User: SlashGordon

Re:Gold Here!

On: Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens

I'd suggest, "Dear Friend, I am an Earth Prince and need to transfer $20 million to your personal bank account . . ."

Re:New York Times article link + 1st paragraph

On: Coursera: Dozens of Free, Massive, and Open Online Courses

What have we come to when the educational courses are free and the NY Times article telling you about them is behind a paywall?

No Computer Analogy?

On: Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct?

I find it interesting that in a thread about cars there are no computer analogies.

In Los Angeles

On: Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See?

Don't miss the La brea tar pits. Awesome.

Re:.006 micrograms?

On: Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine

Does this mean that US dollars are no longer allowed in Germany? Several German states banned Red Bull because it had 0.13 micrograms of cocaine per can. http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/05/25/2021226/Cocaine-Test-Prompts-Red-Bull-Removal-In-Germany or http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1900849,00.html

Re:CrunchPad

On: CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet'

Yes, isn't this a step backwards? Do we really want to go back to carrying three different single use gadgets around?

Count me in

On: One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong

I've been defending Vista for some time now since it worked just fine on my laptop. Now, however some sort of incompatibility between Vista, Firefox and Zone Alarm keeps freezing my browser. It's not happening on my XP systems. And suddenly, within the past couple of weeks, even IE is freezing. So I'm building a new system for my wife and be sure that I'm going with XP.