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  1. Life Imitating Star Trek on Virtual Genetic Evolution · · Score: 1

    Does anyone remember that one voyager where they did the opposite of this, they ran into this nomadic saurian species and they took their dna and went to the holodeck and de-evolved them and they ended up being the decendants of earth hadrosaurs.

  2. Re:Dragons on Virtual Genetic Evolution · · Score: 1

    in most everything i've read that had dragons as animals, not mythlogical beasts they spewed a liquid 'venom' that ignighted in the air, that seems biologically posible, maybe, natural napalm

  3. Miniatures vs CGI on Report From The Land of SFX · · Score: 1

    i'm sure i'm not the only one who thinks that using soemthing physical for special effects shots(actual explosives, miniatures etc.) look way better than completely cgi shots i remember seeing the special edition of star wars and just noticing the difference in the new scenes and the old ones, the old miniatures shots that were touched up a little with cgi looked loads better than the completely cgi shots, even the original miniature shots looked better than the new cgi shots, the original death star explosion was an actual explosion and a buncha saw dust that they filmed in the ILM parking lot, this looked so much better than any cgi explosion i've seen, also the scene in ANH w/ jabba looked terrible, the big puppet in RotJ looked much more *realistic*, same with yoda, the muppet looked a lot better than the all CGI yoda in tPM, i think it woulda been awsum if yoda was still a muppet for his big fight scene in AotC

  4. lame pirate jokes on Copyright Infringement In the News · · Score: 1

    Didja hear about the new pirate movie?... Its rated Aar. A pirate walks into a bar and theres a steering column protruding from his fly, when the bartender asked him about it he replied "Yar, it's driving me nuts!"

  5. Re:Ensigns on Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise · · Score: 1

    in TOS command wore yellow, security/engineering wore red and medical wore blue, in TNG they switched sec/engineering and command

  6. Bloody Continuity Errors on Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise · · Score: 1

    I have a question for someone who knows more about star trek than me, its been bugging the hell out of me, i dont watch enterprise very often, and i havn't seen much TNG, but i know that at least in DS9 and Voyager nobodys blood is different. When did klingon blood stop being purple (remember the end of The Undiscovered Country?), and was Vulcan(and romulan) blood ever actually green?

  7. Ensigns on Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise · · Score: 5, Funny

    what happened to the expendible extras in star trek? kirk: the away team will consist mof myself, spock, bones and ensign billy, now this mission could be dangerous, one of us may not make it back..."

  8. Re:Home School on Algebra As A Gateway Subject · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i'm not going to get into a big debate here, but home schooling lacks a big part of regular schooling, somethign /.rs may be afraid of, *gasp* social interaction, maybe if parents would get off their asses and read to their kids or buy them books instead fo designer clothes our kids wouldnt; be so dumb, i'm currently in highschool and i see astounding levels of idiocy all around me, i attend a public high school, it sucks, i learn next to nothing, and what i do learn isn;t relevant to anything but which bubbles i'll be filling in at the end of the week, instead of just assuming the school was doing its job my parents took me to museums, bought me books and gave me magazine subscriptions for my birthday (popular science is an apropriate subscription for a third grader if you cut out all the doral ads)i dont learn at school, i do whats required of me to get a pice of paper and learn on my own, mostly i go to school to be with my friends, home schooled kids are always super-smart, but i'm sure we all know/remember the weird homeschooled kid who lived around the corner

  9. Flamebait on Debunking (some) DMCA Myths · · Score: 1

    the article and this post are very different, the article seems to mostly be about people being afraid to even research copy protection, , the post neve once mentions research, the article pretty much sums up that its still legal to do research under the DMCA if your published work doesn;t include source code or a step by step of how to break copy protection, the post seems to just be hero bashing the EFF (as i write this my friend IMs me asking if i want a copy of LotR that he just ripped)

  10. i hadn't heard about this on NASA Contour Probe May Not Be Broken After All · · Score: 1

    what happened to this one, where they measuring in cubits?

