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  1. Re:I Hate RadioShack on RadioShack CEO Resigns · · Score: 0

    Good post. I tend to agree. It's like techtv, a treasure to geeks, useless to everyone else....

  2. Re:American engineers are crap ... on NASA To Retire Atlantis by 2008 · · Score: 1

    You are correct. The Germans were some darn good engineers. They sorta barfed that whole splitting-of-the-atom thing unfortunately....

  3. Re:I Hate RadioShack on RadioShack CEO Resigns · · Score: 4, Informative

    You must not work much with technology in a tactile fashion. Radio Shack is irreplacable in most mid-sized to small towns wherein it is the only place you can walk in and purchase certain eletronic parts to complete projects. Where else can you view and select from a wide choice of project boxes in a store front? Sure, there are tv repair shops and the like, but they do not special in the retail sales of these parts, and even if they do have it you'll pay an arm and a leg. This says nothing of such things as batteries for watches and the like. Walmart, Office Depot, Staples ... they will carry only the most popularly used battery watches. You'll most likely have to order online or from the company for the rest. But you can walk into a radio shack and get the same thing right away without waiting or paying for shipping.

    You may read and post on /., but I doubt you're much of a geek beyond that....

  4. Re:Whats next? on NASA To Retire Atlantis by 2008 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe they plan on replacing the Shuttle with the CEV (Crew Exploration Vehicle). Which they claim will have the best technologies from the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. There is a moon landing targeted for 2018.

    Crew Exploration Vehicle

  5. Re:Simpsons quote on Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia · · Score: 1

    I first learned about these toads, dunno, a decade ago on some PBS or discovery channel show. I was shocked to see it as a blurb on /. as some new thing. I think what I saw might be what's mentioned above, but not sure. What I found the most interesting is that some local folk boil the things, drink the water to get a hullicinagenic high and/or ... lick them....

    Again, quite shocked to see /. so botch this ... well, maybe not....

  6. Re:I wonder on Children Help Their Mothers for Decades · · Score: 1

    How are women finding this site?...

  7. Re:The Big Bang on NASA Public-Affairs Appointee Resigns in Disgrace · · Score: 1

    Has the Big Bang been established as scientific fact? Not saying it isn't, just would like some more info.

    Yes, and although scientists lend different terms and phrases to the subject, they privately know that it was the first, and most powerful, roundhouse kick by Chuck Norris.

    Relatedly, this same event is the crux between science and religion. The Bible tells us, "In the beginning God said, 'let there be light,'" but theologians privately know that Chuck Norris said, "say please...."

    Also, the Bible clearly details that God created everything, but it leaves out the part known only to theologians where Chuck Norris created God....

  8. Re:Similar to earlier case on RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer · · Score: 1

    I'm not done yet!

    Since when is a mother of four -- or anyone -- responsible for the content they receive across eletronic devices, approved by regulations to purchase, using technology that violates no laws to connect to? So, like, if she were listening to Howard Stern and he violates FCC regulations, is someone going to drag her to court? After all, she "heard" the violating words herself. Did she not plug in the device, turn it on, find the station and then intentionally sit there waiting for the crime to occur? Wtf people?!?

    This gets to another thing that bothers me and that's speeding tickets and/or "road tax." It's nothing more than another way for local and state police departments to generate more revenue. Wtf?!? If the fastest speed limit allowed on any road in the U.S. is 70 MPH then why sell cars to the public that violate that? By this logic, someone should pay a fine for hearing a violation of FCC regulations. It makes sense to put a governor on the vehicle so that it cannot break the law.

    Let's sum-up (to quote Inigo Montoya):

    "Speeding" in a car = your fault
    "Hearing" an FCC violation = someone else's fault
    "Hearing a song that could be played on the radio, but that you downloaded instead and listened to on your computer" = everyone's fault, but especially a soccer mom's fault....

  9. Re:Similar to earlier case on RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer · · Score: 1

    I don't see how this will fly. I don't know anything about copyright law, but I am familiar with certain laws and rulings. It's all about intentions. All law is about intention. If a judge or jury figures you intended to break the law then you'll fry. If they figure you never intended anything wrong, then you'll walk or get a light sentence/penalty.

    It's going to be darn hard to say that a parent running a house full of kids, working a fulltime job, etc., so forth must also be responsible for all tv viewing, radio listening, phone conversations, game console playing, hand-held gaming and the computer usage of their kids. Parents are not obligated to supervise their kids 24/7 nor know about obscure laws and cases going on that might so happen to infiltrate their home. Did she also know about her kids ripping the "illegal to remove" labels off of the mattresses?

    To me, these RIAA lawyers will have to prove that she intended to violate copyright laws either herself or by-proxy through her kids. I seriously doubt they'll be able to do that. This thing about "it's the software's fault" is her lawyers talking. All she has to do is convince the judge that she's a good mother her feeds her kids, gets 'em ready for school every day, feeds 'em dinner, drives 'em to soccer games, takes 'em to church and lets em goof off a half hour a day in the family room where there's a tv, playstation and computer. Other than that, she didn't know a damn thing about the computer system that was bought from Dell and that she uses herself twice a month to look at drapes and coffee tables on ebay. She probably doesn't even realize the computer is not the monitor.

