Slashdot Mirror


User: jcgf

jcgf's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
517
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 517

  1. Re:Easier to be Against Things on Where Are The Space Advocates? · · Score: 1

    While I am not personally a "professional skeptic",

    and

    Every assertion should be questioned repeatedly and mercilessly

    That's how I would define a "professional skeptic". Or did you mean that you don't get paid? Meaning you are an "amateur skeptic" as I am an "amateur radio operator"?

  2. Re:Population Control & Modern Views on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is no "reason for any living being to exist". Never has been, never will be. That line of thinking just leads to false conclusions such as the world was created in 7 days or in this case "the right to have children is/should be a fundamental right.Even if they did not take care of their earlier children, even if they are criminals or whatever".

  3. Re:Here's your warning: on London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game · · Score: 1
    You know what I do when I can't afford something?

    http://thepiratebay.org/

  4. Re:It's time for Civil Disobedience and Regime Cha on Archive.org Defeats FBI's Demand For User Information · · Score: 1

    here are three skills that teachers need:

    1. Keeping a class under control
    2. Knowledge of their subject
    3. Being able to provide clear explanations and feedback
    4. Being able to structure class work to fit into the school year.

    Now, which of those skills did your teacher lack? I kid, I kid. ;)

  5. Re:You've been working for 12 years, right? on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And besides, let's see who's changing your diapers when you're 90!?!?! :P

    The people at the nursing home that he checked himself into and your kids dumped you at?

  6. Re:Superior Hardware? on OQO Hacker Claims World's Smallest OS X Machine · · Score: 1

    I have never had any problem with any other power connector on any other laptop, either mine or any of the users I supported at ABB over the past 20 years.

    I replaced the motherboards in over 30 dell notebooks because of bad connectors giving problems (usually the center pin would get loose or the pcb around the jack would crack and wreck a trace) about 10 or 12 were Latitude D600s. I only worked as the dell warranty guy for 14 months.

  7. Re:Superior Hardware? on OQO Hacker Claims World's Smallest OS X Machine · · Score: 1

    having the stupid "magsafe" connector come out without my noticing it when someone drops a pile of books on my desk...

    I have been trying to duplicate this by dropping books onto my desk next to my MacBook and have yet to do so. Is it a feature unique to the pro? Or did you mean that you dropped the books directly on the adapter?

  8. Re:Hmmm.. on Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power · · Score: 1

    Nuclear is historically way more expensive than claimed.

    Solar and wind are way more expensive than the hippies claim.

    nuclear has security risks

    Nuclear has major anti-terrorist security costs

    and also increases the threat of proliferation of nuclear tech. These are all the same thing rephrased.
  9. Re:How do I tell...? on Top Botnets Control Some 1 Million Hijacked Computers · · Score: 1

    Programming is not like walking. Not at all.

  10. Re:Doesn't everyone have a whole-house audio syste on 5.1 Sound Card Delivers 3 Streams of iTunes · · Score: 1

    I've owned mp3 players that could take thumb drives (mine was kinda shitty but there are better ones). You could probably pick up some of them and a few old ghetto blasters with mic inputs (garage sales? ebay?) and basically have what you want. I know it's not as slick as an all in one unit but you could super glue the mp3 player to the cassette doors since you probably won't use them anymore. I use this kind of a setup as my main computer speakers and it works ok.

  11. Re:Apple won't like it... on $5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P · · Score: 4, Funny

    Illegal downloaders need to stop freeloading off the rest of us and pay for the things they want.

    I'm gonna head on over to the pirate bay and download shit right now, just to piss you off.

  12. Re:Set in their ways on Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True · · Score: 1

    No one expects people to learn about a computer tech's job but we do expect them to learn how to operate the damn computer. If you went into a mechanics shop because your car quit and he tells you it's because you ignored the warning light that was on for a week, is he just trying to make HIS life easier or is he trying to help you? Even if he's a bit condescending, can you really blame him?

  13. Re:Typical for Real Estate on Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True · · Score: 1

    They might not need the latest core 2 duo, but I doubt windows 95 is working as well as they think it is, they probably just aren't savy enough to know that they could easily be a spambot.

  14. Re:If only we were treated as well as utilities on The Disconnect Between Management and the Value of IT · · Score: 1

    MSCE != CS degree as bicycle != 18-wheeler

    Seriously, only a jerk would equate the 2, and no I don't want to hear your reply about the guy with a CS degree that you knew that was useless, cause I already know that you made it up.

  15. Re:Remember this is the same Apple that ... on iPhone SDK Rules Block Skype, Firefox, Java ... · · Score: 1

    Apple's market share was 8.1% for the 3rd quarter of 2007, double the average of your 3-5%, most of which came as a result of rehiring Jobs.

    Also, I don't recall apple ever restricting the software that you can run other than on the iPhone. Which hardware can run their software is probably what you meant.

  16. Re:Weak premise on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    That joke doesn't work when his UID is lower than yours.

  17. Re:Walmart on RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied · · Score: 1

    It hit that hear in Regina on Monday :(

  18. Re:Not Just Primates... on Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind · · Score: 1

    but they can MAKE the tool first. How many primates can do that?

    Chimps and Orangutans do pretty much the exact same thing when they prepare small twigs or blades of grass to fish for termites. I haven't read much about gorillas or monkeys so I can't say much about them, but I'm sure that like chimps they could easily out-pace a crow.

  19. Re:I think you mean... on Impress Your Friends While Watching "Untraceable" · · Score: 1

    Nah, you sounded just as good as they do.

  20. Re:A very niche OS on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE Now Available · · Score: 4, Funny

    FreeBSD has the advantage of not being for bitches.

    That's the main reason I use it ;)

  21. Re:you know what *that* sounds like.. on Microsoft Releases Source of .NET Base Classes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're able to get comments from a dissassembled binary, then something is wrong. The whole point of comments is that they are ignored by the compiler. If what you say is true, then MS really screwed up.

  22. Re:Spoiled on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    Isn't luck kinda the same as life giving you something?

  23. Re:Why the thrifty? More like the reasonable on Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend? · · Score: 1

    But how did you get the movies and audio to the server in the first place?

  24. Re:Interesting on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    It's spelled "shit", Bono.

  25. Re:The Universal Platform on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    So your only requirements are a pci slot and a pci-x slot?