There was a surgically implanted bomb in The Hurt Locker which was hardly a B movie.

This comment does not imply support of the TSA in the slightest.

Paradox Interactive has a great system where users have to register with their serial number in order to post in or view certain areas of their vBulletin forum. There's no in game DRM. It's completely unobtrusive but there's a lot of peer pressure to register games (anyone posting in the General Discussion areas for support almost immediately gets told to register their game and post in the support area). I'm not sure how piracy rates are figured but I'd be curious to see what theirs is--I'd imagine they do better than average.

Engineering. No casualties, Captain, but trouble aplenty with the memes. Every dilithium crystal connection smashed in the warp engine circuitry. We're trying to bypass them now.

And /. represents what everyone wants? Not even close.

Can someone explain to me how a comment with this statement in it can be +4 informative? I may be new here but this has to be one of the most idiotic things I've ever read on slashdot--which says a lot.

Not to mention you'd also destroy pretty much every non-military (ie very seriously rad-hardened) satellite which didn't have the Earth between it and the nuclear device.

So, a large area of Earth based elecronics destroyed, and even if you've managed to avoid that, no communications or Earth observation satellites to aid in recovery.

(...and yes, most satellites are built with rad-hard components, but they're not designed to withstand an EMP, which requires substantially more shielding).

I hear 2 or 3 incidents a week on the local news about an elderly person mistaking the accelerator and brake pedals. They have no bias towards any specific make/model from my observations.

Heck, about 5 years ago my own grandma was backing out of her garage and she missed the brake pedal and kept on going backwards right into my RSX. She was mortified, I was shocked, the rest of my family ran back into the house because they were laughing so hard.

Sorry, I just re-read my post and I sounded like a bit of a jerk compared to your completely reasonable post. I had just scrolled through enough posts like "calculus is useless! statistics 4ever!" to be somewhat irritated.

You're quite right that direct computation of derivatives or integrals is rarely done by people nowadays (and it should really be this way in calculus classes as well, but I digress). My poorly phrased point is that the knowledge of what an integral is and how it behaves is of great value when thinking statistically, even if you don't do any integration.

I think many people undervalue the conceptual understanding to their detriment, but I'm going to cut myself off before I start ranting again.

Am I the only one who thinks it's frickin' cool to be captured on one of these street views?
Me: "See that blurry guy there?"
Friend: "Uhh...yeah."
Me: "That's me!" (Portland, OR)

Judging from the table names in the article, it looks like they are maintaining virtually all of their data in a single database hosted on a machine that is connected to the Internet and accessible by anyone. This is a grave mistake in my opinion, regardless of whether they are using 3rd party software or not.

Well I'm hardly a nerd in the league with most of /., but I recognized it right off the bat and felt compelled to come out of my lurking to mention it. So it might not be that off-base. Then again, I don't know how many people read the same book over a dozen times, so maybe it is. Please relax, you are perfectly safe.

I forgot to say that blocking the same URL with Adblock achieves the same results. The feature works by letting websites post updates to the URL http://www.facebook.com/beacon/beacon.js.php. So if you block this URL with Adblock (or another extension), websites won't be able to update your profile.