Comment: Re:And the only winners are... (Score 1) 230
lawyers. Seriously, can we please round these bottom-feeders up and put them at the bottom of Yucca Mountain?
I'm all for it, but I think we'll have to wait far too long before any radioactive waste actually ends up there. Let's just go with Chernobyl?
Comment: Re:A Quick Guide To British Soccer Players By A Br (Score 1) 292
Plus it's incredibly rare for a rugby player to make the headlines, full stop.
Fixed that for you.
Comment: Re:WTF is wrong with you people? (Score 5, Funny) 606
Those are essentially the only barrier to success. Developing those might take a while. Maybe even another century. But saying it's never going to happen??? What are you guys expecting? MAD? Rapture? The sun going supernova? Teleportation devices? Fuck, you disappoint me.
Maybe we just know something you don't know. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Comment: Only 8% unemployment? (Score 1) 404
These statistics are skewed by sampling error, of course, since we know the best place to read Slashdot is from work...
Halo 2 Online Preservation Effort Ends 201
from the good-show dept.
Comment: Re:Stores in a database (Score 1) 319
Unlike slashdot, which writes everything in code on paper and has mute gnomes who it in a locked vault.
Actually, the mute gnomes hand off the coded papers through an airlock to blind gnomes, who then store them in the locked vault.
Comment: Re:Now its ... (Score 2, Funny) 319
Hey! That's the same password I have on my chastity belt!
Comment: Re:What the hell? (Score 2, Insightful) 316
You've changed, man. It used to be about the music!
Or, wait...what was Slashdot about waaay back in the 900,000 range of UIDs?
Comment: Planned Obselenscence (Score 4, Funny) 506
You won't even be allowed to possess the sixth version of this Nexus phone on the planet Earth. It will only be for use in the off-world colonies.
Special Verizon squads have orders to destroy, upon detection, any Nexus Six phone. This is called "retirement," and is not covered under warranty.