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  1. Fuck! on Now Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now my ex-app is just like my ex.

  2. Who uses real names? on Hack On 8 Adult Websites Exposes Oodles of Intimate User Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only my bank login is traceable to me, for the rest I use aliases. Even my ISP thinks I'm my cat.

  3. The joke writes itself, I guess on Armenia Opens $50 Million Bitcoin, Ethereum Mining Farm (chepicap.com) · · Score: 0

    Or not

  4. Re:This is already famous on How the Finnish Survive Without Small Talk (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The Scandanavian Cold shoulder is already famous. "

    I had a Scandinavian girlfriend once.
    Not sure which Nation, but during sex she always yelled:
    'I'm not Finish!'

  5. Re:Nothing exciting or? on HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Presumably this is just the world we live in. There doesn't seem much info in the article,..."

    (Gasp) You read the article?
    Vade retro Satanas!

  6. Sure, but in this case, it's " déja lu ".

  7. "Disclaimer: I live in Belgium, Europe where cold calling with robocalls is very much restricted and calls will not be free for the caller, especially not to cell phones (although they can be cheap in volume)"

    I'm from Luxembourg myself, I also get rarely such calls, but I never answer them anyway.

  8. "I own a small business and sometimes get calls from customers."

    OK another actor and screenwriter case I guess.

  9. Ask and you'll get a 39.99$ rebate on Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The oldest trick in the book if you can't give away stuff for free.

  10. Who TF still answers unknown or blocked phone-numbers nowadays?
    (I mean beside actors and screenwriters)

    Your kids us Whatsapp or messenger, your friends too ...

    Are people afraid to miss a call from the famous Nigerian Prince?

  11. Clear case for augmented reality. on Panasonic Designed Human Blinders To Block Out Open-Plan Office Distraction (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    You see only your desk and your files, the rest is a tropical beach, instead of annoying cubicle neighbors.

    Or you use a glacier as background if the damn air-conditioner is broken again.

    Or just a bunch of nekkid ladies, if it's a slow day.

  12. If nobody lives there ... on Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With Plastic (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    ...why not use it as garbage catcher?
    They built an expensive boat and released a couple of days ago ,that has to travel to a spot where there's much plastic, to collect it.

    Here the plastic comes to them by itself. Why not use it and burn it in emission-free ovens to generate electricity.

  13. I'll try it on Apple Launches Portal For US Users To Download Their Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Email: Kanye@memememe.com
    Password: 000000

    Nice!

  14. "According to estimates of Mercedes-Benz..."

    Well, well, well, if that isn't one of those companies who defrauded their clients and killed thousands of people and still only a handful managers are in jail.

    Shouldn't they better shut the fuck up?

  15. Re: I'm pretty sure he believes in God now... alas on Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "And they are people who leave religion because they found the idea of God to be holding them back"

    The verb you're looking for is 'growing up'.

  16. Really? on Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    "The project, internally codenamed "Ripley," "

    I guess with that name it has a hidden mother(fucker) inside?

  17. "treat some of today's most intractable medical problems: "

    'Intractable' literally means 'untreatable'.

  18. Re:College for AI? on MIT Plans College For AI, Backed by $1 Billion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Okay class, let's go around and introduce ourselves -"

    Dammit I thought the same thing. One moment AI is still in its infancy and now presto they build a university for it.
    My nap was apparently longer than I thought.

  19. Unfortunately on As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They hire only Artificial Intelligence, no wetware wanted.

  20. We'll drink Champagne from Scotland instead.

  21. News for nerds on Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    stuff that doesn't matter for people living without passport in their mom's basement.

    Really?

    But while we're at it here are some other useless facts from the internets:

    In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

    On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

    On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

    Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

    Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

    Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

    It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

    Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

    The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

    A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

    Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

    Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.

    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

    The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (hmmmmmmm)

    In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

    "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

    If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

    The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."

    Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

    Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say?

    A snail can sleep for three years.

    No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".

    Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

    Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

    The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

    Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.
    A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.

    The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

  22. Re:Who murders more of its own? on Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    "So the US is a medieval theocracy that murders with volts?"

    And German chemicals. Mmmh.

  23. In a barn? Depends. on Ask Slashdot: Can You Install a Wifi Mesh Network in a Barn? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Did the horses each had their own power lines?

    Don't know if they sell in the US but Fritz!boxes have easy mesh addons that you just put in power sockets around the house^h^h^h^h^hbarn.

    https://en.avm.de/mesh-network...

  24. You don't get it on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "It felt genuinely crazy *

    To believe this, you need a leap of faith ....or magic. :-)

  25. Albeit a dupe ... on Humans Are Now Monitoring Animals With Facial Recognition Technology (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope that finally we'll get a cheap method to count birds at feeding places, differentiating between individuals and determining the species.

    Oh and BTW also cat-flaps who detect a cat-face with a bird/mouse in its maws from one without.