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  1. Re:Like source code on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 1

    ALRIGHT! Alright! If you guys can't agree on patent/copyright laws, we'll just take them away and you can only own your idea for 4 years. If you can't get it erect in 4 years, well, what have you done for us today? Innovation marches on, keep up or find a rocking chair.

  2. Re:THAT explains it! on Imitation In Dogs Matches Humans and Apes · · Score: 4, Funny

    My Jack Russell is pretty good at copying. He now sits up against the back of the couch and watches T.V. He'll snipe your beer, right from the bottle. Sleeps on his back with his head on the pillow. Shits on the neighbors lawn. Just like me!

  3. Re: Must have been dinosaur-made global warming! on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 1

    Solar, but tire manufacturing was much the same. In the end they had to get too close to the tar pits for petroleum....

  4. Re:Must have been dinosaur-made global warming! on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 1

    You're right, the "look a bird" tactic didn't work and we all still stared at the elephant.

  5. Re:Must have been dinosaur-made global warming! on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 1

    That's what drives OUR cars.

  6. Re:OMG!!! We're all gonna DIE!!!! on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, use the interactive melt map located somewhere on the internet.
    Find where the new shore will be.
    Buy a lot of property.
    Crack open a beer, man you're gonna be rich!

  7. Re:More to the point... on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 1

    Bigger better faster. Sadly the bigger better faster turned out to be alligators instead of Tyrannosaurs, so when I go to Outback Steakhouse I only get a dinky serving of gator bites instead of a whopping Tyrannosteak!
     

  8. Re:Must have been dinosaur-made global warming! on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 3, Funny

    See what happens when dinosaurs industrialize and drive cars!

  9. Re:Nature uses life friendly.. on Improving 3-D Printing By Copying Nature · · Score: 1

    Well, when they find them, we can all stay at home and print our own potato chip bags to save the world.

  10. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    We are pretending to illustrate the real demographic ,generational, cross-section of people who make activism without thinking, a worse scenario than the problem it addresses.

    Other scenarios;
              Harry scores some donated movie tickets at the shelter, he hasn't seen a movie in years and is really looking forward to it with zeal. Harry is a schizophrenic on state aid who lives in a hotel room long enough each month to have an address to count toward receiving assistance. He has an SRS provided cell phone to keep in contact with his social worker, who happens to call during a quiet moment in the movie. He has been off his meds for a while and your display of displeasure and confrontations turns a can of whoop ass loose on you for your contribution to society.

              Mary, whose bridge club are down with the flu, left her with nothing to do one afternoon, goes to the moving picture show to see that handsome Brad Pitt.
    Mary, parks her scraped up LTD in the parking lot, and with her cane makes her way into the air conditioned theater. She doesn't see or hear too well anymore, so she sits down front, not far from you. Her Simplicity phone goes off, it's the service reminding her to take her blood thinners. You go ballistic over your superior position as a consciencious cell-phone constable and in her confusion at this young whippersnapper trying to mug her in a theatre, she almost grabs her lipstick, instead of the pepper spray, but not quite. You will never see this movie today or much of anything else for a few hours.

              Andre Rufus Damon is sittin' with his homies, yo! They jacked an Escalade just to come see SuperFly meets Rocky Horror 3D and dude is stylin his diamond case Iphone so new, no one else have it yet, word. Now when his biatches text his macho ass every 15 seconds, you cop a tude and step up.
    Dude, can't back down in front of his homies,so he kneecaps you with a 9mm and escapes with the screaming crowd. But, you did your best to not mind your business and stand up for what you wanted; to control the behavior of others.

    Get my point yet?

  11. Re:No on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Cool, we've just invented Trivial Pursuit, Wikipedia Edition. Just in time for the obligatory 80s retrospective trend. Hold on to your mullets, maybe even the /. Edition.

  12. Re:No on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Tell me you won a game show with that.

  13. Re:No on Man Campaigns For Addition of 'Th' Key To Keyboard · · Score: 2

    I want to add punctuation for common conversational occurrences and sentiments that happen in real life without a written counterpart. Most could be drafted from programming symbols and could be used formally where emoticons are inappropriate. It be a paridigm change in literature, like 3D IMAX w/ DOLBY v.(?) is for cinema. Imagine being able to read the following and more into your usual intake. St-s-st-stuttering, for example already has sufficient representation, but, what about:
    1. belching
    2.farting
    3.accidentally spitting during plosives P T and S consonants.
    4.sneezing
    5.coughing
    6. twitching eye.
    7.bad breath (could use reverse italics)
    8. sarcasm (use backwards font)
    9. nose picking
    10. sweating
    11. glazed droning indifference
    12. hiccoughing
    13. whispering (which may use ( and ), but also denotes soliloquy, therefore we need an extra small lower case to denote whispering.Extra small uppercase, need not be included as all lower,lowercase facilitates the feel of a whisper)
    14. others not thought of yet...

