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  1. newshounds on Nokia Shows Off Megapixel Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine what it will be like when the next spectacular terrorist attack happens, and cnn suddenly gets flooded with multimedia snuff clips from a population saturated with camera-phones?

    also consider that broadcast quality tv has about 500 lines of resolution.

  2. damnit I'm tired of living in fear. on Fighting Terrorists Through Software, Anonymously? · · Score: 4, Funny

    About a year ago I came up with this song.

    Now I'm going to sing it.

    Puff the Nuclear Weapon

    Puff the Nuclear Weapon was pointed at Iraq,
    and waited in his submarine for the signal to attack.
    Little George Bush Junior, he loved that rascal puff,
    and all those days, he nightly prayed for the UN to get tough.

    oh
    Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
    protecting all our freedoms to
    a brand new SUV.
    Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
    protecting all our freedoms to
    a brand new SUV.

    Now Puff he liked to travel, so he wore travelling clothes
    While Bush was home and on the phone, from locations undisclosed.
    Presidents and Princes, they bowed when'ere he came,
    and Nation States lowered their flags when Puff roared out his name.

    oh
    Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the peace,
    securing the world's oil supply
    and the occasional golden fleece.
    Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the peace,
    securing the world's oil supply
    and hte occasional golden fleece.

    Plutonium lasts for ever, but not so little boys.
    ICBMs and M-16s give way to... other toys.
    And one grey day it happened: The traders broke the Dow.
    So Puff the Nuclear Weapon's on the open market now.

    His warhead packed in plastic, green crates that bore his name.
    Poor Puff would not intimidate for the Stars and Stripes again.
    Without his life long friend, poor puff could not be brave,
    so al-Qaida hid that that weapon in a deep, dark, man-made cave.

    oh
    Puff the Nuclear Weapon lived in the sea,
    but now he's in a backpack
    some where close to you and me.
    Puff the Nuclear Weapon defender of the free,
    and you can blame it all upon
    Bush fiscal policy.


    Sorry if I've just raised your subversion quotient for having read this. but hey, we're slashdotters so that means we're all pretty much under suspicion of being a little odd anyway.

  3. why am i here on U.S. Interior Dept. Unplugged... Again · · Score: 1

    It is the function of the One to bring the code you carry to the core...

  4. but you're posting on slashdot on U.S. Interior Dept. Unplugged... Again · · Score: 1

    and you're still at work. therefore your internet connection is back.... You don't work for the DOI do you?

  5. Re:Hmmm.... on Lifting The Lid On Computer Filth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The main concern with the bacteria that live in your colon is that they break down the things that you find indigestible (cellulose, left over protein etc) and produce toxic byproducts. These toxic byproducts are the dangerous things and have to be expelled regularly. They are only safe because once they leave your body, you generally don't eat them up again. The workstation bacteria are probably mostly air bacteria that have found a nice area full of skin flakes and cookie crumbs to breed on. nothing to worry about.

    Now if you combined the food rich environment of your keyboard with the poison producing bacteria from your colon, you start to have a real problem.

  6. Re:Time for SCO to put up on Judge Orders SCO, IBM To Produce Disputed Code · · Score: 1

    That's it. We have to write an OpenBeOS killer that uses artificial pork as its mascot now. And optimise it for 486. and let it use RPMs and apt-get.

    Finally you can do cruelty free DVD authoring on your old, old, oldschool pc.

  7. btw the future on Two-Legged Home Robot, Coming Soon To Japan · · Score: 1

    is it true to say that if we crack two legged walking, it will be easy to make four multi walkers by simply bolting many two legged units together at the waist?

    how much harder would it be to solve four legged walking and then split it?

  8. I wish this was an article on stainless steel teet on Sea Sponges Master Nano-technology · · Score: 1

    damn! where are my modpoints!?!

  9. Re:3D *movies*? on 3D Display, No Glasses Required · · Score: 1

    exactly. no moving parts, no chance of injury.

  10. Re:3D *movies*? on 3D Display, No Glasses Required · · Score: 1

    Actually the heat from the valves in some early supercomputers was so severe that they had to put safety gates in the machine room to prevent engineers getting too close to the working components and getting roasted.

