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  1. On the rollback suggestion: on California Demands Licensure For VoIP Providers · · Score: 1
    Isn't a large portion of the California state budget entitlements with set levels? Does the governor have the ability to roll back all programs to 1998 levels?

    Does this rollback include police, fire fighters, EMT, hospitals, education? Since there was no Homeland Security program in 1998, where would he set that level?

    Considering the population increases (with concurrent needs increases) since 1998, won't 1998 levels of spending be drastically insufficient to meet the levels of service expected by the people of California?

  2. Cut spending where? on California Demands Licensure For VoIP Providers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since neither Arrnold nor McClintock are willing to enumerate where they'd cut spending, perhaps you'd like to.

  3. What third-party certifier would they trust? on India Cool to Microsoft Source Code Offer · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The article suggests that if the code was so secure, it could pass review by a third-party certifier and that would be sufficient.

    What organization is:
    a) smart enough to properly assess the security of the Microsoft code and
    b) independent enough to publicly fail them if their code wasn't up to snuff and
    c) acceptable to Microsoft?

    Without all three, you got nothing.

  4. So you remember you need to get to the meeting,... on 3G Waves Causes Headaches, Sharpens Memory · · Score: 3, Funny
    but you're too dizzy and unstable to make it. So you call in instead, using your 3G cellular phone.

    GENIUS!

  5. Don't you know that the latest spy satellites... on Track a Soda Can with GPS? · · Score: 1

    can pinpoint a tin foil hat to within 12 inches, man? That's why I've got on my Slab-O-Concrete (tm) Hat now. Sure, it's a bit more heavy then the old tin foil hat. But it not only blocks the messages from the CIA telling you to kill all those people, interferes with space aliens attempting to uncover the combination to your school gym locker AND shields you from harmful UVA, UVB, Gamma, Zeta and Thorian radiation. Also pick up the new Slab-O-Concrete (tm) Cover to protect your procreative abilities (assuming that you'll find a member of the opposite sex who will allow your attempts).

  6. But it is so much easier to ... on Track a Soda Can with GPS? · · Score: 1, Troll
    track me with the new federally mandated Patriot GPS insert. Remember, bend over and don't clench and it won't hurt as much.

    Also keep in mind that attempting to interfere with the insert, or thinking about interfering with the insert, or questioning the "Constitutionality" of having a tracking device inserted into you so that your every move may be monitored by John Ashcroft personally if it amuses him, means that the terrorists have won. This is being done to protect your freedom. Stop spoiling things by trying to actually exercise it.

  7. Two weeks later, ... on The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del · · Score: 1
    You receive a Federal grant none of you remembered applying for.

    A week after that, the pigeon comes back for it's cut of the money. Oh yes, I've seen that one before. Finder's fee? I don't think so.

  8. Not struck by accident? on The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who is he kidding? Just the other day, my gorillas and I were playing soccer in the lab. Why we must of hit ctrl-alt-del over a hundred times just in the first half. After that, we moved the game over to the kitchen, just to be safe.

  9. I'm supposed to feel good about trusting this ... on FCC To Enforce Do Not Call List, Not FTC · · Score: 2, Interesting
    to Michael "One News Organization to Rule Them All And In the Darkness Bind Them" Powell?

    I'm unplugging the phone and going back to carrier pigeons.

  10. Balking at providing requested documentation ... on FBI Investigating Lamo Via Patriot Act Provision · · Score: 3, Insightful

    even when it violates journalistic "ethics" and previously established law just because of some notion that the rapid not-officially-terrorist expansion of the Patriot Act into every nook and cranny that we can possibly jam it is somehow eating away at sacred "Constitutional protections" like a hungry dog smack dab in front of a t-bone steak, means the terrorists have won. Terrorists commit crimes: ergo all criminals are terrorists and should fall under the Patriot Act umbrella. Not assisting in any form of investigation that the selected President has declared valid indicates that you are in fact an enemy combatant. Step away from the computer and prepare for your Guantanamo relocation expert who will be by shortly.

  11. Picture phones on Smart People in the News: Rheingold, Gosling · · Score: 1
    More and more people taking more and more photographs that nobody really wants or needs to see.

    Just like digital cameras but with significantly less quality and a much less cumbersome method of sharing the photos far and wide.

    Personally, I'm going back to carrier pigeon.

