Slashdot Mirror


User: Rogerborg

Rogerborg's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
8,509
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 8,509

  1. Re:A Constitutional what now? on Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Then explain why any Amendment except the 9th is necessary. I'll have my slave get me a beer while I wait.

  2. Re:A Constitutional what now? on Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Then explain why any Amendment except the 9th is necessary. It's OK, we'll wait while you dissemble.

  3. A Constitutional what now? on Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm poring over the United States Constitution, as Amended, and I can't find where it grants a right to anonymity, either from the Federal government, or from other citizens. Can any confused hippies^W^W Constitutional scholars help me out here?

  4. Donkeys seeking to recruit lions on False Start For Cyber Security Challenge UK · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, I guess if they had competent IT people, they wouldn't be looking to hire any. Seems pretty axiomatic.

  5. Re:Well... on IT Crowd (UK) Coming Back For Season 4 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You should give it a try; they had an episode with fecal based humour which may speak more to your level of education and wit.

  6. Re:simply standing too close to an officer.. on Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time · · Score: 5, Informative

    he was convinced were assaulting/resisting/obstructing an officer, including both refusing to obey directions (get back in the car) and later choking an officer.

    He was charged with assault. He was convicted only of not obeying ze orders. The trial evidence was that he was beaten down by a short-assed goon who charged into the situation, sprayed first and didn't ask questions afterwards. The assault charges were fabricated to protect said goon from retribution for inflicting a punishment beating - take that up with the jury, who convicted him on the least of the charges, and the judge, who let him walk.

  7. Attention Japanese Science-fidels on Japanese Researchers Make Plastic Out of Water · · Score: 4, Informative

    We "invented" this a couple of hundred years ago. We call it "jelly" in civilised lands, or "jello" in the colonies. kthxbye.

  8. Your what now? on Apple Raises E-book Prices For Everyone · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like Apple and/or Amazon are your publishers. Whomever it is you're talking to? I think they're just taking your money in return for, well, talking to you.

  9. Re:If it was a "reading" camp on Kid Health Experts Attack Video Game Summer Camp · · Score: 1

    And we have a winner. I think this thread is now closed.

  10. Re:Linux ? on StarCraft II Mac Client Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Linux as a desktop operating system is growing in popularity every day

    We're at, what, 1% now? And before you get all "Yahbut, you could get 100% of 1% of the market!!!!1!!", that's only significant if you're churning out 2D RPGs from your garage and every sale counts. It's a rounding error to Blizzard, especially as many Linux users will have XP partitions as well.

  11. Which Bungie employees are tied in? on Bungie Signs 10-Year Deal With Activision · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because Bungie is the people, not the corporate entity. Oh, how we'd all laugh if all the Bungie staff tunnelled their way into Respawn.

  12. Re:High Ping Bastards on UK Docs Perform First Remote-Control Heart Surgery · · Score: 1

    Yeah, kids these days, always playing their Napsters too loud on your LAN.

  13. Re:Good for them on Penny Arcade Makes Time 100 · · Score: 1

    For sure, any monkey can fling poop.

  14. Re:Good for them on Penny Arcade Makes Time 100 · · Score: 4, Funny

    NOTE: your post got cut off before you showed us how it should be done. Please repost, kthnx.

  15. Re:Good filters have hidden the problem on The US Continues Its Reign As King of Spam · · Score: 1

    Because they were voluntarily throttling themselves before now?

  16. Re:Funding... Anyone? on Can World's Largest Laser Zap Earth's Energy Woes? · · Score: 1

    Well, they just had that damning report into their management, so they probably feel like they're under pressure to produce results. Thus the "confidence" that they'll be able to show something Real Soon Now.

    Oh, no, not this year. We'll need at least another year of funding before they can show, well, anything.

    Also, read on:

    It will take at least another 20 years, with adequate funding, to develop a continuous fusion reaction

    Aaaaah, there we go. The world is as it should be.

  17. Re:hmm on SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright · · Score: 1

    at uni (math/physics) we all think/thought [legal] studies were basically worthless

    It depends how you count "worth". If it's the improvement of mankind, then sure, scientists For The Win. If it's the way that 99.9% of people count it though - yachts, hookers and champaign - then I'm afraid I'm going to have to call it for the lawyers.

  18. Re:How can it be pre-alpha? on Firefox Arrives On Android · · Score: 1

    If you have to ask, it's not for you.

  19. Re:Be careful what you wish for on Fair Use Generates $4.7 Trillion For US Economy · · Score: 1

    "my" goal of destroying copyright? Sir, I shower quite regularly.

  20. Re:Be careful what you wish for on Fair Use Generates $4.7 Trillion For US Economy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Note that the FSF view the GPL as a necessary evil on the road to destroying all software copyrights entirely. This isn't hyperbole, or my opinion: read Stallman's book, particularly Chapter 4.

  21. Re:What a Stupid and Wrong Title on Fair Use Generates $4.7 Trillion For US Economy · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're right. This kind of sloppy hyperbole is precisely HITLER STRANGLING A KITTEN worse than the numbers that the xxAA pull out of their elbows during their lobbying rounds.

  22. Re:Hmm... on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A communications provider is say someone that operates a free Wifi hot-spot and they are immune?

    Doesn't even have to be that. The contract for the line coming into my house is with me. My wife and kids use that line, without a contract with the ISP. How could they do that if I - the contracted individual - wasn't providing them with the service?

  23. Re:MW3 money? on Activision Hit With $500m Suit From Modern Warfare 2 Devs · · Score: 1

    The money they're asking for is compensation they were promised for Modern Warfare 2 and never received, not for the MW3 game they don't even want to make.

    The article does explicitly say that the claims include "future profits from games such as Modern Warfare 3". Remember, once lawyers get the scent of money, you shouldn't expect any consistency in the claims.

  24. Re:What about the presumption of innocence? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    Checkpoints are different from stopping someone. A checkpoint is applied to all individuals driving through it.

    Indeed; infringing everyone's rights is far better than infringing some people's rights.

  25. Why is this "surprising"? on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In the 1970s, the Ecomentals wouldn't stop shrieking all air pollution triggering an ice age, ZOMG MUST FIX NOW!!!!!!1!!!

    There's nothing surprising about Doomsayers saying Doom. The world is just about to end, always has been, always will be.