Slashdot Mirror


User: mazarin5

mazarin5's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
697
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 697

  1. Re:No Surprise... on Jodrell Bank May Close Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why, the US of course!

  2. Re:valuable intellectual property on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 1

    Hey, nobody is bringing to light your old fetishes!

  3. Re:Sure, great idea on New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy · · Score: 1

    Besides that, there is some point at which a certain sequence of inputs are going to have to be feed into the chip. How are they going to prevent that from being detected? Is each and every chip going to be uniquely encoded somehow? Again, they will still have to perform some process to do that, and it only needs to be caught once.

  4. Re:No Surprise... on Jodrell Bank May Close Down · · Score: 1

    ...and then posts it to youtube?

  5. Re:Offenders will be severely punished? on Mayor Outlaws Dying · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should be better prepared. It's the considerate thing to do!

  6. Re:crank crank crank on Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting the long tail; this is a situation where the median would be much more useful.

    The mean may be 10 years, but consider that he could die 25 years from now. On the other hand, it's impossible for him to have already died five years ago.

  7. Re:Statistics on Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought he meant too, until I read this branch.

  8. Re:That depends... on Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution · · Score: 1

    Do you consider auditory hallucinations a "health problem"? You mean like thinking Phish is a good band?
  9. Re:it's interesting to see on The Law and Politics of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    He wasn't necessarily in the military his whole life. His earliest verifiable appearance is meeting Adama in a bar before being assigned to whichever battlestar they were on. Tigh was with Adama when he sent Bulldog into Cylon territory, so their plan was obviously already in motion.

  10. Re:is this an "I am Legend" promo? on A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the Linkin Park rainforest tour

  11. Re:They're not unheard of tactics? on Comcast Gets Hard Up At FCC Meeting · · Score: 1

    Maybe we could have a big meeting and invite interested parties to voice their opinions!

  12. Re:I guess I dodged a bullet on Internet Pranks in Schools · · Score: 1

    Also in Junior High, also on that system, I discovered that you could write entire programs that ran off a single line using the colon as a separator. I wrote the standard program that most kids do:
    10 ? "(Something rude)" : 20 goto 10
    Which, afterwards, the teacher would LIST for evidence of your wrongdoing. Because it was written on a single line, there was obviously no listing. The teacher decided it must of been me (correctly) but then claimed that she witnessed me delete the program, explaining why there was no listing. I got suspended for three days.

  13. Re:Apparently not on Is AMD Dead Yet? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, redirect *.on.nimp.org to localhost.

  14. Re:Joel on Microsoft Releases Office Binary Formats · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that. I read the GP and thought "Boy, don't I feel silly for assuming that the name had something to do with Hungary."

    I guess I'm double silly now.

  15. Re:Darwinian M&M duels on White House Says Phone Wiretaps Will Resume For Now · · Score: 1

    Old Brunching Shuttlecocks copypasta is old.

  16. Re:Hoist them swabies up by their own peter on Prince, Village People to Sue The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    The origin of the word is the French word for "fart," which has always been my preferred interpretation of that phrase. :)

  17. Re:Again, no. The term comes from 'rice burner' on Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Holy shit, pal. Did I jump into the middle of a protracted discussion about this or something?

  18. Re:Again, no. The term comes from 'rice burner' on Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes · · Score: 1

    Even your link refers to the term as pejorative. It's true that it refers to cars, but it's building off an ethnic stereotype. Do you think it would be acceptable to say that an African racing car ran off watermelons? Would it be fundamentally different from referring to a Mexican car as a "beaner car" or say that it was "beaned out"?

    Racist.

  19. Re:On th eheels of the earlier CFL story on Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando · · Score: 1

    Folk etymology, sir. "Man" itself was a genderless word, and the noun for the male sex has been dropped from the language. On the other hand, woman is a compound of the noun for the female sex and the genderless "man." Besides, I was being full of snark.

  20. Re:On th eheels of the earlier CFL story on Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando · · Score: 1

    Peace on earth goodwill to men Tsk. Tsk.

    "Peace on Earth and goodwill to people"
  21. Re:Global warming on Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando · · Score: 1

    I thought it was supposed to be 8 days after the birth, making it January 2nd.

  22. Re:At what point... on Researchers Simulate Building Block of Rat's Brain · · Score: 1

    Watch it; Chuck Norris's lawyer is a force of its own.

  23. Re:Whatever on Clinton Would Crack Down On Game Content · · Score: 1

    after the way she carpetbagged her way into [...] NY I found this amusing, considering she was the first lady of Arkansas. Is it still carpetbagging when someone from the south takes advantage of the north?

  24. Re:Wilhelm Reich on Authority and Sexual Repressio on Australia Plans to Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    [quote]"The book was banned by the Nazis when they came to power."[/quote]

    And the Polish. And the French. And then copies were collected and burned in America.

    I've read it, and I just don't get what the hubbub was about.

  25. Re:IT RAISES THE QUESTION on Microsoft is the Industry's Most Innovative Company? · · Score: 1

    For once, I think this is passable. To ask where their innovation is assumes that they are innovative, when their policy tends to be embrace and extend. In a snide sense, there is a question being begged.