Slashdot Mirror


User: fyrewulff

fyrewulff's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
356
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 356

  1. Re:Welcome to Niggerbuntu on Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps someone could cook up a Greasemonkey script that does some text matching and eliminates the post?

  2. Re:Failsafe on Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful · · Score: 1

    Which you only knew after Google said it was, way after I posted the comment.

  3. Failsafe on Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At least it failsafes to every site being flagged. Much better than it just letting people get malware ridden sites.

  4. Re:Network effects keep Ogg out on Mozilla Donates $100K To the Ogg Project · · Score: 1

    Halo PC uses OGG, in fact.

  5. Re:No it isn't. on Obama To Launch Website For Tracking Tax Expenditures · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm running Firefox on Windows 7 beta. As I watched it pop up a bunch of windows, I just started task manager and closed firefox.exe, and it all went away.

    Consolidating everything under one process: ruining trolls chances of taking down my computer since $whenever_they_did_that.

  6. Re:We need a spam filter for radio on Pandora Trying Out Invasive Commercial Breaks · · Score: 1

    There was a bunch of TVs in the early to mid 90s that sold with a feature called "Smart Sound". My grandmother (rest her soul) got one. The difference was amazing - what it did was normalize the sound so that it was all level.

    What this mostly neutered was all the TV ads that crank the volume up. With the smart sound enabled TV, you could barely hear them, because the TV quieted them down to match the show, and so the poor mixing to make the commercial sound loud made it so it didn't "stand out" so much.

    Unfortunately from what I remember, there were lawsuits from what I remember, and the feature disappeared from those brand of TVs.

  7. Re:What environmental cost to build a new car? on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1

    There is a company around here called U-Pull-It / U-Haul-It, but not a lot of people know about them. They literally take anything. My dad took an old beat down stationwagon there from the 80s, and they paid him 400$ for it - he paid 500$ for it used. Not bad for it lasting him 8 months.

  8. Re:What environmental cost to build a new car? on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter, people will still drive the car. You'd be suprised how many unplated cars I can see driving around here..

    The city would never be able to afford impounding all those cars. It's kind of like the time the mayor pushed through a thing where the city would tow any old broken down cars that hadn't moved for a long time. What happened is people just took the plates off and called in their own car, getting it taken away for free instead of paying fines/money to have it done. Yeah, it got a lot of dead cars off the streets, but then the city had a fun time figuring out what to do with them.

  9. Re:Hahahaha. on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    There's a free "Safe Ride Home" taxi program in Omaha.

    While it would be great if people actually used it.. they don't.

  10. Re:Exchange, huh? on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That post wasn't rambling. It only took me a minute to read. I'm pretty sure his business emails contained just enough needed data to get the point across.

    Perhaps people should learn how to read again without going "tl;dr" everytime they see more than 1 paragraph. Which is why he had to start top-posting, because that's what people do. More than one paragraph, they don't read it because that would tired their little brains out too much to spend 1-3 minutes reading.

  11. Re:Goodness gracious me on What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting · · Score: 1

    Even Mexico's has HFCS now. Only the small bottles have sugar in them at this point.

  12. Re:Though.. on Majel Roddenberry Dies At 76 · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Shuttle Enterprise was going to be called the Constitution after the naval ship of the same name. It was renamed to Enterprise after a write-in campaign and they brought out the TOS cast for it's first 'public' appearance.

  13. Re:Do Myanmar/Burma and Liberia use same as US? on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    I think Liberia was founded by former US slaves, so yeah, that'd be the legacy from there.

  14. Re:Horrible on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    I imagine it relies on the fact that the brain will 'get rid' of the holes when looking, and/or slight bleeding from the printer will cover the holes up.

  15. Re:Silverblight and Mono. on Microsoft's Office Web Will Do iPhone, Linux, Mac · · Score: 1

    Who freaking cares who's behind the account? Let people judge the post content itself, not the fucking name above it! This shit is pathetic and downright creepy with the tracking of sockpuppets..

  16. Re:stirling engine is a no-go on Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I counted it out myself while riding in a car, and 6.5 seconds seems like the normal amount of time to get up to 30mph on city roads, unless you're flooring it every time the light turns green.

  17. Re:How are we getting screwed on this one? on FCC Unanimously Approves White Space Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, I already knew that! A vast majority of the channels you mentioned however, will no longer exist.

  18. Re:How are we getting screwed on this one? on FCC Unanimously Approves White Space Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How are you going to lose access to channels that will not exist in 2 1/2 months?

  19. Re:Obfuscation 101 on Stealing Data With Obfuscated Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    Drink.... more.... Ovaltine?!?

  20. Re:Damn Reds. on Why We Need Unlicensed White-Space Broadband Spectrum · · Score: 1

    They settled. Apple Computer now owns the Apple Corps trademark but licenses it back to Apple Corps.

    They probably figured it was easier to let Apple Computer fund the lawyers to defend the trademark, rather than drain their money endlessly suing Apple Computers.

  21. Re:Rock Band before iTunes? on Rock Band Licenses The Beatles · · Score: 1

    It's a pretty good cover too.

  22. Re:HOW FRIGGING COOL!!! on Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype · · Score: 1

    No, you can set the paper directly onto the table.

  23. Re:DRM on Second Penny Arcade Game Due Out This Week · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would wager that even the stuff that is free is technically locked to one console.

    Correct. Everything you download to a 360, free or not, is locked to your console and gamertag. I imagine this makes it harder since you can't compare a DRM'd file with an unDRM'd file.

  24. Re:How terribly unsurprising. on Interest Growing For Pre-Paid Game Cards · · Score: 1

    Which is why in Nebraska, unredeemed gift cards must be turned over to the State Treasurer, who then tries to find the original owner.

  25. Re:Impressive car, but I'd like an extra wheel ple on Appropriate Tech, 300mpg Car Top 2008 Innovators · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed. This car is way too impractical to ever see common use on American roads. Pit this versus a full size truck or even a semi and it has little chance. Honestly though, with the advances in TDI diesel engines and hybrid technologies, I feel the future is not in electric cars.

    Well, nothing is going to go up against a semi and survive.

    Semis are one of the 3 vehicles that always win: semis, buses, and trains.