Comment: Re:Not really about Bitcoin (Score 1) 327
Even if you could turn "virus" into an -i plural, it'd just be "viri". I don't know where people get this extra i from. It's not "virius".
But yes, just use "viruses" for FSM's sake.
Comment: Re:I don't know about you guys... (Score 1) 654
Castle Adventure! Always love seeing a reference to that. I can right this moment run through the solution to the game and all the treasures in my head.
Comment: Re:My cat's breath smells of cat food (Score 1) 400
The Amish feel that personal technology peaked in the early 1800s or so, and that most things invented subsequently only provide a distraction from living a worthwhile life.
You appear to be the same, but for 2001 instead. I guess there's nothing wrong with that, but don't expect the world to go along with you.
Comment: Re:Like War (Score 2, Informative) 483
by
syrinx
(#39420475)
Attached to: All Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior, Say Two US Congressmen
More time spent on this pointlessness means less time available for their normal job of ruining things. Yeah the USA is "outrageously fucked up", but Congress can pretty much only make it worse, so the more they get out of the way, the better.
Wolf's my congressman btw. If someone better wants to run I'd be all for it, but the ones who actually run against him are much worse.
Comment: Don't worry about it (Score 1) 196
As long as it works, just fire it off and forget about it. If it sucks, that's a maintenance programmer's problem.
Comment: Re:Censorship? (Score 1) 805
we are supposed to be proponents of network neutrality
We don't like governments mucking with DNS servers
Self-awareness just complete eludes "net neutrality" supporters, doesn't it?
Comment: Re:What is conservative? (Score 1, Troll) 232
Slashdot used to lean libertarian, but has been pretty much just liberal since, I don't know, at least 2004.
Actually I would say the decline in quality at Slashdot is correlated pretty closely to the decline in libertarian leanings.
Where the OP got "conservative" I have no idea, Slashdot has never been that.
Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops 324
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by
Soulskill
from the neutrons-are-scary dept.
from the neutrons-are-scary dept.
ProbablyJoe writes "A poll for the BBC shows that worldwide support for nuclear power has dropped significantly in the past 6 years. However, while support has dropped in most countries, the UK has defied the trend, where 37% of the public support building new reactors. Unsurprisingly, support in Japan has dropped significantly, with only 6% supporting new reactors. The U.S. remains the country with the highest public opinion of nuclear power, though support has dropped slightly. Much of the decline in approval has been attributed to the events in Fukushima earlier in the year, although a recent Slashdot poll indicated that many readers' opinions had not been affected by the events, and there was an even split between those who found the technology more or less safe since the events. With reports on the long lasting effects in Fukushima still conflicted, is nuclear power still a viable solution to the world's energy problems?"
Comment: Re:Giving up passwords (Score 1) 575
Uh, I think your sarcasm detector needs work.
Comment: Re:whole system (Score 1) 522
the 4MB was on the 386, which wasn't that strange at the time. Pretty sure it was basically the Gateway on this page: http://books.google.com/books?id=0FAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA51&ots=ZzcqlRw110&dq=gateway%20386%2F25&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q=gateway%20386/25&f=false
Came with Windows 3.0! Probably needed the 4 MB of RAM to run that.
Comment: whole system (Score 1) 522
Best upgrade was from an XT clone to a 386. CGA to SVGA, 4 whole megabytes of RAM, a hard drive 4x as big (20 MB to 80 MB). I don't think anything has been as amazing as that.
California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches 462
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by
Soulskill
from the take-that-citizens dept.
from the take-that-citizens dept.
kodiaktau writes "In probably the most important decision Gov. Brown of California will make this year, he has vetoed the bill that would require officers to get a search warrant before searching cellular phones of arrested citizens. This further enables the police to carry out warrantless searches of private property extending into contacts, email, photos, banking activity, GPS, and other functions that are controlled by modern phones. 'He cites a recent California Supreme Court decision upholding the warrantless searches of people incident to an arrest. In his brief message (PDF), he also doesn’t say whether it’s a good idea or not. Instead, he says the state Supreme Court’s decision is good enough, a decision the U.S. Supreme Court let stand last week.'"
Comment: 7/vista I guess (Score 1) 417
7 on my home desktop, though I'm using it less and less recently in favor of a laptop running OSX.
Machines at work are all Vista, but 75% of the time I'm just using them to log into a Linux server anyway.
Comment: Google+ (Score 1) 332
Google+: For people who thought, "You know, I wish there were some way I could give even more personal information to Google!"
Comment: 75% (Score 1) 336
1989, I was 7. That was on Prodigy. Had some BBS addresses and an AOL address during the next few years; my first true "Internet" email address was from a local freenet in 1993ish.