    Now for this rotato-thingy to work, we need to get rid of the rotation as much as possible. Perhaps a slowly rotating or vibrating cylinder of some kind of advanced solid that reflected light only in the direction that it came in with no scatter, to emulate a rotating screen? Or perhaps some kind of vibrating micromirror technology. Anything that won't kill you in the event of a failure.

  11. that was mine. on SCO Licenses Now Available · · Score: 1

    You could have cut that last sentence off it, as that refers to the other debate

  12. Re:Injunction? on Open Source Group Victoria v. SCO, Part II · · Score: 0

    Injunction junction, what's your function()...?

    Puttin' together orders, and lawsuits, and judgements...


    when only SCO should have some compunction...

  13. Re:anecdote cont'd on China Sending Two People Into Space · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...when the chinese commander says "For the Glory of the People's Republic we will stay in the Orbital module, sitting in the cold darkness enduring hardships and awaiting resupply, thus allowing the other space travelers a chance to reenter."

    The Ruskie says: "While we of the CCCP do not fear firey death in re-entry, there is only one of me and seven of you Americans, how will we choose which two of you will acompany me to earth?"

    Whereapon the American Commander says: "Hey, I thought that in SOVIET RUSSIA the Earth Re-enters YOU?"

    So they threw the american crew out of the airlock and the three communists took the capsule home.

  14. thanks on Perl's Extreme Makeover · · Score: 1

    I seriously had no idea that perl could do OO. thanks.

  15. From the article on Remember The Heathkit HERO? Check Out '912' · · Score: 1

    Homer:Kids are you hugging the TV again?

    Bart:It's spent more time raising us than you did.

  16. half a kilo on New Draganflyer Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Well, a quarter kilo of explosives isn't much (maybe 3 or 4 m bursting radius). But what if you don't use conventional weapons? remember - biological weapons INCREASE in mass after they start converting victims into more plague.

  17. OO Perl? on Perl's Extreme Makeover · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I didn't even know it existed. What books/resources should I read if I'm going to stick with perl 5?

  18. from the article: ANTIFIGHT! on RIAA Countersued Under Racketeering Laws · · Score: 1

    This scare tactic has caused a vast amount of settlements from individuals who feared fighting such a large institution and feel victim to these actions and felt forced to provide funds to settle these actions instead of fighting," Scimeca's attorney, Bart Lombardo, wrote

    and later

    Scimeca is one of a growing number of people fighting the record industry's copyright infringement campaign against file-swappers, although few have used such creative legal strategies.

    So if Scimeca is going to have a shot at winning this fight they're going to have to prove that most people are too scared to fight? Sounds like they have an anti-fight on their hands.

  19. Re:Is anyone else getting worried here? on FSF: New Apache License not GPL-Compatible · · Score: 1

    We're not tearing it apart. The clause has to do with software patents - namely that you can patent certain parts of the code. It doesn't mean that the code will be secret. On the contrary, a patent means that you can be both open and maintain a temporary monopoly.

    This is not necessarily a Bad Thing

  20. Or omit the records on Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? · · Score: 5, Informative

    A lot of people have had jobs that they don't talk about. Pick one or two jobs that have you had good references from put them on. Then say that you were studying in the gaps.

    If your referees can confirm you have the skills required for the job, you'll have a solid chance.

  21. One copy of Lin--- please! on Lindows becomes Lindash · · Score: 1

    Would you like freedom fries with that?

  22. digital ink and equation editor on What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy? · · Score: 1

    Has anybody played with the digital ink handwriting recognition for writing up equations?

    is it faster than TeX?

  23. that's the thin end of the wedge on Canadian Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    Next revisionist historians will be saying: "In the pioneering days of the internet, widespread compiler ownership was a myth. The majority of internet users did not own a compiler, much less know how to read the source..." :)

    Combined with "In the wild parts of the IT world, a compiler was a simple way to put food on the table of your family. Now that software is intensively farmed in third world countries we have no use for heavy duty compilers in first world, urban areas."

  24. D4 P41|\| !!! on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 4, Funny
  25. snow crash on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    from the article Due to its algebraic nature and its comprehensiveness, the
    structure has been described as a machine generating words and sentences
    of Sanskrit.


    I guess that the only solution is for a brave program to go into the temple for three days and let the machines have a tower of bable experience.