Slashdot Mirror


User: TheMidget

TheMidget's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
957
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 957

  1. Re:As a record store owner... on Baffling the Spam Bots · · Score: 1
    Fat chance. When they came to the counter to make their purchase, I grabbed the little shit by his shirt.

    And you wonder why you have no customers!

    "That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.

    So you're telling your customers to "scamper off", and then act surprised when your business is no longer profitable.

    Hint: if you want to run a profitable business, don't chase your customers away!

    This evening, my daughters asked me. "Why do the other kids laugh at us?"

    Hmmm, maybe it's because the other kids know what a poor businessman you are... Even a lowly greengrocer knows that it's bad business sense to insult and chase away his own customers

    "It's because they are idiots, kids", I told them. "Don't listen to them."

    I really wonder who the idiot is...

  2. Re:Libre software? on EC Dumps Open Source Conference · · Score: 2, Interesting
    although, since the Air France lavortories advertise themselves as "Libre" when available also, I wonder if there is different overloaded meanings in French for that word

    "libre" = free as in speech, but also available (as in seats, meeting rooms, restrooms, parking spaces, timeslots, and yes, girls ...)

    "gratuit" = free as in beer

    If you see "gratuit" on a restroom door, you'd be in Belgium. Indeed, in Belgium most public restrooms charge a small admission fee, and it's worth pointing out if one doesn't ;-)

  3. Re:Libre software? on EC Dumps Open Source Conference · · Score: 1
    German is more fun. They also have two words: "frei" and "umsonst".

    "Frei" usually means free, as in speech, whereas "umsonst" (or sometimes, "gratis") means free as in beer.

    However there is one notable exception: Freibier!

  4. Re:Edison and Tesla on RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes? · · Score: 1
    Tesla and a guy named George Westinghouse championed AC, and won because it was superior.

    Superior? It makes the whole grid move in lockstep, in such a way that if one element falls, all others fall as well just like dominoes. Didn't anybody learn anything from August 13th?

    The reason why only the East Coast was blacked out, rather than all of North America? Simple: the North-American grids is subdivided in three parts (Eastern, Western and Texas), which are interconnected with each other with... guess what... DC lines!

  5. Re:The KEY on PC World: Apple G5 Gets Trounced By Athlon 64 · · Score: 1
    The KEY is: does either the Athlon or Pentium run OS X?

    No, but both of them run Linux...

  6. Re:How Tested on PC World: Apple G5 Gets Trounced By Athlon 64 · · Score: 1
    Thats like comparing Apples and oranges (pun intended)

    Shouldn't that be "comparing Apples and Lemons"

  7. Re:Intresting concept. on 3D Photo Gadget Reviewed · · Score: 1
    but where is the fun in that when you have got slashdot indoors

    That's what Laptops+cellphones are for.

  8. Re:Three things on Does Your Company Censor the Content for You? · · Score: 1
    it wouldn't take long to put together a simple vocabulary of single words to substitute.

    medireview , anybody?

    Language is something funny. Even if you write your filter in a way to take into account word boundaries, you still have the problem of same words meaning different things in different contexts. Ironically, dirty words are more prone to this that polite conversation. I'd find it funny to read that certain academic institutions award summa ejaculate laude honors...

  9. Re:Cellphones to track speeders? on Is That Cell Phone Tower Watching Me? · · Score: 0

    Then what's the point of leaving it on?

  10. Cellphones to track speeders? on Is That Cell Phone Tower Watching Me? · · Score: 5, Funny
    So now you can get two tickets for the same offense:
    • The first for speeding
    • The second for leaving your cellphone on while driving (and no, hands-free sets don't count: even if they keep your hands free, they don't keep your brain free)
  11. Re:I'll train them on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 1
    I'm MCSE-certified, that's worth its wait in roasted peanuts.

    Lemme guess... You are a PCLT too, aren't you? A Pidgin certified language technician!

  12. Drinking license? on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    Anybody else shocked at the thought that you need a driving license to be allowed to drink?

  13. Re:Oppertunity Knocks on Microsoft Confirms IE Changes in Wake of Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I agree with danheskett: there are Internet Exploder Crashes which don't take the whole system down with them.

  14. Re:Dont trust this guy.... on Get Paid To Crack? · · Score: 1
    So with convictions for cracking being higher than manslaughter, what is to stop a third party from dragging everyone to court?

    You answered your own question: that third party will never win the lawsuit, although his heirs might...

  15. SQL injection on SendMail CTO Sounds Off On Spam and FTC · · Score: 1
    I've occasionnally looked at spammer's database schema's and indeed many do have procedures in place to remove your address when you unsubscribe. Moreover, your address is then often enough added to a "blacklist" whose apparent purpose is to prevent re-adding of your address to the distribution list.

    So, using an unsubscribe link could work with those. Not sure however, whether typing ' or ''=' into the unsubscribe box would work: even the dumbest spammers have backups, unfortunately.

  16. Product exists on SendMail CTO Sounds Off On Spam and FTC · · Score: 1
    then ISP's could subscribe to the "lookout server" list and delete any messages that have been designated as spam?

    I think such a product already exist. Lemme remember the name of the company that makes it... soft-something? Ah, there I remember: Softmicro!

  17. Re:Whew! on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can whip out the other thing once you've surfed to an appropriate URL.

  18. Re:That sounds like a really stupid idea. on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1
    A payphone would be safer in terms of tracking...

    Careful there, some payphones have cameras! A couple of years ago, some highschool students thought it funny to phone in an "anonymous" bomb threat. Unfortunately, the call only stayed anonymous until police reviewed the tape of the phone booth...

  19. I hate to be a pendant... on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    ... and even to be a pedant, but pedant is spelled without an n before the d

  20. And they even have the gall of calling it on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 3, Funny

    Penguin! Oh the insolence!

  21. Re:Linux zealotry? on Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux · · Score: 1

    Get off your feral matochtic cat already! Meow!

  22. Re:What I did to the guy in the cubicle next to mi on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1
    Another good idea, which requires no password to the machine is if he has an optical mouse, put a piece of semi-translucent tape over it. It will slowly degrade performance as it gets scratched up.

    ... and if the guy has an old-fashioned ball mouse, put a small piece of paper into the ball compartment. The mouse will still (more or less) work, but will move rather goofily (pointer gets stuck, then jumps, etc.). Or, if you want the prank to last: use hair (same effect, but less easy to spot).

  23. The advantage of slashdot... on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1

    While browsing Slashdot, at least you notice when your computer freezes up!

  24. Re:I have to disagree with you. on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1
    It's not that hard really to do the same thing to any newer xp installation even with sp1 and all the updates.

    Interesting. Could you be so kind to post an URL to some tools? We have some firing of Winders lusers to do, hehe ;-)

  25. Re:What I did to the guy in the cubicle next to mi on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1

    Windows in a mission-critical control room? While the operators on duty play card games? Lemme guess: August 14th, 2003?