Slashdot Mirror


User: SomeJoel

SomeJoel's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
333
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 333

  1. Re:Of course not on After Aaron Swartz's Death, the Focus Now Falls On the Prosecutors · · Score: 1

    knowing full well that the persecutors would not drop the case.

    I see what you did there.

  2. Re:come get us bitches on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 2

    Somehow, this reminds me of putting a bumper sticker on someone else's car that says "I dare you to pull me over, PIG!"

  3. Re:Marketing guy's function on Why Non-Coders Shouldn't Write Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if your targeted market is IT professionals?

    Then you have a failed business model since IT professionals, as a rule, have no budget.

  4. Re:I'll believe it when I see... on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2

    an absolute frame of reference.

    I'm pretty sure those don't exist. Which is why, from any relative frame of reference, the top speed really is c. You can't go c+1 mm/year in any frame of reference, let alone 2c.

  5. Re:Remind me on What's Next For iRobot? · · Score: 5, Funny

    $14.52. What does that have to do with anything?

    He was testing your Internet research skills. You win this round.

  6. Re:yikes! on 8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 0

    I could not have said it better myself. Curse Slashdot for its poorly timed mod point distribution (or lack thereof)!

    Before people criticize "gopddamned", I'd like to point out that this is a typo. Writing "your" instead of "you're", on the other hand, is not a typo.

  7. Re:This sucks on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 2

    You just don't eat enough old egg salad sandwiches in space gas stations.

    In the end, no matter how well you play the holophonor, it's just not worth it.

  8. Re:Another thing to worry about... on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 1

    You sure topped them! Though you probably should have started with "That's nothing!"

  9. Re:450mm on Mass Production of 450mm Wafers Bumped Back Again: 2018 · · Score: 1

    The units ARE right. The WAFERs will be 450mm. Today they are 300mm.

    Or 200mm, or 150mm... It really quite depends on the manufacturing equipment in the fab and the target market for the devices (not everything manufactured on a wafer is a "chip"). Rumors of 200mm's demise have been quite premature.

  10. Re:It isn't? on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't trust the clowd clowns with your data!

    I certainly won't. Thanks for the tip. One other thing, how do I distinguish clowd clowns from regular clowns?

  11. Re:Why are they telling us? on Botnet Flaw Lets Researchers Disrupt Attacks · · Score: 1

    If they don't report any progress, they'll lose their funding.

  12. Re:Welp at least on Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs · · Score: 1

    You say this, but have you looked around? They do stuff lock step. If Verizon can get away with charging higher prices for voice and text, AT&T/Sprint can too!

    I think you might need to re-read the GP's post. Pay special attention to the hidden sarcasm.

  13. Re:In the air? on Could Flying Cars Actually Be On Their Way? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Considering most people can't drive in just 2D any attempt to become airborne will fail.

    Flying cars are a tried and failed concept.

    I tried driving in 2D once, but I got a sense that I wasn't actually going anywhere.

  14. Re:Meaningless on CERN Physicists Generate Hottest Man-Made Temperatures Ever: ~5.5 Trillion K · · Score: 4, Funny

    irrelephant is a perfectly comulent word!

    It's cromulent. Besides, you're embiggening the trolls.

  15. Re:Is ignorance bliss? on Beware the Nocebo Effect · · Score: 1

    I suggest looking at the data sheet, but paying close attention to the % of people experiencing the side effects. I'm pretty sure they have to report even very low incidence rates of side effects. If only a handful of test subjects got a particular side effect, then I'm pretty sure you can convince yourself that you're not *that* unlucky. Compare it to some other event with similar odds. Make sure the event you compare it to is a positive one though, like winning the lottery, lest you start a chain reaction of psychosomatic pitfalls.

  16. Re:He's right, but missing the point on PlayStation Boss Defends Vita, Slams Social Gaming · · Score: 1

    or wasting time and grandmas

    I can have no sympathy for people who are wasting grandmas. A grandma is not a thing to waste.

    To be fair, the full quote was "or wasting time and grandmas or whatever." The OP knows there is a broad spectrum of things to waste so he gave two extreme examples and let us fill in the rest with whatever.

  17. Re:This is not news on Blizzard Says Battle.Net Has Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    When my account got hacked, it was the final straw that led me to quit WoW. All signs pointed to it being an inside job. I had a dedicated (hard) password for the site, I had not visited any questionable websites, and I hadn't installed any addons in months.

    Whoever hacked it had a seriously weird sense of priorities too. They had sold the starting gear off my level 1 bank alt types and mailed off the money (at a loss!) but hadn't bothered to strip my midrange characters. They used my level 85 main character with bot-aided speedruns through Karazhan. Ironically, when I regained control of my character, I had a ton of gold from their most recent run. I donated it all to my guild and quit the next day. Since I was an officer, they'd looted that too - but since it was a casual guild the gold they got me easily replaced any items in there we'd cared about.

  18. Hopefully it's an outlier on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    I certainly hope that this heat was an outlier, and not "the new normal".

  19. Re:Sweet on The Google-fication of Yahoo! · · Score: 1

    Not providing adequate breaktime facilities for eating is a violation of State law.

    In which state(s) is this a violation?

  20. Re:Freaking incredible. on NASA Releases HiRISE Images of Curiosity's Descent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But there will always be pathetic yahoos who, out of some desire to make themselves feel important will deny our species' technical abilities.

    Yes, and they will post about it on the Internet without ever sensing the irony.

  21. Re:Windows 8 seems like a solid product on Windows 8 Is Ready · · Score: 1

    So how much does a paid shill make?

    They get paid in shillings of course. Though the advent of the Euro has made it a far less profitable enterprise.

  22. Re:Quality and quantity on Is TV Over the 'Net Really Cheaper Than Cable? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If children are involved, you can stream as low as 300 kbit/s (like I do) and they won't care. That's about equal to VHS or youtube-360p in quality.

    I watch about 2 hours a day... 8 on weekends. So that's 16+2*5 == 26 per week or 111 for the month. 250GB/111 hours == 5 Mbit/s. Most streams don't come anywhere near that amount so I'd not worry about going over the limit. And just to be sure I'd watch everything in SD (which is what comcast cable serves anyway).

    All you'd do with your internet connection is watch TV?

  23. Re:Also on Is Our Infrastructure Ready For Rising Temperatures? · · Score: 1

    The other day, I stepped on dog shit. You know what means - global warming. It's clear as day how that comes about, unless you're a "denier".

    It's true. Had there been no global warming you would have stepped IN dog shit.

  24. Re:News to us in Texas on Is Our Infrastructure Ready For Rising Temperatures? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I also live near Phoenix. They do in fact occasionally shut down airport traffic when it hits the mid-high 110s (or even 120s). I'm not sure if it's because of this particular problem, or if the airplanes overheat.

  25. Re:Only thing bad about Win8 is Metro on Microsoft: Windows 8 To RTM In August · · Score: 2

    When your computer crashes so often, startup times start to add up!