Slashdot Mirror


User: Lumpy

Lumpy's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
20,433
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 20,433

  1. No they did not. on Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language · · Score: 1

    They learned how to communicate meaning. The researchers taught them the words. the computers on board did not invent the words they used. In fact a computer would not do something as dumb as a spoken word but series of tones or even FSK.

  2. N00b.... on When AIM Was Our Facebook · · Score: 2

    I had a 5 digit ICQ number, and was a regular on the Compuserve CB simulator... AIM being old school..... PfffT!

  3. Re:10% contract prostate cancer? on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    So if I masturbate 3 times a day and drink 24 cups of coffee daily I have a 100% chance of never getting prostate cancer?

  4. Re:Diuretic on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe that you are drinking a large amount of fluid has something to do with it?

    Drink the same amount of water in the same time period... Lookie same effect.

  5. Re:Will this finally shut up on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    No because slashdot is not my printer.

    Sorry but you are suggesting I now need to run a figging NAMESERVER? for my printers, XBMC players, RokU Boxes, toaster and furnace? That's flat out retarded.

  6. Simple Solution. on The FSF's Campaign Against the Nintendo 3DS · · Score: 1

    Wait for the Hacked Cart's to come out that will bypass all this crap.

    Honestly, I dont see all the fuss, I played a 3ds for about 2 hours, the effect is not that impressive and I started to get a headache after a while. I can see 8 year olds whos parents are too busy with their career wanting it, but I cant see anyone else really interested in it.

    Honestly it looks like Nintendo reign as king of videogames is at an end. The last 3 iterations of the DS have been meh, and the WiiWii will not gather any attention.

  7. Pew? Pew? on Celebrating the Sci-fi Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    I though that is how you celebrate the SciFi ray gun.... Run around with a sharpie in hand yelling PEW PEW PEW at your co-workers....

    BTW: accounting department has NO sense of humor.... Throwing a dry erase board eraser into their office and yelling grenade was frowned upon... at least the Marketing department acted like it was real and looked like they panicked and ran from it. They are such good sports!

  8. Re:Fair tax wont need a computer to fix this on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    Nope, told the realtor to take a hike and sold it "by owner". Sold it in 90 days for asking price.
    I tried the traditional route first and after the 3rd realtor told me that I needed to do X,Y,Z before he would list it, I went my own route.

  9. Re:dumb on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    What netmask are you using for your torch?

  10. Re:In ten years. on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    And you will be the first to bitch that the Milky Way is NAT connected to the Galactic Internet because we are the backwater still using IPV6

  11. Re:Will this finally shut up on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    No it's about controlling your own ip adress space.

    I can change ISP's and all my internal IP addresses will not change.

    You might like running around and changing things, I have better things to do.

  12. Re:Wrong place on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    That's because the wanna-be electrician the church had volunteer to help for that installed it wrong. If your church did not cheap out and use real occupancy sensor for the task you would not have had the problem.

    But they wanted instead to use free labor and use a $29.00 home depo motion switch instead of a $150.00 proper occupancy sensor from wattstopper and an electrician that knew what he was doing to install it.

  13. Re:Wrong place on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 0

    I want the cheap bulb that I can control from anywhere. That's why I bought a lighting control system for my home instead of being the typical idiot homeowner and blowing all the money on marble countertops and stainless appliances.

  14. Re:Wrong place on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    Not many people I know lick their fingers and jam them in the socket when they change the bulb. IF you cant avoid that temptation when you change your light bulbs, I suggest hiring a helper to make sure you can keep your fingers away from the contacts.

  15. Re:We've sent them a message already... on Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    You sound like the scientists that did not want to release the findings of the first pulsars. they were convinced it was aliens looking to come and eat us.

    REally, I'm serious.

  16. Re:We've sent them a message already... on Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable' Exoplanet · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Seems kind of rude to just start shouting at them."

    Not really, the scientists that though of it were from New Jersey.

  17. Re:One question they did not answer on Lodsys Responds To In-App Purchasing Patent Controversy · · Score: 1

    Yup.

    Masters degree REQUIRED. from time of filing until patent issued, 100 hours MUST be spent on each patent researching it. and then it will be prominently displayed on their website asking for people to submit examples of prior art.

    THEN the patent and all info and notes are decided by a once a year patent board that reviews the reviews and public information and says "yay or nay"

    The patent process should be VERY HARD.

  18. Re:Interisting on Boot Linux In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    And a lot of plugins dont work.

  19. Re:Fair tax wont need a computer to fix this on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    "A gross receipts tax would likely need to be between 3 and 5 percent (less than a real estate agent gets to sell your house) to make for an even tax stream." you havent sold a house in the past 8 years.

    Realestate agents are getting 7% and they look at you like you have 2 heads if you try and negotiate them down.

  20. Yes. on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    It wipes out all parts of the tax code and then set's ALL taxes from personal making $15,000+ a year to corperations making $99,876,432,112,435,231,144,32 a year to paying 15% of all income.

    ALL INCOME. no not after X,Y or Z.. if you took in a dollar you give creepy uncle sam $0.15 and say thank you nay I have another.

    Makes it really easy and the tax form from single college student to the largest corperation on the planet has a simple 1 page form.

    Field 1 - How much money did you take in?
    Field 2 - what is Field 1 multiplied by 0.15?
    Field 3 - send up a check for the amount found in Field 2.

    The government will have enough cash to fight 4 wars, have free public transportation including country wide high speed trains, and healthcare free for everyone.

    But it will not fly... filthy rich assholes will whine hard about it. and filthy rich assholes run the country. (Note Rich people that do not whine about it are not assholes, only the whiners are the assholes... so yes there will be poor assholes as well as middle class assholes.)

    Cities and states? they will NOT be allowed income tax. they can only claim property tax and sales tax. so all state and local income taxes will be ABOLISHED. the feds will give them a stipend just like they do now.

    really simple, yet the mensa members that are our US congress cant figure this one out.

  21. Re:One question they did not answer on Lodsys Responds To In-App Purchasing Patent Controversy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    first you have to get rid of all the corrupt pawns that were put in place at the USPTO that rubber stamp everything in sight. Once you get competent and honest people in there 90% of all software patents will be invalidated.

  22. Re:Yea, but does it run Linux? on Ultramobile PC To Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    My phone does all I want, if I want more I would want a brick PC with no display but I can plug in a HUD and whip out a fold up keyboard (Had one for my palm that was fantastic and folded up to the size of the palm pilot), pointing device.
    At that point I can have a virtual 24" display and a real portable pocket device to type on a comfortable keyboard and use a trackpoint to clicky clicky. then fold up the keyboard, take off the earpiece hud and go.

    Bonus points of you make the HUD transparent so it can be used a reality augmentation and now you have something that will be the next revolution in mobile computing.

  23. Early release of cyberstrategy... on US To Release International Cyber Strategy Today · · Score: 1

    Buy all brand name products and OS's, plug ears, wear rose colored glasses and pray... Lighting hair on fire and running around option required.

  24. Re:Tabloid trash on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    No it is a miracle cure for cancer, it just kills you of a different cancer.

  25. Re:Last, but not least... don't believe TFA on The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing · · Score: 1

    If you want to record video BUY A VIDEOCAMERA. honestly 3CCD is what is needed. the horrible video I see coming from DSLR cameras with the fricking wave and slants because the sensor is not fast enough and the owner of the camera has zero clue as to how to shoot video is insane. You will not be shooting a feature film but your kid running around like a lunatic. BUY A VIDEOCAMERA and it records that stuff better.