I was travelling through space one day,
when a shiny red planet came my way.
It was big and looked rather hard,
would my chute and jets help me retard?
To see if I could find life in the icy clay?
Go on, ask it "How long do ferrets live?" A simple but specific question. Ferrets is a rare enough term to give it a chance to get a high percentage of valid hits and "How long" gives it an achievable search criteria with "live" providing an extra element. If it had come back with an answer for "how long are ferrets?", or "how long they live" I'd have been impressed.
The first two answers I got involve Sylvester McCoy and Rudi Guliani. Only the fifth result mentions ferrets in any sane context and even then fails to answer the question. Complete twaddle!
I hope no one is planning to invest in something so backroom-coder at this stage, although good luck in the future.
Hopefully the robo-boat will be sung at by whales, learn their language and spread a message of peace and hope for mankind, while sending a signal into space for the whale's ancestors to pick them up. At which point the military will step in and blow it to bits. Now here's Larry with the Sport
Along similar (but fictitious lines) Read Terry Pratchett's Postal - where the evil genius villains get a chance to turn their lives around by sorting out failing businesses.
Microsoft should have a hug-a-hacker month and let them fix its codebase.
was welcomed politely but firmly by our new sensor overlords and look forward to their continued domination (they said [in a doom laden synthesised voice] that they know where I live!)
This is descending below lawsuit territory, I'm starting to think that the whole PC hardware industry should be taken out back and shot. They supported MS in the release of an OS with crap under-powered hardware with smiles and big adverts, in full knowledge that these systems would never work or just were not ready for Vista.
"The Wow Starts, oh around 2009 if you'll just let us fix this, upgrade that and force you to buy some new stuff" Should have been the tagline for Vista.
Go on then, with all the money that science gets for R&D, why doesn't the scientific community use a tiny part of it to launch its own channel covering 'proper' science.
But, oh no, scientists everywhere suddenly claim poverty and, anyway, are far too busy tinkering with the LHC, latest mega-laser and juggling bacteria.
Anyway, you only get covered in the media if you spend money on it.
Science isn't sexy for 98.2% of the western world (i looked it up)
With religious loonies running much of the american political system and media, the less science gets a look-in, the better - as far as they are concerned. Just in case people start to take notice.
The trouble is that everyone wants helpings of everyone elses' pies. Phone hardware makers now bolt services and content on their phones, phone service companies sell TV, Apple sells music, so why shouldn't ISPs want to wander off the reservation into the lush green 'services' pasture?
A system is only 'dead' when the major games retailers stop stocking the titles, or have a tiny rack of titles in a dark corner. Last time I looked, PC games were doing fine.
Dreamcast, dead! PC doing fine, even the PS2 is doing fine!
What may have changed is the type of PC owner and the massive installed base that just doesn't give a hoot about 3D games. But I guess he doesn't care about them, leave that to the people selling card, tile and puzzle games.
colonelblimp@area51.com
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fatgord@no10.co.uk
binladen@caves_r_us.pak
just to see what comes my way
The M25 they mention isn't a perfect circle, which is a shame and most non-android drivers studiously ignore the speed restrictions until everything grinds to a halt. Its either 80 or nothing on the road and all the science in the world won't help.
Apparently the story behind the story is that Youtube videos were showing evidence of vote rigging in the PAK elections. So this is the perfect Slashdot story, voting fraud and internet denial, surely it deserves some sort of gold star.
And religion was just a dead herring.
Do you want to be any more inflammatory?
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If headlines are allowed in slashdot articles with this tone, I fear for the future:
Can we expect such gems in the coming months:
Torvalds leaves mangled corpse in Linux debate
Minor power outage in Guam, world doomed!
Copyright violators: You're screwed!
Microsoft says, 'Fark off'
Lets get a little sense of perspective in here please?
First post man, woot, woot, wo****
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ACK*Metacheck - Checking for music, video, first post messages...
DELAY*Post... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
Service now resuming
Since the music companies are gradually dropping DRM, I think the argument is already over.
Movies will go online (leaving BluRay and HD owners screwed) over the next few years and still have certain protections, but nothing that can't be broken as has been proven time and time again.
When I cry and I'm under arrest
Get put on the database that's best
Where they store name, prints and eyes
Going on file with the server in the sky
They're all logging on to the server in the sky,
that's where the spies go when they scry.
When they're looking out for potential unrest
The feds log on to the server that's the best
Since the IDENT1 database is probably composed largely of car stereo thieves, paedos, football hooligans and other miscreants, I don't see much threat to the security of the United States from anyone on the list.
Now if it was our immigration list, that's probably full of terrorists* or at least full of hard-working Poles who could knock the FBI up a high-quality condo at a good price.
*kidding
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I was travelling through space one day,
when a shiny red planet came my way.
It was big and looked rather hard,
would my chute and jets help me retard?
To see if I could find life in the icy clay?
Good luck Pheonix
Go on, ask it "How long do ferrets live?" A simple but specific question. Ferrets is a rare enough term to give it a chance to get a high percentage of valid hits and "How long" gives it an achievable search criteria with "live" providing an extra element. If it had come back with an answer for "how long are ferrets?", or "how long they live" I'd have been impressed. The first two answers I got involve Sylvester McCoy and Rudi Guliani. Only the fifth result mentions ferrets in any sane context and even then fails to answer the question. Complete twaddle! I hope no one is planning to invest in something so backroom-coder at this stage, although good luck in the future.
