Slashdot Mirror


User: Whiteox

Whiteox's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,885
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,885

  1. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria on The Fjord-Cooled Data Center · · Score: 5, Funny

    (PS... Want to buy some bütter?)

  2. Goodies Reference on The Fjord-Cooled Data Center · · Score: 1

    Cod be praised!

  3. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria on The Fjord-Cooled Data Center · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... I may just put a patent on that.

  4. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria on The Fjord-Cooled Data Center · · Score: 1

    I think he wants AN ARGUMENT you silly bunt!

  5. Re:Quality on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I have the same issue when I read Liter, which is acceptable in US English.

  6. Re:Let the on Hobbit Film Trailer Posted Online · · Score: 2

    So let me get this straight... In the whole of the Shire, absolutely NO ONE knew about this except for Bilbo? No folklore? Old newspaper articles? Campfire stories? No old surviving hobbits in the local pub mouthing off?

  7. Re:Stupid Title on Undersea Neutrino Observatory To Be Second-Largest Human Structure · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nothing will beat the dingo fence in Australia in terms of man made structure. It stretches 5,614 km (3,488 miles)

  8. Re:Note to all Science Fiction Writers on Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but Vogons do hunt planets. Vorlons not so much.

  9. Re:if i could buy one i would on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 1

    LOL
    African swallows would be better. 2 of them can carry a coconut between them. Don't try this with European swallows.

  10. Re:Note to all Science Fiction Writers on Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    That's VOGON not vorgon.....

  11. Re:Bad software on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 1

    You've got engineers~scientists etc still using imperial measures and everybody else in the world uses SI units? That is so 60's.
    However, it does show how human error can get into what seems to be a perfectly good and bug free piece of softwares.

  12. Re:Nyup on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    I see what you've done there!

  13. Re:That's not a comet. on Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives · · Score: 1

    Uh, the tail WAS blowing away from the sun. Take a look at the coronograph footage [nasa.gov] for a view that isn't wildly foreshortened:

    Exactly. Therefore the matter in the vids was the comet losing mass.

  14. Military on Innovative Use of Plastics Could Cheaply Double Solar Cell Output · · Score: 1
  15. Re:The Force is based on Chi... on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    In that case then I agree that you should remain gnostic about your knowledge and experiences as this crowd will jump on you from above. It may be too late.....

  16. Re:Prague Spring on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    I mention them because they are ostensibly primarily agricultural, with Moravians and Bohemians more secondary and tertiary. Also, a great part of the Bohemian military elite were leaders within the Austrian government and military forces pre 1914 - meaning a better educated elite. Then, they regarded the Slovaks as their poor cousins who were under strict Magyar control.

  17. Re:The Force is based on Chi... on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    Chi 'energy' is the Solar Plexus which lies behind the upper abs. Strengthening your diaphram makes this happen. There is nothing mystical about this.

  18. Re:Prague Spring on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    Except perhaps the Slovaks?

  19. Re:This is why I don't believe in compulsory votin on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    Then you should vote 'informal' if that is at all possible in the US system. Practically that would mean casting your vote without making a selection.

  20. Re:Discrimination against The Jedi! on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 1

    George Lucas never even pitched it as an in-world religion

    If you look at the time period and philosophy, there is a case otherwise. Lucas couldn't invent anything new, as eons of philosophers have already been down that path and have thought of every possible form of religious world view. What Lucas did was to re-package nature worship, which is a world religion. The struggle against chaos, good and evil and all its permutations have been treated many times recently (see B5) as well as the Ori, which is based on the Ancient Greek concept of a pantheon of Gods solely surviving on the emanations of belief and worship of the mortals. This in fact was treated by an episode of the original Star Trek.
    So nothing is new, and calling yourself a Jedi is just nature worship like ley lines, symbiosis, serendipity and so on.
    May the force be with you ;)

  21. Re:We tried a big IE8 rollout last summer on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    Exactly - Some users think that the MRU list are bookmarks. I had to use some sort of FBI software to recover MRU IEx list from a registry backup and install it into the IE upgrade.
    Then I did a 5 min workshop with them to show them how to use Favorites.

  22. Re:start with Australia and Brazil on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. Australia was chosen as its use of IE6 is 1.8%, which is pretty high.

  23. Re:start with Australia and Brazil on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it's not alphabetical.

  24. Dumb Idea on Running Tor On Your TV · · Score: 1

    None. It's a bad idea and will get nowhere. There are already enough solutions to watch world-wide TV. If Tor is the answer to watch 'home movies' then I for one wouldn't support it.

  25. Re:I'm curious... on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    A montage of one of their labs.

    http://cans.ut.ac.ir/en/