User: Thud457

Re:THE Michael Abrash?

On: Oculus' Michael Abrash Explains What It'll Take For VR To Feel Real

No, this is the Micahel Abrash that worked on Quake when John Carmack couldn't make it work.

Geeze, I always pictured the Dr Dobb's guy as an crufty old curmudgeon, and that was back in the 90's.

I dunno...

On: 'RipSec' Goes To Hollywood: How the iCloud Celeb Hack Happened

Let's see the birth certificate.

nature's 4-fold harmonic IP addresses

On: America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses

exactly as prophicised. I knew this was coming when Gene Ray went into hiding.

maybe he should take it AAMCO

On: US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds

I don't get it, why is gramps boasting about not being able to drive 15 miles below the speed limit? Boomers are dumbf.

and lets not even get started on Congress & sp

On: Who Will Pay For a Commercial Space Station After the End of the ISS?

outgoing Presidents:manned Mars mission::Lucy:football

Obama's doing it
Bush the lesser did it
Clinton did it
Bush sr did it

every pres pulls dis sheet on the way out

On: Launch Manifest For NASA's "Road To Mars" Takes Shape But Questions Remain

2039?
That's like 12 congressional election cycles from now. Might as well be fornever.

fight the power!

On: "Happy Birthday To You" Now Public Domain

Fern bars everywhere rejoice today.

Happy, Happy Birthday
From the Chili's crew
We wish it was our birthday
So we can party too, hey!

I've noticed servers singing actual "Happy Birthday to You" sporadically over the last few months.

Happy happy birthday
we hope we won't get sued
just for wishing happy birthday
to a generous tipper like you!©

name and shame

On: Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web

if Google was serious about speeding things up, they'd make a top 1000 list of stupid websites that load a crapton of useless scripts and ads just to present simple content across the web.

nudge nudge, wink wink

On: Let's Not Go To Mars

Didn't you read your Cyril M. Kornbluth?!
Mars One is a vital necessity to ensure human civilization can survive when the Great Space Goat eats Earth!

I nominate Kanye for captain. Naturally, Kim will want to accompany him.

further proof journalism is dead

On: NASA Funded Project Could Mine Asteroids For Water With Sunlight

way to bury the lead space.com!
The headline should be "NASA wants to build solar-powered DEATHRAY !"

Now what was that you were about to say about cutting funding, Senator?

here's what you do in a situation like this...

On: Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems?

First thing you do is sit down and write two letters...

"annoyed grunt"

On: D-Link Accidentally Publishes Private Code Signing Keys

The "D" stands for "D'OH!"

the PORK must flow!

On: NASA Delays Orion's First Manned Flight Until 2023

Well there's why it's taking so long, they've got to wait for the time machine specified in the design to be invented .

Congress : "You're getting pork! And you're getting pork! And you're getting pork! EVERYBODY'S getting PORK!"
"Sorry, no spaceship for you... we can't afford that."

paging JonKatz

On: Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School

http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-from-the-hellmouth
nerd rage is the funniest rage.
/thread

you sir, are no Dwayne Comacho

On: Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run

He's no Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. But he's close.
Maybe a Trump / McAfee 2016 ticket would cover all bases.

Re:if at first you don't succeed, try the opposite

On: Researcher Trying To Teach Computer What Women He's Attracted To

PSHAW!.
tyro. The better strategy is to berate the prospective mate for their lack of knowledge of computers thereby motivating them to be come more knowledgeable, thus making them more compatible.

Re:Jettison != Outsourcing

On: HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff

Sounds like he's also an exemplar of the imaginary Rational Actor required for your holy Invisible Hand of the Free Market to work as theorized.

Too bad his short-term interest isn't aligned with the long-term good of society. They can suck it.

website's back up...

On: Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum

JKL MUSEUM OF TELEPHONY
Dedicated to preserving telephone history

oh. oops, ow. SNRK

Re:Poor protection?

On: Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum

Well, they built the National Corvette Museum in a place prone to sinkholes.

Conversely, the Salvador Dali Museum in St Pete was built to resist hurricanes. Time will tell on that one.

Re:Don't Panic!

On: Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum

Well, if you the sort of degenerate freak that's into that sort of thing, there's still the Georgia Rural Telephone Musuem

"#1 of 1 things to do in Leslie, GA"

there, I remixed it for ya

On: YouTube 'Dancing Baby' Copyright Ruling Sets Pre-Trial Fair Use Guideline

I miss the old America where people use to create content instead of just ripping it off wholesale and presenting it as their own.

Re:Aging Out

On: NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out

Apparently #50525333's sarcasm detector was built by Diebold.
Bonus points for overshoot's .sig in this context.

hear hear, harumph!

On: NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out

you said it, brother!


Face it, our voting machines are all rigged now.
How else can NOBODY vote for THAT GUY, but he keeps getting elected year-in and year-out?
Can't have the wrong lizard get elected, now can we?

surprized by irony

On: Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy?

invest it all in VA Linux Systems.

bah, I've got it down to 50% compression:

On: Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm

switch (rand % 2)
{
case 0 : /* here's some pr0n */;
break;
case 1 : /* here's a funny cat pikshur */;
default : /* are you're really sure you aren't looking for some pr0n? */
}