    I honestly don't see how the RIAA can keep this shit up. It's just a matter of time before a big case is going to shut them down. Albeit, several families are going to go through some hell before that happens....

  10. Re:Not only cheating RIAA on RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer · · Score: 1

    Think of all those pimple faced kids in their first job at the local appliance stores being deprived of ales.

    They work for beer?...

  11. Re:That Tauntaun thing... on Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While bow hunting you often have to track an animal the next morning because a bow wont kill it right away.

    I grew up deer hunting with my dad. Any bad shot from a bow and arrow or a gun will cause you to need to track the animal. It's not the weapon per se, it's the shot, where you hit it, etc. A gut shot will most likely cause the animal to live for some time and enable it to run far from the site -- no matter what the weapon. A chest shot, the lungs or especially the heart, will usually drop it within yards of where it was hit. My dad actually kept in a spare freezer several hearts wherein there was the distinctive "X" from the razor tipped arrow where he made those excellent shots. But, one thing that amazed me is the sheer will to live of these animals. I've seen deer run a dozen yards with even a shot through the heart -- not always. They are powerful creatures far tougher than humans. It always made me realize how frail and weak we truly are. In our natural state we would surely die in the wilderness. We have no hair for warmth, we can't really defend ourselves against an animal even half our size and our nails and teeth are fairly unimpressive. Anyhow....

    I do not hunt anymore, and have no desire to kill anything. I have contemplated going hunting, doing all the things my dad taught me to find and locate prey, and then using a camera. I am not against hunters. I believe in conservation even though, as my sig shows, someone thought I want to kill baby seals....

    I digress. My dad was an old-world kinda guy, and always taught me to respect the wilderness. He showed me how logging was destroying the forests where we hunted -- as a matter of fact, the mountain where generations of the men in my family hunted is now bare. We hiked and explored much of the mountains in the area -- the Appalachians. People really don't realize what logging companies are doing. My dad always respected the animals and after each kill would discuss with me how Native Americans respected their prey and apologized to it as a brother. He would kiss each deer on the nose afterwards -- yea, maybe campy, but that's how he was. He was a true survivalist/outdoorsman. Me? I prefer my cable tv, computer and sweats....

    K, digressing for real, and I apologize for all of this off topic drivel....

  12. Re:Explosion on 7 Myths About The Challenger Disaster · · Score: 1

    a russian woman walking past a huge poster of Putin, an iraqi woman walking past a huge poster of Saddam, a venezuelan woman walking past a huge picture of Chavez.

    And god walking past a huge poster of Chuck Norris....

    sorry....

  13. Re:Spaceflight is dangerous, so what on 7 Myths About The Challenger Disaster · · Score: 1

    I was in high school when the challenger disaster happened. I totally agree with your reply. I also like his comment on the "social conflict" of the 80s. Like there's not been any since. And to continue your needful criticisms, I'm no grammar nazi, but when someone can't spell basic words it makes me question their insight....

  14. Chuck Norris Is Evolution on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is no theory of evolution, just a list of animals Chuck Norris has allowed to live....

  15. Chuck Norris Is Heating The Earth on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record · · Score: 1

    Scientists know that the real reason 2005 was the hottest year on record is because in that year Chuck Norris did more roundhouse kicks than in any previous year. The power behind one Chuck Norris roundhouse kick (symbol: CNRHK) is equal to several atomic bombs.

    In a related story, Chuck Norris believes in the sun god. Once a year a child is selected to be thrown into the sun -- by Chuck Norris....

  16. Dark Matter Is Chuck Norris on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientists have actually calculated that Dark Matter is, in actuality, Chuck Norris. He recently flew to the west coast, and this threw off the Pioneer 10 probe by 400,000 miles.

    Scientists have also not yet revealed the real reason behind the ban on human cloning. The real reason human cloning is outlawed is because scientists fear Chuck Norris being cloned. They theorize that two simultaneous Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks could possibly destroy the universe....

  17. Chuck Norris' IP Address on How Interesting is Your IP Address? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank god my IP is a full house

    Chuck Norris' IP address is a round house....

    Yes, mod this down plz....

  18. Re:Solution on Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' · · Score: 1

    Dunno. Don't really feel like arguing today, but I used to spend time researching each "this flaw affects firefox too just like ie" argument to find that, this simply wasn't the case. Sure, if you stand on this foot and twirl this hoola hoop and click here you can run an exploit in ff, but ie is sooo much easier to run a bad thang.

    I've not looked into this flaw and won't. I'm sure I'll find the same thing. Yes, if ff is set to open MP or OE or any MS app that's just as crappy (yes, I'm biased) as ie then you'll get the same flaw. And if you smear your dick with some herpes after you fuck a girl who doesn't have it, then you'll get herpes just as if she did -- or, you can cut out the middleman and fuck the girl who has herpes outright (ie being the girl with herpes).

    Rant? Sure, otherwise, I defer to my article on eurohacker:

    http://eurohacker.mine.nu/index.php?show_article=i 004a006

    Love, peace and chicken grease....

