Slashdot Mirror


User: treeves

treeves's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,116
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,116

  1. Re:My first post on Linus' First Linux Post, 20 Years Ago Today · · Score: 1

    I'd say some good music has come out of Paris, Vienna, London, Moscow, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Seattle et al.
    Your generalization is not good.

  2. Re:AGW on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    You should close yourself in a refrigerator and take a nap. You'll be fine because it can't be sealed, right?

  3. Re:Oh no! on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    You must be like the thousandth person with a five or six digit UID to come and post that they would have had a lower UID but they didn't want to register for yet another site so they just lurked and lurked and then finally registered after having been here for AGES.

    No intention to single you out and pick on you, but I had to pick someone who said essentially the same thing.

    I signed up the first day I visited, which was about five years ago, I think.

    Anyway, good luck to you, CmdrTaco.

  4. Re:Sounds like we're not getting the whole story on Coordinated, Global ATM Heist Nets $13 Million · · Score: 1

    But ATM skimmers steal from the banks other customers. This story is about stealing directly from the bank. Slightly different situation.

  5. Re:So... on Using GPS To Detect Secret Nuclear Tests · · Score: 1

    Well, on the Magellans you go to Menu...Settings...Alerts...Underground Nuclear Tests, and choose ON. Garmins might be different.

  6. Re:Hemos Says: "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fi on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Obviously there would be no correlation between UID and a fixed number, namely 100 (average IQ).

  7. Re:Obligatory. on Floating Nuclear Power Plant Seized By Court · · Score: 1

    Depends on the wind, or lack thereof.

  8. Re:Prior art on Jeff Bezos Wants To Put an Airbag In Your iPhone · · Score: 1

    More funny than interesting.

  9. Re:Several thoughts on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Lead balloons don't go over well with anyone.

  10. Re:Several thoughts on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    He said nut jobs, so obviously the latter.

  11. Re:Supply and demand on Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies · · Score: 1

    No True Girl Scouts fallacy?

  12. Re:Not /bad/ until they do something bad with it on Google Patents Telling Time · · Score: 1

    If there was no patent industry to go into, many lawyers might have to find real jobs?

  13. Re:Not /bad/ until they do something bad with it on Google Patents Telling Time · · Score: 1

    "This is only problematic if Google goes and attempts to use this to sue people with."

    Really?
    It's not a problem that our tax dollars go to paying people to issue patents like these from which no possible good can come? And promoting all this patent-seeking activity at companies at the expense of such backwards and primitive activities like, say, manufacturing?

  14. Re:Cloud of Feathers on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    I understand that turtles are especially susceptible to anything traveling at mock 20, or even mock 1. Apparently it turns them into soup.

  15. Re:Have you ever... on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    True, but this was DARPA, part of DOD, not NASA. For all I know, DARPAs budget is smaller than NASAs, but it is defense spending, not civilian.

  16. Re:Glider??? on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    Try putting back-spin on your bullets. That'll make 'em rise every time. Plus they won't roll as far when they hit the ground.

  17. Re:Don't take electronics, maybe? on 4G and CDMA Reportedly Hacked At DEFCON · · Score: 1

    Legionnaire's disease FTW.

  18. Re:Here's a novel idea on Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters · · Score: 1

    Well, if you're talking about the UK , it looks like they were reduced successively in 1903, 1920, 1937, 1968, 1988, 1997, and 2006. But if you live there, why are you asking?

  19. Re:Translation on NCSA and IBM Part Ways Over Blue Waters · · Score: 1

    I'm sure any downmod was due to the lack of the possessive apostrophe in "Microsoft's".

  20. Re:How do they tell? on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    "I can find a computer just about anywhere,"

    Really? You should get out more.

  21. Re:A virus? In my MAC? on Macs More Vulnerable Than Windows For Enterprise · · Score: 1

    No, we are not.

  22. Re:Here's a novel idea on Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters · · Score: 1

    Depends on which "our" that you refer to. For some, they have not been. Please be more specific.

  23. Re:This arguement is silly. on Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points right now.
    "People are apt to behave as they are expected to behave — whether well or foolishly."
    Is a quote from this article: http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/cross_examination/the_invention_of_adolescence.aspx
    I don't think that brain development is complete at age 15, and we do need to have higher education for some people, and vocational education for others, but I do think that expecting a fifteen year old to act responsibly is not too great a demand.

  24. Re:Of course, it has nothing to do... on Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters · · Score: 1

    They're depraved on account of they're deprived. Gee, Officer Krupke!

  25. Re:round 'em up on Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters · · Score: 1

    There's "dangerous to the government", but what about dangerous government? At least two of your examples raise that question.