Slashdot Mirror


User: Noughmad

Noughmad's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,159
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,159

  1. Re:Suspicious looking but meaningless data? on NZ Professor Advocates Civil Disobedience Against Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    What is this, some kind of a cheap Queen knock-off?

  2. Re:Slashdot on Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured · · Score: 1

    He also forgot Methodists.

  3. Re:He's too kind... on Former NSA Chief Warns Hackers Will Attack US If Snowden Is Captured · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hey! I'm twentysomething, and I definitely recognize when people on the opposite side of the hallway have sex, you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:How long before on Version 2.0 of 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Rounds · · Score: 0

    It's still easier for first-graders to steal their parents' guns than printing their own. That might not be true for long, though.

  5. Re:Can superconductors compute? on US Intel Agencies To Build Superconducting Computer · · Score: 1

    Don't transistors work better with DC?

  6. Re:Proof Ads are evil on Backdoor Found In OpenX Ad Platform · · Score: 1

    I'll take ads I can block over Geocities websites with five fonts, eight colors and blink tags.

  7. Re:The NSA??? on Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Is there someone you think is better qualified?

  8. Re:Religion? on Russian Church of Kopimizma Rallies For Battle Against New Piracy Laws · · Score: 1

    But American politics already have several "superhuman agencies". Most of them have as many letters in their name as "God". Coincidence? I think not.

  9. Re:Spirit's comic was better. on NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year On Mars · · Score: 1

    I agree, that's why I wrote I don't mean the Curiosity one (which is number 1091).

  10. Re:Definitions on Navy Version of Expedia Could Save DoD Millions · · Score: 2

    They probably meant the meaning of revolution as a complete (360 degree) turn. [1] As in, the wheel has come full circle. So by coming back around to 20-year-old technology, they have completed one revolution.

    [1]: Wikipedia says so (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_%28geometry%29)

  11. Obligatory XKCD on NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year On Mars · · Score: 1

    Now you're making it too easy. And I don't mean 1091.

  12. Re:Universal survival tool on 10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse · · Score: 5, Funny

    That may be true. However,

    More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

    To summarize, if you know where you towel is, other people will lend you WD40, duct tape, cats and toast with butter. That should be enough for any apocalypse.

  13. Re:Zealouts and Luddites on First Ever Public Tasting of Lab-Grown Cultured Beef Burger · · Score: 2

    simply because if it doesn't TASTE good and have the "mouth feel" of genuine beef, you're not going to get enough buyers to make it a commercial success. . .

    Just put a lot of sugar and a big red M on it. It will be a success overnight. I wouldn't mention its origin, though.

  14. Re:News: Tool creates possibilities, good and bad. on Bradley Manning and the 'Hacker Madness' Scare Tactic · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck is humanity such a bunch of MORONS, and how can we get rid of that pest once and for all?

    1. Perfect spaceflight up to the point where very large spaceships are possible.
    2. Construct three very large spaceships, let's call them arks
    3. ???
    4. Profit!!!

  15. Re:Some nice ideas, but... on New, Privacy-Oriented, FOSS Web-mail: Mailpile · · Score: 1

    Running your own server seems kind of extreme for the average user

    Running your own server is what everybody used to do before Google gave people the offer of free unlimited storage that they couldn't refuse.

    I don't know about everybody, but most of the people I know (including me) started with the ISP-provided email, then moved to Hotmail or Yahoo and finally to GMail.

  16. Re:Strangely... on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 0

    And Apple has refused to license those patents. They have refused to negotiate to license them. They have even stated that they will not accept a court-ordered license fee unless they happen to think it's low enough.

    Tell me, oh wise one, what other recourse did Samsung have?

    Oh, they had good recourses, they just chose a legal one instead.

  17. Re:Geeks.com on Geeks.com Online Shop Has Closed · · Score: 1

    Yes, but after she was finished, did they give you the seven monitors or not?

  18. Re:Monopole Magnets on Monopoles and Magnetricity · · Score: 4, Informative

    So monopoles actually only require Maxwell's equations and would lead to an explanation of why charge is quantized.

    Not, not really. Maxwell's equations, in the known form, do not allow for magnetic monopoles. They are explicitly forbidden by "div B = 0". However, they could very easily be changed (symmetrized - so they would look the same for electric and magnetic fields) to account for them.

    So just from Maxwell's equation you can't disprove the existence of monopoles, but you can't prove them either.

  19. Pat on the back on The Rising Power of Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some rich guys got together, told themselves how great they are and how they deserve to be rich. News at 11.

  20. Re:I still would like Benidict Cumberbatch on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 2

    What? I thought he was a great Arthur Dent. By far the best actor in the movie.

  21. Re:As River Song says, No Spoilers! on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 2

    And why should the people follow you?
    Because unlike some other The Doctors, I can speak with an American accent!

  22. Re:I still would like Benidict Cumberbatch on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    True. By the way, how come nobody mentioned Martin Freeman as the Doctor?

  23. Re:Not the best place on Duke Energy Scraps Plans For Florida Nuclear Plant, Forced To Delay Others · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, it's kinda pointless to build nuclear plants in an area where oil flows ashore by itself.

  24. Re:This story sounds familiar on Epic Online Space Battle · · Score: 1

    He _can_ have it run 10^-100 slower. It doesn't mean that is his home computer's top speed.

  25. Re:Who cares on Epic Online Space Battle · · Score: 1

    The aliens who are monitoring the video game and looking for those with aptitude. ;-)

    I didn't realise the aliens were involved in a massive accountancy war.

    So you didn't know about the 235214-year war between accountants and phone sanitizers?