Comment Re:Twitter is nerdy .... right? (Score 1) 408
Dude, it's football season.
It's RABBIT SEASON!
Comment Re:It was a myth (Score 3, Interesting) 986
Erm, I think the Germans have been forced to repress the flag-waving, army-exporting, "We're better than everyone!" aspect of their culture, at the end of a gun, no less. IIRC, that attitude got them into quite a bit of trouble about 70-80 years ago.
Comment Re:USA (Score 1) 699
That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Submission + - Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO (wsj.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Title says it all, really; Steve Jobs has resigned as the CEO of Apple, and would like to become Chairman of the Board. Reasons are not specified, but his declining health of recent years is a likely candidate. He's named Tim Cook as his successor.
Comment Re:Current score (Score 1) 308
I heard Japan will be looking to its neighbors, the greater east-Asian sphere if you will, to help meet future energy needs.
Will they be Co-Prosperous though?
Comment Re:Nazi coding system (Score 1) 189
George **HW**s father, George Ws grandfather...
Comment Re:Nit (Score 1) 354
SBC also bought Ameritech and Pac Bell (Pacific Telesis) prior to that. Of the 7 Baby Bells created when AT&T broke up, 4 are now part of the new AT&T, 2 make up Verizon (Bell Atlantic and NYNEX), and US West is a part of Qwest.
Comment Re:Please take responsibility for your life. (Score 2) 599
"Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you!" - Vinz Clortho
Comment Re:Please take responsibility for your life. (Score 1) 599
When I visited England about 5 years ago, I noticed the plethora of roadway signs. There are warning signs for everything: deer crossing, duck crossing, rabbit crossing, frog crossing, tank crossing, Dalek crossing (I'm not kidding). There are even warning signs for warning signs:
Sign: "Warning, bumps ahead!"
Me: What are the bumps for?
Sign w/ bumps: "Warning, reduce speed to enter roundabout"
Me: Sheesh...
Sign: "Warning, bumps ahead!"
Me: What are the bumps for?
Sign w/ bumps: "Warning, reduce speed to enter roundabout"
Me: Sheesh...
Comment Re:All you need to know, from TFA (Score 1) 815
It will be completely proprietary. You'll need the iDriver to remove the iScrew so you can top off your iWatt with iNickel and iDrogen.
Comment Re:All you need to know, from TFA (Score 1) 815
What'll they call it, though? iFusion? iPower? iWatt?
This is one small step towards commuting to iWork (conveniently featuring iPads and iMacs) in our iCars while listening to iPods while the iWife stays at iHome taking care of the iKids and iDog.
This is one small step towards commuting to iWork (conveniently featuring iPads and iMacs) in our iCars while listening to iPods while the iWife stays at iHome taking care of the iKids and iDog.
Comment Re:Stalin was having people edited out for years.. (Score 3, Interesting) 146
"The Commissar Vanishes" is a great book that documents the methods used by the Soviets to modify photos as various people fell out of favor with Stalin:
The methods used by the Soviets to manipulate and control the information consumed by the populace is pretty widely understood, and I'm sure that need to maintain control drove the use of this relatively sophisticated photo manipulation software.
Comment Re:Excuse me, Dr. Hawking? (Score 2, Funny) 465
My mind would have been blown if his UUID was 42...
The Sun Unleashes Coronal Mass Ejection At Earth 220
astroengine writes "Yesterday morning, at 08:55 UT, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory detected a C3-class flare erupt inside a sunspot cluster. 100,000 kilometers away, deep within the solar atmosphere (the corona), an extended magnetic field filled with cool plasma forming a dark ribbon across the face of the sun (a feature known as a 'filament') erupted at the exact same time. It seems very likely that both eruptions were connected after a powerful shock wave produced by the flare destabilized the filament, causing the eruption. A second solar observatory, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, then spotted a huge coronal mass ejection blast into space, straight in the direction of Earth. Solar physicists have calculated that this magnetic bubble filled with energetic particles should hit Earth on August 3, so look out for some intense aurorae — a solar storm is coming."
Comment Re:Seems a little dirty to me ... (Score 1) 281
Where should self-important middle-intelligence people who want to band together and claim to be the top-intelligence elite gather next?
Slashdot?
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