Selfbain - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Change for the sake of change? (Score 1) 835

by Selfbain on Thursday August 04, 2011 @11:28AM (#36986240) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce

iTunes is a great operating system. All it lacks is a good music player.

Comment Re:Mysterious BS (Score 1) 368

by Selfbain on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @04:32PM (#36603766) Attached to: Google Launches Google+ Social Network

http://www.google.com/whatdoyoulove/

Comment Re:Forgiveness? (Score 1) 391

by Selfbain on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:55PM (#36452390) Attached to: Music Pirates Won't Rush To iCloud For Forgiveness

The amount of guilt I feel for pirating can be expressed as 1/x where x represents the number of music files pirated. So while the amount of guilt I feel is not actually 0, the limit of the function is and I can get as arbitrarily close to 0 as I wish.

Comment Re:Instructions? (Score 2) 395

by Selfbain on Thursday February 24, 2011 @04:28AM (#35297698) Attached to: Talking To Computers?

Dave is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Comment Re:MPG Difference Explained (Score 1) 417

by Selfbain on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:26PM (#35025384) Attached to: Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013

http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+40+rods+per+hogs+head+in+miles+per+gallon

Comment Re:A Partician is: (Score 1) 117

by Selfbain on Friday January 21, 2011 @07:08PM (#34960670) Attached to: Euler's Partition Function Theory Finished

I thought he meant this guy.

Comment Re:First Jobs, now Schmidt (Score 1) 185

by Selfbain on Thursday January 20, 2011 @11:16PM (#34948262) Attached to: Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO

while(1){ printf("developers "); sweat(); }

Comment Re:Uh (Score 1) 190

by Selfbain on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @03:10PM (#34852024) Attached to: Covert Video of Apple IPad 2 Just Released

Ya my 3GS just says iPhone. I checked as soon as I saw "iPad 2".

Comment World Press Freedom Day* (Score 1) 614

by Selfbain on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @03:25PM (#34491222) Attached to: US To Host World Press Freedom Day

* For some definitions of "World", "Press" and "Freedom"

Comment Re:Not suprising (Score 1) 382

by Selfbain on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @04:17PM (#34105104) Attached to: W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser

In September they reached 95/100 for Acid3. http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/07/internet-explorer-9-beta-sees-video-demo-hits-95-100-on-acid3-t/

Comment Re:Oh, snap! (Score 3, Insightful) 486

by Selfbain on Friday October 22, 2010 @12:54PM (#33986894) Attached to: Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life

At the very least it would be a huge PR disaster for them to not pay out. This way they pay out mere peanuts and get lots of favorable press.

Comment Re:Lethal Weapon VII (Score 5, Insightful) 448

by Selfbain on Friday September 24, 2010 @02:48PM (#33690486) Attached to: Man Gets 12-Year Jail Sentence For Planting Child Porn On Enemy's Computer

The ultimate weapon of the twenty first century: a catapult that fires naked children at your enemies.

If you give those children MP3 players filled with pirated music this weapon might just be capable of destroying the world.

Comment Re:Can it meet safety standards? (Score 2, Informative) 370

by Selfbain on Thursday September 16, 2010 @05:16PM (#33604610) Attached to: Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car

It had to in order to win the contest: http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/prize-details

Comment Re:AIs (Score 1) 452

by Selfbain on Monday August 23, 2010 @01:49PM (#33344338) Attached to: Look For AI, Not Aliens

Second definition. Whether or not that's the definition intended doesn't change the implication.

Comment AIs (Score 1) 452

by Selfbain on Monday August 23, 2010 @11:21AM (#33341778) Attached to: Look For AI, Not Aliens

I've always wondered how much machine intelligences would appreciate being called "artificial" considering that implies that their intelligence is just an imitation of our own whereas in reality it would probably be vastly superior.

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