Slashdot Mirror


User: CyBlue

CyBlue's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
104
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 104

  1. Re:Heh... on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    So very true. I didn't even vote in the last election because it looked like we'd get screwed no matter who won. These discussions are like dogs fighting in a pit. Everyone is too busy scratching out turf somewhere to really understand what's going on.

  2. Re:Wa wa what? on Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    !! Exactly what I was thinking. +1 virtual mod point

  3. Re:Yup. Been there, done that. on Repulsive Force Discovered In Light · · Score: 1

    *Sigh* I scanned quickly to see if anyone else was thinking the same thing before replying higher. It was the first thing I thought about as well :-)

  4. Re:Explosives factories on Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949 · · Score: 1

    The article is about using hydraulics as logic circuits to create a computer. I think you're talking about using computers to control hydraulics. From my understanding, his concept of upgrade is going from purely mechanical logic to the computer controlled valves you mention.

  5. PCInspector on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? · · Score: 1

    For a free tool, I've had reasonable success with PCInspector, but File Scavenger seems to do a better job at recovery.

  6. Re:W-T-F on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    If you were driving west at sunrise you'd have a tailwind!

  7. Re:Actually, vegetables do scream when picked on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 1

    You should have asked Dr. Smith. He would have believed you.

  8. USB OLED kit on MacBook Modded With Second Monitor Inside Logo · · Score: 1

    He likely used something like this USB OLED kit. That would make more sense than using the external video port for sure.

  9. Re:First questions first on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 2, Funny

    AHHHHHHHHHHHH!

  10. Re:In other news on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Consider that we considered it and didn't find it funny.

  11. Re:I Knew It on The Gene Is Having an Identity Crisis · · Score: 1

    This is pretty clearly delineated in the Holy Bible (I can send you one if you like).

    Yaaa! Free rolling papers! Anyone have suggestions for suitable passages? Maybe Psalm 23:4 or the one with the burning bush. yeah yeah.. offtopic

  12. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    For a change? A president elected without a majority of the popular vote has only happened 4 times in over 200 years. You make it sound like it's common.

  13. Re:BZZZZT RTFA on Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Report · · Score: 1

    He's a juvenile. They'll drop off his record. They probably have to charge him so that they can go over to his house and confiscate his computers to make sure he didn't keep a copy of the data. Kinda sucks, but seems like a necessary action to make sure it doesn't leak while hoping no one else found it...

  14. Re:That's it on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    ... I was a bit vague there. I know Linux is not a language. I meant the shell scripting languages used and probably not all of them use $ for variables, but most that I have used do.

  15. Re:That's it on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    Maybe I missed a joke here, but in Linux and other such languages, $ is used to denote a variable not %.

  16. Re:snake oil, more like on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 2, Informative

    The process does not refine the oil out of a product, it uses the carbon content to make oil. So, when you burn the waste, you don't end up with a lot of carbon ashes left behind. Look it up. Thermal depolymerization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

  17. Re:Even by petty French standards, this is sad on Ebay Fined $61M By French Court For Sales of Fake Goods · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd be really interested to see if your IP matched Swizec's.

  18. Re:How about you don't? on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 1

    What better way to get to know something other than "jumping into it"? At least for me this works best. However, I won't fault you if you prefer classes and searching Slashdot for comments on "Beowulf".

  19. EMail boxes soon to fill on Virginia Spammers Go To Jail, And Pay For It · · Score: 1

    ... with ads to join class-action suits.

  20. Re:What happened to the camera in the water? on Shuttle Cameras Yield Excellent Footage · · Score: 0

    Not sure, but my guess is that it's transmitted because if there was a severe explosion then any recorded footage could be lost. Probably recorded as well, though.

  21. Call PETA on Cancer Resistant Mouse Provides Possible Cure · · Score: 1

    ... and free them all! (sarcasm in case explanation is needed)

  22. I'd choose strangulation on Genetic Clues to Cause of Death? · · Score: 1

    I posted this in a reply, but I think it's worth the main thread for consideration. If you were a laboratory mouse and knew you were going to die eventually, wouldn't you rather be strangled than given some horrible disease, exposed to radiation or injected with chemicals and then studied for weeks? Strangulation (even if it wasn't under anesthesia) seems much more humane to me than what is done to many animals. Anything that shows measurable progress toward saving human lives is ok with me. However, this study is definitely questionable in that regard.

  23. Re:Thank God on Genetic Clues to Cause of Death? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good point. Going along that thought, we already have plenty of humans laying around that have been strangled or decapitated. Why do we need to study mice?

  24. Re:Killing that way should not be allowed on Genetic Clues to Cause of Death? · · Score: 1

    Let's say you're a mouse. Would you rather be strangled or given cancer, HIV or large doses of other chemicals and studied until you were no longer useful and euthanized. Strangling a mouse seems horrid, but it's one of the more humane things that are done to laboratory animals. I don't like it that animals are treated this way, but if it provides measurable progress toward saving human lives then I'm willing to overlook it. Yes, you might say proving how someone died isn't measurable progress toward saving life but that's not my point.

  25. Do it for the porn! on South Korea Fines Microsoft $32 Million · · Score: 1

    My biggest complaint is all the DRM'd porn. Whenever I try to DL some new autoerotic pleasure material, I end up with half of it redirecting me to license sites. If Windows Media Player weren't so popular, all of us single geeks wouldn't waste so much lube warming up just to see the 'acquiring license' message.