Mewtwo - Slashdot User

Comment: Okay, so the kids get martial arts training... (Score 1) 279

by Mewtwo on Friday July 10 2009, @10:19AM (#28649389) Attached to: Chinese "Web Addicts" Get Boot Camp, Therapy

...so now when they get back home, and the parent tries to pull them off the internet (or tell the kids to do/not to do anything), the kids are now eqiupped with the skills to kick the parent's ass. Great thinking!

Comment: Most D&Ders will disagree that this is good, b (Score 1) 257

by Mewtwo on Monday July 06 2009, @08:45PM (#28602235) Attached to: 10 Business Lessons I Learned From Playing D&D

Min-maxing. Get the most out of every situation with the least put in, whether that be biggest return on the smallest monetary investment, most work done in the least amount of time, etc. Make every iota of effort, energy, money, anything you put into the world pay you back as big as you can.

Comment: Simple solution (Score 1) 56

by Mewtwo on Saturday June 28 2008, @12:19PM (#23981939) Attached to: eBay Australia Delays PayPal Change Indefinitely

...the ACCC can allow them to only accept PayPal, but PayPal is not allowed to collect any fees on the transactions. If eBay is doing this for "consumer safety", I'm sure they won't mind freely offering their payment service.

Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President 1224

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 20 2006, @06:38AM
from the not-in-it-for-the-money dept.

gerrysteele writes to point out a recent post to the Dilbert blog, in which Scott Adams discusses the atheist ascendancy in America and rationalizes the need for an atheist leader. From the article: "Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. I think that in an election cycle or two you will see an atheist business leader emerge as a legitimate candidate for president. And his name will be Bill Gates."

Jack Thompson's Violent Game Bill Signed Into Law 368

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 16 2006, @03:31PM
from the happy-day-for-media-savvy-lawyers dept.

simoniker writes "Louisiana Democratic Representative Roy Burrell's HB1381 bill, covering violent videogames, has been signed into law by Governor Kathleen Blanco. The law takes effect immediately, the latest in a very long line of video game-related bills specific to one U.S. State. The measure proposed by HB 1381, which was drafted with the help of controversial Florida attorney and anti-game activist Jack Thompson, allows a judge to rule on whether or not a videogame meets established criteria for being inappropriate for minors and be subsequently pulled from store shelves. A person found guilty of selling such a game to a minor would face fines ranging from $100 to $2,000, plus a prison term of up to one year. Needless to say, the ESA will likely be mounting a legal challenge to this bill in the very near future."

Windows Defense on IE7 Search is No Defense 407

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 03 2006, @12:41PM
from the they-keep-spelling-defense-wrong dept.

Vicegrip writes "Stan Beer writes on why Microsoft's and recently Yahoo's supportive arguments for making Windows Live Search the default in IE7 are feeble: "In the case of Google, it pays hard cash to Mozilla and Dell to get the right to have its search engine placed as the default in the browsers.[... by contrast ...] Microsoft does not need to pay one cent to place its search engine in the lead position on its browser, which sits on the vast majority of PCs in the world"."