but new features may not work properly.”
don't you understand?
There is nothing to see here folks, move on. The bug kicks in only under certain circumstances. The circumstances are apparently running a Windows system with Internet Explorer as the default browser. Come on, how many slashdotters do that?
All the slackers browsing the intarwebs from work?
If Homeland Security tried to spy on us with drones, it would become a sport to shoot them down. And they WOULD go down, too. Lots of expensive wreckage.
But I guess they'd have footage of the culprit who shot it down and let him pay for the expensive wreckage...
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
