Comment Re:Slashdot achievements (Score 1) 1582
for serious
Comment Re:so? (Score 1) 343
/agree
The fact that M$ is contributing half of the money for the project and considering the number of jobs building this road will create, I would think this is mostly a win for the taxpayers. Sure a big business is getting a road built, sure that big business happens to be next in line for the throne of satan but it is a public road and infrastructure is usually the job of government. Right?
The fact that M$ is contributing half of the money for the project and considering the number of jobs building this road will create, I would think this is mostly a win for the taxpayers. Sure a big business is getting a road built, sure that big business happens to be next in line for the throne of satan but it is a public road and infrastructure is usually the job of government. Right?
New Ice Structure Could Help Seed Clouds, Cause Rain 100
ScienceDaily is reporting that a new ice chain structure may provide a better method for seeding clouds and causing rain. "Ice structures are usually built out of simple hexagonal arrangements of water molecules and this hexagonal building block motif is easily observed in the structures of snowflakes. However, during their studies Dr Angelos Michaelides and co-workers from the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, and the University of Liverpool have discovered a natural nanoscale ice structure formed of pentagons."
Comment Wait.. (Score 1) 596
I don't believe anything else Ballmer says. The guy is the poster child for M$ fuckups these days. Why would anyone believe what he has to say about his companies competition? His statement about Linux actually makes me think Apple is more of a competitor than any of us think.
Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 349
Funny, but that was exactly what I though before I even read the summary. Too much /.?
Comment like this (Score 1) 401
i just take a picture of one of the server admins sleeping nude next to one of the server stacks and scribble in crayon: find this guy
Comment Re:I thought we already had this option... (Score 1) 355
Imagine how much XXX port package could charge for their collective content... Also imagine how much google could charge for their suite of offerings. Sure it violates the "do no evil" thingy, but that has never really applied to money.
Net neutrality champs or not, would any of us pay for an ISP without the 'five boner porn package' and the 'google suite'?
Net neutrality champs or not, would any of us pay for an ISP without the 'five boner porn package' and the 'google suite'?
Comment Re:80 hours (Score 1) 1055
Seriously...I just have to believe salary is for suckers.
you should try working for a university. i get paid good, i get three weeks off a year in addition to two weeks at christmas and a half week at thanksgiving, if i'm ever asked to do anything outside of normal hours that time can be used as additional vacation time and i can hire student workers to do most of the tedious stuff while i read slashdot. oh yea... and i get snow days off too. salary is for suckers? sure thing bud.
Badger Invasion
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Badger, badger, badger, badger. Mushroom, mushroom! Snake!
Comment i bet (Score 1) 3
if you killed this dude and tried to take his cross, the hair on his chest would cling to it with the strength of god. if you did, somehow, manage to get it away from him, his nipples would cry tears of oily body goo.
The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles In History 113
An anonymous reader writes "Not every game involves taking an axe to the head of a criminal; some classics from the 80's involved massacring camels from aircraft, or in the case of "How to Be a Complete Bastard" for the C64, something altogether different(unless you're a camel). CNet has collected the 30 most ridiculous game names and concepts from the last 25 years. Quite frankly, how some of these — including "Touch Dic" from Korea — ever made it onto store shelves is beyond me."
Submission + - "Hello World" 3rd Party Apps on the iPhone
addario_br writes: After many, many hours of intense work from "Nightwatch", the first independent "Hello World"* application has been compiled and launched on the iPhone. This was made possible using the "ARM/Mach-O Toolchain", Nightwatch's "special project", that he has been working on so carefully over the past few weeks. Certain parts of the toolchain (such as the assembler) are being refined and tested and these will be released as soon as possible.
Submission + - Digital camera costs to go crazy in Europe
Brad Binglinton writes: In the unlikely event that you're planning to buy a digital camera in Europe, think again. According to CNET.co.uk, the European Comission is going to increase taxes on certain cameras with certain video recording capabilites. "At the moment, all digital cameras are manufactured outside Europe. They're all imported. All of them. Currently, there's a European Commission-imposed 4.9 per cent import tariff on camcorders, but not on cameras, whatever their video-recording abilities. "
Submission + - Senate committee passes FCC indecency bill (pressesc.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "US Senate Commerce Committee today passed a bill that would allow FCC to fine broadcasters for slip of the tongue expletives, negating a ruling by federal appeals court in New York that commission's policy on 'fleeting expletives' is arbitrary and capricious. What this means is that once this becomes law, if you someone accidentally says "fsck" even once, the broadcaster gets fined."
Submission + - 2008: The Year for the Linux Desktop? (osweekly.com)
LNXPhreak writes: Although Linux has made a lot of improvements over the few years and especially in 2007, there are still a number of major problems that we need to resolve. Therefore, will 2008 be the year when we are 100 percent desktop ready? "I definitely believe so, but we'll need to see the codec issues cleared up in the US front and the hype about wireless 'ease' stopped immediately. Time for the truth: Linux distributions provide a safe, stable desktop environment that is better than anything else in the market. The wireless is atrocious, as the decision makers throughout the community refuse to join us here in reality, thus providing unparalleled support to a single chipset. This means seeing Novell, Canonical, Red Hat or someone standing up and approaching a single vendor, and offer to hand them the market in exchange for working with them develop no excuses WPA-ready WiFi cards for existing notebooks that do not currently provide Linux-friendly solutions.
