On the common ebay one, if it rejects your credit card as invalid, change the check digit (the last digit of the 16 digit number) until you get the right one.
Take Star Trek: only the Ferengi talked about money, but apart from hoarding it, it didn't seem like it got used a lot. I seem to recall some talk of "credits", whatever those are, but the real *believable* sci fi has Riker wondering how he's going to pay for that special trip he and Troi have been thinking about, especially based on a military salary.
Actually... if I may geek out for a moment, in the Star Trek universe, they don't use money. (Ref: "Voyage Home" and "First Contact".)
And they don't have monitors. So, if you're sitting in front of them doing "nothing", then you're just watching the lights on the panel blinkulate and flashify.
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I need to go back to sleep, I completely misread that as "flatulate".
If you want a truly open, easily modable, and world wide connected system, you would need anti virus software, and Sony probably isn't interested in starting up in the field of digital online security.
Luckily, there's an army of people waiting to write the anti-virus software (or they could just write a ClamAV client or something).
The reason perl implementations tend to look worse is that they try and catch other ways of writing phone numbers- removing the -, adding an area code, optional whitespace, etc.
s/[^\d]//g; # Remove anything not a number /^(\d{7,10})$/ || warn "Bad phone number"; $phone_number = $1;
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Yeah, it happens. My Wikipedia-DVD story got rejected five minutes before a pretty much identical story got accepted.
I was bitching about it on the phone to a friend of mine, and he made a very good point, along the lines of "Slashdot is lame, anyway".
I need to go back to sleep, I completely misread that as "flatulate".
That's "Gotham".
I completely misread that as "cheese sandwich".
Someone set up us the bomb!
...Sorry, I'll go sit in my corner.
I was thinking about doing the "I, for one, welcome our new female android overlords" bit, but I think you just covered it (in slightly more words). :P
They opened up the PS2 (sort of -- they sell a cheap Linux kit for it).
Why wouldn't they do the same with the PS2?
Hey, I like Jack in the Box.
How about... hrm. KFC? Yeah, let's go with KFC. They have a history of frying weird shit (rats, chicken heads).
I kind of like it, anyway. Half the stuff I write in Perl makes my friends' heads explode. E.g.:
VPN. And get broadband.
Thanks, appreciate it (the "timeou t" thing was Slashdot being lame).
There was some bug in the sorting order I ended up fixing, too. I'll just throw the current version up here.
Ribbit.
Actually, I smoke crack all the time.
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Undoing moderation
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I, for one, welcome our new giant mouse overlords...