Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 86
So if I breathe hot choking cigar fumes in your face, from my fat, dirty cigarillo, that's not assault? After all, all I'm doing is sending massive amounts of particulates (traffic) to make you choke...
Comment Re: Hmm (Score 1) 142
Factabunga, dudes!
Comment Re:I'm Gonna Say "Yes" (Score 1) 232
I feel like I should've known that. Thanks for the correction.
Comment Re:I'm Gonna Say "Yes" (Score 4, Insightful) 232
It may not happen; the modern Olympics, quite unlike the ancient Olympics, have not always been purely about physical sports. Competitions like poetry and painting were removed in part because the same entrants won year after year—this has not, so far, been an issue for e-sports.
Comment 503 (Score 1, Offtopic) 396
Did slashdot just die and silently come back up? I was getting 503's and "offline mode", logged in and out for ages, then suddenly its just working again. Anybody else experience anything like that?
Comment Re: The US Internet Shutdown Switch (Score 2) 388
Seriously, insightful?? Sarcastic, funny maybe, but I was definitely not being insightful! Next I'll be accused of having sock puppets!
Comment Re:Aerostat definitions (Score 1) 177
You need to move all of those tables and chairs, I am trying to land...
Comment Re:Diversity = Natural Order (Score 1) 53
To really get the natural order you're suggesting, you'd have to nuke his mum in the past - requiring faster-than-light-travel - so your troll-biting comment isn't as off-topic as the resulting moderation would imply!
Comment Re: The US Internet Shutdown Switch (Score 2) 388
I really, really hope apk will come on and tell me how "manly" I'm looking these days!
Comment Re:Maybe there was something to it... (Score 2) 68
What, so in your own words, Mars shows no signs of life, except for farting, and Venus is very stormy and no-one can touch (land on) her? Sounds about right!
Comment Re: Why does this need a sequel? (Score 1) 299
...Not having any particular stake in this argument, are we quite sure that's Tyrell's intended meaning, something so mundane? I think Tyrell is more taking about stuff like this:
I have seen things you people wouldn't believe Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears in rain. Time to die
...i.e., Roy's greatness and accomplishment as a person. At that point, Tyrell wants to sooth Roy and make him accept his place by calling him amazing. Simply saying "well, that's the cost of bein' so darn strong" conflicts with his next line: "And you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy."
Comment Not the first (Score 1) 80
Well, it wouldn't be the first Sony-signed rootkit...
Comment Flying on holidays, too (Score 1) 62
Driving ON the holiday is much, much easier than driving the day before.
It's cheaper and there's less airport chaos if you fly on Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Robots Put To Work On E-Waste 39
aesoteric writes: Australian researchers have programmed industrial robots to tackle the vast array of e-waste thrown out every year. The research shows robots can learn and memorize how various electronic products — such as LCD screens — are designed, enabling those products to be disassembled for recycling faster and faster. The end goal is less than five minutes to dismantle a product.
Comment Re:um no (Score 1) 138
Hey, um... what if dark matter is just heaps of rogue planets and left-over dust and gasses from nebulae? Given that we've only recently gotten a handle on how many rogue planets there are out there, wouldn't they've been left out of our previous calculations?