  12. This would mean that Spammers are Terrorists: on Sobig Worm Attacking RBL Lists? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thus, the US would feel free to invade Spamodia to free the oppressed Spamodians from the evil Spammer overlords. During the invasion, though, the major Spammers would escape, allowing them to continue their spam attacks against the anti-spam coalition forces. And other pro-spam zealots would flock to Spamodia to aid the effort.

  13. They'll account for less if ... on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 1

    they don't have to pay any taxes. Just a thought.

  14. Not appointed, ... on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 1
    The correct term is "selected".

    You can refer to him as the asterisk President.

  15. How much more obvious do I have to be? on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 1, Funny
    If you do not immediately prostrate yourself in front of the mandatory "W in a flight suit" shrine that are now federally required in every domicile (including the ever increasing cardboard boxes that the more and more "jobless recovery" slackers are infesting) and beg forgiveness for ever doubting that his resolve to make sure that every person making over $200,000 a year from investments would not only have to pay no taxes but would instead be given both cash on the barrelhead and lucrative contracts to rebuild Iraq ,pushing the national debt to $1 trillion dollars, would somehow lead to an economic boom, then you are an enemy combatant and the terrorists win.

    John Ashcroft will personally be by in a few minutes to take you to Guantanamo.

  16. Then Darl announces that he will sue ... on IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the CE Linux Forum and all of it's members: Sony, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which makes the Panasonic brand, Hitachi, NEC Corp., Sharp Corp., Toshiba Corp. -- as well as Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands and Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea. At that point, SCO stock will hit 50. After Canopy leverages that to sell a lot of paper on other Canopy sub-companies and cash out a lot of positions, Darl and the other insiders will sell, sell, sell and cry boo-hoo all the way to the bank. That's what this has been about all along anyway: pump and dump.

  17. Considering that it is battery powered, I think .. on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 1
    that this would be more appropriate:

    *Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* "What's that?" *Hmmmmmmmmmm* *creeeeeek* *thump* "OW!"

  18. If you mock the President, ... on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 2, Funny

    or consider mocking the President or laugh when someone else mocks the President or even think of laughing when someone else mocks the President, then the terrorists win. You're giving aid and comfort to America's enemies. Now just step away from the computer and wait for your Guantanamo relocation expert who will be there shortly.

  19. You're forgetting on The Bionic Office · · Score: 4, Funny
    9) Hungry crocodiles at bottom of pit to consume offending door knockers.

    If you don't have the crocs, the people just lollygag down in the pit, moaning and yelling for help.

    It's animal and environmentally friendly. The croc droppings can be used to fertilize your organic garden. And as they age: shoes.

  20. There is a much easier way of getting this effect: on The Bionic Office · · Score: 4, Funny
    The walls between the offices and the workstations are made of high tech, translucent acrylic which glows softly and provides natural light to the interior without reducing privacy.

    Or just drop acid. Cheaper long term. And the walls will also smile at you and occasionally dance.

  21. SCO claims that /. agrees that issues exist on HP Clarifies Indemnification Offer For Linux Users · · Score: 5, Funny

    SCO representative Ima Loon pointed out that SCO had significantly more reports and comments then any other subject on /. except for Microsoft. "As we've previously shown with our big, big book of press clippings, the size and frequency of discussions concerning our company is the clearest indicator of the legitimacy of any legal claims that we are making." said Ima.

  22. Too expensive? on Virus Knocks Out U.S. Visa Approval System · · Score: 1
    How expensive is the constant recovering from viruses, trojans, worms, etc.?

    With the DMZ, they wouldn't have to come in early. The end users would just be treated with the wariness that they deserve. It would be as if they were still in front of the firewall.

  23. BubbleBoy on Virus Knocks Out U.S. Visa Approval System · · Score: 1
    If you have laptop users on your network, which nearly everyone does, its analagous to wearing a plastic bubble suit but having unprotected sex with strangers every weekday morning.

    That explains why he's always smiling.

    On a serious note, how about either not allowing in laptops or mandatory auto-update on them before allowing them onto the network? Or perhaps keep them on their own node with anti-virus scanners between it and the main network?

  24. Let me rephrase then: After looking at the ... on KernelTrap Interview With Rusty Russell · · Score: 1, Funny

    photo of Rusty, I feel compelled to ask him this question: How long have you worshipped the dark lord Satan?

  25. Looking at the photo of Rusty begs the question: on KernelTrap Interview With Rusty Russell · · Score: 1, Funny

    How long have you worshipped the dark lord Satan?