Why is this modded flamebait?

right now printer ink is a hell of a lot more expensive than human blood so it might still be a bit cheaper - http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/mlm/BloodInk.jpg

Little taken aback by the tone of the write up in the local news and the quote by the superintendent, "We support educational research and certainly would have supported cancer research, [..] however, as an educational institution we do not support the search for E.T."

The whole article implies that SETI is some out there kookie search for aliens and in no way a scientific endeavor that has at times been funded in part by the US government. That's local news coverage for you though.

Sorta of brilliant in an evil, completely awful idea, sort of way - crowdsourcing crime enforcement. Should've just signed up for a Amazon Mechanical Turk account, might save some money.

Oh I get and expect that - even though I have seemingly been more lucky than others with not getting too many parts DOA. But we have, non-optimal, backup systems to use in the interim, after I decided to not go with Dell I didn't expect anything to be speedy (though the ship dates through dell were around 10 days). Ordering three similar systems, I expect (hope) to not end up with more than one bad part of each type so that I can at least have two of the systems up while I wait for RMA'd parts.

I remember when building your own systems was a bit more expensive than buying through dell or gateway, but the systems I'm putting together are fairly powerful and a whole lot cheaper than similar systems through Dell (posted the specs - http://www.chrisolberding.com/).

Had a bit of first hand experience with this recently. I've always known Dell has devious pricing systems, the same system will have different starting prices and instant discounts applied to it depending on how you get to it and result in systems with the same specs being priced hundreds of dollars apart from one another.

I own a business and needed some systems quick for new hires. We have a line of credit through dell which has come in handy a few times. The new hires were going to be working heavily in the Adobe suite and needed some firepower but nothing crazy. I just could not price a system with the specs I wanted. I called up sales and they told me that it was impossible to get the system I wanted with 64-bit Vista despite that, when both options were available, there was no price difference, the sales guy made some nonsensical reference to the motherboard (was getting a intel quad-core). I asked could I get the 2GBs of memory that came with the system on one DIMM instead of two, but this was not possible because the system wouldn't support it.

In the end I broke down and now and ordering three systems worth of parts from Newegg, which, of course, satisfies my inner geek but has lead to significant delays in getting the hardware I need.

"Serif is better for print, sans is better for crt/lcd displays." Demonstrates that you don't know a lot about typography.

Ah! Was hoping I'd find this here.

Seriously. It's not as though Parallel Kingdom is completely obscure - it got a bit of coverage. Spend some time researching if your random 'idea' has been already done nearly exactly as you describe before putting it out there as novel.

That said, wasn't very impressed with Parallel Kingdom.

When I started my company, Station Four, we had the same issue. Since the name wasn't established and there were many variations that would be acceptable (station4, stationfour, stationfourdesign) we went into bargaining with the owner of stationfour.com with a "we'd like the domain but we don't need it attitude", we had already picked up stationfourdesign as a back up.

If we really really wanted a domain that matched our company name and we couldn't get 'stationfour' then we probably would have come up with another name.

The guy asked for too much, we said good-bye, he came back and said he'd sell it for $80 and we picked it up.

*Chuckle

*Chuckle

"Political Science"

*Look over at my BA in Political Science

*Sulk

I used to think the same way but I think I use way too many extensions most completely for productivity and work purposes and have found the resulting performance of Firefox lacking. I've even found myself opening up IE to watch BSG or Hulu because there's an annoying skip in FF likely caused by some extension. I'm not so sure that it wouldn't make sense for me to use a browsing browser (chrome) and a production browser (FF + extensions).

Of course I'm sure my situation is not really widespread among the larger internet using population and there are a number of extensions I use heavily that I'd want in my 'browsing browser' (foxmarts, twitterfox, etc). But just making the point that extensions come with a performance price and maybe there's room to actively use more than one browser.

it seems that the two clerks were big enough nerds to identify the weapon as a Batleth!

Unfortunately it seems that the robber was masked so they weren't able to tell if he was a swarmy Klingon.

Some great writing in the story: "The clerk did not give him any money and the suspect transported himself out of the store"

So the suspect ummm.. "left" the store? Oh wait... "transported himself", dude got beamed up!

I use twitter regularly and haven't seen this much.

Regardless, this is similar to stolen accounts being used to spam the message board on Myspace. Slightly annoying yes, but not a big deal because the user generally quickly reclaims their account.

Myspace also took a number of steps to cut down on this and warn users about links to outside domains and significantly reduced the problem.

I don't think this is that big of a deal on Twitter now and if it becomes one I believe it can be effectively combated.

On a side note, it'd be nice that when you notice that you are not logged in to Slashdot after writing a comment and click the 'log in' button on the comment box that it allowed you to log in without losing your comment

This must be at least 10 years old, I know it's Idle but are we just grabbing random old videos from Ebaums and throwing it up here.