Slashdot Mirror


User: Eunuchswear

Eunuchswear's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
6,176
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 6,176

  1. Re:That remark suggests you are very young. on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    They do. Like I said. It means you are (still) doing something wrong if you can't find $5.

    Buddy can you spare $5 for a wireless dongle?

    Nah, he'll just spend it on drink.

  2. Re:report it to the fcc on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself, white boy.

    I am not a fucking cowboy.

  3. Re:Why does this quote keep coming back to me on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 1

    contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. [RAH]

    Heinlein was a prat.

  4. Re:Local law, global impact? on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 2, Informative

    This has made the news a bit overseas too. There were some doubts voiced that the US could effectively completely 'kill' the Internet.

    Trivialy easy. DNS isn't the way you'd do it, BGP is.

  5. Re:also: more doctors, less pay, more compassion. on What US Health Care Needs · · Score: 1

    I propose that we end hunger on the planet before we start worrying about giving health care to everyone. The money would be much better spent on that.

    No, you propose that you spend more money on not giving people health care than all other developped countries spend on actually functioning health care systems.

  6. Re:And what about poor people with a handicap on What US Health Care Needs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sometimes, life just sucks. And guess what? Your government CAN'T fix that.

    In an discussion of US health care problems the first step is to admit that the problem has been solved, in many different ways, in many places.

    So don't:

    1. Claim it can't be solved.
    2. Propose a solution without pointing to a working example
    3. Claim a proposed solution can't work if the same system is being used elsewhere.
  7. Re:I don't know what the complaint is about? on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and if we call you anonymous cowheard you'd be ok with that?

  8. Re:I don't know what the complaint is about? on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    Of course the standard for Unix usernames is last name followed by first initial

    Sez who? Or do you mean at your place of work.

  9. Re:Android on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1

    Posting something calling people "fanbois" and "pricks" isn't clever,

    But Jobs is a prick, what else are you going to call him?

  10. Re:You're wrong. on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1

    I don't want to know about your sick codependent S&M relationship with Apple and Jobs, thank you.

  11. Re:Give me a call when other phones have a smooth on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1

    the absolute best phone on the market

    de gustibis non disputandem est.

  12. Re:Give me a call when other phones have a smooth on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 1

    Say what you like about Benito, but he sure gets the trains running on time (*).

    (* Yes, I know he didn't.)

  13. Re:Android on Apple Censors Ulysses App In Time For Bloomsday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Poor little Apple fanbois feel all sad and hurt if you point out that their demigod Steve is an uncultured pathetic little micromanaging dictatorial prick.

  14. Re:Same as Readable App on Safari 5 Released · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Things like this... on Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past · · Score: 1

    Since 1972, we've developed the technology to be able to build autonomous robots to do our exploring for us and sent them to Mars and other bodies in the solar system, which is both cheaper and safer than sending fragile humans.

    We sent robots to explore the moon in 1970 (Lunakhod 1),

  16. Re:Things like this... on Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past · · Score: 1

    in 1969 we walked on the moon.

    And in 1972. And since then?

    Ah, unstoppable progress.

  17. Re:Things like this... on Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past · · Score: 1

    I'm old enough to remember a time without the Internet, without a PC in every home, and when cell phones were the size of briefcases...yet I'm still young enough to take advantage of technological innovations, keep up with advances, and appreciate the impact it has on our lives.

    I don't understand your point. Are you somehow insinuating that us older people (born 1959 in my case, started programming in 1977) are unable to deal with "technological innovations"?

  18. Re:How do IDs infringe on privacy? on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    I am already in several databases, and it makes no difference to me.

    Now imagine that those "several" databases are replaced by one database.

  19. Re:New Labour on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Absolutely everyone is in agreement that Saddam Hussein was in breach of that cease fire agreement, which means that reopening hostilities is er perfectly legal.

    What everyone? Absolutely everyone?

    And how was he breaking the ceasefire agreement? Massive stocks of WMDs?

  20. Re:Quaint system... on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    I'm one of the people on the list of those who can countersign

    A Minister of Religion?

    That person should be a British citizen,other British national or Commonwealth citizen who is a Member of Parliament, Justice of the Peace, Minister of Religion, Bank Officer, Established Civil Servant, or professionally qualified person, e.g. Lawyer, Engineer, Doctor, School Teacher, Police Officer or a person of similar standing.

  21. Re:Quaint system... on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Most other Europeans do not "make do with ID cards" to travel but are obliged by law to carry one on them at all times (whether traveling or not).

    But not in France. If you don't have any ID on your person you can be asked to present one at the police station within a few days. If you have no ID and no cash they used to be able to claim you were a vagrant and chuck you in the cells, but I think that's gone now.

  22. Re:Quaint system... on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    The person countersigning the passport photograph must already hold a UK passport and quote their passport number.

    Nope, I live in France, If I can't find an appropriate brit to countersign my application a worthy frog will do. (Usually ask my doctor - takes a hell of a long time explaining why I need to do it, usually resulting in uncontrollable laughter).

  23. Re:Who owns the NY Post? on UK Newspaper Websites To Become Nearly Invisible · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It'll make it interesting when Slashdot has to start putting up stories from niche websites instead of mainstream if they all go behind paywalls.

    Niche?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/

    If the tories had won the election maybe he'd of been able to get Dave from PR to close down the BBC, but they didn't, and even Dave may have had problems getting rid of the Graundiad.

  24. Re:And nothing of value is lost on UK Newspaper Websites To Become Nearly Invisible · · Score: 1

    The Guardian has 37m readers, the Times has 1.2m readers.

    ITYM the Guardians website has 37m readers.

    Wow.

    Murdoch is fucked.

    Hurray!

  25. Re:$380? on Asus Budget Ultraportable Notebook Sold Sans OS · · Score: 1

    It works for everything but moderation in MicroB on the N900. (In retro mode - I hate modern slashdot).