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  1. Re:17 pencils on Vintage Collection of Tech Failures · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...a fan blowing crap all over my office."

    That should only happen when the shit hits the fan.

  2. Re:Traveled the world!! on Worldwide Night Sky Stitched Together In 5 Gigapixel Image · · Score: 1

    All of which he easily could have flown over, going from one state to another.

  3. Re:look at this fuel cap: on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    From looking at that picture what do you gather is so special about that fuel cap? The most significant thing I see is the capacity of the fuel tank.
    To me, it looks like you just pull out the recessed tab and turn it by hand in the direction indicated by the arrow to open it.

  4. Re:It looks like a stealth assassination copter. on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    1000 feet?
    Right, so a few (like 4) seconds after you realize they're coming, they're there. No time to react.

  5. Re:Interesting on Scientists Afflict Computers With Schizophrenia · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    As for your last sentence, I don't think so. Here's the quote at the bottom of my page right now:

    Try the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today. % Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance. % Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances. % Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -- Ashleigh Brilliant % Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you. % Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week. % Tuesday is the Wednesday of the rest of your life. % What happened last night can happen again. % While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and are making another attack. % Write yourself a threatening letter and pen a defiant reply. % You are a bundle of energy, always on the go. % You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here. % You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are. % You are always busy. % You are as I am with You. % You are capable of planning your future. % You are confused; but this is your normal state. % You are deeply attached to your friends and acquaintances. % You are destined to become the commandant of the fighting men of the department of transportation. % You are dishonest, but never to the point of hurting a friend. % You are fairminded, just and loving. % You are farsighted, a good planner, an ardent lover, and a faithful friend. % You are fighting for survival in your own sweet and gentle way. % You are going to have a new love affair. % You are magnetic in your bearing. % You are not dead yet. But watch for further reports. % You are number 6! Who is number one? % You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. % You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you have few friends. % You are sick, twisted and perverted. I like that in a person. % You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep. % You are standing on my toes. % You are taking yourself far too seriously. % You are the only person to ever get this message. % You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash. % You attempt things that you do not even plan because of your extreme stupidity. % You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive. % You can do very well in speculation where land or anything to do with dirt is concerned. % You can rent this space for only $5 a week. % You could live a better life, if you had a better mind and a better body. % You definitely intend to start living sometime soon. % You dialed 5483. % You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy. % You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one. % You enjoy the company of other people. % You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to. % You fill a much-needed gap. % You get along very well with everyone except animals and people. % You had some happiness once, but your parents moved away, and you had to leave it behind. % You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music. % You have a deep interest in all that is artistic. % You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy. A pity that it's totally undeserved. % You have a strong appeal for members of the opposite sex. % You have a strong appeal for members of your own sex. % You have a strong desire for a home and your family interests come first. % You have a truly strong individuality. % You have a will that can be influenced by all with whom you come in contact. % You have an ability to sense and know higher truth. % You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself. % You have an unusual equipment for success. Be sure to use it properly. % You have an unusual magnetic personality. Don't walk too close to metal objects which are not fastened down. % You have an unusual understanding of the problems of human relationships. % You have been selected for a secret mission. % You have Egyptian flu: you're going to be a mummy. % You have had a long-term stimulation relative to business. % Y

  6. Re:Unconventional? on Hewlett Packard's Cult Calculator Turns 30 · · Score: 2

    As does Droid48, naturally, since it is emulating an HP48.

  7. Re:I thought this was a good idea.. on Real Life Farmville · · Score: 1

    I think GPs point is that what the hippies would choose would be just as destructive. I imagine that's true if you scale up what they'd do in order to maintain the same output.

  8. Re:People have never thought on their own on Do Gadgets Degrade Our Common Sense? · · Score: 1

    watch this, it's funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hulZ-6Oh0&feature=player_detailpage (Tim Hawkins on GPS)

  9. Re:In the Navy: on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Penguin brings his car in for service, tells the service advisor it leaks oil, and leaves it at the dealership while he goes over to the Dairy Queen.
    Comes back about an hour later.
    So the service guy says to the penguin, "Look like you blew a seal."
    Penguin replies, "No way, that's just ice cream on my chin!"

