Comment Re:WTF (Score 1) 576
I'm down, its all the uneducated hicks you'll have to convince.
Comment I for one (Score -1, Redundant) 398
Welcome our zombie ant overlords.
Comment Obvious (Score 1) 393
Store em on the floor of your mom's basement like i do. Just don't step on them when you get up to get more pizza.
Comment This is a great idea! (Score 1) 211
I also support other such measures like:
Stripping people of their cars for speeding.
Banning certain people from owning hammers after being sued in civil court for a case only tangentially involving a hammer.
Chopping the dicks off of sex offenders.
Taking aspirin to pretend I don't have cancer.
Making razor blades illegal to stop cocaine abuse.
Comment So... (Score 5, Insightful) 455
Where's the torrent?
Comment What? (Score 1) 162
Now that the rock formation is gone, its just another chunk of rock... why not find something equally iconic instead of lamenting the loss of something of vague importance...
QUICK! We have to shellac the grand canyon so it doesn't eventually decay into something not so awesome...
Time will make dust of us all anyway. I'm hearing wonderful things about photography these days.
Comment Ski Resorts (Score 1) 252
I run lifts at a ski resort. The actual "work" (ie shoveling, pushing buttons) is only about 1-2 hours a day. On the other hand I have to be alert and paying attention to what's going on for about 7-8 hours a day to keep people from killing themselves with a 3 million dollar machine. I certainly can't be browsing slashdot every 10 minutes
Ski breaks are just as good though.
Comment I'll donate my brain (Score 1) 232
If it goes to a foundation for the study of the long term effects of marijuana.
Comment Hooray! (Score 5, Insightful) 68
I love being nickeled and dimed to death by everyone.
Comment So what.... (Score 1) 258
we all drive around with ethernet cables hooked to rollers on the side of the freeway?
Or maybe it'll use the cellular network, but I don't see many people paying mobile phone prices to access the internet...
Someone more observant than I maybe want to point out the technical details?
Submission + - UK's Blair Responds to Car Tracking Petition
Garrett Fox writes: The response by British PM Tony Blair to the online petition against universal surveillance of every car in Britain has been released. Slashdot covered the tracking proposal itself here, and recently covered Blair's rejection of a petition against national biometric ID cards. The anti-tracking petition gathered over 1.7 million supporters before its pre-arranged deadline Tuesday. Blair's reaction? This is purely about "road pricing" and fighting congestion, not surveillance... "But there may also be opportunities presented by developments in new technology." This claim is inconsistent with old reports like this that the system was designed to fight crime.
Submission + - Ballmer repeats threats against Linux
ErrorBase writes: "CNet Informs us about a Resent repeat of threats to linux users. More or less 'use SUsE or pony up to MicroSoft'. Will people actually fall for more FUD?
MicroSoft must have scared itself silly by making deals with open-source purveyors and with that stepping past the third stage of Mohandas Gandhi's list."
Net Neutrality Voted Down in U.S. House Committee 354
Ana10g writes "Business Week provides a look at the recent vote by the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, in which the FCC would have been given the power to prohibit discrimination of Internet traffic. The battlefield seems to be centered around which group has the better funded lobbyists, with companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and many others competing against the well funded Telecommunications lobbysts. The committee voted the amendment down, 34 to 22."
Journal Journal: Wonder what this does?
Hmmm.....
First post?
