Maria_Celeste - Slashdot User

Comment Re:So why continue it... (Score 1) 665

by Maria_Celeste on Thursday September 26, 2013 @11:11AM (#44960455) Attached to: Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake

Once they got the "Windows Key", why did they continue using the Ctrl + Alt + Delete?

Because it's an automatic/involuntary movement for Windows users. It's no different than pressing an elevator button. You don't think about it.

Submission + - Google hosts fundraiser for climate change-denying US senator (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by Maria_Celeste on Thursday July 11, 2013 @10:53AM

Maria_Celeste writes: Google, which prides itself on building a "better web that is better for the environment", is hosting a fundraiser for the most notorious climate change denier in Congress, it has emerged. The lunch, at the company's Washington office, will benefit the Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe, who has made a career of dismissing climate change as a "hoax" on the Senate floor. Proceeds of the 11 July lunch, priced at $250 to $2,500, will also go to the national Republican Senatorial Committee.

Comment Re:Quick Fix (Score 1) 749

by Maria_Celeste on Friday June 14, 2013 @01:17PM (#44008773) Attached to: Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders

Another quick fix: unclassify it (the methodology, not specific search information).

Comment Quick Fix (Score 2) 749

by Maria_Celeste on Friday June 14, 2013 @11:52AM (#44007729) Attached to: Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders

If the media is wrong, release the evidence and prove it.

Comment Funny (Score 1) 988

by Maria_Celeste on Friday October 21, 2011 @10:39AM (#37791950) Attached to: Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android

All of this technology sort of smacks of ripping off Doug Adams anyway. Go back and read your "Hitchhiker's Guide".

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