Slashdot Mirror


User: swschrad

swschrad's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,367
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,367

  1. Verizon didn't want the damn thing. on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 1

    CEO Ivan said so last week. they can't keep what they've got in stock, and they can't comment in any way on the VeriPhone rumors, and they're finishing up 38 cities of LTE expansion, so they've really got a full plate.

    and they've not got the bad taste of the Kin out yet, either.

  2. Ballmer's too old to throw chairs, now it's phones on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 1

    WINDOWS 1.0 TILES! WINDOWS 1.0 TILES! WINDOWS 1.0 TILES!

    yeah, the act's old, but so is that interface.

    don't forget to tip the waiters! -- I'll be here 5 to life, tell your friends.

  3. only one problem left to solve for Pioneer... on Pioneer Preps Laser Heads-Up Display For Cars · · Score: 1

    keeping the frikkin' sharks carrying the lasers alive behind the dash.

  4. and MS buys favor, again. on W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, browser makers. this one's for you. do you correctly render the HTML5 tests? then you need to order now, within the next 5 minutes. you need Get A Clue (tm)! yes, the world is leaving you behind while you hold focus meetings and task offsites. Get A Clue (tm)! Get A Clue (tm) will motivate you to read the damn spec and get back in the market! you can't afford to miss this deal! operators are standing by, get your credit card out now! Get A Clue (tm)! order now!

  5. if Ballmer wants them under trees, they should be on Ballmer Promises Microsoft Tablet By Christmas · · Score: 1

    sold right now. they aren't? well, they won't be under any trees, then.

    another opportunity missed.

    moving from MachoSoft to MicroSoft, time marches on.

  6. MN is run by a no-tax no-government slave on Minnesota Moving To Microsoft's Cloud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trouble Pawlenty, whose Indian name is Chief Tumbling Bridges, does not want to spend a penny, nor help anybody except the 157 million/billionnaires who he caters to. this is not a "big vote" for cloud computing, but he probably thinks by getting rid of infrastructure, he can get rid of more of the state government. it's foxes for the hen house.

  7. heh, they mis-spelled CLOACA on Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned · · Score: 1

    but I'll bet they can find it.

  8. absolutely, do it yourself, fool on NSA Chief Wants Internet Partitioned For Government, 'Critical' Industries · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you get yourself a bunch of private pipes, and you use them as a backbone using IP, and you use a private set of addresses like the 10-net, and you make no connections whatsoever between this and The Connected Internet.

    and you have an internet.

    and it's not connected to The Connected Internet.

    and then you can control your own security.

    and as long as you do not put any software on any machines on the private internet that comes from untrusted sources and has not been vetted, you're nice and secure.

    nothing with any criticality should EVER be connected to The Connected Internet.

    glad you've made a start in this process. now build one. a bunch of pre-teens could hash up one in an hour if you don't need a bunch of wacky routing rules.

  9. AT&T lobbying against Automatic Electric on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 2, Informative

    ATT did not invent the dial phone. a Missouri undertaker did. this was good ol' fashioned corporate hardball at work.

  10. "the only thing I can say" on Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor · · Score: 1

    there are two edges on that knife.

    one is, "hyuk-yuk, dayamn, boy, I ain't got nothin."

    the other is "you are not cleared for that information, I am not cleared for that information, I'm not going to reveal how I got that information."

    think both through.

  11. clever, nicely done, damn you on Stuxnet Worm May Have Targeted Iranian Reactor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    this was a high-level inside hack. somebody is going to go missing. where they came from or end up will tell you who really orchestrated this one.

    oh, and by the way, note that it was a broadcast inside hack, going all over Iran and elsewhere to get to the prize.

    tells you two things. one, Iran has the nuclear stuff very highly compartmented. the originators did not have access to ring 0 of the secret program despite presumably working for the contractor.

    two, there should not be any commodity stuff hanging on the side of any sensitive system. the worm got all over because there were Best Buy laptops running open market software.

  12. more likely an "AAAAUUUGGHHHHH!" plane on Airbus Planning Transparent Planes · · Score: 1

    nothing like looking down on takeoff, folks, to make you wonder what you're up to.

    except maybe seeing the runway lights coming at ya from 50 feet.

    or watching a tire disintegrate on the landing gear.

    "for your pleasure, we offer earphones for $5, soft drinks for $2, pillows for $4, and clock-stopping horse-pill tranquilizers for $25. please don't mob the stewards as they make their way down the mffff THUMP THUMP GIMME THAT!"

  13. the perfect encryption method. on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 1

    simplicity, really. you unwashed barstardes, we got you now.

    randomly push 15,000 volts both ways out of the Secret Encryption Box into source and destination.

    then the Master Standard Customer Release Media, 35mm film, is set on fire.

  14. "open" means MS sends an incompetent on Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' · · Score: 1

    so, theoretically, the dimbulb exec is partially correct. and MS will fix the problem by shifting this incompetent exec to someplace where he can't do any damage. like maybe mobile, or Vista phone support.

  15. they're trying REALLY HARD to be cool here on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1

    "hey, baby, I could take this building down with two paper clips and that jar of hand soap in the rest room. so you should go out with me."

    it is patently false to assume little kiddies who aspire to be murderous international criminals take engineering classes to learn how to be successful terrorists.

  16. good enterprise, she filled two minutes. on Frustrated Reporter Quits After Slow News Day · · Score: 1

    sounds like NHK needs to read blogs on air daily.

  17. there's another way to say it. on BP's Gulf Spill Report Shows String of Failures · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "But Ma, everybody did it."

    BP, you're still getting a spanking. you're supposed to set an example, not lead a gang.

  18. can it sell apples? on Robot Snake Can Climb Trees · · Score: 2, Funny

    nfm

  19. lead 7 F2 80%, lead 2 10%, PVCs on White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack · · Score: 1

    31 characters, all you'd need to know to schedule an angiogram.

  20. which means they don't know how to fix things? on Northrop Grumman Says 'I'm Sorry' For Virginia IT Outage · · Score: 1

    where I come from, you swap out the suspicious or dead junk, and roll the data back on from backups.

    this, of course, requires you know how to find dead junk, swap it, and retrieve tapes that you knew how to make, and roll them back on according to your training.

    remove all of the above, and it sounds like the error they have.

    monkeys cost less, and can do exactly the same job. just sayin'....

  21. will it be on 6-bit tape? on Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development · · Score: 1

    so I can play it on my Control Data computer?

  22. 3-year-olds know better than that on Northrop Grumman Says 'I'm Sorry' For Virginia IT Outage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    good thing Northrup Grumman doesn't do anything important, like, say, vital national security support.

    oh, wait... .

  23. prior art exists. on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    anybody who would start a corporation using the root word from the old complaint, "dude, am I faced!" probably has no knowledge of firms like "x Booksellers", "x Book Store," "Book Nook," "Wise Book Publishing Co." and the like.

    we can only hope they are barred from trademarking company names containing either "face" or "book."

    incidentally, I think all the letters of the alphabet have been used before, as well. I think the whole site should be open sourced.

  24. uh, let's see, how you say in Engrish... on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    "Bastardze?"

  25. they want a TOTAL boycott of product? on RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" · · Score: 1

    next they'll ban sales of music instruments, pens and ink, and thoughts. somebody just shut these weasels down once and for all, and let's be done with this.

    the problem is with schmucks who want something for nothing. deal with them.

    copyright law works fine for everybody else.