Comment Ahhh... the microsoft motto (Score 0, Flamebait) 430
Ahhh... the microsoft motto
Be evil.
There is no other way to put this
Comment Re:This has its perks (Score 1) 374
As someone who used to have a cat - I know this is true - was always to afraid to voice that opinion. The might have learnt how to read them cats.
Comment Re:This has its perks (Score 1) 374
So the beetles are using us to deliver them into space so the can colonize the universe?
We are nothing but slaves!
Comment Re:This has its perks (Score 2, Interesting) 374
maybe they wouldn't need a big fleet.
just one virus
or nanobots - grey goo us all...
to stop the pink goo*
*: Pink Goo is mankind. It replicates relatively slowly, but some people think it will nevertheless fill any amount of space given enough time. In the pink goo worldview the spread of humanity is a catastrophe and space exploration opens up the possibility of the entire galaxy or the universe getting filled up with Pink Goo - the ultimate crime, something to be stopped at any cost.
Comment Not sure why (Score 5, Funny) 331
But I have a sound meter on my mobile phone, and it's exactly 50db where I am now - and that's probably just the laptop.
or that strange howling in cellar...
can't be too sure.
Comment Sacrifice (Score 1) 156
It would be interesting to see how many of the free speech advocates on slashdot would actually risk their own freedom for freedom of speech.
It's very easy to sit in your lazyboy and curse other countries when the worst thing that can happen is extension of the mickey mouse law...
Comment Re:History of the church from the 14th century. (Score 2, Funny) 284
21st century... damn keyboard.
Comment History of the church from the 14th century. (Score 1) 284
14th Century: The Papacy Moves to France
15th Century: The Great Western Schism
16th Century: The Protestant Revolt
17th Century: The Thirty Year War and The Enlightenment
18th Century: The French Revolution and Catholicism in America
19th Century: Vatican I and The Rise of the Church in America
20th Century: Vatican II, Pope John Paul II and the New Evangelization
21th Century: Pope Urges Priests To Go Forth and Blog
Comment Apple are the bad guys here. (Score 2, Insightful) 374
This is just a feeling I have, but somehow the evil American corporation is more likely then the evil Finnish corporation.
Comment What is the difference (Score 0) 292
Between a normal tv and a 3d tv (that you have to watch with 3d glasses)
The Murky Origins of Zork's Name 70
mjn writes "Computational media researcher Nick Montfort traces the murky origins of Zork's name. It's well known that the word was used in MIT hacker jargon around that time, but how did it get there? Candidates are the term 'zorch' from late 1950s DIY electronics slang, the use of the term as a placeholder in some early 1970s textbooks, the typo a QWERTY user would get if he typed 'work' on an AZERTY keyboard, and several uses in obscure sci-fi. No solid answers so far, though, as there are problems with many of the possible explanations that would have made MIT hackers unlikely to have run across them at the right time."
Comment Constant (Score 3, Funny) 191
You'll probably find this line in the computer program that runs version 5 of "Life, the Universe and Everything"
public const float seed = 1.618f;
Duke Nukem Forever Not Dead? (Yes, This Again) 195
kaychoro writes "There may be hope for Duke Nukem Forever (again). 'Jon St. John, better known as the voice of Duke Nukem, said some interesting words during a panel discussion at the Music and Games Festival (MAGFest) that took place January 1 – 4 in Alexandria, Virginia, according to Pixel Enemy. Answering a question from the crowd regarding DNF, St. John said: "... let me go ahead and tell you right now that I'm not allowed to talk about Duke Nukem Forever. No, no, don't be disappointed, read between the lines — why am I not allowed to talk about it?"'"
Do IT Pros Abuse Their Power? 460
An anonymous reader writes "I have noticed that many airports and hospitals I've visited have some kind of internet usage policy in place. Some use software similar to Websense, which effectively blocks sites based on blacklisting them by category. A commonly used blacklist prevents users from accessing 'forums or discussion boards,' yet I find that often these networks allow users to access sites like Fark, Slashdot, Digg and other message boards that appeal to the technical culture one might find in the IT world. In your experience, do IT administrators abuse their supervisory powers? Has there ever been a backlash from users or management for doing so?"
Comment Re:Uh No (Score 1) 582
Very true, you kill one, and in the way 20 innocent civilians, 5 children.
You could easily create 2 for every one you kill.
