Slashdot Mirror


User: tmjva

tmjva's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
457
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 457

  1. Love the Sign Off on Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Funny how the last sentence asks you to debate it on Facebook. Oh the irony!

  2. Worth Every Penny on Billionaire Launches Free Code College in California (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And you get what you pay for.

  3. Support Fees! on Should Cloud Vendors Decrypt Data For The Government? (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure! If the government pays the vendor for support.

  4. First thing I thought of also. But also drop them around Earth-Like, it was already hyphenated.

  5. Intelligence Collection? on LinkedIn Suffers Huge Bot Attack That Steals Members' Personal Data (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course if data collected was during the course of a country's open source intelligence collection op. It would be perfectly lawful. So who could they sue in such cases? Domestically that would be unlawful. (They would have to defer to a closed source, muaahahahahaaaaa!)

  6. Speaking of Upperclass Twits on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Every time I think of British scientists I think of the Monty Python sketch of Upperclass Twit of the Year.

  7. If I recall correctly, that was the storage methodology for one of the iterations of Asimov's MultiVAX in "The Last Question".

    Which we can now ask: "Can Entropy Be Reversed?"

    INSUFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER

  8. So How Much Wall Time? on The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall · · Score: 1

    And is there a chargeback method?

  9. Panzer General II on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    All long as I can still play Panzer General II on an old laptop, I'm good.

  10. Still on FORTRAN/77 on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Switch Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    MANMAN software On HP's MPE/iX 7.5

  11. And Another H.G. Wells Flick on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Not just Morlocks and Eloi, don't forget "Things to Come".

  12. My Co-Worker Did That Last Year, Sort of on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    Told my boss he was MIA on the second day of absence. Turned out he died in his hotel room.

    Linkedin still tells me he is someone I should connect with.

  13. With the proviso he could never work a government job again.

  14. Until Myron Aub and the Introduction of Graphitics on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Feeling of Power, Isaac Asimov 1958.

  15. Re:1st on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 1

    I too, RTFM.

  16. Work? on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He who does not work, neither shall he eat.

    Muaaahahahahaaaa!

  17. Scabble! on Internet, Web Enjoy One Final Day As Proper Nouns (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Finally I can use "internet" in Scrabble!

  18. Proviso? on Eric Holder Says Snowden Performed 'Public Service' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How about a pardon in exile with the proviso, he can never work for the U.S. or alied gov't again?

    (Much like his status today, but leaves him free to move about the cabin.)

  19. Well he isn't going to get votes with the Least Common Denominator. Kinda makes sense actually.

  20. A Solution in Search of a Problem on 'I Know How To Program, But I Don't Know What To Program' (devdungeon.com) · · Score: 1

    This old adage comes to mind.

  21. Dey tuk urrr jurrrbbbs!

  22. Re:Who'da THUNK it???? on Dissension Grows Inside Anonymous Because Of Political Propaganda (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    As can be said of the Anarchist Brigades in the Spanish Civil War: They were good fighters, but suffered from a lack of organization.

  23. We'll see when they start paying their bills on time.

    Suppliers may start putting them on a short leash with their credit limit.

  24. Did Telstar do This When Launched? on ESA Offering Prizes For First Radio Reception From Satellite (livejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I'll play "Telstar" by The Ventures now.

  25. This Machine Was Invented by John Galt on This Battery-Free Computer Sucks Power Out Of Thin Air (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    And Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart are looking for him.