PSXer - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Domain Knowledge (Score 1) 205

by PSXer on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @05:20PM (#22655316) Attached to: Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize

It doesn't matter what the "nerds" call us. We don't spend time to learn how a microwave works because we don't care.

It works the same in every country.

Submission + - I produced a large turd

Submitted by

LA VERDAD

on Sunday September 30, 2007 @03:36PM

LA VERDAD writes: "I just expelled a large-ish turd. It was of medium-hard consistency and sank to the bottom of the bowl. The odor was faintly sweet and it was flecked with little seeds from my healthy multigrain bread.

FURTHER UPDATES AS EVENTS WARRANT ... STAY TUNED"

Submission + - Playstation 2 was Best Selling Console at Xmas

Submitted by evw on Friday January 12, 2007 @02:28AM

evw writes: The numbers are in and the best selling console this past Christmas was the six year old PlayStation 2 at 1.4 million units! The Xbox 360 sold 1.1m, Wii sold 600k and PS3 sold 491k. The lessons? 1) The new consoles were supply constrained. Analysts thought the Wii would sell twice as many but they couldn't ship enough of them. 2) Price is important. Consumers would rather buy an old machine with tons of games available than drop a lot of money on something new. I'll bet PS3 picks up when people start upgrading and the prices have dropped. Interestingly, other news sources took the same data and neglected to mention the part about PS2 coming out on top.

Submission + - PirateBay raising funds to buy their own country!

Submitted by Adeptus_Luminati on Friday January 12, 2007 @02:23AM

Adeptus_Luminati writes: Check out the new logo on The Pirate Bay's (TPB) front page and you will notice it resembles that of the contravertial Sealand once featured (July 2000) in the front page of Wired magazine. Click on TPB's new logo and you will redirected to their buysealand.com website where they have setup a public forum allowing anonymous posts, but specifically stating their very brief Plan A & Plan B intentions and asking for Paypal donations. Apparently, the owners of Sealand are looking to sell the man-made island for an unspecified sum — which some external sources value at an incredible 750Million Euros! Seeing as the entire Wikipedia is struggling to raise even $1Million in donations, I doubt the TPB will succeed in raising enough funds... but hey, maybe if enough slashdotters contribute, perhaps they can at least proceed with a much needed paint job.

Submission + - AppleTV vs. Cable - Why I'm dumping Cable in Feb.

Submitted by some dude on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:36AM

some dude writes: Michael from Apple Gazette has decided to dump cable in favor of buying most of his shows from iTunes because of AppleTV... "Cable is expensive...and it's getting more expensive all the time. With Apple TV coming in February, I'm going to be dropping my cable provider, and switching my television over to Apple's new set top box. Will it be cheaper to buy my content through iTunes than to subscribe to my local company's digital cable package with DVR? Well...let's look at that and see..."

Submission + - Peter Jackson 86ed from "Hobbit" In LOTR P

Submitted by

mbstone

on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:15AM

mbstone writes: "Peter Jackson, who, of course, produced and directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has been blacklisted by New Line Cinema co-chairman Bob Shaye from directing any more films for the studio, specifically including the upcoming LOTR prequel, The Hobbit. Shaye's action was in response to Jackson's lawsuit in which he alleges the studio refuses to account for financial anomalies that he says surfaced from a partial audit of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and that it has denied his repeated requests to audit The Two Towers and The Return of the King. "

Submission + - Microsoft's Immortality Patent

Submitted by

theodp

on Friday January 12, 2007 @01:10AM

theodp writes: "So are the folks at Microsoft Research watching too much Star Wars, conducting pot-fueled brainstorming sessions, or just goofing on us? The latest crop of published Microsoft patent applications includes one for Immortal information storage and access platform, which apparently covers embedding a DNA-sampling, nuclear-powered, networked device in an urn containing your cremated remains so the one year-old baby you left behind can get your oh-so-valuable advice twenty years after your death. Hope this patent diagram isn't too technical for you!"

Submission + - Malware through Wikipedia

Submitted by

tmk

on Thursday November 02, 2006 @02:50AM

tmk writes: "Spammers tried to spread worms through Wikipedia. They send an email to thousands of users with instructions to download a Windows patch that was linked in an Wikipedia article. The trick: Because the vigilant Wikipedians had immediately revertet the spammers links from the article, they used permalinks to the old version of an article to spread his malware. The manipulated versions were purged not until hours after the spam run. As Heise security reports what unknown what kind of malware the files contained."

Submission + - Utube.com Sues YouTube.com

Submitted by IO ERROR on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @08:43PM

IO ERROR writes: According to the BBC, Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment is suing YouTube over its domain name, claiming that the massive number of misdirected hits to its own site, Utube.com, instead of YouTube.com, caused it to have to move its web hosting five times. "In August, the company got 68 million hits on its site which eventually crashed. 'We were there first by 10 years,' Universal Tube's president Ralph Girkins told the Associated Press." 68 million people can't spell "You"?

Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? 293

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @07:40PM from the fall-back-falls-backwards dept.

wohlford puts forth this query: "Next year, daylight saving time will be extended another four weeks. Slashdot has covered the time change proposal and its estimated impact, already. Since then it has been signed into law. Looking around on the Net I don't see anyone taking this seriously. Will this become the next tech doomsday or just another joke like Y2K?"

Slashdot Top Deals