Comment Hello computer! (Score 1) 362
Keyboard? How quaint.
Comment Re:Apparently Obama knows not Grigsby & Cohen (Score 1) 763
In my experience, 50-year-olds spend more like 90% of their time on Facebook. Sheesh, mom, we don't care what you ate for lunch!
Comment Re:McDonald's undercuts parental authority? (Score 1) 145
Yeah, exactly.
There's this little thing that parents seem to forget these days called "saying no".
When my daughter would ask to go to McDonald's, I would say no. She may have thrown a fit the first few times, but I didn't let it get to me. Eventually, she stopped asking.
I see so many parents say something like "Well I don't think that's a good idea..." the kids then throw a fit and they give in to avoid the screaming. All this does is teaches them that screaming gets them what they want. It's bad for you and them in the long run.
Say no when you mean no, let them have their fits but NEVER give in. In the long run, they'll give up on the fits, and you'll both be happier.
Comment Re:yeah and (Score 1) 620
I'd do that, except that it's been my experience that anyone who asks that question doesn't know which is which. So I usually just answer with "the one under the question mark"... it's easier that way.
Comment Re:Saving a few bucks (Score 1) 964
If they changed it back... how do we know it wasn't a defacement hack intended to get some cheap laughs at the idea that Microsoft is racist in Poland?
I mean, that photoshop was bad enough that I could expect it from a 14 year old script kiddie... but not even the most rushed "pro" job.
Comment Re:OMG?! How much is that in miles?! (Score 1) 216
I will not be impressed until a robot wins "So You Think You Can Dance"
Comment Re:Mouse? (Score 1) 569
Your G5 has two side buttons?
Yours must be newer.
Mine only has one.. I keep finding myself wishing it had a forward button. Despite that, this is the best mouse I've ever owned.
Comment Re:Page 1: Find the programming language in Window (Score 3, Interesting) 111
It's not like it's that hard to *get* a programming language for Windows, though.
Just download a copy of Visual [C++|C#|VB] and you can do all kinds of fun stuff.
Windows doesn't have a programming language at boot because it's an OS for the masses, and the masses would get confused by a "READY." prompt.
Comment Re:Obscurity (Score 1) 828
Unless you're being attacked by mind flayers...
Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins 268
Anonymous writes "Two graduate students at the Ivy League's Brown University built a P2P system to use abandoned wiki sites to store data. The students were stealing bandwidth from open MediaWiki sites to send data between users as an alternative to BitTorrent. There was immediate backlash as site operators quickly complained to the University. The project appears to be shutdown, but many of the pages still remain on the web. The project homepage was also taken down and the students posted an apology this afternoon." The same submitter links to two different forum discussions on the project.
Comment Re:Whoa boy... (Score 1) 501
Haven't you read Heinlein's The Door Into Summer?
People will do this because their life sucks and they want to marry an 11 year old girl.
Yeah.. that was a weird book.
