Comment Re:fun with statistics (Score 1, Insightful) 435
Trolling aside, the sun doesn't follow the Gregorian calendar. Making statistics using the Gregorian calendar is therefore irrelevant at best.
Comment Re:I always thought (Score 2, Insightful) 1297
Now, I'm a peace-activist (or "bleeding-heart-liberal tree-hugging, dolphin-loving hippie moron" as you Texans like to call us) and usually one of the first to admit that the U.S. is no better than many of its enemies when it comes to aspects of human rights, torture and respect for life. But seriously. Making someone watch South Park does NOT constitute torture. And I'm not even a South Park fan.
Besides, it could have been a lot worse. He could have been forced to watch every Steven Segal movie ever made over and over. Or Gigli. Or Matrix 2 and 3. Or that Providence TV-series. Now THAT's torture.
PS: Don't mess with Texas - it's not nice to pick on retards DS
Comment Re:Alternative viewpoint: (Score 1) 443
If I had the money, forking out 185k + annual for "goat.sex" would be totally worth it.
OH OH OH!
Websites may come and go but memes are eternal.
Bookmark Top MI6 spy: Terrorism less serious than bird flu (theregister.co.uk)
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 0, Redundant) 135
To he who modded me down:
All your memes are belong to us!!
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 135
I was just thinking the same thing! Maybe we can use it to display pictures of Natalie Portman, naked and petrified and covered in hot grits. I just bought the goatse.cx domain, we can use it!
Comment Obligatory (Score 0, Redundant) 135
Does it run Linux?
Comment Re:B-5 (Score 4, Funny) 290
I'm shocked to find that Windows based computers are subject to virus infections! SHOCKED!
Submission + - Another Sony Rootkit (computerworld.com)
Submission + - XBOX failure draining money from Microsoft
Big Nothing writes: "The various technical difficulties with the XBOX 360 has previously been covered here on slashdot. Now various news sources are reporting that the repair costs for Microsoft are going to be a whopping $1bn. Microsoft will extend the warranty to cover repairs related to the "red lights of death" problem up to three years after purchase."
Submission + - PDAs: The Death of Marital Sex
zyl0x writes: Forbes.com has an article online detailing the PDA industry's detrimental effect on married couple's sex lives. The article quotes a clinical psychologist who has coined the term "DINS couples" (double income, no sex), and explains how constant office connectivity can destroy what little chance us IT-types have with our wives. From the aritcle:
"...employees in contact with work outside of normal work hours are more often highly overworked than those with little or no contact. What does this mean for constantly connected couples? According to therapists and psychologists, around-the-clock access to the office often results in fatigue, a lack of intimacy, resentment, increased conflict and even premature career burnout."
Not that many of us have a sex life to lose, but maybe these Black- and Blueberries are the ultimate cause?
"...employees in contact with work outside of normal work hours are more often highly overworked than those with little or no contact. What does this mean for constantly connected couples? According to therapists and psychologists, around-the-clock access to the office often results in fatigue, a lack of intimacy, resentment, increased conflict and even premature career burnout."
Not that many of us have a sex life to lose, but maybe these Black- and Blueberries are the ultimate cause?
Submission + - Microsoft Expression Web - Is it All that?
erica_ann writes: "I am a Dreamweaver lover and die-hard fan. When I hear / see a website was made with Front Page, I cringe and shrudder. I have spent too many sleepless nights correcting the mangled code from Front Page so it would be cross-browser complaint as well as W3C and even CSS compliant — not to mention meet accessibility standards.
Now, I read that Microsoft has dropped Front Page and is now touting Microsoft Expression Web. From what I have read, it seems to be one of the few (or the only one) WYSIWYG editor that lets you drag and drop — say even an image — and creates a CSS style for it... not using HTML to place it.
I have also seen that it will not work with PHP — which is one of the reasons I love Dreamweaver so much — since it will.
Supposedly the new Microsoft Expression Web will be a rival for Dreamweaver and other top name Editors.. but can Microsoft really make a comeback from Front Page? I plan on downloading it and trying the trial out — but you have to uninstall the Office trail first which I am still crunching through to do a review on.
Have any ./ readers tried out the new Microsoft Expression Web? Is the code produced really that much better than the older Front Page? I would like to hear what others who have tried this have to say about it."
Now, I read that Microsoft has dropped Front Page and is now touting Microsoft Expression Web. From what I have read, it seems to be one of the few (or the only one) WYSIWYG editor that lets you drag and drop — say even an image — and creates a CSS style for it... not using HTML to place it.
I have also seen that it will not work with PHP — which is one of the reasons I love Dreamweaver so much — since it will.
Supposedly the new Microsoft Expression Web will be a rival for Dreamweaver and other top name Editors.. but can Microsoft really make a comeback from Front Page? I plan on downloading it and trying the trial out — but you have to uninstall the Office trail first which I am still crunching through to do a review on.
Have any
Submission + - Google killed the radio star
LoIP writes: "Sex blogs that have been demoted to lower Google ranking have been in the news recently. But other sites happen to disappear from Google's database altogether. For example, the popular and serious website for radio hobbyists DXing.info. The site has hundreds of pages of good information for that group; has no spam/splog/optimization/other practices that may make it look suspicious; is non-profit (carries no ads); has alot of inbound links, and shows up among the top results on all search engines — but no longer on Google. It has been for years top-three on Google for "DXing" and first-page for other relevant keywords, and had a pagerank of 6 (highest in the world of DXing websites) but something happened around November that wiped it out of the G database. Today even searching for "dxing.info" doesn't turn it up (while sites linking to it do). Why doesn't Google like it anymore? Mystery.
http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/01/google_killed_t .html"
Submission + - Bill Moyers on Net Neutrality and Media Reform
Sandburger writes: Bill Moyers gave an inspired and inspiring opening speech at the National Conference for Media Reform this past weekend. After discussing the "plantation mentality" that keeps moneyed media in charge of political thought and debate, he warns of the threat to freedom and democracy posed by corporate interests determined to exploit the internet.
Alternet (http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/46684/) has links to YouTube videos. The conference site (http://www.freepress.net/conference/) has additional links to QT video and audio.
Alternet (http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/46684/) has links to YouTube videos. The conference site (http://www.freepress.net/conference/) has additional links to QT video and audio.
Submission + - Blogger.com comments: open to abuse
Tim Ireland writes: "Blogger.com allows you to comment posing as another user:
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2007/01/blogg er_sockpuppets.asp
If someone has their comments set at 'Anyone' (as most comment-hungry bloggers do), the system allows you to pose as any user of Blogger, providing that you know their Blogger name and the location of their profile. Try as I might, I can't think of another major community-based website that allows non-members to pose as members within their own system."
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2007/01/blog
If someone has their comments set at 'Anyone' (as most comment-hungry bloggers do), the system allows you to pose as any user of Blogger, providing that you know their Blogger name and the location of their profile. Try as I might, I can't think of another major community-based website that allows non-members to pose as members within their own system."