  19. Re:Solution on Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' · · Score: 1

    You can still be affected with other browsers, you just have to try harder.

    I think you just made his argument....

  20. These guys are in a "cat" state.... on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 2, Funny

    This fall, two Nobel laureates, Anthony Leggett ... and Norman Ramsay ..., argued in front of several hundred scientists about whether physicists are justified trying to change quantum theory. Leggett said yes; Ramsay said no.

    And then, the two scientists began spinning clockwise and counterwise at the same time....

  21. Marketing on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's the marketing people -- something MS has always done well and OSS has hardly done at all. It's the same problem with Domino, or should we call it "Lotus Notes." In the mule-choking Domino book I bought they even admit that nomenclature is a problem.

    Our corporation was doing pre-project testing to upgrade/migrate our email system. We were looking at Domino, Exchange and OSS. I setup all three and presented. I wanted Squirrel Mail. I made the huge mistake of leaving the default webpage intact which plainly displayed both the name and the picture of the cute little squirrel. Upper management nearly fell out of their chairs. Forget the PHP stuff I showed off, the LDAPing into our existing Active Directory, the money-saving, the history, the name it. That name and picture killed it.

    Say what you will, but Bullet Tooth Tony always rings true ("Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity"), and the people in power are more likely than not to be stupid about technology. We ended up purchasing and migrating to Exchange. Why? Because MS had marketed it well in all those colorful "CIO" magazines, the name stuck, it had nice bright colors just like my kid's crayons and it all flowed well and had for years -- I'm talking about marketing.

    To the contrary, the more research I did into OSS solutions for email the more frustrated I personally became. "Sendmail is ok, but Jim's Mail is much better and here's why," and then "Jim's Mail was good, but Ted's mail improves on things this way." On and on and on -- it seems OSS is too polluted with each and every dude trying to rebuild the wheel forgetting the fact that the people with the really nice cars and corner offices only know of "Cartman" from that whacky cartoon and I would only use "Bitchx" in a big meeting if I plan on turning in my resignation (do I have to explain women COs and PCness?).

    Much of the OSS community simply has too much of -- as Lucas put it trying to produce 1977 Star Wars -- "a hippy mentality." They come at the man with an attitude and dare anyone to get all up their face over silly and whacky names and over the fact that they've re-invented the wheel over and over and over.

    At the end of the day, COs don't mind tossing change (and it is change by comparison) at a "name brand" product like Exchange. Forget the fact that MS itself thumbed its nose at age-old SMTP commands barfing out Cisco PIX. Forget the fact that they stole and copied things Sendmail does without giving credit. Forget all of that. They know how to talk to the big man with the hot secretary and they know how to market. Until OSS gets this point and stops imagining that these guys -- who spend as much money on a suit as you do your annual PC budget -- read /. then nothing much will change.

    The irony is, is that I actually had to use OSS and Sendmail to do the complicated routing to migrate 1000s of users over to Exchange. Once all was done, I euthanized the Linux box and sent it to that great /. in the sky....

  22. Re:Hehe... on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 1

    But then again, you click the "Start Button" to shut down in Windows :)

    Old.

    And to answer: start your car. K, now shut it off. What's the difference? I first heard this when comparing Windows to a car and wondered wtf the deal was. Not that I'm an ms fan (cuz I'm not), but arguments against need to be better than this....

  23. Re:Don't worry, be happy! on Careful Where You Put That Tree · · Score: 1

    Despite your ability to use big words, you seem to totally have missed the point of the parent post which was to refute the claim of the grandparent, and that being that Mars is not experiencing global warming....

  24. Harry pottered on Impressions From A Second Shipment 360 Owner · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I took the liberty to "harry potter" a paragraph of this write-up (for those that don't know, "harry-pottered" is the art of replacing "wand" with "wang" in the books -- didn't do as well as harry potter, but, oh well):

    Impressions of my second dildo:

    While I don't feel the need to bore you with pictures of the packaging, the out-of-the-box experience is attractive and intuitive. It only took a few moments to set things up before I was working with the dildo . As per the copious recommendations across the internet, I made sure that the dildo was not on the carpet once it was in place. The bottom of the dildo has wire shelving, and the free flow of air around it has so far allowed the dildo to be glitch-free. It is, unfortunately, as large as everyone says it is. Pulling the massive thing out of the box, I had a flash of a bad bumper-sticker: "My second console is my dildo ." The dildo is surprisingly lengthy, with a nice long piece of it making the trip to my ass with more slack than the one I was using before . One important consideration: If you're fortunate enough to be using your dildo with a buttplug , make sure and flip the switch before you start it up . It's set by default to 'no buttplug', and if you want to experience the dildo right away with a buttplug you're going to want that switch flipped. With everything plugged in and set properly I hit the large central button on the dildo , and it whirred to life.

    This was the stupidest thing I've done ... this afternoon....

  25. Re:Recovered PoP Addict on Review: Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I might have my PoPs mixed up. Maybe I'm thinking of PoP2. It was still arcarde-style side shot right?