Comment Re:U ? (Score 1) 501
You know times are bad when hackers can't even afford all the zeros they need and need to buy defective ones...
Comment Re:Will this benefit the average user? (Score 4, Informative) 383
The machine I'm currently on is a single core machine running XP (1.6 GHz if I'm not mistaken...so lazy I don't even want to pull up the specs!). I've been using Chrome for months on this thing and it's lightning fast. Your concern over speed is unfounded.
Comment Re:Japan is insane. (Score 2, Informative) 385
I'd rather he took the time to go through his pre-flight checklist!
Comment Re:It's just evolutionary. (Score 1) 473
Come on people, who can feel true emotional backlash from "killing" something that isn't even alive?
I'm a fairly hardcore gamer and I can say that I've almost never felt any remorse for any of the brutal things I've done in video games. Is this because I'm a psychopath? Of course not, I just have a tough time empathizing with a bunch of zeros and ones. That's what it all comes down to, these "people" will never come close to being real because they cease to exist when I turn the power off.
The only time I've ever felt empathy for a character is when the developers have done a particularly good job characterizing them and when this does happen, it's exactly as if I were empathizing with a movie or TV character. Games are just for amusement, they aren't reality simulators. Everyone needs to get a little perspective and realize this fact.
Comment Re:I hold my phone to my right ear (Score 1) 288
Wow, you need to turn the angry feminist dial down a few notches. Its called a sense of humor, get one.
Comment Re:Definition: Robot (Score 1) 258
Uhhh....what's the definition of a robotic part? You can't just define a word with itself!
Comment Re:I know next to nothing about this (Score 1) 129
Now we can train nano-sharks with fricken' laser beams attached to their heads to recognize the birth taking place and inject them into people's blood stream to immunize them against HIV!
Submission + - Matt Groening Final Boss in Simpsons EA Game (filefront.com) 1
eldavojohn writes: "Announced at E3, Mr. Groening will be the final boss in the Simpsons game. Mr. Groening commented on the game: "They did a send-up of videogames. It's a videogame about videogames; and I'm in the videogame. I'm a boss that you have to fight at the end of the game. It was really fun recording a million ways of dying, going 'UGGH, ARGGH, EUURGH!'""
Submission + - DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript
good soldier svejk writes:
That is what happened to Washington D.C. attorney Wendell Belew. His lawsuit takes on special significance given today's Sixth Circuit Court ruling that surveillance victims can only sue the DOJ if they can prove they were affected. Also in light of that decision we can safely add Catch-22 to the list of literary references above.It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked "top secret." And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls. You read it and ponder it and wonder what it all means. Then, two months later, the FBI shows up at your door, demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it.
