Yahoo News is running this story about the high court of Italy’s decision to make fathers pay child support until the child has found a job. The story goes on to tell of a man with a law degree still being supported by his father – what a lazy ass. I can already hear what my father’s reply to a story like this would be …
Here is a story about one man’s crusade to stop CD protected CD’s. Basically the story is that some CD producers are making their CD’s that will not play in computer drives that do NOT run on non-MS OS’s. Along with this topic is this story of Sony producing CD’s that actually CRASH your computer.
First I’d like to rant about these idiots. I’m using NS 4.72 under Linux – perfectly capable of viewing 99% of all the pages on the net. However, PC Corp tells me that I can’t view their page. Evidently I’m not special enough.
In other news I found the worst of qmail group at Yahoo! It’s an archive of “…the worst and most human posts on the qmail (http://www.qmail.org) mailing list (personal attacks, slams, flames, insinuations, etc.).” The list doesn’t fail to deliver either. I can personally attest to the amount of flaming that happens on this list – in fact I resorted to trial and error rather than mail the list.
I have one of the worst hangnails right now. I’ve come accross a site that offers this tip for curing hangnails: It is often the result of frequent exposure to water or it could be a lack of Vitamin B and C in the diet. Don’t pull it off; trim it carefully. While this is no help to my current situation, I do know how to fix them in the future. A side note: those white spots on your fingernails apperently are caused by a lack of zinc – not, as previously thought, caused by telling a white lie. Whew!
I always knew I had a lot of readers, however, this story at CNN.com shows that I’ve served more pages than both Yahoo! and MSN. I’m just amazed that zebulon has been able to keep up. Maybe this explains the consistent load of 2 we’ve been experiencing over the last few months.
Everyone gets gas from time to time. Anyone that has eaten at Taco Bell after a night at the bar will attest to that. Evidently there is hope. According to the story from CNN.com Indian scientists have used radiation to “knock out” the guilty chemicals that cause flatulence. I say they rush deliver this technology to Taco Bell, Gianni’s, and the entire country of Mexico.
Hi. My name is Joe Stump and I’m a Slashdot comment troll. I admit it. I spend at least 20 minutes a day reading posts to stories that interest me. Why? Read on for more …
Slashdot comments make up the truly intelligent commentary that make Slashdot so popular. I have my settings so that I never read a comment below a ranking of 3 and must say that I read a LOT of good stuff. Some are informative, others are thought provoking, and a good majority are extremely funny.
My only question is why they aren’t exploited more. Maybe have a top 20 comments that I could browse through? Or promote journals more like Kuro5hin does. I dunno. It seems more could be done with this user added content.
There is a story running over at CNN.com about a researcher building a robot reporter that would be used to rove around battles and feed live audio/video back to the station. Read on for why this is a bad idea.
First off, how many mothers, fathers, daughters, and family members of servicemen are going to want to watch their loved ones dying LIVE ON THE TV? I have two family members whom are enlisted and I can vouch for my family when I say I DON’T want to watch them die in real time.
Second – do we WANT to see the destruction that our sophisticated military wreaks on the enemy? I personlly live in blissful ignorance about how much distruction actually happens. The Daisy Cutters which desimate everything within a 600 yard radius sounds devestating on paper, much less watching it live on a video screen.
Lastly, is the military going to allow this? Nevermind the fact that this is potentially an intelligence nightmare. This could turn into the largest PR fiasco the military has ever seen.
The thing that scares me the most is that this could possibly become POPULAR. That’s right – America’s well known appetite for destruction (ie. WWF, boxing, Ultimate Fighting Championship, etc.) combined with it’s large appetite for “real” TV (ie. Real World, Survivor, etc.) could prove to boost support for this type of reporting.
Personally, I think time would be better spent finding ways to PREVENT the use of our military than building sophisticated robots to view our weapons in action.
This last Friday my fraternity threw a “Graffitti” party. For those who don’t know what one is, it’s a party where the guests wear white tshirts and run around in black light writing on each other with highlighters. A ton of people showed up and everyone was wearing tshirts, which made the night fun.
