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. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 0

    Holy Carp! Glenn Beck posts on slashdot!!!!

    Hi Glenn!

  2. Re:do x but not too much! on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a plan, you willing to go and tell HR and the executives that we now need to be paid ENGINEER pay scales?

    Those that control the money dont want programming to become elevated to Engineering status, they would have to pay us all more across the board.

  3. Re:Tests, Manual, Support by programmer. on Programming Mistakes To Avoid · · Score: 1

    Unrealistic timetables... Your testing prototype ends up as the shipped code.
    Senior programmer helps on the project... Yay we get old code we have to re-write for him.
    Engineering gives us a craptastic design that we have to program around the limitations or problems in the platform. Causing a kludge that we pray will not unravel after it ships.

    Those three I see nearly monthly.

  4. Re:First post, for the umpteenth time on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 1

    actually most of the time a person "cheats" because they are not getting what they need at home anymore. He is focused on his career and never even pays attention to her anymore. She stops putting out or was a complete fake until they got married.

    The "suddenly does not like sex" bullshit that many women pull. If you hump like a rabbit before marriage, your ass had better continue afterward.

    Problem is most people marry a person they really do not know. They do not move in with them and live with them for at least 2-3 years first to find out she or he is actually a pain in the ass to live with.

  5. Re:Owner? on Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed · · Score: 2

    Some things dont add up.

    How the hell does someone buy crates of real live grenades? It's not like the sporting goods stores carry them, and from what I know about firearm laws, there is NO way in hell they were purchased legally. so Who the hell is selling grenades?

    Honesty, if the things were in the wild, we would be seeing a lot more dead cops when they attack drug houses and pimps.

  6. Re:3D animation primer on Beginning Blender · · Score: 2

    And all of those tutorials will be 100% useless for 2.5.. Click here for .... wait I dont have that, the UI is completely different... WTF!!!

    This is the problem, the changes in blender will make it near impossible for a newbie to get up to speed as everything will be just wrong enough for them to give up. and nobody is going to go back and redo all the tutorials.

  7. Re:frustrating on Beginning Blender · · Score: 2

    Compared to what?

    IF you tell me you find Maya and Lightwave to be incredibly easy and intuitive, I'm going to ship a midget with a Giant Mackerel to smack you with. Every single 3d EFX and CG program I have ever used is convoluted at best, a sheer clif of a learning curve at worst.

  8. Re:Ya think? on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That would make him a Martyr... The US government does not want that.

    He will be arrested, paraded through our kangaroo courts, found guilty as a terrorist, made to look like the ultimate villain to the public and left to rot in a prison somewhere.

  9. Re:Anyone is a potential terrorist, get used to it on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    I fly at the same prices or slightly higher than Commercial, so you cant afford what you are flying already.

    Non Stop JFK to DET on a LearJet was $225.00 for me last time I came back from NYC... That was $25.00 more than Flying Delta, I arrived 2 hours earlier than Delta, and was out of the airport with my stuff in 8 minutes.

    And No I'm not sharing. Last thing I need is a lot of other people figuring out my tricks and booking up the planes I fly on. It takes more effort, you cant buy a "round trip" ticket wither.

  10. Re:Anyone is a potential terrorist, get used to it on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    You can fly without documentation.

    In fact I regularly fly without going through metal detectors or even looking at a TSA agent.

    Fly private or corporate. They are not near the terminal and require you to suffer with horible indignities like carrying your own luggage, no stewardess to server you, and GASP, no skymall magazine or inflight movie.

  11. Re:Anyone is a potential terrorist, get used to it on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    Bet you $10,000 I can get $100,000 without a paper trail.

    Does money when in a large enough pile suddenly call home? nope.

    In fact I could carry around $20,000,000 and the feds not know about it.

    What you need to say is ,"withdraw from a bank more than $10,000 and you have a trail." and this is still incorrect. My sister who works at a ban says they report transactions over $2500.00

    Quite old car? I can buy a 2007 car right now for less than $10,000.

    Home? what idiot would buy a home? that guarantees you get to be tracked. IF you want privacy, you dont stay in one location long enough to buy land and a house. Buy a RV (Gasp a USED ONE!) and live anywhere with a lot of conveniences.. My old RV even would let you watch DishTV while driving down the road.

  12. Re:Anyone is a potential terrorist, get used to it on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 1

    Found my IP of my VPN service overseas.... :Luckily I paid them with a prepaid credit card that is not attached to my real name or address..

    Muahahaha.... Oh crap, I just gave all that away...

    DAMMIT!

  13. Re:Anyone is a potential terrorist, get used to it on Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans' Real Time Credit Card Activity · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can have privacy, it's just getting a lot more expensive to do so.

