Comment Re:Me too. (Score 1) 481
As my wife is so fond of saying...."It's all about the packaging."
Comment Re:not likely to happen (Score 1) 269
Who decides how dire is dire enough?
Mark Knopfler, obviously.
Humor for nothing. Slashdot is free.
Comment Re:And if EMI disobeys, Roger Waters will say (Score 0) 601
If I recall correctly, 'twas Nick Mason who uttered those words.
Comment Re:Too much time on their hands (Score 1) 502
I like to think Burton's soul spawned the Swedish Melodic Death Metal scene and all of In Flames, Dark Tranquility and At The Gates music has a piece of him in it.
Comment Re:Online gambling is a bad idea. (Score 1, Troll) 206
It seems like poker, played against other RL opponents, would be outside the bounds of this, although there's no guarantee that you won't be stuck at a table with a bunch of other people colluding to take your money (or one person playing several seats).
No guarantee, but there are plenty of safeguards. The two biggest online poker sites, PokerStars and Full Tilt, each take colluding very seriously and if a player suspects something, they are encouraged to report it. With respect to one person playing several seats, there are also ways to detect and prevent that too. The above two risks you mention are very minimal and not really something to worry about at all.
Australian AvP Ban Reversed 71
Earlier this month, we discussed news that Sega's new Aliens vs. Predator video game had been refused classification in Australia, effectively banning it. After a scathing response from the developer saying they wouldn't censor the game, and later news that the classification scheme may be updated to include an R18+ rating, it now seems that the Classification Board has seen fit to give the game a green light after all. Sega's Darren Macbeth told Kotaku, "We are particularly proud that the game will be released in its original entirety, with no content altered or removed whatsoever. This is a big win for Australian gamers. We applaud the Classification Review Board on making a decision that clearly considers the context of the game, and is in line with the modern expectations of reasonable Australians."
Comment Re:I'm writing this comment from 2017 (Score 1) 338
Excellent Prince of Darkness reference.
Comment Flogger (Score 1) 660
I once mis-spelled the word "fogger" by typing "flogger." I hadn't realized it until a co-worker need to port my code to another application. We left it as flogger simply for amusement. The code worked properly though.
Comment Re:Copyright (Score 1) 775
Dollars to donuts the moderators who marked your comment Interesting have no idea what you're doing here. But I do. Nicely done.
Comment Bayes Theorum (Score 1) 365
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_theorum
See the section on drug testing.
