Comment Re:one caveat (Score 4, Insightful) 359
Worst case scenario, Google gets all the power. Is that better or worse than the phone companies having full control?
Ideally we'd have good healthy competition, but I'll take Google over AT&T any day.
Comment Social life (Score 1) 823
I would think about the number of times you've gotten laid in the last year. That's pretty humbling for most slashdotters.
Comment Naval cavities? (Score 1) 103
Whoa! Not only can he talk, but he does it through his belly button!
Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 866
I bet, per capita, the number of idiots in your country is the same as in the US. I believe it's a universal constant. The stories about parents forcing their children to take science and math classes and how the kids don't like it is hardly news worthy as the small number of stories of religious idiots taking their kids out of classes that teach evolution.
Comment Re:You should never stop learning (Score 1) 260
* "Principle Investigator" - The person who has to do all the stupid powerpoint presentations for management, do the bean counting to make sure the budget doesn't get over spent, sits in all the management meetings so that other staff can get real work done.
TFTFY!
Comment Re:Appearance matters (Score 1) 432
If you're a male and take this approach it also serves as a form of birth control, aka, involuntary abstinence.
Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW* 91
Amazingly accurate for someone so plastered. I think all history should be taught at this level of intoxication.
Comment Alternatives? (Score 1) 36
We don't have generally available wireless access where I work, so I use AvantGO. I'm going to miss it! Are there alternatives with similar functionality?
Comment Re:How do you give odds for that? (Score 1) 397
Aww, but in particle physics cats herd (or don't herd) you!
MIT Creates Class About Soap Operas 57
An anonymous reader writes "Wikipedia apparently wasn't enough. There had to be a course on the much needed subject of soap operas at MIT.
Here's the Course Description: "The television landscape has changed drastically in the past few years; nowhere is this more prevalent than in the American daytime serial drama, one of the oldest forms of television content. This class examines the history of these "soap operas" and their audiences by focusing on the production, consumption, and media texts of soaps. The class will include discussions of what makes soap operas a unique form, the history of the genre, current experimentation with transmedia storytelling, the online fan community, and comparisons between daytime dramas and primetime serials from 24 to Friday Night Lights, through a study of Procter & Gamble's As the World Turns."" All I really need to know I learned from my evil twin, who fathered my unborn child, who has a extremely rare disease that only one of my many CIA contacts, who is also sleeping with my wife, can cure.
Comment Not cool any more? (Score 5, Funny) 312
"...much like many home computers from the days Back To The Future was cool".
Oh geez! I missed the memo. Back to the Future isn't cool any more? Man I'm getting old!
