Slashdot Mirror


User: advocate_one

advocate_one's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,271
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,271

  1. Re:Help...(useful) ideas needed. on Fujitsu Debuts Bendable Electronic Paper · · Score: 1

    or worse... porn and/or spam...

  2. Re:Operating systems are Black Magic, Toqueville s on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1
    "I'm a PR agent. I've been paid to take a position and I am glad to suck up your time as that's what I am paid to do. I get bonus points by looking somewhat reasonable while you loose your composure in an attempt to convince me of something that I have no personal stake in beyond a paycheck."

    Just like the astroturfers in here then...

  3. Re:A fine post and everything but... on Asa Dotzler on Why Linux Isn't Ready for the Desktop · · Score: 1
    how the hell did you get first post with so much freakin' writing?

    perhaps poster is really a script triggered by keywords in the story blurb??? triggered on Linux, desktop perhaps... or then, he's a professional astroturfer cruising just waiting to paste in the contents of his scratchpad...

  4. really retarded DRM... on Doctorow and Stross Release Latest Novels for Free · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here... a classic example... upgrade acrobat and you find yourself locked out of those items that you've purchased...

  5. Re:The key is sodium... on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 1
    they already have major uses for the Chlorine produced when electrolysing Sodium Chloride...

    my beef is just what do we do with the waste product of adding this sodium powder to water... and the waste product is NOT salt... it's far nastier... it's Sodium Hydroxide... AKA Caustic Soda...

  6. This is retarded... on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    to put it politely... just too stupid for words... how, exactly, did he "pirate" the works in question??? Looks like we need to slap some judges upside the head with a cluestick... Google et al, had better watch out... they'll now have to filter out possible copyrighted works in any links produced in searches... this is a very dangerours legal ruling.

  7. Re:Not really new, but interesting on Check Boxes and Radio Buttons Conquered by DHTML · · Score: 1
    Just go have a quick game of Weboggle,

    ahh..shoot... yet another game that'll capture my life for the next few months...

  8. Re:Wasted Time and The 40 Hour Week on A Study On Time Wasted At Work · · Score: 1
    We've been pushed into complacency and we all sit back and take it. We're a society that by enlarge lives for the weekend. I really don't consider this an optimal solution by any stretch.

    you're trapped... it's called "Wage Slavery", and that's exactly what they want, you trapped in a dead-end job, working to pay the bills and never being able to break out...

  9. Put up or shut up... on BBC In Trouble Over Free Music · · Score: 4, Insightful
    well, if they're objecting so much about this, perhaps they should launch a court case and see just how far they get

    or could it be because they haven't got a leg to stand on and the BBC is perfectly within it's rights to have done this... having copyright anyway in the performance that they did, and therefore, they could dispose of it exactly as they wished, including making it available for free download so nya... nya...

  10. Re:The Stolen Text on Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked · · Score: 1

    the video of that's well worth looking up for downloading... ;)

  11. Re:320 * 240 on Big Screen Viewing Effect For Mobile Phone Videos · · Score: 1

    isn't that the default resolution of most porno movie clips that are available for download... not that I have very much personal experience of porno download sites... ;) seems like this "visor" would be perfect for "privately" watching such movie clips...

  12. Re:A damaging energy exchange on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    ahh, but as you called it, it was an incident, not an accident... no-one was to blame, the woman was just extremely unlucky...

  13. Re:A damaging energy exchange on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    there is no such thing as an accident... there is always a reason for it occuring and therefore someone to hang the blame on.

  14. Re:!= accident. on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've had two crashes where my kinetic energy was increased... both occasions I was rear ended by some idiot who wasn't paying attention. The phrase you're looking for would be an "unanticipated and sudden change in momentum"...

  15. Re:innovation. on Ballmer on Innovation · · Score: 3, Funny
    innovate: 1. To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. 2. To begin or introduce something new.

    There you go... that's how Microsoft can, with a straight face, call whatever they do "innovation"...

  16. Re:Readers Digest is almost as bad... on Wired Strongarms Subscribers? · · Score: 1

    I kept getting magazines from them long after my subscription had "finished"... along with nastygrams from their collection agency... I got rid of them by returning the next unwanted magazine when it arrived with "Return to sender, Addressee deceased" on it... they stopped immediately

  17. Re:Cures and money. on Possible Breakthroughs in Cancer and AIDS Research · · Score: 1
    even with the 1 in 10000 or 1 in 1000 risk because once you actually got the disease, you had a MUCH lower chance of surviving.

    From what I hear, the vaccine for Bird Flu has a 1% fatality rate... tough odds when the disease itself has an 80% fatality rate...

  18. Dupe??? on The New C Standard · · Score: 1

    I'm suffering from a sense of Deja Moo... I'm sure I saw this last month...

  19. Re:um, rtfa? on How Schools Can Get Free Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    he administers not only the high school, but a lot of the local primary schools as well...

  20. Re:Legality of remixes on William Gibson on The Age of The Remix · · Score: 1

    my favourite mashups are by The Kleptones...

    try getting hold of "A Night At The Hip Hopera"...

  21. Re:Race, what a nice concept on William Gibson on The Age of The Remix · · Score: 1

    1) everybody's pink on the inside...
    2) all people are black in the pitch dark...
    3) we all bleed red blood when cut...

  22. Re:As it breaks... on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    I think it really is related to the Olympics... i believe there could have been another team of bombers based in Paris and the masterminds only gave the attack order to the team based in the winning city...

  23. Servers... on OSS in One-Fifth of Japanese Businesses · · Score: 4, Insightful
    not desktops... so this could be as little as 1 machine per business...

    someone slap the editors with a cluestick please...

  24. Re:It never ceases to amaze me..... on Man Convicted For Hacking Xbox · · Score: 1

    I'm convinced it's the only way these days to get an article accepted... deliberately make the title controversial to drag in readers and posts...

  25. Re:We're talking about different stuff on In SIlicon Valley: Profits up. Employment Down. · · Score: 1
    As far as I can tell, your argument basically seems to be "if I do the same job in 2 hours (yes, via scripts or whatever) that a bad worker does in 8, I should get the rest of 6 hours free". Which is a strange request, seein' as it basically asks to set everyone's job requirements to the slowest possible worker.

    Look at it this way... If I was a subcontractor given a block of work at a fixed price that they'd assessed as worth 10 hours of my time, and I discovered that actually, I could do the job in only 2 hours saving the other eight hours for myself... I would be perfectly entitled to enjoy those eight hours any way I want... including using them to bid for other work... you don't upset the applecart by telling people that the work they assessed at ten hours worth only took two hours cos they'll screw you over next time by reducing the hours they give you and expecting the you to only bill for two hours this time...