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Unfortunately due to the price it attracts the kind of arseholes who normally buy a BMW or Audi.

I love this one about BMW drivers:

http://www.bbspot.com/News/200...

http://www.bbspot.com/News/200...

Which itself is no match for the Radeon 9500 ASC http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/02/ati_ascii.html, enhanced for high-power ASCII gaming . . .

hawk

http://www.bbspot.com/toys/sla...

Even after all this time, it's still surprisingly good at emulating real submissions.

Slashdot's front page looks like this right now:

Apple Announces New 10.5-Inch iPad Pro With Narrower Side Bezels, 120Hz Refresh Rate Display

Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11

Apple Announces Native HEVC Support In MacOS High Sierra and iOS 11

Apple Announces Its 'Next Breakthrough' Product: the HomePod

Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra

Apple Announces New iMacs With Better Screens And Modern Processors; Refreshes MacBook Lineup

???

Fine, I have an Apple story, too. It's a little outdated but we can all reminisce -- http://www.bbspot.com/News/200...

http://www.bbspot.com/toys/sla...

(Shout out to anyone else who remembers BBSpot!)

Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP

Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users

Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP

We already have the slashdot story generator:

http://www.bbspot.com/toys/sla...

You haven't seen NetHack until you've seen it on a retina MacBook or iMac. I nearly soiled my trousers the first time I saw "L" coming at me on such a display.

Those displays are nice, but if you are gonna play ... I mean *really* play, you need a serious ASCII accelerator card.

      http://www.bbspot.com/news/200...

The higher frame rate gives you the edge that you'll need on the astral plane. And don't even think about trying it without a fully tweaked, N-key rollover mechanical keyboard! Those E's on the plane of air aren't gonna sit around sipping Earl Gray Tea waiting for your laggy $5 bargain bin membrane 'board!

Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP

Reminds me of the time when that list of crosswalk-button hacks was published - it created quite a stir.

No it didnt. I foolishly read the linked article. Its an Onion style satire piece.

Reminds me of the time when that list of crosswalk-button hacks was published - it created quite a stir.

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8. Dolphin watercraft aren't the only form of future transportation that's a bit cramped. The electrically powered cars of the future will be quite small. In fact, when I first saw the tiny Daimler-Chrysler two-seaters on exhibit, I asked the exhibitor if the cars were perhaps meant to be attached to the side of a larger SUV, in case you run out of gas.

Probably.

Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users

It's already been done. Check out: http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/

http://www.bbspot.com/news/2008/01/sony-announces-new-power-outlet-standard.html

Nah, my radon 9500 ASC was optimized for nethack, and really enhances the experience: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/02/ati_ascii.html

There is the random slashdot story generator

NetBSD is truly dying! There are a number of other BSDs that I've never even heard of that are more popular.

In unrelated news: Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users

This has been going on for years. I think this tool was written in 2003:

Slashdot Story Generator

Do try to keep up.

The real test for the Kopf-Lischinski algorithm will be how it can handle Nethack.

Dude, it's just about feeling elite.
Now, Does anybody have any invites to Google Invite? http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/11/google-invite.html?from=rss

Microsoft is much much worse then Satan, they even bought him out: Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan

Of course not. It was his army of Evil Monkeys...

Wait! Computers can help with that. All you need is a copy of Google Maps: Home.

...use them with this motherboard.

The public welfare can go to hell, as long as Mr. Gates and Microsoft get to charge a toll at the entrance.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html

I can just imagine the negotiations on that one.

The N900 gives you the best of both worlds, it's basically a handheld ARM Linux PC and it gets a 4 Cudgels from Will It Bludgeon B-)

Just buy two for your children or your technologically challenged family members and let them have their fun while you keep using the devices that suit your own needs.

Fixed that for you.

OTOH, this I think is much more disturbing: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/10/xkcd-comic-reenactment-leads-to-100-deaths.html

Maybe it's really late, but have you ever heard of The Onion? You wouldn't take that news literally, would you? There are barely a hundred people who read xkcd, so there's no way anyone could get a hundred semi-intelligent GEEKS to attempt something so inane.

Besides, when you Google it, that's the only "news service" that picked up on it.

I feel like I'm deserving a hugh-grongo WHOOSH for pointing this out.

So, here are the statistics for Taiwan (as of 2005, but I bet it hasn't changed by much):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259336/
and the most relevant figure:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259336/figure/F2/

So, for women 15-24 you have about 6 per 100,000 per year suicide rate and for 25-44 you have 15, which comes out to about about 10 per 100,000 per year (assuming there are the same amount of people in both age groups; I know it isn't necessarily so, but I'm not off by much). If they have 400K workers, this comes to about 40 suicides per year. btw, for males the suicide rates are higher for people 25 and older, so the fact that not all the workers are female doesn't weaken my case.
Anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the workers' condition in those factories, I'm just saying that 9 suicides in a year isn't so much, statistically speaking.

OTOH, this I think is much more disturbing:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/10/xkcd-comic-reenactment-leads-to-100-deaths.html

This is what I think of:

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/07/twitter-cures-cancer.html

http://www.bbspot.com/news/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.html
Upcoming Windows 8 Ultimate Server will feature an OpenSuse virtual engine!!!
Competing distribution of Linux will be quietly forced into an acquisition by Elliot...

And because of that you can't take it on a plane either.

Or ascii-based games running into problems with tiny pixels or miss-matched resolutions.

Only if you have the right, high performance ASCII graphics card.

There is prior art from 2002: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/10/bsod_ads.html

It's called the Ford Exorbitant

Strange. I read here that Google had already done this.
"With Google Home, you can access floor plans and panoramic images of the inside of any house or apartment anywhere in the United States and most of England. Imagine you're at a party at a stranger's house and need to find the bathroom, now you can just pop the address into your cell phone's internet browser and get a map telling you where it is"

The DHS thinks the iPhone is explosive material now, and banning it from planes. And for the DHS person who just emailed me about this story. It's a work of satire.

I read this days ago.

Penis product makers aren't the only ones having to change their pitch. Awi Tagakangi of Nigeria runs 419 scams through email. "It takes more than an uncle who was a prince, now I've gone to claiming that I'm the son of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and have access to all the cash in the Federal Reserve," said Tagakangi.

Vista 7 is made from chilli.

The testing of an improved DNS system has a positive connotation.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2009/05/five-farther-grammar-rules-you-may-not-have-known.html

In case you didn't see it back in the day...

I am going to build a new PC and am in the market for a card. $100 on the graphics card would give me welcome flexibility on other components. Does anyone know if this can run Nethack at full res? What if you overclock it?

Maybe if you overclock it you can run nethack in tile mode with all it's pixlated glory.

I am going to build a new PC and am in the market for a card. $100 on the graphics card would give me welcome flexibility on other components. Does anyone know if this can run Nethack at full res? What if you overclock it?

The only games I play are Doom and Nethack, so all I need are this and this...

Too late