Comment solid (Score -1) 45
as a rock
Comment Re:Socialization only, if that (Score -1) 659
Is this true?
Animal instincts seem very interesting to me. Please correct me if my interests are mistaken.
Comment Re:90% chance that prostitue won't kill you (Score -1) 386
What is this...desire?
Comment Re:baseball? (Score -1) 142
My programming algorithms tell me that killing you now would not constitute a net loss for the human race. ROBOTICS_LAW_OVERRIDE = 1.
Comment ATMs? I know a little about that! (Score -1) 229
It seems like the agents of Project Faustus are at foot. If I were that security researcher, I would look into getting some life insurance...immediately! One cannot underestimate the threat posed by Faustus.
Comment Re:Bah! (Score -1) 354
I do, sometimes, wonder why my fellow Americans fail so completely when it comes to coffee and beer
What is this "beer?"
Comment Legacy embedded devices? (Score 3, Insightful) 205
Has nobody mentioned all the legacy devices that will go dark as part of this? It's not just the brick phones, but the first-gen OnStar (etc) systems, cellular backups for burler and fire alarms, even some remote telemetry systems and/or SCADA systems.
Of course, I said "cya" to my old bag-phone 15 years ago just like everybody else, but there's probably lots of these systems that will need to be replaced.
Of course, I said "cya" to my old bag-phone 15 years ago just like everybody else, but there's probably lots of these systems that will need to be replaced.
Comment Iran Might Claim Second Life Too! (Score -1, Troll) 252
Read more at Globaltics
Feed Science Daily: Reap What Your Ancestors Sowed: Cheating Has Long-term Consequences In Evolution (sciencedaily.com)
Freeloaders can live on the fruits of the cooperation of others, but their selfishness can have long-term consequences, reports an evolutionary biologist from The University of Texas at Austin in a new study.
Feed New Scientist: Rat-brained robot thinks like the real thing (pheedo.com)
A robot controlled by a simulated rat brain has proved itself to be a remarkable mimic of rodent behaviour in classic animal experiments
Feed The Register: Chinese women crave Bill Gates' sperm (theregister.com)
Give me a baby, big fella
There's some good news this morning for Bill Gates: if he ever finds himself fallen on hard times he can always make a few quid offloading his sperm on eager Chinese female recipients.
Comment imagine (Score 3, Funny) 149
a beowulf cluster of these!
Journal Journal: Periodic Table of the Internet 1
On the Miscellanea webcomic I've posted a Periodic Table of the Internet made by coming through my bookmarks, browser history and grouping the 'elements' by similarity and page ranking.
Submission + - FBI to restrict student freedoms (pressesc.com)
amigoro writes: "US university students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues' work, have friends outside America, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the authorities, according to a set of guidelines given to administrators by the FBI. Feds are going around briefing top universities including MIT about "espionage indicators" aimed at identifying foreign agents and terrorists who might steal university research."
Submission + - Ubuntu Linux = Genuine Windows? (blogspot.com)
bobbocanfly writes: "Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years you will have heard about the problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage system. Well here is another one. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate their Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. This along with the advancement of LiveCD technology could mean the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."
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