Comment Re:He's Michal Zalewski (Score 4, Funny) 132
And he looks just like Jimmy Wales!
Submission + - President Obama to appear on Mythbusters (discovery.com) 2
Muondecay writes: President Obama will be featured in the December 8th MythBusters episode, "Archimedes Solar Ray," during which he will challenge Adam and Jamie to revisit an ancient and somewhat controversial myth: Did Greek scientist and polymath Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun during the Siege of Syracuse? This is part of a White House effort to highlight the importance of science education.
Comment Re:I think I see what the problem was (Score 4, Funny) 442
Finally, the year of Linux on the dinner table!
Comment Re:The best, easily-accessable pinball setup I saw (Score 1) 133
If you ever visit Oslo, Norway, check out the place Tilt (pictures). They have 15 machines, selected from the owners' collection of 230.
Comment Re:Figures (Score 1) 359
Actually, exposed Kodachrome films can be processed into positive colour frames or negative black and white.
Comment Re:Goatse Security (Score 1) 284
Both are great security experts, but in my opinion they should reconsider their stance on government back doors.
Comment Re:iAds (Score 1) 1184
What would be interesting is Adblock Plus for the iPhone.
I hear Flashblock works great on it!
Comment Re:And nothing of value is lost (Score 1) 454
You will have paid for newspapers, like the financial times, that contain news worth paying a premium for, which they won't publish online.
There was an article 2 days ago about how FT "sees a five-year trajectory for having exited print in substantial part."
However, in another article yesterday another spokesperson say they have no plans to scale back printing and go all digital.
Comment Re:This will be a success! (Score 1) 70
Comment Art is art (Score 3, Insightful) 733
Anyone who knows art will tell you that something is art if people who know art say it is.
Seriously, there's nothing more to it.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 694
Is this why I've only found sex change questions on that site, and never any answers?
Comment Re:hi neighbor! (Score 2, Funny) 422
Speaking of fucking, there's one here that's called "I can hear you having sex".
Comment Re:Won't someone PLEASE think of the cabbies! (Score 1) 232
I took a cab from Manhattan to JFK yesterday. There was one sticker in the cab stating that there's a flat fare from JFK to Manhattan, and another saying it's a flat fare either directon. Both stickers looked official to me as an out-of-towner.
The doorman at the hotel was sure it was a flat fare in one direction only. So what do you have to show for it if the taxi driver insists it isn't a flat fare?
The taxi driver kept the meter on until we reached Queens, then turned it off and complained about how he was losing money because of the heavy traffic and the flat fare, i.e. he could have been making more money if he had sticked to Manhattan rides during rush hour. I think he was just trying to score more tips. And it worked, poor guy.
Comment Re:Decline of the Prize (Score 2, Informative) 259
There have been controversial winners throughout the peace prize's history. Sometimes the prize goes to people who have waged war at some point, other times to people who have done something that most people don't think of as peace related.
No need to discuss if Obama actually deserved the prize, but I think a lot of people here in Norway believe he was awarded the prize because the leader of the comittee, Torbjørn Jagland, wanted to bring about a lot of attention to himself (and Norway).
Comment Re:not a bargain (Score 3, Funny) 970
There's no way that a pigment can cost thousands of dollars per liter.
That's simply not true.
The cyan cartridge is filled with pigments gathered from the beak of the endangered Taiwula bird, only found in altitudes of around 7.000 meters in the Nepalese mountains.
And that "photo grey" cartridge is made with moon dust. Not that moon, but one of Pluto's.
