User: ISoldat53

Re:So is apple...

On: Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs

From the article I read the laptop was owned by the agent not the FBI which raises a whole pant load of other questions.

Re:What a good question

On: Russia Wants a Hypersonic Bomber

Just buy the technology from an unemployed engineer.

Dell has never been the same

On: PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot

Dell has never been the same since I left. I don't know if that was cause or effect.

What about the cats?

On: Cats Not Linked To Brain Cancer After All

Do cats infected with the bug have a higher incidence of brain cancer? Seems like they would if it has that affect on humans.

Nothing is ever a total loss

On: The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy

It can always serve as a bad example.

Color Change

On: Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea

Maybe with nuclear reactors it will be a green screen of death.

My Ex's heart

On: How To Line a Thermonuclear Reactor

Nothing melts it.

Neighbors

On: Project Byzantium: Zero To Ad-Hoc Mesh Network In 60 Seconds (Video)

Who wants to talk to my neighbors. They'll be the ones to bring the Apocalypse.

Re:Just be happy

On: Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders

They didn't say whose lifetime.

Re:How can we implement this in practice?

On: Independent Labs To Verify High-Profile Research Papers

How would an independent lab replicate the results from something like the LHC? There's only one.

Simple

On: Could You Hack Into Mars Curiosity Rover?

All I need is local access.

Re:WTF is this doing on MY slashdot?

On: Romney Taps Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan As Running Mate

"If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could have won" - Mumford and Sons I Gave You My All

Re:It's not a bank account

On: Nathan Myhrvold, Do-Gooder

Nobody likes a poor thief.

Re:Henry the VI, Act IV, Scene II

On: NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown

That's good advice regardless of the subject.

Where's my cat?

On: Curiosity Lands On Mars

I can't find my cat. Did that spaceship have anything to do with my missing cat?

Re:At least the stock analysts are on the job

On: Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million

What I can't figure out from the reporting is where did the $400 million loss come from. Was it from losses on trades or devaluing of the company's stock?

Re:All of that to develop some ERP systems

On: 6 IT Projects, $8 Billion Over Budget At Dept. of Defense

Amen to that!

Uh

On: Resurrect Your Old Code With a DIY Punch Card Reader

Why?

Re:Insulation Properties

On: UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows

I wonder if it is cool to the touch?

Re:Quite handy actually

On: Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups

And ruin your weekend.

Model 100

On: Thirty Years of Clamshell Computing

The Tandy Model 100 gave it competition way before the iPad.

Re:would i rather

On: Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax

Interesting. WalMart just opened its first grocery store on the east side of Puget Sound where Amazon's grocery delivery operations is located. Turn-about-fair-play.

Fit-it

On: Microsoft Kills Windows Gadgets Via Security Update

So do I enable the Fix-it solution to disable the gadgets? Or do I disable the Fix-it solution to disable gadgets? Or do I disable the fix-it solution to enable the gadgets after I enable the Fix-it solution to disable gadgets?

Side Boobs

On: How Huffington Post's Clever Traffic-Generation Machine Works

It all has to do with side boobs. Everyone likes a good side boob story.

Opportunity

On: Microsoft: Windows 8 To RTM In August

Why not look at this as an opportunity to write your own desktop? MS's failures in the past have served a a chance for smart developers to fill in the holes with anti virus software, disk management software, etc.