Orkan - Slashdot User

Tofu Activists Spoof Meat-Based Indie Game 420

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 02, 2010 @04:56AM from the have-a-burger-to-celebrate dept.

Faulkner39 writes "In response to the recently released independently developed platformer Super Meat Boy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has released a Flash-based spoof game titled Super Tofu Boy. The spoof attempts to mirror the original by featuring a protagonist made of tofu and an antagonist made of meat in a statement promoting animal rights. Ironically, however, the original game is about a human boy who is vulnerable because he lacks skin (Meat Boy), raising the question: 'is the spoof in reality really about cannibalism?'" The Super Meat Boy team posted a response on their Twitter feed.

'Greasemonkey' Malware Targets Firefox 370

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 04, 2008 @12:25PM from the oh-this-can't-end-well dept.

snydeq writes "Researchers have discovered a new type of malware that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox. The malware, dubbed 'Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A,' sits in Firefox's add-ons folder, registering itself as 'Greasemonkey,' the well-known collection of scripts that add functionality to Web pages rendered by Firefox. The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 financial and money transfer Web sites, including PayPal, collecting logins and passwords, which it forwards to a server in Russia. Trojan infection can occur via drive-by download or download duping."

Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device 563

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday February 09, 2008 @11:25AM from the fun-never-ends dept.

The Star reports on this inventor breaking all the laws of physics as far as free energy goes. It even provoked interest from "esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn". I would like to know how this seemingly backyard enthusiast's experimental set up has not been tried a million times over the years. It seems so simple and too good to be true. The article has links to a multi-part video demo of the device accelerating an electric motor under load for free!

Comment Re:NO NO NO (Score 2, Informative) 160

by Orkan on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @09:16AM (#17644788) Attached to: Largest Twin Prime Yet Discovered

You're right in a way, that method doesn't give you a prime in general. No one suggested that it did though. The proof was a proof by contradiction, i.e assume notX and generate a contradiction. Based on the assumption that there is a largest prime the procedure works fine. P(i) does not divide P(1)...P(n)+1 for any i in 1..n and by the assumption these are the only primes. The whole body of the proof is showing that "There is a maximum prime P(n)" => "There is a prime > P(n)" giving the contradiction. Therefore there is no maximum prime P(n) and so there must be an infinite number of them.

Slashdot Top Deals