freek254 - Slashdot User

Comment Missing option: No point... (Score 1) 225

by freek254 on Sunday October 31, 2010 @06:16AM (#34078348) Attached to: How often do you Google yourself?

Missing option: No point in googling myself, my namesake is a gay porn star.

Which actually is my situation... He's actually retired from the gay porn and is now a star estate agent. Any hits on myself is waaay back in the list.

Comment I'm 40 years old, never used checks (Score 1) 796

by freek254 on Thursday December 17, 2009 @06:46AM (#30471534) Attached to: UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018

I'm 40 years old, and I've never used a check. In Sweden, where I live, checks are OBSOLETE. Since long time back. I think some people in the banking industry in the UK (and the US) needs to start learning about computers and information technology. It's about time.

Games Workshop Goes After Fan Site 174

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @05:03AM from the don't-anger-your-base dept.

mark.leaman writes "BoingBoing has a recent post regarding Games Workshop's aggressive posturing against fan sites featuring derivative work of their game products. 'Game publisher and miniature manufacturer Games Workshop just sent a cease and desist letter to boardgamegeek.com, telling them to remove all fan-made players' aids. This includes scenarios, rules summaries, inventory manifests, scans to help replace worn pieces — many of these created for long out of print, well-loved games...' As a lifelong hobby gamer of table, board, card and miniature games, I view this as pure heresy. It made me reject the idea of buying any Games Workshop (read Warhammer) products for my son this Christmas. Their fate was sealed, in terms of my wallet, after I Googled their shenanigans. In 2007 they forbid Warhammer fan films, this year they shut down Vassal Modules, and a while back they went after retailers as well. What ever happened to fair use?"

Submission + - Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target (space.com)

Submitted by

Raver32

on Monday June 25, 2007 @07:48AM

Raver32 writes: "Mars will be transformed into a shirt-sleeve, habitable world for humanity before century's end, made livable by thawing out the coldish climes of the red planet and altering its now carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. How best to carry out a fast-paced, decade by decade planetary facelift of Mars — a technique called "terraforming" — has been outlined by Lowell Wood, a noted physicist and recent retiree of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a long-time Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution. Lowell presented his eye-opening Mars manifesto at Flight School, held here June 20-22 at the Aspen Institute, laying out a scientific plan to "experiment on a planet we're not living on.""

Submission + - 9 Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood

Submitted by

Ant

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @04:49AM

Ant writes: "Neatorama lists nine laws of physics that don't apply in Hollywood (movies and television/TV shows). In general, Hollywood filmmakers follow the laws of physics because they have no other choice. It's just when they cheat with special effects that people seem to forget how the world really works..."

Feed News: A Mountain Of Merchandise!!! (penny-arcade.com)

From feed by pennyarcadefeed on Friday February 16, 2007 @07:12PM

Tycho: Our third book is now available on the store, if you haven't purchased it elsewhere. Entitled The Warsun Prophecies, it incorporates all the strips from 2002. I'm usually scared to read something I've written once I've written it, which may help you to understand the state these posts sometimes arrive in - but I think this one turned out really well.I've just now finished the final edits on the fourth book, which will be released... in the future. Also, on the very same store, our Fire Sale continues to rage - with the heat of a thousand bargains! Huge savings in every department, etc.(CW)TB

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