Slashdot Mirror


User: Breakfast+Pants

Breakfast+Pants's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,780
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,780

  1. Re:Filthy carpets on Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing · · Score: 1

    But there is no correlation between families with filthy carpets, and families that watch TV.

  2. Re:2^13? on Google NativeClient Security Contest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The java examples you showed had quake running at 1/8th the number of pixels as the C example from google.

  3. Re:The assumption here on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    What was the sum of money across all malpractice judgments last year? I couldn't find it via Google. I'd like to see how big of a percentage it is compared to the total money spent on healthcare.

  4. Re:The joy of flipping pages? on Hearst To Launch E-Reader For Newspapers · · Score: 1

    >Printing ink is a carcinogen.

    No it isn't.

  5. Re:Cadmium Telluride? How green on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    Bringing the century into it is pure straw-man; how old is hydro?

  6. Re:timed-release license? on Creative Commons Releases "Zero" License · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Some more analysis links on Court Upholds AP "Quasi-Property" Rights On Hot News · · Score: 1

    The fact that there have been few murders lately means that the prohibition on murder isn't needed. People who don't want to be killed are doing just fine without laws against murder, as evidenced by the fact that they so rarely have to be enforced; we should get rid of them for good.

  8. Re:Some more analysis links on Court Upholds AP "Quasi-Property" Rights On Hot News · · Score: 1

    I don't like your two choices. Why not give everyone in America X dollars to appropriate as they see fit to their favorite fact observer(s).

  9. Re:The cameras do nothing on A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner? · · Score: 1

    Whoa, scary distopian world these cameras will cause! Let's outlaw laws too, since presumably someone could make a law that said you had to hire plumbers from the plumbers union! We should outlaw cops as well, since they might enforce a pro-plumber union stance even if it isn't encoded into law.

  10. Re:Good Call on Appeals Court Strikes Down California's Violent Game Ban · · Score: 1

    >two spaces after the end of a sentence seems to be too much to ask for

    Kids don't use typewriters. That rule only applies to typewriters because they are monospaced. Modern typography using proportional fonts is designed for one space after a period. Are you an old grandma?

  11. Re:Republicans are Flat-Earth Economists on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    >The other way to put this is that the war lowered components of GDP aside from military purchases.

    Why count the military purchases as worth 0? I see why *now*, when our military purchases primarily go towards blowing up brown people, but I don't see why at that point in time.

  12. Re:Republicans are Flat-Earth Economists on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 0

    But it *did* work for us in the 40's.

  13. Re:might as well guinea pig at that point on Doctors Will Test Gene Editing On HIV Patients · · Score: 1

    Uhh how would the donors die? Their aids virus molecules don't suddenly evolve when the patients' do. Life is prototype based, like javascript, not class based, like java.

  14. Re:Macbook pro 17" on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 3, Informative

    On the order of a couple of pennies per display.

  15. Re:Queen on Guitar Hero: Metallica Setlist Released · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Whine whine whine on Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Doesn't sound so different from the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann

  17. Re:Ahh ... the generosity on $6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >You WANT something like that? Remember what happened whenever the government started giving grants to modernize America with phone lines? The AT&T monopoly was formed.

    Yes, I think we need another monopoly like that. Because basic research is a huge tragedy of the commons problem, you need a big monopoly that *is* the commons. When AT&T was, they were able to create one of the best research labs ever and invented the transistor which has accelerated human development at exponential speeds.

  18. Re:Ahh ... the generosity on $6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants · · Score: 1

    >Just look at the patriot act (mind you, passed by BOTH republicans and democrats) and you can see why the government shouldn't run any ISPs.

    Just look at the FISA domestic spying indemnity for telecoms who broke the law bill, and it is clear your argument applies to both government and telecoms. I really doubt cable companies would have been any different.

  19. Re:The sick truth. on Downadup Worm — When Will the Next Shoe Drop? · · Score: 1

    Moot point unless the only way you do anything as root is through a shell in one of the virtual terminalsor xdm. If you ever give your root password in a logged in X session, or as your user (su or sudo) your machine can be compromised. su, bash, etc. can all be replaced with sinister versions, and the next time you su to root, your password is captured.

  20. Re:The school owns it. on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    Since there are no Federal Universities, only partially federally funded universities, the point is moot--faculty, etc. fall under the work for hire exemption, just like Harris does when it writes software for a radar under contract.

  21. Re:You forgot one on Linux's Role In Microsoft's Decline · · Score: 0, Troll

    >I wish people would educate themselves on the notion of what it means to be a federation of states.

    What it means is that Big Companies can play one state against another and score massive subsidies while small businesses can't.

  22. Re:Darn... no Mac Mini update on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1

    Surely you mean 128Kb.

  23. Re:Class Action Lawsuit? on AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you read your contract with ATT, you will realize that any such lawsuit will have to go to arbitration, with a phone-industry appointed panel of phone industry lobbyists.

  24. Re:its a shame the UI isn't there yet on Touchscreen Netbooks To Shine At CES 2009 · · Score: 1

    Firefox has about 50 different extensions implementing grab-and-scroll in various ways.

  25. Re:Spanish and English on Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? · · Score: 1

    Isn't Catalan the main language in Barcelona?