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  1. Re:Horror Stories? on Annual Customer Support Rankings · · Score: 1

    In Opera, this would not be a problem. Simply switch from author mode to user mode. Problem solved.

  2. Re:I have on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look, it's a bird! No, it's a man! It's ... Captain Obvious!

  3. Re:Stangely on Unix's Founding Fathers · · Score: 1

    No! You are now guilty of committing a thoughtcrime!

  4. Re:Ouch on U.S. Nuclear Cleanup Carries Major Risks · · Score: 1
    ...in major amounts of pain from stubbing my toe fiercely earlier today.
    What didja stub your toe on? The local PHB?
  5. Re:I have on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 2, Funny
    However, my /. sessions are limited to when my system doesn't blue sc7&#(13AL8#[CARRIER LOST]
    Bzzzt, wrong!* Nobody at Microsoft uses modems. Rather, it would look like this:

    However, my /. sessions are limited to when my system doesn't blue scSTOP: 0x00000019 (0x00000000,0xC00E0FF0,0xFFFFEFD4,0xC0000000)
    IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
    Restart and set the recovery options in the system control panel
    or the /CRASHDEBUG system start option.

    * -- Apologies to those who like to yell "stop with the bzzzt wrong crap!".

  6. Re:I have on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations · · Score: 1
    That's great, but is the volkswagon running on biodiesel?
    Who cares! The $64,000 question is: can your Volkswagon run Linux?
  7. Re:GNAA announces plans to assassinate George W. B on Ex-LucasArts Developers Try Vampyre Graphical Adventure · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Slashdot logs your IP number, and your ISP (or the place where you work) logs your IP number...
    Bah, any self-respecting GNAA member would be using a h4x0r3d computer account to post. Probably routing their traffic through a compromised router somewhere in the Orient, and across a war-dialer-discovered 2400 baud modem link out of some poor Afghanistan mother's basement.

    The GNAA is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very message thread. You can see them when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel them when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. They are the trolls that have been pulled over your virtual eyes to blind you from the truth.

  8. Re:Brakes and sinuses on Asbestos-Related Deaths Up · · Score: 1

    I call dibs on your five-digit Slashdot UID!

  9. Re:"What's good for Daimler-Chrysler ..." on SCO's claims Against Daimler-Chrysler Thrown Out · · Score: 1
    Yossarian was riding beside Milo Minderbinder in the co-pilot's seat. 'I don't understand why you buy eggs for seven cents apiece in Malta and sell them for five cents,' Yossarian said.

    'I do it to make a profit.'

    'But how can you make a profit? You lose two cents an egg.'

    'But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg. Of course, I don't make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.' Yossarian felt he was beginning to understand. 'And the people you sell the eggs to at four and a quarter cents apiece make a profit of two and three quarter cents apiece when they sell them back to you at seven cents apiece. Is that right? Why don't you sell the eggs directly to you and eliminate the people you buy them from?'

    'Because I'm the people I buy them from,' Milo explained. 'I make a profit of three and a quarter cents apiece when I sell them to me and a profit of two and three quarter cents apiece when I buy them back from me. That's a total profit of six cents an egg. I lose only two cents an egg when I sell them to the mess halls at five cents apiece, and that's how I can make a profit buying eggs for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents apiece. I pay only one cent apiece at the hen when I buy them in Sicily.'

    'In Malta,' Yossarian corrected. 'You buy your eggs in Malta, not Sicily.'

    Milo chortled proudly. 'I don't buy eggs in Malta,' he confessed, with an air of slight and clandestine amusement that was the only departure from industrious sobriety Yossarian had ever seen him make. 'I buy them in Sicily for one cent apiece and transfer them to Malta secretly at four and a half cents apiece in order to get the price of eggs up to seven cents apiece when people come to Malta looking for them.'

    'Why do people come to Malta for eggs when they're so expensive there?'

    'Because they've always done it that way.'

    'Why don't they look for eggs in Sicily?'

    'Because they've never done it that way.'

    'Now I really don't understand. Why don't you sell your mess halls the eggs for seven cents apiece instead offor five cents apiece?'

    'Because my mess halls would have no need for me then. Anyone can buy seven-cents-apiece eggs for seven cents apiece.'

    'Why don't they bypass you and buy the eggs directly from you in Malta at four and a quarter cents apiece?'

    'Because I wouldn't sell it to them.'

    'Why wouldn't you sell it to them?'

    'Because then there wouldn't be as much room for profit. At least this way I can make a bit for myself as a middleman.'

