mitbeaver - Slashdot User

Comment Tautological ! (Score 1) 300

by mitbeaver on Thursday September 10, 2009 @03:09PM (#29381703) Attached to: Geeks Prefer Competence To Niceness

This just in... Fish prefer water.

Comment I just got a note from Hari Seldon... (Score 1) 165

by mitbeaver on Monday August 17, 2009 @01:25AM (#29088705) Attached to: How To Send Email When You're Dead

He says to send all my money to Nigeria.

Comment It's a Game. It's supposed to be Fun (Score 2, Insightful) 275

by mitbeaver on Friday June 19, 2009 @03:04PM (#28393695) Attached to: <em>New Super Mario Bros. Wii</em> To Include Official "Cheat"

Way I see it, I bought it, I should be able to do whatever I want with it. "Cheat" only applies when competing on uneven term, e.g. online play. Also a "Cheat" can just as easily be a quick fix to bypass a poorly play-tested or unbalanced portion of a game. Games are designed by people, not infallible game-creating Gods.

Comment Re:Subscription services and auto-renewal are new? (Score 1) 194

by mitbeaver on Thursday June 11, 2009 @04:48PM (#28299945) Attached to: Security Firms Fined Over Never-Ending Subscriptions

Yes, if you don't call them. Exactly what I was thinking about too.

Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site 100

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @01:25PM from the this-can't-be-real dept.

Harrington writes "In another stunning blow to the security and integrity of Diebold's electronic voting machines, someone has made a copy of the key which opens ALL Diebold e-voting machines from a picture on the company's own website. " Update: 02/06 17:40 GMT by Z : We previously discussed this story, early last year.

111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi 379

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @06:19AM from the squaring-the-circle dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "On February 5, 1897, 111 years ago today, the Indiana legislature very nearly passed a bill 'introducing a new mathematical truth,' that would have erroneously established pi as the ratio 'five-fourths to four' or 3.2. The story explaining the rationale behind the bill and how they were prevented from legislating it when a real mathematician intervened is quite interesting, because the man who discovered the 'new mathematical truth' wanted to charge royalties, which could have made pi the first form of irrational property."

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