Comment I have no car. (Score 1) 1141
You insensitive clod!
My bike gets well over 9000 MPG though.
Comment Re:And this is news? (Score 1) 270
I use rmmod psmouse . (a line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist) It works fine on my Dell D630, it might work for you.
Comment Re:About Software (Score 1) 126
Yes, "hello, world" should start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. The comma is also unnecessary.
Comment Man in the Middle (Score 5, Funny) 234
1. Find two telemarketers who call you at (roughly) the same time.
2. Put them on the phone with each other.
3. ???
4. Hilarity ensues.
2. Put them on the phone with each other.
3. ???
4. Hilarity ensues.
Comment Three Words: (Score 1) 285
Not Bloody Likely. Motivated students, and trust me they ARE motivated, are far more effective than the MAFIAA leaning on the government leaning on schools.
MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want 453
jangel writes "While its strategy for mobile devices might be a mess, Microsoft has announced something we'll all benefit from. The company's patented design for battery contacts will allow users of portable devices — digital cameras, flashlights, remote controls, toys, you name it — to insert their batteries in any direction. Compatible with AA and AAA cells, among others, the 'InstaLoad' technology does not require special electronics or circuitry, the company claims."
Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion 93
danielkennedy74 writes "Newsweek.com becomes the latest in a long list of sites that will reveal an Easter egg if you enter the Konami code correctly (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter). This is a cheat code that appeared in many of Konami's video games, starting around 1986 — my favorite places to use it were Contra and Life Force, 30 lives FTW. The Easter egg was probably included by a developer unbeknownst to the Newsweek powers that be. It's reminiscent of an incident that happened at ESPN last year, involving unicorns."
Comment Good Riddance (Score 5, Funny) 460
Unless we can set up a colony there, it just isn't worth it.
The moon, you see, is a harsh mistress.
YEAHHHHHHHH!
The moon, you see, is a harsh mistress.
YEAHHHHHHHH!
Comment Troubling This Is. (Score 1) 3
I sense a trap. Economies that play ``leap frog'' typically do very badly in the long term. See Russia. The parallels are uncanny.
Comment Re:The remediation advice is wrong (Score 1) 174
LiveCD.
Comment Vegetarian, but... (Score 0) 763
I am a vegetarian, but I still know that a good steak is medium rare, it should give as much as the spot on your nose between the bone and the tip. Cook it any longer and you have a fine hockey puck.
What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? 344
paulproteus writes "I'm a Debian developer and a part-time contributor to a few smaller projects. I do a lot of free software-y and open source-y things. Sometimes, though, I don't do them. I figure some other Slashdotters might have similar hang-ups — we contribute to a project, but there are parts that we really dread thinking about. So I wrote a post about having these hang-ups, and I made a place on the web to share how others can help your project. What are the parts that, in your projects, you would be relieved if someone else looked at for you?"
Comment Re:The freedom part sounded like: (Score 0) 244
What an odd poem...
... the only winning move is not to play.
Comment Re:Gmail also occasionally goes down (Score 0) 439
I can count the number of times my college's mail system has expirenced downtime since I've been here (full disclosure: Sophmore) on one hand. Every time it has happened, I got an email telling me about it at least 24 hours in advance.
That is far better than gmail's track record.
Comment Gmail also occasionally goes down (Score 0) 439
It only happens sometimes, but it could bring a university to a grinding halt. And give a LOT of people a very bad 2.5 hours.