    Here are some steps for you.

    1 - cash only. Yes kiddies, saving for and buying your item.
    2 - Used only. This one works really well. Buying used from a private party leaves no paper trail.
    3 - when presed for information give randomized false information. Giving the same false info builds a profile. Use incredibly common names, large apartment complexes as address, etc..
    4 - Dress to blend in. Honestly, you need to be forgettable and blend in. You cant have a 4 foot tall bright red mohawk and expect privacy.
    5 - Keep your mouth shut. Loose lips sink ships and give away your information.
    6 - reassess and reevaluate your practices regularly. Keeps you from getting sloppy.

    Is it easy? not a chance, it sucks. But it also works if you want to be "invisible". And that is exactly what you need to do. Live as if you are on the run and need to hide.
    That said, I know people that live that way, but most of them are nutty.

  14. Re:Best Buy also ripping off customers on Antivirus Firms Short-Changing Customers · · Score: 2

    Yes there are two very secret technologies you can use. I will probably be killed by the FreeMasons for revealing this secret of theirs but I think it's worth the risk..

    1 - you can use a very secret form of payment called cash. It's specially printer paper issued by a secret government department that very few people know about.

    2 - a bank check or personal check. These both are very secret ways that many people have been killed over by even talking about them... What do you think Jesus was crucified for? He told Judas about writing checks for paying for things and the illuminati had him CRUCIFIED for it.

    They fricking killed the son of god! That is how serious these people are.

    So dont tell anyone ok, I'd hate to see a smart guy like you killed.

  15. Re:Best Buy also ripping off customers on Antivirus Firms Short-Changing Customers · · Score: 2

    Which is Why you never EVER buy a computer from best buy with a credit card or debit card.

  16. Re:Bush was right after all on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1

    Really?

    Blow the hell out of I80 and you significantly disrupted Amercian commerce.

  17. Re:Doh on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    And TiVo sucks at it.

    MythTV removes the commercial completely. I dont have to skip anything. I gain nearly 2 hours of my life a week from it. (I dont watch much TV)

  18. Re:Doh on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    But it's not.

    The volume is NOT going up. 0db is 0db.. you cant get past that.

    What they do is add a crapload of compression to the audio so the average volume level is higher than a Tv program.

    I.E. Instead of one or two key things hitting full volume, they compress it so that 90% of all the audio hit's full volume.

    Problem is the way the "law" is written, it has no teeth. All tv commercials are cuttently in compliance because there are no hard and fast rules written in the law.

    They needed to specify no greater than X% over the program's RMS apparent volume. If they do not specify RMS and apparent over peak then nothing will change.

    I can have a commercial that is loud as hell and be 3DB lower than the peak volume of the tv program being shown.

    Personally, I would have said "All commercials must be 6-8DB lower than the program volume peak that was in the last 60 seconds of the program before the commercial break.. This will take into account all TRICKS used to make something sound louder than it really is.

  19. Re:Not smart enough on Smart Wallets React To Spending By Shrinking · · Score: 0

    Better solution, every dollar they are over the budget, paintball riflemen shoot in the head each senator. It will stop as soon as they hit zero or go positive. To start with they will probably have to install paint pumps in the floors to keep the senators from drowning..

    Wait.... Skip the pumps.

  20. Re:Not Entirely Crazy on Smart Wallets React To Spending By Shrinking · · Score: 1

    mint.com

    your phone does ALL of what the wallet does except the stupid "harder to open" function.

  21. Re:The background doesn't change on Optical Camouflage Puts Kinect Into Stealth Mode · · Score: 2

    There has been a plugin for after effects to do this EXACT effect but in more detail and clairty for years. all you need is a green screen shot of the target and the footage you want the effect on.

  22. Re:The background doesn't change on Optical Camouflage Puts Kinect Into Stealth Mode · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "pre existing image of the background" this makes it an epic fail, but cute project.

    I'l be impressed if it generates the background without ANY reference images or reference data.

  23. Re:Old Hat... on Attack of the Trojan Printers · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the "years ago" part?

  24. Old Hat... on Attack of the Trojan Printers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did that years ago.

    HPLJ4 -- two power cables? what are they hiring amateurs?

    Open printer, add PC-104 computer with ethernet and a linux on it along with a small switch. printer AND PC104 connect to the switch inside AND scab onto the power supply.

    Printer + network scanner/document grabber completely hidden.

    Today it's even easier... Shiva plug with a HP sticker on it and it will go unnoticed for months.

  25. Re:Fuck that! on Race On To Fingerprint Phones, PCs · · Score: 2

    http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

    click, save as... all done. I have a batch file that does it weekly for me with the AT command.

    not a chore at all.