Slashdot Mirror


User: slimey_limey

slimey_limey's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
121
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 121

  1. Re:DC = suits = Borg on Hacker Jeff Moss Sworn Into Homeland Security Advisory Council · · Score: 1

    Didn't you mean to say, "more surveillance for the same amount of money"?

  2. Timing == Everything on 1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't it a bit late to be posting the list of celebrations?

  3. Re:slashdot v google slashdot wins on ASCII Art Steganography · · Score: 1

    Omnomnomnomnom.

    Coral doesn't have the static content for most of the pages, but I'm working on that.

  4. Re:I didn't RTFA on The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion · · Score: 1

    http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a%253D235406,00.asp

    There's your readable version. Seriously, why don't the editors or even the submitters do this?

  5. Re:Rail industry can handle itself on Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails? · · Score: 1

    See, but Amtrak won't make a profit until they can run on time, and get to their destination in a reasonable amount of time. This requires high-speed tracks, and separate passenger/rail trackway.

    Besides - public transit doesn't exist in order to make a profit. Government isn't about making money. It's about the boring stuff - sewers and roads and social services - that everyone needs but aren't any fun to do.

  6. Re:Keeping up with the times on RIAA Says "Wanna Fight? It'll Cost You!" · · Score: 1

    Pulse Code Modulation? It's been used in telecom for almost 50 years. PCM can be transformed to any other PCM with a simple lookup table. It's lossless too.

  7. Re:27 out of 32 on Examining Presidential Candidates Via Google Trends · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Oh great More Outsourcing on New Method Discovered For Making Telescopes On the Moon · · Score: 1

    But, you see, they already live on the moon so they're not actually immigrants.

  9. Re:In other news on Online Quiz As a Gateway to P2P · · Score: 1

    The publisher has e-editions, or perhaps people in the prepress get their grubby hands on a PDF copy. OCR? There are many ways.

  10. Re:Check your facts on Changing a School's Tech Disposal Policy? · · Score: 1

    I was typing it wrong. Figures.

  11. Re:Depends on what you mean by code and running... on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    I was hoping nobody would point out that it was the 1A that's still running ... :)

    I work at the phone museum in Seattle, and I'm restoring a 3ESS. That code was written in 1973ish, and it's been running (albeit idling) continuously since at least 1990.

    Hey, you wouldn't be able to help out with obtaining machine-readable source code or assemblers, would you? We've got all the source on microfiche. It's pretty ridiculous.

  12. Re:Depends on what you mean by code and running... on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 1

    There are still a few 1ESSes in the phone network. I'd wager that they've all seen upgrades since then, but the hardware drivers probably haven't changed much since 1965.

  13. Re:knowing google... on Making Free Phone Calls With Google's GrandCentral · · Score: 1

    PLA ... some phreaker you are. I'm working on restoring a #3 ESS to service.
    Have any spare DC 6150 tapes lying around?

  14. Re:I felt... on MSN Music DRM Servers Going Dark In September · · Score: 1

    Yes, all six of them.

  15. Re:Direct link to the torrent on Eve Online Client Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention -- there also aren't any human-created comments.

  16. Re:Direct link to the torrent on Eve Online Client Source Code Leaked · · Score: 1

    Almost all the files are named with the extension ".pyc_dis". Looks more like a disassembly than a leak to me.

    And then there's this, in compiled_code.zip/2back/common/script/net/SocketGPS.pyc_dis:

            def Close(self, reason = None, reasonCode = None, reasonArgs = {}):
    bluepy.Timer"Socket::GPS::Close"
                    #TODO CAN NOT DECOMPILER 9 (131)CALL_FUNCTION 1

                    #TODO CAN NOT DECOMPILER 12 (4)DUP_TOP .__exit___[1].__enter__
                    #TODO CAN NOT DECOMPILER 22 (131)CALL_FUNCTION
                    try:
                            if ((not self.closeReason) and (reason is not None)):
                                    self.closeReason = (reason,
                                      reasonCode,
                                      reasonArgs)
                            s = self.socket
                            if (s is not None):
                                    self.socket = None
                                    self._SocketTransport__Close(s)
                    finally:
    _[1] del _[1]

                            #TODO CAN NOT DECOMPILER 133 (81)WITH_CLEANUP

    I call bullshit. Thanks for wasting my time, Slashdot.

  17. Re:First post?? on The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not that nobody is here. Thing is, the story was retroposted by something exceeding two hours.

  18. Re:Why does bottled water cost much anyway? on The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America · · Score: 1

    Just you wait until I start my own phone company. Then I'll have free unlimited texts, and where will YOU be? That's right.

  19. Re:Jack Thompson says.. on EA Denies DRM Problems With Sims 2 · · Score: 1

    Someone being unable to see a naked child without having thoughts of sexuality, on the other hand, makes me question what kind of deviants they are.

    Or, for that matter, even just thinking about the concept of naked children without their first thoughts being about genitalia.
  20. Re:Class action suit... on EA Denies DRM Problems With Sims 2 · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or is there no moderation on the grandparent comment?

  21. Re:Not the first time on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 2, Insightful

    borderline spam also generates an address unknown bounceback to the sender.

    Oh, no, that's not good at all. That's positively evil. My school email address is short, so I get a crapload of spam bounces. At least they're mostly trivial to filter on.
  22. Re:UPS system - it's a Hytec flywheel/diesel combo on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen a 5XB start from cold power-off? I have. It takes one second. Literally.

    Somewhat tangentially related fact: Western Electric switches were specced to be able to run at around 130F indefinitely with little ill effects. A typical urban crossbar office would use around 4000A/48V, which isn't very much compared to a modern data center.

  23. Spelling error on AT&T Vs. Apple Store At the iPhone Launch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hate to nitpick, but it's no longer "AT&T". It's now "at&t", the new softer, friendlier telephone company.

  24. Re:gmail mail tracking trick on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 1

    In fact, I did an experiment on this particular topic, using a catchall on a subdomain. (Actually it's about spamcrawlers' regexes, but whatever.) The results are somewhat interesting.

  25. Re:Enjoy it while you can Microsofties.... on Linux (Car) Crashes At Indy 500 · · Score: 1

    I dunno, man, I just had emacs choke today (out of memory apparently) after logging an IRC channel for 6 months straight.

    (emacs is Linux, right?)