  10. Re:Android as an open platform is a myth on Google Allows Carriers To Ban Tethering Apps · · Score: 1

    True. As for what you can do with it, that is another question.

  11. Re:Yeah, so? on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of extrapolation. Some of my "friends" are people halfway across the continent whom I have not seen for twenty years, and have corresponded with only via Facebook. Sounds like a big waste of time to keep tabs on that.

  12. Re:not what I asked on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    Thanks.
    I've seen, since I posted earlier, more clear maps, and you're right: he was closer to Kashmir/India than any other border.
    It's a little hard to believe, to say the least, that the Pakistani government/military weren't complicit in keeping him hidden at some point if not all along.

  13. not what I asked on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    Of course. But that has nothing to do with my question, which is about the border of Pakistan and which bordering country OBL was closest to. Do you have knowledge of that? Or did you just want to post a conjecture about how narrow minded you think I am?

  14. Re:Call me Crazy... on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    Of course, the Germans had no foreknowledge of it, but we (meaning the US) turned around after WWII and helped Germany rebuild. Does the analogy between the US from Germany's perspective after WWII and al Qaeda today from the US perspective really work?
    Besides, do you really even think that all Germans wanted to "win" the war - meaning Hitler stays in power? I doubt it.

  15. Re:I can't find it on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    It's very unclear to me from looking at the Google map where the border of Pakistan is to the north and east. Was OBL closer to India, China, or Afghanistan? I would have guessed the latter based on what we heard after 9/11, but it looks like he was closer to the border with India or China.

  16. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 2

    Hexane is C6H14, an alkane, and a component of gasoline and related petroleum distillates. Quite different from water. I'd not recommend drinking it.

  17. Re:what is a chemical anyway? on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    I got a chuckle out of the fact that a chemical company could not "find" the melting point, pH , or evaporation rate (usually expressed relative to butyl acetate which evaporates pretty fast) for water, probably the most widely and carefully studied substance in existence.

    pH: Not available.
    Vapor Pressure: 17.5 mm Hg @ 20 deg C.
    Vapor Density: Not available.
    Evaporation Rate:Not available.
    Viscosity: 1 cP @ 20C
    Boiling Point: 100 deg C
    Freezing/Melting Point:Not available.
    Decomposition Temperature:Not available.

  18. Re:Thanks on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    Water does react violently or dangerously with several substances, but of course, *those* substances are the ones needing the warnings, since they are not naturally occurring, ubiquitous and potable like water.
    Alkali metals, alkaline earths, calcium carbide (reacts with water to form acetylene which is highly flammable/explosive - remember 'bangsite' at the fireworks stand? haven't seen that for years either :-( ), many hydrides, phosphorus pentoxide are examples.

  19. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    He's joking, but people did used to drink "radium-infused" water for their health. Google "Revigator". Some crazy stuff.

  20. Re:Only buy a "smartphone" with a removable batter on Verizon Plans Location Warning Sticker · · Score: 1

    Not very practical, is it?
      It's a smartphone, so you're using for a lot more than just phone calls, otherwise you wasted your money.
      And then you have to power it down every time you're "done using it", take it out of the case (if it's in one), remove the battery cover, remove the battery, and store the battery and put the cover back on and put it back in the case. Then reverse all of those steps when you want to use it again. Not worth it.

  21. Re:what is a chemical anyway? on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    True, but it's waste of time, as it says N/A for everything, basically.
      It's for people who'd think, "Gosh I have this bottle of DI water with a J.T.Baker label on it I paid a bunch of money for. Hey, they make chemicals! I'd better have an MSDS!"

  22. Re:what is a chemical anyway? on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    For the purposes of people who are afraid, maybe "anything that you could find a MSDS for". That leaves out vinegar, but includes acetic acid, for example.

  23. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 3, Informative

    I guess that means lead, radon and fluorine are very safe. Fewer syllables than oxygen or nitrogen (or in the case of lead, even water).
    OTOH, deoxyribonucleic acid, at ten syllables, must be awful stuff.

  24. Re:Tastes like... on YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious · · Score: 1

    It just Dawned on me that your comment is not very relevant.

  25. Re:Other names on Amazon Responds To "App Store" Lawsuit From Apple · · Score: 1

    App Hole.