  14. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    But...my security, bouncing, debt collection experience and skills make it no fight at all.
    I'm polite enough not to make a loud ruckus and obviously the victim here, so what's the problem?
    I have feelings just like the next guy, just a lot less tolerance for random critics and hecklers.
    Learn a lifes lesson, cut people some slack, just like we do in the supermarket and the highways and anywhere else.
    The tech is here with all it's caveats, people are gonna get calls at work, at the movies, during coitus, bowel movements, church and all sorts of uncomfortable situations. Get used to it or lose teeth. Not everyone out there is as thick skinned as to take public heckling without some blood sacrifice.
    I mean, what's next, you gonna gang up on the fat lady in the middle of the theater and beat her for farting?

  15. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    An emergency is an emergency, I'm on my way out the door anyway, with your wallet apparently, as well. Was your temporary burst of testoterone worth missing teeth and a ruptured teste? Only your credit card knows for sure.

  16. Re:Too Bright on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    I'm not one to make an annoyance of myself, but my phone is on buzz for emergency calls. Anyone trying to correct my etiquette ,will be met with a fist to the face and worse, I charge for my time and unscheduled tutoring, so the contents of your wallet are coming with me as well. Just remember folks, when you're out there making P.C. cops of yourselves, not everyone recognizes your authority or appreciates your bleating.

  17. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    No deals, you get off your lazy damn ass and do something for yourself.
    You fail! Not me.
    I can see you are one of those "gimme" kind of people, unwilling to do for yourself.
    Good luck getting public assistance. Eat shit.

  18. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I suggest you follow the footprints of the dinosaur back in time by typing Wikileaks into the magic Slashdot search box. Hit the older button about 16 times to get past the Federal persecution of Assange and you can track some of the noteworthy stories they released as noticed by the geek crowd.

  19. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    If you hadn't lost your faith in your government long before any of this occurred, I'm not sure this thread is for you.
    Perhaps what you seek is in the Washington Post or New York Times.

    For reals, did you ever actually read any leaks? Reading them first is prerequisite to memory function.
    I don't mean news of them, but the leaks themselves?

  20. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He really benefits me. Did you ever read any leaks? Not just the famous government ones. Corporate ones. Know who is screwing you, cheating you, having a boost at your expense. Do you pay taxes? Buy goods? Actually read? Capable of processing what you read? I'm guessing not, it looks like you just get your information ,5th hand ,from the government extorted media. Too bad you can't just delete your post...

  21. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Well you didn't benefit from Assanges punctuation or spelling abilities.
    You benefit from knowing, rather than believing, you are being screwed over by a dishonest government, who lies to you and who is doing it and how.
    These things tend to have consequences around election years.
    DUH!
    Now quit pretending to be American; I out you as an illegal alien and await your deportation to the land of Punctuation.

  22. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I prefer to think of Assange as the press, reporting the news, with the wellbeing of the worldwide public in mind.
    Besides, you can't betray criminals if you were never in their confidence, you can only report on them.
    Girls are a nice fringe benefit, as long as you don't get some slut who will scream rape when the U.S. Government offers her money to do so.
    Makes you wonder if Omama is a Scientologist, pulling shit like that.

  23. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    No one likes a tattler.
    Tattlers get beaten up after school.
    Snitches get killed in prison.
    Witness protection is a joke.
    Leakers get arrested.
    Outers get fired.
    Moles get beaten to death and thrown in dumpsters.
    Undercovers get executed.
    Spies get imprisoned.
    So.... if you can't just pull off some good old fashioned extortion, keep your mouth shut and mind your own business.
    Just some good advise to live by from your ol' uncle Fly.

  24. Re:Internet Explorer on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    You mean like putting backdoors in Microsoft products from years back. I wonder why you ever thought they stopped?
    Anyway the whole premise of this article "Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance?" amounts to "Best flat tire to put on your car for all weather driving".
    The problem doesn't lie entirely with the browser. There's always Google, ad agencies, websites and others in conjunction with your browser. Then there's the black hat stuff. This is like trying to determine which cigarette pack cellophane causes cancer.

  25. Re:Good? More like "Good Luck" on China Says Serious Polluters Will Get the Death Penalty · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, I gotta ask, what is your sig from?