Slashdot Mirror


User: HisMother

HisMother's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
251
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 251

  1. Re:Arrogant maintainers... on Fedora 19 To Stop Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting idea. Everybody already warns if you have capslock on while entering a password. They could just change the warning to "Your password will be displayed in plaintext," and ignore the actual capslock (assuming that's possible.)

  2. Flooz! on World's First Bitcoin ATM · · Score: 1

    Damnit, where's Whoopi Goldberg when you need her! Or P.T. Barnum, anyway.

  3. Re:Technological solution to biological problem on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 1

    Heh. I seriously do not think anyone on /. has ever commented on my nick before.

  4. Technological solution to biological problem on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 1

    This was dumb when I saw it on Hackaday, and it's still dumb. This dude needs therapy and willpower, not electronics.

  5. Re:Not interested on Flexible Phones 'Out By 2013' · · Score: 1

    If we're giving English lessons, I can't say I've ever heard anyone say either "slippy" or "slippier"; but "slippery" or "slipperier" are both in common use (the first moreso.)

  6. Or maybe not. on The Long Death of Fat Clients · · Score: 1

    It's highly amusing that the story directly below this one on the front page at the moment is "Facebook iOS App Ditching HTML5 For ObjectiveC". Things are never as simple as the prognosticators would have you believe.

  7. Re:Files are not the best representation of code.. on Light Table: A New Spin on the IDE · · Score: 2

    Yep. That's called SmallTalk.

  8. Re:Ever heard of ECLIPSE ???? on Open Source IDE GAMBAS Reaches 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Well, bye Slashdot, it used to be fun.

  9. Re:Ever heard of ECLIPSE ???? on Open Source IDE GAMBAS Reaches 3.0 · · Score: 0

    Not to go too far off topic, but my few experiences with VS have been abysmal: the editor sucks (the selection behavior alone is enough to make me want to throw the keyboard through the monitor), search is hellishly clumsy, there's no completion of any kind, it rarely sees symbol definitions it should, etc. It's so bad, that I suspect it has to be my fault: it's unintuitive for me, and I don't know how to use it. Can you recommend a reference for an accomplished programmer who just doesn't understand Windows tools?

  10. Re:U.S. on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm guessing you are a 14 year old white boy in a New Jersey basement. Eating cheetos in your underwear, the whole nine yards.

  11. Re:Remember it like it was yesterday. on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 0

    MMMmmmm, no. Mac had (and used) variable-speed motors in their floppy drives. Wintel machines physically could not read Mac disks -- they were not compatible at the hardware level.

  12. Re:$1700+? on Bitcoin Mining Tests On 16 NVIDIA and AMD GPUs · · Score: 1

    Plus the electricity, to run that machine flat out for four months, which I imagine will be way more than pocket change.

  13. Re:Collateral success vs indication of support nee on Corporate Mac Sales Surge 66% · · Score: 1

    "overtightened" --> "overnighted" ?

  14. Re:Sorry to sound apologetic... on Google Founders' Jets Caught On WSJ's Radar · · Score: 0

    Mod parent up!

  15. Re:The cross-platform .NET? on Miguel De Icaza Forms New Mono Company: Xamarin · · Score: 1

    What part of it is wrong -- sounds 100% accurate to me.

  16. Re:True, for the most part... on HDMI Brands Don't Matter · · Score: 2

    Whoosh

  17. So who is he really? on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: -1, Troll

    The FBI wouldn't be tracking him if he was actually "a 20 year old community college student who has never done anything [wrong]", as the article says. Maybe he's Ahmadinejad's nephew or something. Can we have some actual reporting?

  18. Re:China lies. on China Makes World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's my reaction too. China can say whatever they want, but that doesn't make it true.

  19. Re:You know, they buy those batteries back. on Degraded Electrodes Observed In Aging Batteries · · Score: 1

    You forgot the cost of electricity for charging!

  20. Re:Broken News... on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who the fuck is Eminem?

  21. Re:Initial cost is a small piece of the cost on Minnesota Moving To Microsoft's Cloud · · Score: 4, Funny
    > What FOSS advocates never seem to get is there is a reason why companies like MSFT get these contracts,

    Hookers and blow, is what I've heard.

  22. Re:When china declares war on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ain't that the truth. They won't need to declare war -- they'll just need to stop selling us shit.

  23. Re:Free ice cream on Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square · · Score: 1

    I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

  24. Re:Well... on India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why should pulling out cost anything at all? Crappy coders and incomprehensible phone monkeys abound all over the world -- India has no monopoly. Buy your commodity services elsewhere.

  25. Re:Non-latin TLDs? on First Non-Latin TLDs Go Online Today · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, I tried this: for the bankofamErcia example, I see http://www.xn--bankofamrcia-lra14ee268a.com/ which is very cool!