Slashdot Mirror


User: sakdoctor

sakdoctor's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,582
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,582

  1. Those seven words... on George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure · · Score: 3, Informative

    Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits.

    Tits is now depreciated.

  2. What a stupid vulnerability on Apple Fixes Safari "Carpet Bomb" Windows Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's pretty common that some badly configured web server will send content to me that firefox will then ask if I want to download.

    Just letting it download and then moving on to the next file is...well such an obviously stupid behaviour.

    Also, please don't let carpet bombing become the next security buzzword along with bricking and zero-day.

  3. Re:I wonder. on Digital TV Foreshadows Erosion of Net Rights · · Score: 1

    This post requires a Slashdot GOLD account.

    If you have not purchased a GOLD account you may not view this post.

  4. Tight budget on N-Prize Founder Paul Dear Talks Prizes For Nanosat Race · · Score: 5, Funny

    £999.99 could probably buy enough menthos and coke to launch the projectile.

  5. Why, why, why on Google Earth, Now With Browser Goodness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So now it can run substantially on a (huge) plug-in inside my browser. How is this different or more convenient just because the window is wrapped in the browser.

    Seems everything must run inside the browser these days. When can I get windows vista for firefox?

  6. Re:prince megahit on Next Prince of Persia Game Promises Fresh Start · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who actually don't know, adding megahit when running the original game from the command line activated the cheats.

    This didn't work with the Amiga version which I played as a kid, plus there was this weird potion room that wasn't on the PC version.
    The game was rock hard without the cheats (or possibly bad skills), mostly because there was a tight time limit of 1 hour in which to beat the game.

  7. Where are the stupid investors now? on '90s Dot-Coms — Where Are They Now? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ahhh the bubble. I'm quite nostalgic about it now.

    What I don't miss about the bubble is TV programs documenting some teenage CEO playing at running a business with apparent massive backing from stupid investors. Hey this kid is "worth millions"! (failed six months later of course).

    That an generic domain names. I still don't know who is typing those in.

  8. Re:Motherboard on First Reviews of the MSI Wind Ultra-Portable Laptop · · Score: 1

    can you elaborate? I've always found their motherboards to be well build and reliable.

  9. 100% turn out from north Korea on Firefox Goes for World Download Record · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look, all 18 computer uses have pledged.

  10. Re:logical progression on UK Proposes Banning Computer Generated Abuse · · Score: 5, Funny

    The logical progression is of course to ban children. If we don't have any children, then they can't possibly be abused and will therefore be safe.

    Is this good logic? Can I have a job as a politician yet?

  11. "Identify theft" needs a new name on LifeLock Spokesperson's Stolen ID Inspires Lawsuits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...cause seriously, it's bullshit. I mean this idea that my "identity" can be stolen. What this seems to be about to be is accountability. If a bank gives out money because someone duped them into believing that they were me, then the buck should stop with them. Their fuck up, their loss in a sane world.

  12. Or you could just breed your dog on Get the Family Dog Cloned · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's face it, you are going to have to invest the time to re-train the clone, so isn't genetically descended almost identical to genetically-identical in practical terms?

  13. Good news for mesothelioma lawyers on Nanotubes "As Deadly as Asbestos" · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not to mention the made for adsense spammers.

  14. Clinical depression on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    She had severe depression. If it wasn't this trigger it would have been another. Simply signing up for myspace and logging in for the first time could have been a major contributing factor.

  15. Finding life = also important on Seeking Signs of Ancient Martian Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If we find an instance of life anywhere that is not on earth then it is highly significant.
    It will help us to understand a little better the variables in the Drake equation.

  16. 7,777,777,777 Get! on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on slashdotters, we can make it

  17. Excited delirium on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sounds like one of those 18th century list of causes of death, where they didn't actually know the reason so they threw in some medical buzzwords of the day such as hysteria.

  18. Solving CAPTCHAs is a waste of time on Google's Audio CAPTCHA Falls To Automated Attack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apart from OCRing books, I can't think of anything else that is not a total waste of human time. How about meta-moderating as a CAPTCHA activity; probably too fuzzy to work to a reasonable degree of accuracy.

    Basically I think the arms race is already over, and a new paradigms is needed,

  19. Re:LOL on 500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked · · Score: 1

    To which he replied: "Don't use mysql_escape_string(), it's a deprecated function. Use mysql_real_escape_string() instead."

  20. Re:Simply use a lock favicon for your website on Choosing an SSL Provider? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    Seriously what a torrent of bullshit. Certs are encryption keys, and the rest is just marketing.
    Users don't even care so long as there is a padlock on their browser. The danger of this "money can buy trust" idea is that it just leads to escalation. If a yellow padlock is all too common and can be bought for $5.99 then next you will need a green tick that proves among other things that the company has given at least $999 to verisign.

    I rate the firefox invalid ssl cert warning as insightful, and the IE one as alarmist, bordering on mass hysteria.

  21. Re:Very large surface area needed on Solar Powered Microbes Manufacture Biofuels · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think that was his intention. The area required to farm any useful amount of karma would be around 820,000 square miles.
    That's an area almost the size of the entire Midwest.

  22. Re:The slope, she be slippery! on Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil · · Score: 1

    Also, when did pedophilia assimilate the meaning of ephebophilia.
    Are we simplifying the language to make thought-crime impossible?

  23. XO review on Widespread Keyboard Failures on OLPC's XO-1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dodgy keyboard. Less space than an Eeepc. Lame

  24. Re:My philosophy on Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this can be generalised as

    Individualist: We are all different but should be treated equally under the law.
    Collectivist: "Something must be done" to correct a tragically imperfect world.

    The collectivist approach has the propensity to piss me off, because of course it results in more and more obscure laws.
    If your on-line shop is unfriendly to screen readers you will likely lose blind customers. I think that this is punishment, and motivation enough.

  25. Re:LimeWire? on 1.6 Million PCs Track Popular P2P Clients · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I always thought gnutella was crap, but I totally disagree with your labelling of emule. Emule is fantastic for obscure content, and content that is too old to be seeded on any torrent.

    Also TFA mentions the emule network as edonkey, ignoring the distributed kad network which is an opensource triumph, that further helps to locate rare content.