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  1. Re:Go France! on French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I'm surprised they used Ubuntu rather than Mandriva. Mandriva is a French company.

  2. Choices... on FBI Searches New Fed CIO Kundra's Former Offices · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is Obama just making really bad choices, or is everyone at that high a level in .gov just corrupt?

  3. EtherBunny on BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration · · Score: 1

    <KIDS-JOKE>
    Knock-Knock.
    Who's there?
    Ether
    Ether who?
    Ether Bunny!

    Knock-Knock.
    Who's there?
    Nutter
    Nutter who?
    Nutter Ether Bunny!

    Knock-Knock.
    Who's there?
    Cargo
    Cargo who?
    Cargo "Beep Beep" and run over all the Ether Bunnies!

    Knock-Knock.
    Who's there?
    Boo
    Boo who?
    Don't cry. All the Ether Bunnies be back next year.
    </KIDS-JOKE>

  4. Re:Speed not equal to good on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    IE7 is the standard that the web is coded to

    Really? I thought it was HTML 4.01.

  5. Re:Fast download on PCLinuxOS 2009 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    PCLOS is done by TexStar, who was famous for his Mandrake specific packages, back in the day.

    Knowing what I do about those, I'm going to give PCLOS a shot.

  6. Re:The dream of encryption on Berners-Lee Says No To Internet Snooping · · Score: 1

    Apparently, you've turned off your sarcasm detector.

  7. Re:Star Trek/Lost Mix on Could Fuller Take Trek Back To TV? · · Score: 1

    No problem.

  8. Re:Star Trek/Lost Mix on Could Fuller Take Trek Back To TV? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. It was the Voyager season 3 episode with the giant cold viruses.

  9. Re:Why use a tech solution? on How To Keep a Web Site Local? · · Score: 1

    Non sequiter.

    The OP said, and I quote:

    What if it's an association for condo owners in a specific building? If you move 2000 miles, you're no longer welcome at the site because you don't live there anymore.

    I was pointing out that there is a flaw in that logic.

  10. Re:Duh, what's new? They're Fox on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Except you didn't say it properly. Here, let me fix it for you!

    [FUNNY-FOREIGN-ACCENT]
    Ees funny, because all shows are now off air!
    [/FUNNY-FOREIGN-ACCENT]

  11. Re:Star Trek/Lost Mix on Could Fuller Take Trek Back To TV? · · Score: 1

    Join the club.

    Macrocosm, with a Janeway-as-Ripley, is one of my guilty pleasures. Incredibly bad science, but Janeway in that tank top!!!!!!

  12. Re:Why use a tech solution? on How To Keep a Web Site Local? · · Score: 1

    What if it's an association for condo owners in a specific building? If you move 2000 miles, you're no longer welcome at the site because you don't live there anymore.

    Two words: "Absentee Landlord".

    My father-in-law owned a condo in the same complex where I lived. He moved to FL and rented out the condo. He obviously needs access to that site.

  13. Back in '93 on Dell's Rugged Laptop Doesn't Quite Pass 4-Foot Drop Test · · Score: 1

    I was working on the firmware for a MIL-spec tablet. We had a requirement for a 5-foot drop non-operating and 3-foot drop operating.

    The weight of the shock absorbers on that thing was insane -- added at least 2-3 pounds.

  14. Re:And on Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark · · Score: 1

    I once wrote that if Fourier had known that his work would lead to Britney Spears CDs, he'd have burned his notes and joined a monastery.

  15. Re:And on Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark · · Score: 4, Funny

    That sounds rather strange.

  16. Re:The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth on ISS To Become Second Brightest-Object In the Sky · · Score: 1

    Alas, it's not original. And as an AC pointed out, I should have given some credit somewhere (but I'm not sure who the original author is).

  17. Re:The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth on ISS To Become Second Brightest-Object In the Sky · · Score: 1

    You're right, I should have given credit. My bad.

    Not sure where the original came from though...

  18. The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth on ISS To Become Second Brightest-Object In the Sky · · Score: 5, Funny

    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

    Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

    Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

    Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

  19. Re:Making Linux Work on Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users · · Score: 1

    My Mandriva install runs a shitload of stuff at startup that I don't know what it's doing.

    I'm an old-school Unix guy, and that's probably my problem -- none of the crap that /etc/rc5.d runs is familiar to me, so I'm not sure what I can and/or should disable.

  20. Re:Don the Tinfoil on Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users · · Score: 1

    Yep. My drive 0 has the XP bootloader (because it doesn't like to play nice), and my drive 1 has GRUB.
    I hit F8 during boot to select.

    Has the added advantage of not confusing the hell out of my wife.

  21. Re:Their Dark Intentions Remain on UK Government To Back Off Plans To Share Private Data · · Score: 1

    The justification for these measures always seems to be administrative convenience.

    Read my sig.

  22. Re:OK fine. on Targeted Advertising Coming To Cable TV · · Score: 1

    things that I have no interest in (e.g. feminine hygiene products

    What, don't you ever have that "Not-so-fresh feeling"?

  23. Re:I'm working on the Nixon script myself... on ISS's Node 3 Might Be Named "Colbert" · · Score: 1

    How could you not vote for our greatest Robotic-bodied president? Now where's Agnew's headless body? Ow-oooo!

  24. Re:Seriously? on ISS's Node 3 Might Be Named "Colbert" · · Score: 1

    They should name the Bigelow Aerospace stuff "Limbaugh" since it's just a big bag of air.

  25. Thsi is a good thing. on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    Pluto's self-esteem was suffering, due to the other planets making fun of it for being gravitationally challenged.

    How is Pluto ever supposed to reach its potential if Neptune is always pulling it around?