Comment Re:Is it in Gemini? (Score 1) 168

by ozbird on Monday April 30, 2012 @02:46AM (#39842477) Attached to: Sun's Twin Discovered — the Perfect SETI Target?

There be dragons.

Comment Re:What an appalling title (Score 2) 159

by ozbird on Friday December 09, 2011 @09:30AM (#38313662) Attached to: Apple Loses Tablet Battle In Australia

"Samsung p0wns Apple." FTFY.

by ozbird on Monday November 21, 2011 @04:44PM (#38128404) Attached to: 11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do

Can it convert imperial measurements to metric measurements?

No, but the crater it will leave in the Martian surface is impressive in any measurement system.

by ozbird on Sunday September 11, 2011 @11:17PM (#37373048) Attached to: Gut-Check Time For Windows 8, Microsoft

Windows 1 changes everything!
Windows 1 changes everything!
Windows 1 changes everything!
...

by ozbird on Friday August 26, 2011 @05:00PM (#37222884) Attached to: CERN Studies Connection Between Cosmic Rays and Climate Change

Denialists Really Off the Planet; Latest Excuse Tenuous (DROPLET.)

by ozbird on Friday August 26, 2011 @04:50PM (#37222784) Attached to: Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle

Build it, and they will come.

by ozbird on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @10:49AM (#37119130) Attached to: GPGPU Bitcoin Mining Trojan

... and nothing of value was lost.

by ozbird on Monday August 15, 2011 @06:46PM (#37100580) Attached to: <em>EVE Online</em> Ponzi Scheme Nets $50k Worth of In-Game Currency

700.

by ozbird on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:03AM (#36894566) Attached to: Lucas Loses Star Wars Stormtrooper Copyright Case

... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "F*ck you, Jar Jar Binks!" and were suddenly smug.

by ozbird on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @05:48PM (#36828842) Attached to: Second Life Mine Simulation Receives an Emmy Nomination

The Balrog had too many prims in it.

by ozbird on Saturday May 21, 2011 @12:10AM (#36199238) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes?

Can I have your stuff?

by ozbird on Sunday May 15, 2011 @06:22PM (#36135748) Attached to: Live Justice Comes To the Internet

"Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done." -- R v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy [1924]

by ozbird on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @09:08AM (#36081654) Attached to: High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water

It isn't called "fracking" for nothing.

by ozbird on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:47PM (#36041680) Attached to: Do Gadgets Degrade Our Common Sense?

Fundamental laws of physics:

"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity - and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein

by ozbird on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @06:23PM (#36017294) Attached to: 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound

"You've got a nice cluster here, IBM. It'd be a shame if anyone were to ... appropriate it."