  11. Huh? on Satellite Study Shows Drop In Ocean's Plankton Level · · Score: 2, Interesting

    wern't we having the opposite problem with plankton? all the nitrates and crap from farming flowing down the mississippi into the gulf and causing a surge in plankton that was choking off the eco-system, there were dead fish washing up on every beach in the gulf, was the phytoplankton or am i thinking of something else?

  12. Re:5F14 reference??? on Man Conquers Space · · Score: 1

    my simpsons reference was better, c'mon, an old style documentary about space travel... the first few minutes of 4F21

  13. Obligatory Simpsons Reference on Man Conquers Space · · Score: 1

    "The Moon of Earth." Narrator: The moon. For several years, she has fascinated many. But will man ever walk on her fertile surface? [cut to a shot of Adlai Stevenson at some sort of press conference] Democratic hopeful Adlai Stevenson says so. Stevenson: I have no objection to man walking on the moon. [photographers snap several pictures] [cut back to the moon where a family plays on the moon's fertile surface] Narrator: By 1964, experts say man will have established twelve colonies on the moon, ideal for family vacations. [a man fishes a comely moon maiden out of a crater.She winks at the audience] [a chart shows the difference] Once there, you'll weigh only a small percentage of what you weigh on Earth. [cut to a shot of a chubby boy eating pie] Slow down, tubby! You're not on the moon yet! [cut to a shot of the moon, with an American flag superimposed on it. The camera pulls back to reveal some men in spacesuits] The moon belongs to America, and anxiously awaits the arrival of our astro-men. Will you be among them? [fini. The film runs off the reel] Ralph: Miss Hoover, the movie's over. Lisa: Where's Miss Hoover? Janey: [looks out the window] Hey, her car's gone. Ralph: Maybe she drove to the moon.

  14. Re:Moore's Law for space? on Man Conquers Space · · Score: 1

    that could be true, as the voyager space probe is leaving our solar system is speed is slowly increasing, our old stuff is a lot further out that people think

  15. see, who needs laptops on Fragfest · · Score: 1

    me and my friends are all to impoverished to have laptops, so for UT lan parties they just bring their PCs over:D so many tripped breakers...

  16. Re:Yes, Actually on Mutant Gene Responsible for Speech? · · Score: 1

    get your hands off me you damn dirty.. uh, bird

  17. Re:A Data Point on Portable MP3 Player w/ Unix Support? · · Score: 1

    another point... u dotn have to do playlists in the machine, it plays winamp playlist just fine as long as the pathways are correct

  18. Re:A Data Point on Portable MP3 Player w/ Unix Support? · · Score: 1

    if u dont like having to listen to the first song all the time, just make a split second blank file(i actually use a $0.25 red box tone) and title it 0ASTART or something, it ends up @ the top of every folder and playlist so u get a shuffled first song right away

  19. we all need something to believe in on [Why] Smart People Believe Weird Things · · Score: 1

    everyone needs to believe in something, many people turn to religion to explain the unexplainabkle, but unfortunately religion is flawed, religion can be disproven, but we cant really disprove ufos, ghosts etc, withouth proof that things dont exist many people will believe in their existance, i dont believe the bible because there is proof that many of those things didn't happen, if there wasn't proof that things didn't happen i might be inclined to believe them, personally i think theres some higher power, not necisaraly god, but something, and as for creation, the starseeder theory makes a lot of sense, until things can be disproven, people will believe them, and even after they're disproven many people still believe them

  20. 2d Barcodes on Longer Bar Codes Coming in 2005 · · Score: 1

    if these new barcodes are going to require new equpitment, why are they only adding one digit? they should use 2d barcodes which store information vertically and horizontally can hold up to 2kb of information, this could store a lot more than just a number and could eliminate a need for a central database, if you dont know what i'm talking about look at the back of your drivers liscense, many states are using these to store information now, 2kb per inch or so may not seem like much storage, but the current simple barcodes on your cereal box only hold 20 bytes

