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  1. Re:Not original but... on Six Laws of the New Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can save yourself the effort of rewriting it thrice by just changing the storage format, making minor UI changes, and incrementing the release number. Make sure to get marketting to create a new advertising campaign for the new release, including white care-free young couples smiling in front of the splash screen for your application. Do not take the video or photograph footage for your advertisments at any multiple of 45 degrees on any plane with respect to the orientation of the computer screen (which _must_ be a flatpanel with wireless keyboard and mouse).

  2. Hold on... on Ask Neal Stephenson · · Score: 1

    Should such tools have to be protected?

    Are there laws to stop a company requiring cessation of production of all screwdrivers because of some obscure patent they bought 30 years ago? I hope not. There's something wrong with a system when such tools can be attacked and censored.

  3. Retrenched? on Google Faces Employee Retention Challenge · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who misread the topic of this item as:

    Google Faces Employee Retrenchment Challenge

  4. What brand & model? on 2.4GHz-Friendly Phones? · · Score: 1

    Any chance of you finding out and publishing the manufacturer & model of phone so we can avoid it?

  5. law suits on Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL' · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if there'll be messages exchanged between Jamie Oliver's law-brains and Qwest's regarding use of the term "Naked". Hopefully the brits aren't quite as touchy about trademarking as some are.

  6. At least we'll have the Internet on How We Knew AL00667 Would Miss Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdotters can continue to sleep comfortably with the knowledge that TCP/IP is designed to withstand such an event; lets just hope there's a backup of the /. backend in case its server(s) get struck, shorted by the tsunami, or looted by the local villagers.

  7. Killing a british soldier... on DARPA Offers No Food for Thought · · Score: 1
    4. A) Kill an enemy soldier, you eat. B) Kill a British soldier, no food until you accomplish A).

    So killing a British soldier would not change one's nutritive position at all. I don't like the sound of that -- especially because there is the possibility of one eating such dead soldiers, removing the need to accomplish point A.

    Looks like it's back to the drawing board, captain.

  8. Old fashioned methods on DARPA Offers No Food for Thought · · Score: 1

    Get everyone to put a bullet in his own foot before fighting, then live off the (natural!) adrenalin for a while... or become Breatharians.