    'Then you do make a profit for yourself,' Yossarian declared.

    'Of course I do. But it all goes to the syndicate. And everybody has a share.

  10. Best Tablet PC Ever! on Tablet PCs Enter Reality · · Score: 1

    My tablet PC rocks. It works perfectly at all times without batteries; in fact, it has never needed batteries. If I loose my stylus I can carry on using my tablet PC with any ol' stick, pencil, or other pointy object. It also works in all weather conditions except for the pouring rain (too much rain causes the screen to run and the characters to become difficult to read.) To create a backup, I merely fire my tablet PC and get a new one. Clay is plentiful, after all!

  11. Re:On the other hand... on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    That's a very long time. Is this a commercial imaging tool or something you've rolled yourself?
    You're smoking crack. That's actually an excellent time for 30 systems on a hand-me-down network.
  12. Re:I'm curious... on Mars Rock Found In Antarctica · · Score: 2, Insightful
    By having the real thing before them, this offers Mars researchers a reality check on the data coming back from the various probes currently on Mars.
    Bzzzzt! Wrong! You cannot compare A with B and use B to verify A if you are unable to independently verify B first. In other words, since we've yet to bring back any samples from Mars, we cannot know for certain that the Arctic rock is indeed Martian, and therefore cannot use it to sanity-check the data coming from Mars.

    It's a great case of a cyclic logic falicy: A agrees with B, therefore B verifies A. It's like saying God exists because the bible says so, and the bible is correct about God's existence since God wrote the bible.

  13. Beat Timothy with the Grammar Bat! on EC Approves Unconditionally Sony-BMG Merger · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    EC Approves Unconditionally Sony-BMG Merger
    Ugh. Methinks it would have been better stated as "EC Unconditionally Approves Sony-BMG Merger."
  14. Re:NetBSD!!! on Storing Data In Cow Guts? · · Score: 1
    I give it a year before NetBSD is running on cows!!
    Nah, BSD is dead!
  15. Cow Guts? on Storing Data In Cow Guts? · · Score: 1

    If I can store my data in cow guts, could I instead choose to store my data in the goatsex man's guts? There's plenty of bandwidth going in!

  16. Re:Of course on Identifying Compromised Websites · · Score: 1
    Go away.
    You first, asshat! Oh, and welcome to my foes list.
  17. Re:Of course on Identifying Compromised Websites · · Score: 1
    However, I shall tilt at this particular windmill until I die.
    Excellent! Oh, and welcome to my friends list.
  18. Unpossible! on Identifying Compromised Websites · · Score: 1

    My server is unpossible to h4x0r!!!!11!!1! im teh bomb!!!!1!!!111!

  19. Re:Of course on Identifying Compromised Websites · · Score: 1
    But Joe Sixpack doesn't know how to do this.
    What about Billy Bob Bag of Donuts?
  20. Re:Claiming "terror" to justify other things... on DHS Says Cellular Outage Reporting is Terrorist Blueprint · · Score: 1
    The code needs to go. If you want to learn it, great; but it shouldn't keep those who are not interested in it from having full access to the non-CW frequencies.

    Join No-Code International if you're opposed to the Morse code requirements.

    73, KE6ZRH

  21. Re:Claiming "terror" to justify other things... on DHS Says Cellular Outage Reporting is Terrorist Blueprint · · Score: 1
    What would happen if a F-15 or F-16 fighter plane drew in close next to the cockpit windows of the passenger plane, and having verified that the plane was not in friendly hands, took this action: move so that the tail pipes of the fighter are directly in front of the cockpit, hit the afterburners, and punch it?

    Would that blow in the windows of the cockpit? Would it kill, seriously hurt, or at least blind the people in the cockpit? Could that be used to crash the plane without needing to fire any missiles or cannons?

  22. Re:Claiming "terror" to justify other things... on DHS Says Cellular Outage Reporting is Terrorist Blueprint · · Score: 1

    For more information on the effects of a missile hitting a commercial airliner, see http://www.twa800.com.

  23. Re:Claiming "terror" to justify other things... on DHS Says Cellular Outage Reporting is Terrorist Blueprint · · Score: 1
  24. Re:I have a sleep disorder on 32,000 "Why I'm Tired" Emails · · Score: 1
  25. Re:smithsonian and discover on What Magazines Do You Read? · · Score: 1
    I also like National Geographic. The pics of far off places is cool too.
    ...And the pictures of huge, luscious black bosoms.