Since the last famous Beagle vessel smacked into Mars at high speed, I wouldn't put any money on this one... hopes Colin Pillinger doesn't lurk on /.
Hopefully the robo-boat will be sung at by whales, learn their language and spread a message of peace and hope for mankind, while sending a signal into space for the whale's ancestors to pick them up. At which point the military will step in and blow it to bits. Now here's Larry with the Sport
Along similar (but fictitious lines) Read Terry Pratchett's Postal - where the evil genius villains get a chance to turn their lives around by sorting out failing businesses. Microsoft should have a hug-a-hacker month and let them fix its codebase.
was welcomed politely but firmly by our new sensor overlords and look forward to their continued domination (they said [in a doom laden synthesised voice] that they know where I live!)
This is descending below lawsuit territory, I'm starting to think that the whole PC hardware industry should be taken out back and shot. They supported MS in the release of an OS with crap under-powered hardware with smiles and big adverts, in full knowledge that these systems would never work or just were not ready for Vista.
"The Wow Starts, oh around 2009 if you'll just let us fix this, upgrade that and force you to buy some new stuff" Should have been the tagline for Vista.
Go on then, with all the money that science gets for R&D, why doesn't the scientific community use a tiny part of it to launch its own channel covering 'proper' science.
But, oh no, scientists everywhere suddenly claim poverty and, anyway, are far too busy tinkering with the LHC, latest mega-laser and juggling bacteria.
Anyway, you only get covered in the media if you spend money on it.
Science isn't sexy for 98.2% of the western world (i looked it up)
With religious loonies running much of the american political system and media, the less science gets a look-in, the better - as far as they are concerned. Just in case people start to take notice.
The trouble is that everyone wants helpings of everyone elses' pies. Phone hardware makers now bolt services and content on their phones, phone service companies sell TV, Apple sells music, so why shouldn't ISPs want to wander off the reservation into the lush green 'services' pasture?
Since Washington dogma is never screw with a lawyer, I think it will be quite some time
This isn't the droid you're looking for!
A system is only 'dead' when the major games retailers stop stocking the titles, or have a tiny rack of titles in a dark corner. Last time I looked, PC games were doing fine.
Dreamcast, dead! PC doing fine, even the PS2 is doing fine!
What may have changed is the type of PC owner and the massive installed base that just doesn't give a hoot about 3D games. But I guess he doesn't care about them, leave that to the people selling card, tile and puzzle games.
Google isn't that evil, for a start; All your base photography are not belong to us
Politicians aside, it will be up to cops to enact this...
... Aussie cops.
Cop - "G'day mate, I'm here for your hard disk, got a warrant and everything."
User - "No worries, have a tinny before you start though."
Cop - (3 hours later) "... bye then mate, shouldn't I be taking something from here, oh yehr, another beer! nice one mate, take it easy"
Policing how it should be done.
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colonelblimp@area51.com
thechief@whitehouse.gov
maninred_onthegate@certaindeath.com
admin@guam.com
fatgord@no10.co.uk
binladen@caves_r_us.pak
just to see what comes my way
The M25 they mention isn't a perfect circle, which is a shame and most non-android drivers studiously ignore the speed restrictions until everything grinds to a halt. Its either 80 or nothing on the road and all the science in the world won't help.
Well, I've heard of Bob Dylan, so I 'got' about 0.2% of the post. Can you do a universal translation please?
Sorry, I haven't seen a FireWire port on a PC (lappy or desktop) in about five years.
Apparently the story behind the story is that Youtube videos were showing evidence of vote rigging in the PAK elections. So this is the perfect Slashdot story, voting fraud and internet denial, surely it deserves some sort of gold star.
And religion was just a dead herring.
If headlines are allowed in slashdot articles with this tone, I fear for the future: Can we expect such gems in the coming months: Torvalds leaves mangled corpse in Linux debate Minor power outage in Guam, world doomed! Copyright violators: You're screwed! Microsoft says, 'Fark off' Lets get a little sense of perspective in here please?
First post man, woot, woot, wo**** *** Post intercepted by Comcast bandwidth preservation system! ACK*Metacheck - Checking for music, video, first post messages... DELAY*Post... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Service now resuming
I'm guessing it'll be called Asteroid '[INSERT SCHOOL BULLY'S NAME HERE] is a dickwad' -
that would be sweet revenge for all science class geeks.
Since the music companies are gradually dropping DRM, I think the argument is already over. Movies will go online (leaving BluRay and HD owners screwed) over the next few years and still have certain protections, but nothing that can't be broken as has been proven time and time again.
With respect to Dr. and the Medics...
When I cry and I'm under arrest
Get put on the database that's best
Where they store name, prints and eyes
Going on file with the server in the sky
They're all logging on to the server in the sky,
that's where the spies go when they scry.
When they're looking out for potential unrest
The feds log on to the server that's the best
Since the IDENT1 database is probably composed largely of car stereo thieves, paedos, football hooligans and other miscreants, I don't see much threat to the security of the United States from anyone on the list. Now if it was our immigration list, that's probably full of terrorists* or at least full of hard-working Poles who could knock the FBI up a high-quality condo at a good price. *kidding