User: EricThribb

Re:A 1984 device ?

On: Apple's Secret Plan To Join iPhones With Airport Security

Apple always makes me think of George Orwell - just that it's Animal Farm rather than 1984 that springs to mind

Stanislaw Lem

On: Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read?

Most of his books - His Masters Voice on the failure of science, Solaris for just being Solaris - The Tarkovsky film version managed to be even more bleak than the book (I choose to deny the existence of the later George Clooney version)

Re:Bleach, glue, insecticide etc.

On: Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets

Bucky balls have no significant use outside of being a toy..

They make great fridge and whiteboard magnets