Slashdot Mirror


User: syn3rg

syn3rg's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
227
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 227

  1. Re:Translation on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 1

    He obviously didn't plan far enough ahead: they removed his cajones for throwing rocks.

  2. Re:Yeah, and what happened with that one? on Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to the link you posted, the Vietnam war did indeed begin "during the Eisenhower administration", but it was LBJ that got us into the war: (from the 3rd paragraph: "The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam (as part of a wider strategy of containment during the Cold War), beginning with military advisory missions in the early 1960s and escalating to full warfare with the deployment of combat units from 1965 onward. By 1973, almost all U.S. troops had left the theater and in 1975, communist forces assumed control of South Vietnam. North and South Vietnam were reunified shortly thereafter.")

  3. Re:Conservative Fascism on TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Insurgency? on How Tech Almost Lost the War · · Score: 1

    2. insurrection against an existing government, usually one's own, by a group not recognized as having the status of a belligerent.

    These are mostly foreign militants, not domestic to Iraq.

  5. Re:Not the first time on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 1
  6. Re:It's not important yet... on Cyber Crime A Distant #3 Priority for FBI · · Score: 2, Informative

    Parent is spot on: it's not something you throw Agents at, it's something you throw Information Analysts at.
    The FBI has allocated 659 (out of 11,868; or 5.5%) Agents -- with the authority to arrest and prosecute -- to the Cyber division. However, it has allocated 492 (out of 2303, or 21.4%) of it's Information Analyst positions to the task. That's close to a quarter of the guys who would be the ones actually investigating Cybercrime anyway.

  7. The headline on The Relevance of Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... is misleading. It should read "The Relevance of History" Since all TFA discusses is Microsoft's willingness to "Embrace, Extend, and Extenguish" competition. Recounting the demise of Netscape, and the decline of 3rd party memory managers, disk defragmenters, and other utilities, that are now a part of Windows, it seems that Adobe and the security comunity (PDF, AV, AntiSpyware, ect.) are now in the same boat.

  8. Re:Difference between hardware and software.... on Open Source Router on Par With Cisco, Users Say · · Score: 1

    Spot On. Microsoft anyone?

  9. Re:WTF? on Eight Hour Coding Session Causes DVT · · Score: 1

    My Tourette's Syndrome usually starts acting up after 8 hours....

  10. That grey goo... on The World's Smallest Car · · Score: 1

    ...it's bondo.

  11. Re:The other kinds of Indians on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    My Great-Grandfather left the "Rez" because he didn't want that life for his children. I'm sure it was hard, but he had ambition. Since then the family has done well for themselves -- without playing the "race card".

  12. Re:This "story" is click bait on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 1

    I need new glasses
    When I first read parent post my mind read "chick bait".

  13. Who knew... on Internet Turns 35 Today · · Score: 1

    ...the slashdot effect was that old?

  14. Re:Just some thoughts on Real Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    Same thing with the Pentagon vs. White House: The Pentagon would be easier for an inexperienced pilot be able to spot and hit at 300+ MPH.

  15. Re:Ugh! on Real Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    I noticed I was getting portscanned from /.'s IP after posting one night.

  16. Re:Probably on Should Star Trek Die? · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Yes, they probably should let it die. I'd much rather see it die than have another bad movie/series/game with the Star Trek name come out.

    Leisure Suit James T.?
    You don't know Spock?

  17. Re:No... on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 5, Funny

    And thanks to you, I'm making pretty good cash cleaning up these systems that you infect ^H^H^H^H install.

  18. Re:Now this is proof enough, don't you think? on More On The Open Sourcing Of Iraq · · Score: 1

    > That is a "fox news" approach: use Ad Homs when the facts are against your firmly held ... illusions.

    Thank you for so brilliantly illustrating the Ad Hominim attack.

  19. Re:Now this is proof enough, don't you think? on More On The Open Sourcing Of Iraq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, but it was just one more reason.
    Seventeen UN resolutions (of which ANY member could enforce), constant AAA fire on coalition aircraft in no-fly zones, unwillingness to destroy or show records of destruction of WMD's (which are well documented, and are beginnning to be discovered), hostility towards neighboring countries (Iran, Kuwait, Israel), harboring known terrorists (Abu Nidal, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, Abdul Rahman Yasin), sponsoring Palestinian suicide terrorist's families in neighboring countries, and I'm sure there's more. And thats not even counting numerous human-rights atrocities committed against the Iraqi people.
    The man was rightly deposed by the international community (sans France, Germany, and Russia -- whom we discover later had lucrative, possible illegal, contracts with Iraq).
    So with all that, I ask: Would you prefer Saddam was back in power?

  20. Re:Now this is proof enough, don't you think? on More On The Open Sourcing Of Iraq · · Score: 2, Informative

    The attempted assassination (April 1993 in Kuwait; 11 Iraqia arrested) of an ex-president (and yes I'd feel the same if it had been Clinton) is internationally accepted as an act of war.

  21. Re:2 x A4 = A3 on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 2, Funny

    that whols "A" paper size is a big fat zero...:
    Simplifying
    2A * 4 = A * 3

    Reorder the terms for easier multiplication:
    2 * 4A = A * 3

    Multiply 2 * 4
    8A = A * 3

    Reorder the terms for easier multiplication:
    8A = 3A

    Solving
    8A = 3A

    Move all terms containing A to the left, all other terms to the right.

    Add '-3A' to each side of the equation.
    8A + -3A = 3A + -3A

    Combine like terms: 8A + -3A = 5A
    5A = 3A + -3A

    Combine like terms: 3A + -3A = 0
    5A = 0

    Divide each side by '5'.
    A = 0

    Simplifying
    A = 0

  22. Re:my experience... on Spyware Becoming Worst Tech Support Problem · · Score: 1

    He is "IT manager for a 100+ person" software company network. SMS server w/ 100 lic = $6022 not counting the hardware (another $4000). The beancounters will never approve the purchase when he can just go around and install the software -- this ain't the late '90s when every software company was wallowing in VC. That $10K is probably half his annual IT budget.

  23. Re:My personal feelings on OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated · · Score: 1

    I agree. I use it exclusively since 1.1.1. I origanally began using it to test its unctionality for business, and I've run up against a few things that I had to workaround (interoperability with other user's files mostly). But I can't justify rolling it out to my users; it *is* very good, but they aren't ready for the change -- too many .DOT templates and .XLS files with macros. I just got them to understand that clicking on attachments is a Bad Thing (tm).

  24. Obligitory Groklaw link on PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft's FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    PJ's discussing it over on Groklaw.

  25. Re:"Water"-cooling on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    It's called the Bernoulli Principle. Zip drives used to be called Bernoulli drives for the same reason.