  21. Wheres the Mountain Dew? on Dave Arneson Talks About Helping Create D&D · · Score: 1

    to anyone who knows anything about dungeons and dragons, find the two dungeons and dragons audio clips by the dead ailwives, they're hilarious

  22. Obligatory Simpsons Reference on Lasers for Fun and Profit · · Score: 1, Funny

    Young Frink: Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive [to student] Don't touch it! [back to class] But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.

  23. Re:Postal workers spying? on A Private European Internet? · · Score: 1

    they're talking about that civillian spy initiative thing, it was mentioned last week sometime, the governement wants people who have acess to places they cant get to without a warrant (postal workers, cable guys etc) to report suspicious activity, land of the free indeed

  24. Fun with Tesla Coils... on Build Your Own Tesla Coil · · Score: 4, Funny

    i take no credit for this, this is from UPL18, written by Jolly Spamhead, http://phonelosers.net In this article I'll show you how to make a very effective modem killer weapon, especially on crossbar phone systems (CPS). I take no responsiblity whatsoever if you kill yourself or get hurt in an attempt at trying to do this fucked up trick or for some reason it just doesn't work anymore as I haven't performed it since early 1998. A great person once said it is never too late to pass infomation on...so on wit the show bitch! What the fuck is this strange device? It's a Tesla Coil! Concentrated static electricity you f00l! The Tesla coil when properly used will generate litrally thousands of volts at very low amps. That just happens to be the right current to bake silicon chip cookies over a open camp fire strumming Bodycount songs! Construction: 1. Disconnect all phones from your line. Disconnect answering machines and any data-transmission devices. 2. Run a test on the coil and disconnect nearby grounded objects. (Lamps, stereos, TV's, Sex Vibrators...) 3. Connect one phone that you would'nt mind maybe having to sacrifice for the act of revenge.(It usually doesn't destroy phones, but people have told me they have seen them melt off walls!). =) 4. Connect iron or steel balls to the green and red wires of your connected phone (aka the biege box wires that go on the clips.) It and 12 terminals of your phone. 5. Put on a pair of thick rubber gloves (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT STEP HERE!) 6. Charge the coil to at least 10,000 volts. An ideal setting is around 18 to 19 thousand, but 10,000 will jump Ma-Bells line surge protectors and that's what we are trying to do here. 7. Hold metal balls in your left hand. In your right hand hold your cock and proceed to stroke firmly until climax is reached, then lick up the mess! Just fucking around here again! =) Just Make sure the balls don't touch each other ok? Great! When the coil is fully charged, clip the steel ball connected to the red wire to the base of the Tesla coil and hold the other metal ball as far away from the coil as you can. 8. Dial the offending modems phone number (OCI's fax # would be nice). 9. When you are connected, move the metal object connected to the green wire within 2 feet of the coils top. Don't be afraid of the little bolts of electricity shooting from the top of the coil...its only the stuff that hits poor hopeless saps like Amit Grover AKA Foreskin boy every once and awhile. 10. Within 3-5 seconds a huge bolt of lightning will shoot forth at the phone from the hand you are holding the balls in. Hold on tight cause it will feel like a load of ants! You will immediatly hear many strange occilations to the carrier on the phone. The last noise you will hear from the phone is a pop! That is the last cry of agony as the modem shuts down This is guaranteed to fry the modem, the computer and any peripherals connected to it like Scanners, printers, 8-ball porn cams.

  25. basic psychological causes on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    most people have an oral fixation, i've read about all sorts of research that shows cigarette addiction comes not only from nicotine, but from a basic instinct to suckle, as humans we are born with few instincts, we learn most things, btu one of our basest instincts is to suckle, this need to be constantly drinking can be atributed to that